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Halloween Pottery 🎃
Today we worked with clay. First we spent some time manipulating the clay- rolling, pulling and smoothing. Then we shaped pumpkins by...
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Oct 4, 20241 min read
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Autumn Painting
We painted autumn pictures. We created warm autumn colours by mixing the primary colours. We were careful to paint the background first....
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Sep 30, 20241 min read
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A Boy Called Book
We listened to an author read his book called A Boy Called Book ! The author is Vincent Ralph. The boy's life was a set of stories- some...
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Student council
Congratulations to Darragh and Hazel who will represent our room on the student council. Well done to the nine children who spoke so well...
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Our Posters
We started our posters on farm safety for the Cloonacool Sheep Festival 2024. We got good ideas from agrikids....
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Sep 14, 20241 min read
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Conscience Alley
In drama we heard a story about a wise king. A man had been sentenced to death for a terrible crime. The king always kept his promises...
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Sep 13, 20241 min read
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Mé Féin
Bhíomar ag scríobh fúinn féin. Nach bhfuil na bileoga go hiontach?
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Sep 4, 20241 min read
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Autumn Trees 🍂 🥮
Our first art display of the year has autumn trees. We drew trees using pencil and charcoal. We used warm colours for an autumn leaf in...
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Sep 4, 20241 min read
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Environment Game
Our final activity in Earthlink was to play the environment game. When you land on certain squares you have to answer a question based on...
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Jun 21, 20241 min read
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Summer Scavenger Hunt
This afternoon we had a scavenger hunt in the playground. We had to find objects starting with various letters, some to do with numbers...
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Jun 19, 20241 min read
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Forces: Making things move
We spent the morning experimenting with rollers and wheels. The rollers were used to move a dictionary. The reels were used for wheels...
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Jun 11, 20241 min read
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📚 Reading with friends
In English we are reading with our friends in groups. Each group has a 'connector' bookof facts. They have interesting titles and facts!...
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Jun 6, 20241 min read
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Bunny Art 🎨 🐇 🐰
On Friday we made funny bunnies. Some people made twins! They make our classroom brighter!
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May 27, 20241 min read
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Koru Art
We were learning about the Maori people of New Zealand. They use the unfurling fern as part of their Koru art. It symbolises new life,...
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May 21, 20241 min read
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Fire Safety Visit 🔥
Today Stephen and Brendan came to speak to us. They reminded us that it is important to know the number to ring in emergencies and also...
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May 15, 20241 min read
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Assembly
Today we presented assembly. We said two poems. We sang our German song about spring. Everyone gave us lovely compliments.
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May 10, 20241 min read
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A New School Crest
Today in SPHE we talked about being part of a community. Then we designed new school crests. Do you think they represent our school? Look...
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May 9, 20241 min read
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Dramatic Friday
In groups we dramatised scenes from James and the Giant Peach. It was fun to look at all the groups performing.
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May 3, 20241 min read
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Thank You
A big thank you to Oisín who did PE activities with us over the past few weeks. Some of the rhythm games and dances took a lot of...
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May 2, 20241 min read
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Indoor Games
At the end of the day we played some card games. Thank you to the PA for funding classroom resources. As you can see there are other...
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Apr 29, 20241 min read
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