Hi Everyone! Welcome to our first class page where you will see many different activities from both classes over the year! Hope you enjoy it!
EASTER FUN
Classroom chocolate hunt with our partners...
Easter art...
Virtual egg hunt with the Student Council...
Seachtain na Gaeilge
We had lots of fun making a special effort to use our Irish during Seachtain na Gaeilge. We went on a Teidí hunt 'as Gaeilge' around the school, we learned the Haka Gaelach and a poem called 'An tSeamróg' and performed them at our special Seachtain na Gaeilge school assembly, we had a Lá Glas, completed art activities for Lá 'le Pádraig (St. Patrick's Day) and we played Irish games and participated in conversation circles with our classmates. We even had a class Fashion Show 'as Gaeilge' where we introduced our partner and used the Irish we had been learning on the theme of Éadaí (clothes) too. We had great fun hitting the class catwalk!
MATHS
In Maths one of the topics we have been learning about is Length. We had great fun predicting the lengths of objects in our classroom and then measuring the length of them using cubes. We also predicted the lengths of our throws and then measured then using jumps, strides and baby steps!
SPRING
In class we have been learning about spring and we were so lucky to get to look at a bird nest up close. It was fascinating to see how the birds constructed their nest.
IPADS
This month we independently scanned QR codes from the whiteboard to play Literacy and Maths games of our choice. You can click on any of the pictures/buttons below to try the games at home too.
February & March Activities
We have had a very busy time in 1st class in the last number of weeks during February and March. There were many different activities including celebrating 'World Book Day', Lá Glas, our class fashion show for Seachtain na Gaeilge, our 'Step into Spring' Walking Challenge, the Green day of planting and many more class activities also. Take a look below at our photos!
Seachtain Na Gaeilge
For Seachtain na Gaeilge and the month of March we made a special effort to use our Irish that we know. During this time we took part in Gaeilge games, using our Irish questions with a partner, a picture hunt around the school 'as Gaeilge' and using Irish in our P.E games - finding Irish words in our relays! We also learned 'An Haka Gaelach' and performed this at the school assembly for the other classes on 'Lá Glas' and also recited our poem 'An tSeamróg'. We also held a class 'Fashion Show' to use our Irish that we were learning on the theme of Éadaí (clothes). We really enjoyed this and had great fun on our class catwalk!
Planting Day
P.E Fun
In our P.E class recently we had some fun working in groups doing co-operative games! For this we had to work together to make a 'hula hut'. This was a great activity to show how we can work together, help each other and share ideas on how to complete the task!
VAlentine's Day & Mother's dAy Art
All the class worked so well on their cards and flower pictures and produced beautiful work! They also enjoyed working with clay to make their heart-shaped clay dishes and then wrapped these to create a lovely surprise for all their wonderful mothers.
Maths
In Maths we have been learning about place value with tens and units in sums. We have also been taking part in activities on measuring and length. We recently measured how far we could throw a beanbag in the school hall and also measured our standing jumps to see how far we could jump. We enjoyed this activity and tried to improve on our distances each time!
Step into Spring Walking Challenge - We Reached Gold!
We were delighted to reach our aim of 25km which was the gold distance for the Spring Walking Challenge organised by Cork Sports Partnership. We really enjoyed our class walks each day with our friends, while it was also great for our physical activity and wellbeing! Well done to all pupils! They each received a certificate of achievement for the walking challenge!
World Book Day
We had a great day in the class for World Book Day! We discussed our favourite books and characters, talked about costumes and had a fashion show in the school hall. We also enjoyed our reading time in reading corners at the end of the day which was a lovely reading activity!
Crazy Hair Day! - look at our Creative Styles!
GREEN SCHOOLS DAY OF ACTION
We had a very successful Green Schools Day of Action. We made a great effort to travel to school in a sustainable way and to have waste free lunches. During the school day we used limited electricity and to celebrate World Book Day we also read a Green Schools book called 'Biblioburro' which is a true story from Columbia about donkey libraries. The highlight of the day was going outside to do some planting!
World BOOK DAY
For World Book Day we designed a cover for a book, had a fashion show in the corridor with the classes from Juniors - 2nd and even did some campfire reading in our classroom! It was a great day 😊
Happy Mothers' day
Happy Mothers' Day to all our mums. We hope you enjoyed your cards and pictures and we hope you also enjoyed reading about why we love you so much ❤️
'STEP INTO SPRING' WALKING CHALLENGE
Over the last 5 weeks we have been participating in the 'Step Into Spring' walking challenge organised by Cork Sports Partnership. We really enjoyed our daily walks and we are proud to say we successfully completed the challenge and achieved the Gold distance of 25km 🏆
VALENTINE'S DAY
For Valentine's Day we decided to do something kind for each other. We wrote down why each person in the class is special to us and then we received our very own sheet filled with all the lovely things our friends said about us in the shape of a love heart. We had big smiles on our faces reading all the lovely and kind comments 😊
PANCAKE TUESDAY
Celebrating 100 days in 1st CLASS
In Maths we have been learning about tens and units and so we made a decision to count 100 days in 1st Class. On our 100th day of 1st Class we celebrated by doing some writing and colouring activities, playing 'Would you Rather?' based on 100, making 100 day crowns, predicting where 100 steps would take us (and then actually measuring where we ended up ... some people ended up outside!!!), we did P.E. activities outside based on the multiples of 10, we spent some time playing with the other 1st Class and we also continued with our Step Into Spring Challenge. What a super day!
100 dAYS IN fIRST cLASS!!
As part of our Maths work we have been counting the first 100 days in 1st class since the beginning of the school year. We reached our 100th day on Wednesday February 7th! We were very excited and we did many different activities linked to 100 during the day at school! We enjoyed celebrating the day! Take a look below at some of our activities - making our 100th day hats, practising our counting to 100 in Maths, finding the letters and numbers for one hundred in our P.E hunt outside, go noodle active breaks linked to 100, writing activities and more! Both first classes also came together to make a picture showing 100!
Special Highlights
A Visit from Casey
pOSTING OUR sPECIAL cARDS
All the pupils did wonderful work making their cards and pictures for ‘Grandparents Day’ recently. We all enjoyed the trip to the post office to post them! I hope all the grandparents and special people enjoyed receiving their cards by post or in person!
Step into Spring!
This week in our class we have started the 'Step into Spring' Walking Challenge. This is a school’s initiative in connection with Cork Sports Partnership and Get Ireland Walking. The aim of this initiative is to get pupils walking and active! We will be continuing with the initiative into the middle of March. We are doing our short walks during the school day when we can. We are using the community area behind the school or some small walks around the village. Our overall aim is to reach approx 20km! We will add to our distance walked each day! We are off to a great start and enjoyed our walks as a class!
P. E Activities
We have been very busy with our different P.E activities over the last few weeks. We have started our swimming lessons on Tuesdays and we are having great fun. We are really enjoying the lessons!
We have also started Irish dancing on Thursdays and have been busy learning a whole class fun dance and the 'Siege of Ennis'. We are also still practising and improving our 'aon, dó, trí' steps. See some of our dancing pictures below and also some other fun games that we play during our P.E Classes!
We have also started Irish dancing on Thursdays and have been busy learning a whole class fun dance and the 'Siege of Ennis'. We are also still practising and improving our 'aon, dó, trí' steps. See some of our dancing pictures below and also some other fun games that we play during our P.E Classes!
Other Learning Activities
- We were using the ipads to practise our digital learning skills and our Maths skills in addition and subtraction.
- In English writing we have been learning about 'Narrative' story writing.
- We have also been busy using a thermometer to record temperatures in different locations around the school as part of our Science work and learning about weather and famous inventors linked to weather developments.
- Also take a look at some of our lovely Artwork below - our 'bird feeder' pictures, our 'New Year' art and also our work as part of our SPHE programme.
WEATHER
In History, Geography and Science we have been looking at the theme of weather. In History we learned about Francis Beaufort who invented the Beaufort Scale to measure wind speed and Anders Celsius who invented a way to measure temperature called the Celsius scale. In Geography we learned about the weather symbols and weather conditions and we have been keeping a weather diary of the weather, temperature and wind conditions each day. We use information from Met Eireann (see below) to identify what number on the Beaufort Scale we are on each day. In Science we have been using a thermometer to measure the temperature in different places in our school. One day the temperature was 7°C outside our classroom window, it was only 3°C around the corner at the back of the school ... while our classroom was a toasty 21°C!
Zippy's Friends
Our topic for this module has been 'Conflict Resolution'. We had lots of fun using the friendship puppets we made to role-play finding solutions to problems/conflicts.
WELLBEING
For our first 'Mindful Monday' we listened to the story 'The Chill Skill' by Niall Breslin. Afterwards we brought the gymnastics mats into our room, lay down and tried Niall Breslin's Colour Breathing. You can find the video to the story and the colour breathing episode below if you would like to try them at home.
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CASEY
We were so lucky to receive a visit from Nadine and Casey. Casey is 2 years old and she is currently training as an assistance dog. We loved seeing the different things Casey has learned and we would love if she could come to our classroom every day!
GRANDPARENTS' DAY
For Grandparents' Day we put a huge effort into making and writing very special cards for our grandparents and special people. They are very important to us and we love them very much and so we wanted to show them and tell them how much they mean to us. Once we had our cards finished we went to the Post Office to post them. We hope they enjoyed their special surprise in the post 😊
PICKER PALS
We had our first Zoom call with the Picker Pals and other schools doing the Picker Pals programme. We also played a Kahoot quiz with the other schools!
LIGHT
In Science we had great fun investigating light. We learned about natural and artificial sources of light, the difference between sources of light and reflectors of light and we tested a variety of materials to see if they were transparent or opaque. We also made shadows and investigated how we could make these shadows bigger and smaller.
IRISH DANCING
We have been learning Irish dancing and we are making great progress. We have even started to learn The Siege of Ennis!
IRISH
In Irish we have been working on the theme of 'Caitheamh Aimsire'. Some of our conversation work is below if you would like to try it at home.
BOGGLE
In English we have been really enjoying playing Boggle! Ms. Murphy gave us 12 letters and we came up with as many words as we could using only these letters. We came up with 200 words and we could have made more but Ms. Murphy ran out of space on the whiteboard! Do you think you could beat our record of 200 words?! The letters we used are below if you would like to try!
ART
Chalk and pastel hot chocolates
Winter
After learning about winter we went for a walk around the Community Field to see if we could spot any signs of winter. We spotted deciduous trees, evergreen trees, winter clothes and even a lovely robin that stayed on the branch right next to us as we walked by!
Christmas Fun 🎄
PJ and movie day!
We loved sewing and decorating our Christmas stockings.
A sample of just some of our art and creativity this month 🎨
Christmas Gallery
Christmas Excitement!
We have started our Christmas activities in 1st Class and we are enjoying the learning and fun tasks! We have completed great recounts in our English writing lessons. The recount title was - 'How to Decorate a Christmas Tree'. We have also enjoyed starting to make Christmas stockings and decorating them! See some samples of our super work below! We are also really looking forward to our Christmas show on Wednesday 20th Dec - we are busy practising our songs and poems. (More pictures of Christmas activities to follow in coming weeks)
Recent Activities
Take a look below at our pictures from our 'Village Walk'. We were learning about homes and houses in Geography and also about homes in the past in History. We also designed houses as part of our Artwork. All the pupils had great designs! Fantastic work! We are also taking part in the 'Fit 4 Class' Primary School Athletics Programme during our P.E classes at present. This is a fun activity and athletics programme that introduces pupils to athletics in a fun, engaging and non-competitive environment. It focuses on games to develop fitness while encouraging agility, co-ordination and balance. We are enjoying the lessons!
KAHOOT
We have been using Kahoot to revise some of the topics we have covered in History, Geography and Science since September. If you would like to try the quiz yourself you can go to https://kahoot.it/ and type in the PIN 07525239!
TOY SHOW
On the day of the Late Late Toy Show we had our own toy show in class! We showed our toys to the class and answered our friend's questions about them. It was really interesting hearing about each other's favourite toys.
HOMES
In Geography we learned about different types of homes and then went for a walk around the village to see if we could spot any of the types of homes we had learned about. In History we interviewed an older person about homes when they were younger and then we shared this information with the class.
In Art we created paper bag houses and winter village scenes using paper.
In Drama we worked in groups to come up with ideas about why the Three Little Pigs had to leave their family home and build their own houses. We then acted these ideas out in our groups. Some of our ideas were: maybe the three little pigs wanted to leave, maybe the three little pigs destroyed their family home and so they had to build their own houses, maybe the three little pigs kept getting up to mischief and Mummy Pig told them to leave!
IRISH
In Irish we have been working on the topic of Bia (food). We have been asking and answering questions with our partners and using our Lego Six Bricks to help us to revise our reading. You can find our Irish cómhrá below if you would like to try it at home.
Zippy's Friends
We are enjoying our Zippy's Friends time each week. We move our tables back so we can sit in a circle and chat together about the different topics as well as play some games. We have completed the modules on Feelings and Communication and now we are on the topic of Friendship. In the photos below we were working with our partners on the topic of 'Listening'. It was lots of fun!
PICKER PALS
There was great excitement when our Picker Pack arrived by post. Inside there was a picker pack for our litter picks, story books and activity books for everyone in the class and the box even turned into a poster for our room! It is now proudly displayed on one of our boards and we will add our litter pick reports to it each week.
Fit 4 LIFE
We are participating in the Fit 4 Life programme, a 10 week fun activity and athletics programme. This month we have been working on agility skills and we have been having lots of fun!
We have also been having lots of fun while developing our sending, receiving and travelling skills in P.E.
Halloween Fun!
Getting Ready for Halloween!
Special Visitor
We had a special visitor to our class last week. 'Fleur' a one year old golden retriever made a visit to our school with her trainer Nadine. Fleur is currently training as an assistance dog for another school in Munster.
OUr Autumn Walk
Ms. Bermingham's class enjoyed their Autumn walk recently. We looked out for Autumn colour and different signs of Autumn when we were out. We looked for the different types of trees we were learning about in class - Oak, Beech, Horse Chestnut and Sycamore. We also explored the different types and shapes of leaves from these trees and their fruit - acorns, beech nuts, helicopter seeds and horse chestnuts. We enjoyed collecting these many signs of Autumn on our nature walk and explored them when we returned to class. We also did some beautiful artwork showing the different shapes and types of leaves.
Life Cycle of the Oak Tree
As part of our Science and Geography work we were learning about how an oak tree grows from a little acorn to a fully grown oak tree. We learned the four stages of the tree cycle - acorn, sprout, seedling /sapling and then an oak tree. We read a lovely book 'Little Acorn' to show how the tree develops and completed our own worksheets on the topic. Take a look at the Autumn theme photos below!
Life Cycle of the Oak Tree
As part of our Science and Geography work we were learning about how an oak tree grows from a little acorn to a fully grown oak tree. We learned the four stages of the tree cycle - acorn, sprout, seedling /sapling and then an oak tree. We read a lovely book 'Little Acorn' to show how the tree develops and completed our own worksheets on the topic. Take a look at the Autumn theme photos below!
Gymnastics
We are really enjoying our gymnastics lessons in 1st class. We are working on many different movement skills such as balancing, rolling, turning and stretching. See pictures below. (Ms. Bermingham's Class)
Other Activities
Word Hunt!
We enjoyed our word hunt in the hall - finding our tricky words in a game!
Other pictures below also show some Maths games during Maths week, some of our artwork during Space week and also some pictures of practising in pairs doing our reports on animals. During Space Week we also learned many interesting facts on Space and enjoyed reciting our poem - 'Climb Aboard the Spaceship'.
We enjoyed our word hunt in the hall - finding our tricky words in a game!
Other pictures below also show some Maths games during Maths week, some of our artwork during Space week and also some pictures of practising in pairs doing our reports on animals. During Space Week we also learned many interesting facts on Space and enjoyed reciting our poem - 'Climb Aboard the Spaceship'.
Happy Halloween!
We had lots of fun on the day of the midterm break! Dressed in our wonderful Halloween costumes we enjoyed decorating (and eating!!!) some delicious buns, played musical statues and had a mini disco (check out the dance moves in the photos below!), did some mime in drama based on a Halloween poem and played Halloween games in the halla (pumpkin throw, pin the eye on the pumpkin and knock down the ghost tower)...to name just some of our activities on the day!
Happy Halloween from Ms. Murphy's spook-tacular 1st Class 🎃🦇👻
Happy Halloween from Ms. Murphy's spook-tacular 1st Class 🎃🦇👻
Some of our Halloween art included masks inspired by the artist Dean Russo and some Halloween window silhouettes. We also created a spooky Halloween door and after learning about bats we wrote reports to display outside our classroom so we could share the information we had learned with others.
MATHS week
For Maths week we explored the different colours found in bags of Smarties and used them to make patterns. We then made graphs showing how many of each colour were in our bags and we couldn't believe how different each bag was! The best part was getting to eat our Smarties when we were finished! We also created number flowers showing different ways of making our chosen numbers using addition and subtraction and we had lots of fun playing dice games with our partners.
AUTUMN
In SESE we learned about the signs of Autumn and went on an autumn walk to see how many signs we could spot. We looked out for oak, horse chestnut, beech and sycamore leaves on our walk so that we could find the fruit and seeds of these trees (acorns, conkers, beech nuts and helicopter seeds). We found all of the leaves and fruit/seeds on our walk although acorns with their hats still on were hard to come by! When we returned to class we used our autumn leaves to create leaf lanterns and we also made stained glass autumn leaves from the 4 trees we had been learning about (oak, horse chestnut, beech and sycamore). We listened to the story 'Little Acorns' and learned about the life cycle of the oak tree. We created an autumn board in our classroom displaying the leaves and fruits/seeds of the 4 trees above, the life cycle of the oak tree and the wonderful reports we wrote about Autumn.
Gymnastics
We thoroughly enjoyed our 4 weeks of gymnastics and learned and developed many skills including balance, rolling, stretching and movement.
GYMNASTICS Week 1
We have been really looking forward to starting gymnastics and Week 1 proved to be lots of fun!
SPACE Week
We really enjoyed Space Week! We learned about living and working in the International Space Station. We watched some of Chris Hadfield's videos about living on the ISS and we listened to his story, 'The Darkest Dark'. We also watched astronaut Megan McArthur reading a story called 'Today I Will Fly' from the ISS. We listened to songs about the planets and we read a book about Neil Armstrong and watched a video of when he walked on the Moon. We then created pictures of ourselves as astronauts walking on the Moon as well as a picture of a rocket blasting off into space. Finally we wrote down our favourite facts about space and they are proudly displayed outside our classroom for everyone to see. You will see some of our work and some of the videos we watched this week below.
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English
We have been using our phonics boards to work on our phonics and spellings.
Maths
In Maths we have been exploring numbers beyond 10 and we went outside to revise our number formation using chalk.
irish
In Irish we have been working on the theme of 'Mé Féin' (Myself). We have had great fun interviewing our partners, playing Bingo and lots of other games and learning 'Ceann, Gualainn, Glúin is Cos'. Below you will find the interview we have been using in class if you would like to try it at home!
hISTORY
In history we discussed the differences/similarities between schools in the past and schools now. We saw the old school desk in our school and we also looked through a roll book from 1983! Afterwards we wrote about what we had learned.
We also had great fun visiting the old school. We even went into Ms. Murphy's old classroom!
LEGO SIX BRICKS
Lego Six Bricks can be used in so many different ways. Already this year we have used our Lego Six Bricks to work on our literacy, numeracy, physical and perceptual development skills. As you can see from below it has been lots of fun!
Science
In Science we explored our senses. We went outside to explore what was happening around us using only our sense of hearing and we relied on our partner and our senses of hearing and touch to navigate obstacles in the halla while our eyes were closed!
We also explored our sense of taste by trying the 5 different taste qualities: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami. Umami was the least popular taste in our class while sweet was the clear winner!
DISPLAYS
Here are just some of our classroom displays since September.
History
In our class reader we enjoyed reading a story about schools in the past. We learned interesting things about school before and discussed similarities and differences with school now. We took a visit to the old school building also which we enjoyed. We also looked at an old school desk in our school. See some pictures below!
Fun Games at P.E
We have been enjoying our P.E time in the class. We played fun games in the yard and school hall. We have also been practising our throwing and catching skills with beanbags and tennis balls. This week we are due to start our gymnastics lessons so we are really looking forward to that.
Music
We were busy learning different songs and rhymes through September. Our poems were 'My First Day' and 'Ceann, Gulainn, Glúin is Cos' - Gaeilge. Our songs were 'Together Again', 'Dipido' and 'Autumn Leaves'. In the pictures below we are practising keeping rhythm to the song Autumn Leaves by using instruments. The class really enjoyed this activity. There are also photos of the class joining into a dance movement break between activities!
Maths Time - practising our Number work!
Autumn
For the last couple of weeks we have been learning about the season of Autumn and talking about the different signs of Autumn in the world around us. We also created lovely artwork on the theme of Autumn. We made Autumn colour 'suncatchers' for our class windows and also Autumn wreaths that we took home.
OUr Class Displays
These are some our of class displays of our great work in writing, artwork, SPHE and history over the last few weeks!