St. Michael's N.S. Cloonacool

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.

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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! 👏 🐑 🐄