St. Michael's N.S. Cloonacool

This week we were chatting about rules, responsibilities and consequences. In groups we had to agree on three rules for various headings.

Our RSE lesson today was very appropriate. We were talking about families on Grandparents Day! In groups we found similarities and differences (this was hard) between families. We also said one thing we liked about our family.

Today we were experimenting with light. We used torches to investigate various materials. Were they transparent, translucent or opaque? We also had glass prisms. We made the spectrum by shining the light through them.

We are working with fibres in visual arts at the moment. Each person has a loom and we are weaving on it. It is very enjoyable. A big thank you to Ms Healy who helped us when we were beginning to weave.

Today in RSE we were chatting about bullying behaviour. It is very important to: Say stop Get away Tell Keep telling It is also very important to tell if we see someone being treated badly. We worked in groups chatting about case studies.

We really enjoyed performing our musical last night. What wonderful performances after all our hard work!

Santa visited our classroom today. We had great fun with our Christmas annual. We also got some sweets 😋

We watched Raahat, an author and illustrator, create a winter scene. She made it seem quite easy. Our cards turned out well too.

Today we worked in groups of three. There were Christmas themed problems. Each group had a mix of 3rd & 4th. We worked hard together and enjoyed solving them.

Look at our beautiful winter display. We used pastels to create a background.

We received our pennant today for all of the wonderful farm safety work that our school has engaged with this term. We have received the first one for Animal Safety and Wellbeing from AgriKids. We hope to earn more pennants in the future towards eventually earning an overall Farm Safety Flag for our school. Well done to everyone for all of their dedication to farm safety in our school community! Keep up the great work! 👏 🐑 🐄

Today we met a scientist who speaks to people about health. He reminded us about keeping ourselves healthy. Hygiene is very important. We also protect our classmates and the community when we are careful.

On a very chilly day we were kept warm with plenty of running! We had to listen very carefully to coach's instructions .

Today 3rd & 4th classes were learning about the different ways energy is produced. More renewable resources are used now - solar panels, wind energy and hydro-electricity. We will be trying to remember to always turn lights off when we leave our classroom.

On Thursday we wrote and drew pictures about our favourite numbers. On Friday we completed a puzzle!

The origami jerseys were less challenging Look at the variety of designs 😍

Michel is a lecturer in Galway.  There are three groups of venomous snakes. Vipers have very long fangs that can move! Elopids have shorter fangs that don't move but they are very sharp with very strong poison.  The colubrids have fangs farther back in their mouth so they have to chew their prey. Luckily we don't have venomous snakes in Ireland! 🐍 🐍

This morning we worked in pairs on two puzzles. The pairs worked very well to solve them. Daithi had a shape challenge for us too!

Today 3rd and Sixth had fun in the GP room. We played a loop game. Next we played Silent Sequence again. Finally we played Magic Circle- it took two goes to work it out!

Tá an téama seo críochnaithe againn. Féach ar an obair néata atá déanta ag gach éinne. Tá an taispeántas go hálainn ag bun an tseomra.

Today we played Silent Sequence in the GP room. It was difficult to make the row silently! We also played Pairs- trying to take the last pair from the square. We also had a puzzle- change 4 3 2 1 to 1 2 3 4 by moving one counter 😀

Today we folded paper to make a fox. We were thinking about learning new things. Some people found it easy to follow the instructions but lots of us found it difficult! https://vimeo.com/230617775?fl=pl&fe=sh

Congratulations to the Cloonacool team who won the Junior A final on Saturday night. A huge number of our past pupils came back to visit us with the cup 🏆 A great weekend for our local club 👌

We continued working on safety today. We read a set of rules for a pool. Then we completed short safety poems and illustrated them underneath in our sketch pads.

The completed Halloween pictures are now on display in the GP room. They look very colourful 🎃 👻 🧙‍♀️

We have started our Halloween art. We painted the background today using autumn colours. When they are dry we will paint silhouettes on...

We observed the difference between placing an egg in fresh water and salt water. It proved that objects float better in salt water 💧

We learned a lot of facts about the seilide garraí and other snails this week. They are part of the mollusc family. They are herbivores....

Fr Vincent visited our classroom. He said there were hopes that a million children would say thr rosary today, on 7 October, the Feast of...

Today we played mini games with Gavin. It was great to put the skills to use!

Before we played games we were practicing the skill of hand passing the sliotar.

We have been working in groups doing projects. They make a lovely display in our classroom.

Siobhan came into our room today to present the prize for our room. Congratulations- what a lovely picture. She also had sweets for...

A big thank you to Oisín, Eimear and Aoife who organised fun activities for our class. We really enjoyed being out in the sunshine...

Our Sixth Class pupils set up PE lessons for us today to celebrate European School Sports Day. We had lots of fun outside together. Thank...

We were learning about mi, soh and lah and how they are positioned on the lines in relation to each other. Then we composed pieces using...

We are learning about the skeleton and muscles. We watched an interesting programme about how muscles work. Then we did experiments. How...

We are learning in music about the difference between pulse and rhythm. We composed our own rhythm pieces using a combination of ta,...

Today we watched a crowdcast about a funny graphic novel- Terrible Trio: The (Not So) Superheros with author Swapna Haddow and...

Today we had presentations from six 4th class students. They told us about their ideas and plans if they were elected to the student...

Today in science we looked at an oak tree at the front of our school. It is large with lots of leaves. There were orange mushrooms...

Today we welcomed Gavin to our school. He will be coaching 3rd to 6th classes for the next few weeks. We learned how to hold the hurley,...

We joined a Teagasc zoom today. Jessy went through three areas of safety: Signs and what the colours mean Animals and being aware of...

On our final nature walk of the year we found lots of tall colourful flowers. These included foxgloves and meadow sweet. When we returned...

On Friday we used watercolour paints for the first time. We used special paper that is more absorbent. After finishing, the first group...

Siún and Jordan had a panda Plick. Merchandise includes hoodies and teddies. Ruben, Ciara and Ruth had a teddy Plick. Merchandise...

Our amazing Student Council attended our Board of Management meeting on Tuesday. They explained all about the Student Council to the...

In SPHE we were learning about advertising. There are Many tricks used to make products and food look better so we will be persuaded to...

Today we learned about vetch. It is called peasair capaill in Irish. It had tendrils on the end of the leaves to help it cling and grow...

Today we presented assembly. We were so good we had a session with the bee-bots in the GP room. It was fun!