Fáilte go rang a cúig!
Bealtaine
PE with our buddies in Ms. Murphy's Junior Infants 😊
We took advantage of the fine weather to teach and play some games with our buddies in Junior Infants. We played: Duck, Duck, Goose; Flush the toilet; Rob the Nest; Donkey and we even designed an obstacle course. Check out how much fun we had below!
Art
We painted these beautiful summer mountain scenes without using any green paint!
Can you figure out how we did it?
Can you figure out how we did it?
Biodiversity Workshop
We completed a Biodiversity Workshop with Science Foundation Ireland. We learned all about the delicate balance between carbon dioxide emissions and the pH balance in our oceans. We conducted experiments to help us learn more and demonstrate the effects, see below.
Aibreán
Cáisc Shona Daoibh!
School Garden
We have begun work on our school garden. We have planted potatoes, onions and spinach in the garden to date. We are also bringing the garden indoors to our classroom and have beetroot, tomatoes, lettuce and herbs growing on our windowsills. We are taking great care of them and monitoring them daily. Check back here regularly for more updates!
Engineering Tasks with our buddies in Junior Infants
We really enjoyed completing construction tasks with our buddies in Ms. Murphy's Junior Infants class. The variety of constructions was endless - castles, cars, houses, robots, towers, bridges... Take a look below!
Márta
Engineers Week March 7th - 11th 2022
We really enjoyed Engineers Week! We had great fun learning about the different types of engineers in our lives and what their jobs involve. We interviewed engineers we know, conducted experiments at school, completed an engineering task below and presented it to the class.
Check out our fantastic work below including two videos of Christopher and Shane's self propelled boats!!!
Can you figure out how they are powered?
Can you figure out how they are powered?
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We also put Imogen's Parachute to the test... We're happy to report it passed!!! See it in full flight below!
Gaeilge
Táimid ag foghlaim "Shotgun" le George Ezra as Gaeilge. Cliceáil thíos chun an amhrán a cleachtadh!
Táimid ag foghlaim "Shotgun" le George Ezra as Gaeilge. Cliceáil thíos chun an amhrán a cleachtadh!
World Book Day March 3rd 2022
We had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day. We dressed up as our favourite book characters and the highlight of our day was buddy reading with Junior Infants! Check out our smiling faces below!
Feabhra
Our St. Bridgid's Day Crosses & Cherry Blossoms
Eanáir
Science
We investigated light in Science. We looked at refraction and reflection of light and how light travels. We conducted experiments to explore it further.
P.E.
Our Winter Silhouettes in Art
Nollaig
🎇🎄 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... 🎄🎇
We were delighted to be awarded most Christmas-y Classroom by the Student's Council! We rounded off the year with fun activities such as baking (see our cinnamon biscuit recipe below), Secret Santa and a Christmas Quiz! 😁🎄
We have been busy creating artwork to decorate our classroom from Catching Snowflakes to Clay Christmas Tree Decorations, Stained Glass Angels, Baubles, Christmas Jumpers and much more. Here is a peek at some of our work! 😊
❄ ❄ ❄ Catching Snowflakes ❄ ❄ ❄
We have been developing our hopping, jumping, balancing and throwing skills in PE. We designed our own obstacle courses to put our new skills to the test. We also had to complete balancing challenges using different poses - squat, plank and balance on one foot.
Gaeilge - Mo Scoil
Scríobhamar píosa beag faoin scoil. Rinneamar obair go leor ar na píosa seo.
Samhain
Science Week November 7th - 14th 2021
We conducted an experiment to examine the importance of hand hygiene. The results were generally as expected with one surprise, our santised hands performed best of all! We do admit however, that a lot of hand sanitiser was used in conducting this experiment! 😁
Design a Prosthesis
For Science Week we set ourselves the task of designing and making a prosthesis for our toys. We thoroughly enjoyed this task - it was challenging and funny in equal measure! 😁 The feedback was unanimous, everybody had great fun doing it.
We had to assess ourselves using the following criteria:
1. Does the prosthesis fit?
2. Do you think it feels comfortable for your toy?
3. Does it improve mobility (movement) for the user (toy)?
4. Is it suitable e.g. is it balanced?
Take a look at our designs below...
We had to assess ourselves using the following criteria:
1. Does the prosthesis fit?
2. Do you think it feels comfortable for your toy?
3. Does it improve mobility (movement) for the user (toy)?
4. Is it suitable e.g. is it balanced?
Take a look at our designs below...
📏📐 Clinometers 📐📏
We made clinometers in class during Science Week. We had great fun testing them out around school. Making the clinometers wasn't the hardest part, using them proved a little trickier! We had to work in pairs and help each other to get an accurate reading, it took a few attempts. We measured the height of basketball posts, lamp posts, trees and the highest peak in our school building. We used a trundle wheel to complete our calculations and recorded them in our SESE copies.
Intel Mini Scientist Competition 2021
Ella & Róisín presented their wonderful Intel Mini Scientist Competition entry "What is the best way to tie your shoelaces?" We were so impressed by the standard of their project and all the hard work and effort they put in. Best of luck to Ella & Róisín in the Intel Mini Scientist Competition 2021!
Deireadh Fómhair
Johnson & Johnson STEM Academy - 3D Printing
We were so lucky to be able to take part in the Johnson and Johnson STEM Academy. We learned and completed the 3D Printing process from start to finish!
We decided to print name keychains. We created our designs in Tinkercad, sliced them for printing using the Dremel Digilab and printed them in class using the 3D printer! Some of our designs took time and had to be reworked a couple of times before printing but we were delighted with the finished product!
We learned so many new skills along the way such as: engineering a design that could be printed easily and experimenting to find the most efficient way to print it; designing and making our product unique by adding different details; and problem solving the technical issues we encountered using Tinkercad and Digilab. We all worked together as a team to help each other out and to share what we had learned with each other. See below the presentation we put together to explain the process and some of us presenting it in class.
We decided to print name keychains. We created our designs in Tinkercad, sliced them for printing using the Dremel Digilab and printed them in class using the 3D printer! Some of our designs took time and had to be reworked a couple of times before printing but we were delighted with the finished product!
We learned so many new skills along the way such as: engineering a design that could be printed easily and experimenting to find the most efficient way to print it; designing and making our product unique by adding different details; and problem solving the technical issues we encountered using Tinkercad and Digilab. We all worked together as a team to help each other out and to share what we had learned with each other. See below the presentation we put together to explain the process and some of us presenting it in class.
🎃 Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh! 🎃
We enjoyed dressing up for Halloween. Take a look at our spooky costumes.
🎨 Our Art Displays 🎨
Our Halloween Art inspired by The Scream by Edvard Munch...
Our Overlapping Ghost Art... 👻👻👻
🌳🍁🍂 Our Autumn Walk 🍂🍁🌳
We went on an autumn walk and made beautiful trays out of clay using the print from the leaves we collected.
🌞🚀⭐🔭🌙 Space Week 2021 🌙🔭⭐🚀🌞
We really enjoyed learning about planet Earth in space, our solar system and how it all works together... We learned about day and night, the seasons and why we have them here on Earth and why some planets do not. We also used the chromebooks and ipads to find out more interesting facts about our solar system and created a 3D model using papier mache below. It was a messy task but we are very happy with how it turned out! 😊
Méan Fómhair
We have had a very busy start to the year! Take a look at some of our work in class...
🎨 Name Art 🎨
🥼🥽 SESE: Science 🥽🥼
We completed experiments while exploring the lungs in Science. We made model lungs to investigate breathing in our bodies and labelled all the different parts involved.
We conducted two experiments and were surprised by how well they worked especially making our mini fire extinguishers! See below.
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🎨 Picture Perfect 🎨
