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The Great Reindeer Rescue
This is the book teacher is reading at the moment. It is a newly published book. Today we attended a crowdcast with the author and...
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Dec 15, 20231 min read
An Geimhreadh
An geimhreadh atá ann. Féach ar an obair breá scríofa atá déanta againn-
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Dec 12, 20231 min read
Elfbots
We watched a crowdcast from Scholastic books. The author read her book about a girl who had moved house just before Christmas and was...
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Dec 8, 20231 min read
Victorian Mansions
Inspired by the home of Lady Agatha in The Abominables, we designed new mansions. We looked at the features of these houses - gable...
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Dec 7, 20231 min read
The Abominables
We are enjoying our class novel The Abominables. The display in our classroom includes new book covers, illustrations, yeti factfiles...
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Nov 26, 20231 min read
Science Webinar
When we look at the sea, all we see is the surface, but underneath it is teeming with life. Marine Scientists like Louise study the...
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Nov 15, 20231 min read
Aurora Borealis
The Northern Lights have been visible on clear nights lately. We watched a video that explains why they occur....
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Nov 10, 20231 min read
Match Stick Puzzles
We solved a match stick puzzle about 2-D shapes from the 4th class book. Then teacher challenged us to make some equations correct by...
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Oct 26, 20231 min read
Our Assembly
Today we presented assembly for the school. There is a clip of our song Doh a deer below.
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Oct 26, 20231 min read
Student council
Congratulations to Oisín and Eimear from 4th class who will join the student council. We wish them well in all their work for the school...
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Oct 20, 20231 min read
Splat ‼️
We also played a maths spellings game called Splat. The word was spelled out one letter at a time. The person after the last letter got...
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Oct 19, 20231 min read
Copy Cat 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️
Today Tommy and Conor showed us how to play Copy Cat. First we sat in pairs back-to-back. Person A had to create a shape or pattern with...
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Oct 19, 20231 min read
More Puzzles
Today we played Magic Circle where we used the vacant chair to reorder our numbers. Then 5th and 6th classes played it too. After that we...
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Oct 18, 20231 min read
Puzzles and Games
Today we played a Halloween version of snakes and ladders. It had witches and pumpkins 🎃 Then we tried to solve Henry Dudeney's puzzle-...
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Oct 17, 20231 min read
History Walk
We have looked at our village twice lately. We were looking at older buildings, including the old school built in the 1860s - now the...
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Oct 12, 20231 min read
World School Milk Day 🥛
We recently joined a webinar all about milk. We learned how good it is for us. A farmer from Galway called Enda showed us his milking...
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Oct 11, 20231 min read
Scríbhneoireacht
Is iad Lúnasa, Meán Fómhair agus Deireadh Fómhair míonna an fhómhar. 🍂 🐿🦔 Bhíomar ag scríobh agus ag léamh faoin séasúr. Féach ar an...
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Oct 9, 20231 min read
Skeleton Art
Today we made skeletons of people and animals. 💀 We had learned about the skeleton in science. We all had fun.
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Oct 6, 20231 min read
Cubism Art for Autumn 🍂
We looked at some examples of cubism and then designed our own trees and coloured them. We included some autumn creatures- hedgehogs,...
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Oct 3, 20231 min read
Cloonacool Sheep Festival 2023
A big thank you to the organisers of the sheep festival for a fantastic weekend. They also had an art competition- to design a logo for...
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Sep 27, 20231 min read
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