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cloonacoolnational
Dec 20, 20220 min read
Story Books 📚
We finished writing our story books 📚 We read them to the junior and senior infants. Ms Toolan says we will enjoy rereading them when we...
cloonacoolnational
Dec 20, 20221 min read
San Nioclás sa seomra ranga 🎅
We had a visit to our classroom from Santa. We sang San Nioclás for him. 🎶 He had a gift for everyone. 🎁 Thank you to Santa and his...
cloonacoolnational
Dec 20, 20221 min read
Symmetry
Today we started learning about symmetry. We looked at capital letters, cut symmetrical shapes, folded squares and rectangles and...
cloonacoolnational
Dec 12, 20221 min read
Creating a Christmas Picture Book
Today we watched a Scholastic crowdcast. The author Linus showed us and read us his book Mrs. Claus takes a Vacation. It was very...
cloonacoolnational
Dec 9, 20221 min read
Mo Fhear Sneachta ⛄️
Tá pictúirí deasa againn sna cóipleabhair. Tharraing gach duine fear sneachta breá, le hata agus scairf. Ansin, scríobhamar faoi na...
cloonacoolnational
Dec 2, 20221 min read
Catching Snowflakes ❄️
We stayed on a snowy theme in art. We imagined what it would be like to catch snowflakes in our mouths. We also enjoyed making colourful...
cloonacoolnational
Dec 2, 20221 min read
Snowflake Mandalas ❄️
On Friday we created snowflake mandalas. They are very symmetrical. Some of us did hexagonal shapes and others made octagonal shapes. We...
cloonacoolnational
Nov 28, 20221 min read
Procedural Writing ✍️
We have been learning how to organise and write a procedure. First we wrote how to make our favourite sandwich or roll. 🥪 Then we wrote...
cloonacoolnational
Nov 22, 20221 min read
Science Week 2022
Today we enjoyed a webinar hosted by Teagasc. They explained how cheese is made, how milk is pasteurised, how yoghurt is made and much...
cloonacoolnational
Nov 18, 20221 min read
Food 🍇🍎🥦🧀🥚🍗
In science we are learning about the food groups and the food pyramid. In SPHE we are learning about how the various foods keep us...
cloonacoolnational
Nov 16, 20221 min read
Hurling Coach
Today Dara Cox started hurling coaching with our class. We learned how to hold the hurley correctly and how to strike the sliotar.
cloonacoolnational
Nov 10, 20221 min read
Shadow Experiments
We learned about the sun and how important it is to our planet. We did experiments creating long and short shadows. This showed us the...
cloonacoolnational
Oct 28, 20221 min read
Last Swimming Lesson 🏊♂️ 😢
Today was our last swimming lesson. It has been enjoyable and everyone has improved at swimming. The instructor let the classes have 5...
cloonacoolnational
Oct 26, 20221 min read
Me by numbers
To finish off Maths Week we completed a sheet called by the numbers, where we chose numbers of significance to us. The completed work is...
cloonacoolnational
Oct 21, 20221 min read
Number Fan Fun
Today we used number fans to answer some challenges. We even used the word multiple! (The fans can be difficult to use)
cloonacoolnational
Oct 20, 20221 min read
Christmas cards🎄 🎅
Although it's only October, we created our Christmas card templates in school today. We used our Bua to help us. They are colourful and...
cloonacoolnational
Oct 20, 20221 min read
Problem Solving 🧐
Today we had a puzzle. It was quite hard. We won't give the answer! Can you figure it out? 🤔
cloonacoolnational
Oct 19, 20221 min read
Magic numbers
Today we played two games with magic numbers. In the first, the arrow with 5 chairs had to make 9 along each line. In the second we had 9...
cloonacoolnational
Oct 18, 20221 min read
The Weather
Today in Geography we were learning about the weather. We watched a very interesting video. Then we did an experiment. We placed...
cloonacoolnational
Oct 18, 20221 min read
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