St. Michael's N.S. Cloonacool

This week is Anti-Bullying Week. The theme is “No One Left Out”. We re-visited our school’s Bí Cineálta poster slogans and discussed what we already know about bullying behaviour. We had lots of talk and discussion about various scenarios provided during the lesson and also talked about adults that we can trust. We learned about being kind in what we say and do both online and offline, learned about exclusion bullying and how to be an upstander.

We had a lovely week at school this week. We enjoyed mass with the whole school on Tuesday lead by Fr Vincent to remember loved ones who have passed away. 3rd and 4th Class enjoyed creating our classroom tree for our holy space and lovely artwork using oil pastels to remember all of our family members this November and always 🕯️

3rd and 4th Class had a great day today learning lots of new basketball skills. We enjoyed learning how to do correct chest and bounce passes, how to move with the ball (dribbling) and the layup. We are looking forward to more PE lessons in the sun this year ☀️ 🏀

3rd and 4th Class had great fun yesterday and today trying to guess this household item while learning about homes in the past. Can you guess what it may be used for? 👀

Well done to everyone today who successfully completed our first fire drill of the year. All classrooms remembered to close the door on their way out and everyone got out of the building calmly and safely. Thank you to Ms Toolan for organising this drill with Shauna’s help to keep us all safe.

During the week we played lots of maths games on the Chromebooks, spent a lot of time on maths talk, practised our tables and played lots of board games. We enjoyed lots of place value activities using our lovely maths equipment purchased from the money raised at our Christmas Concert last year. Well done to 3rd and 4th Class who had the closest guess to the correct number of sweets in the jar. We can’t wait to eat all 306 sweets! 🍬

We played lots of maths games together today including the “Daily 10” maths challenge game online. We had to use our maths eyes to guess how many sweets are inside Ms Whitehead’s jar- all to be revealed on Friday 🍬 👀. We also had a round of our favourite Tables Tiger game to continue to work through our multiplication tables practise. We are looking forward to lots more maths games using our new maths equipment and board games this week too ⭐

Well done to Eamon who represented St. Michael’s N.S. at the Connacht Cross Country stage in Longford at the weekend. We are so proud of you! Well done ⭐

We had great fun on Dojo Island on the Chromebooks today as a reward for great behaviour all week. Well done to everyone! ⭐

Best of luck to CT Gaels in the Sligo LGFA Intermediate Final tomorrow in Keash at 2:45pm vs St. Mary’s. Thank you to Deirbhile, Ciara and Rose for presenting tickets to all of us at school today ahead of the final tomorrow. We hope to see everyone out in full force to support the ladies ⚽️

Thank you to Ms Toolan and the Infants for a wonderful assembly this afternoon. All of the Infants introduced themselves to the whole school. They sang some lovely songs for us that link in with their September theme of Mé Féin and Autumn. We enjoyed listening to “Tá Teidí ag siúl’, and ‘The Leaves are Falling Down’. Ms Toolan reminded us about bus safety and the 6th Class Bus Prefects re-introduced themselves to the whole school. We spoke about the importance of wearing the

Well done to all who entered the Cross Country Competition at the weekend. We are so proud of you all. Thank you to all of the parents who organised the children for the races. A great day was had by all. Well done to Eamon who is now through to the Connacht stage next weekend. Best of luck ⭐ 🏃

3rd and 4th Class had a lovely morning walk with Junior and Senior Infants today. We got to have a look around the village at the preparations for the local Sheep Festival. We are all very excited for the weekend ahead 🐑

3rd and 4th Class had a great afternoon today with 5th Class who taught us how to use the Bee Bots. We had a great time learning how to program together and even worked through some tricky maizes. Our problem solving skills were put to the test! Thank you to 5th Class and Mr Nally for teaching us and organising the visit of the Bee Bots today.

We had great fun today playing maths games in our groups. We’re working hard on our multiplication tables this term.

We enjoyed a mindful break today during our SPHE lesson on wellbeing. The Body Scanner video helped us to regulate our body and relax.

3rd and 4th Class enjoyed using the Chromebooks this afternoon to find facts about our chosen countries on the classroom globe. We hope to do lots of project work this year using the Chromebooks to support us.

What a wonderful way to end our last full week at school! We all really enjoyed our tour from start to finish!

This afternoon we played board games together. It was a change from yesterday's activity!

We enjoyed a lovely treat today during sports day 🍦 Despite the weather, we had a great day ☔️ ⚽️

We have finished our weeks of buddy reading with junior and senior infants. They read their book bag books to us. We showed them our novel. Ms. Toolan also organised a 'buddy chat' with our elbows touching.

As part of our SESE work we were researching high crosses. We will speak in class tomorrow about the carved stone cross we each have looked at. https://canva.link/p4h07fejz8d92yh

We created pictures of ice cream cone close ups. It was fun decorating them!

3rd and 4th had fun with the new maths resources. We played Crazy Eights with the new card packs and had some competitive fun! 🃏♠️♥️♦️♣️

Today we welcomed Claire McDonagh to our school. She spoke to us about her book. The theme is football and it is an interactive story where you choose what happens on the pitch. We worked in groups to play the game and score as much as possible!

After learning about the native Australian people we created some art inspired by their work. https://canva.link/79h4qlc4644qb6f

We are continuing to read our class novel The Extincts. We created new covers for the book.

We created a beautiful May garland yesterday with Martina. It was a very enjoyable afternoon! https://canva.link/t7i1snphxh2o7en

Our chapter on fieldwork coincided nicely with good weather! We used hula hoops to focus our attention on a small area.

Today we had an unusual art lesson. We took a walk up the lane near the school. Each pair had a colour card with six different shades. The challenge was to find a matching item for each colour from nature. There was lots of discussion and changing of items! https://canva.link/zw933sf6ke5ykgr

Our art is unusual as we used white markers and pencils on a black background. We sponge painted the rabbits before putting them on the background.

Pat has started coaching with us. Today we concentrated on getting away from our marker, control of the ball and being able to move away quickly.

We had fun using the Lego Spike kits this week. https://canva.link/9mrgxm9e3m287gj

Congratulations to Ben who won the Book Fair prize in our room. His alligator cover was lovely!

Our water colour paintings are now on display in the GP room. We also wrote reports about our time with Karen.

We had fun working with clay. We spent some time rolling and twisting and experimenting with it first. Then we shaped a pizza. Finally we put the toppings on the pizza.🍕 Now we are waiting for them to dry.

Bhí gach duine gléasta go deas inniú. Maith sibh!

The food pyramid helps us with our food choices. We should eat lots from the base of the pyramid and less from each section as the pyramid gets narrower. This will helps us stay healthy.

We were learning about volcanoes in Geography. Today we did an experiment to see how volcanoes erupt. It was fun to watch the eruption!

Our final RSE lesson was on problem-solving. It is important to pick a good time to talk about a problem. It's also important to stay calm when talking about a problem. Then we tried a very difficult Missing Piece task!

We enjoyed a PE lesson in the GP room forming a dance to Italian music. We used a variety of shapes and heights. https://www.canva.com/design/DAHC0zFNpE8/wn6CY82uY9eVdDsj741BPQ/watch?utm_content=DAHC0zFNpE8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h072525a71b

We are working on reports and report writing with Ms Henry. Each group took information on an animal and created a report to present to the class. It was very interesting.

We had a session with Rebecca today. Even though it was damp we kept going! We were practicing ball skills after a warm up.

We chatted and learned about taking care of the various parts of our bodies. We also drew care posters.

Céad míle fáilte to Ms Henry who will be teaching 3rd & 4th for 4 weeks. A special céad míle fáilte to Leo. Leo is the speaking object in our room!

We took our woven pieces home today. They looked lovely 😍

Today we were learning about the heart. We took our pulse before and after exercise. We also used the Smart Heart to detect our pulse rate. It was fun exercising to increase our heart rates!

Today we learned about the development of babies in the womb. Then in groups we did a matching activity.

Today we had a very enjoyable drama class based on our novel The Abominables. https://www.canva.com/design/DAHA6gMEd1k/t2YXrrNjfrBXUyKFaMrbIA/watch?utm_content=DAHA6gMEd1k&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h1fac897518

Today we were making St Brigid's crosses. Thank you to the people from 5th and 6th who helped us. It was a lovely afternoon.