1st and 2nd Class received an amazing 1500 dojo points altogether! Wow! As a prize, they got to watch The Mitchells Vs the Machines

By Sarah C

Active Week

During Active Week, we did lots of fun things like rugby and playball. At the end of Active Week, we had a water fight, slip ‘n slide and some games for the people who didn’t want to get wet. That is Active Week.

By Oisín, Hans & Elliott

International Day

For International Day we learned about different countries and we tasted their food, it was so good! We loved to learn different things and to see their art and animals. We learned about their clothes, which were bright, colourful and just beautiful. We will never forget that day!

By Erin

Library Visit

We went to Blackrock Library, it was fun! We didn’t get any books but we did learn how to borrow a book at the library. My partner and I got to sit on the bean bag in the room and after we went to the playground.

By Ivan

Sleepy Cat

Sleepy Cat is a mindfulness exercise. The creators of Sleepy Cat call sit a ‘brain break’. So you just lie on the floor and relax for about 5 minutes. 

By Beatrix

Beehive Art

We did a beehive for art. First, we painted a tree and then we painted the leaves and sticks on the tree. Then, some people painted grass on the paper. We then waited for it to dry and then we used out finger to print the bee with yellow paint. We used bubble wrap for the beehive and painted it with yellow paint. The, we used black marker for the stripes on the bee and the eyes. We used white paint for the wings.

By Anja

School Tour – Fort Lucan

We went to Fort Lucan for our school trip. It was so fun! There was the waterfall water slide, crazy golf, red water slide, a blue water slide that was called the raging river and a playground with a pirate ship as well. You were given a hurling helmet when you were playing crazy golf. We had a shed to put our bags in and we ate our lunch on the grass!

Summer Concert

1st and 2nd class did the show ‘Toby and the Caterpillar’. Junior and Senior infants did Zip-a-dee-doo-dah and other songs. 3rd and 4th did ‘Beauty and the Beast’, it was so fun!

Teddy Bear Picnic

The Green Schools organised a Teddy Bear picnic. For the Teddy Bear picnic we brought in a teddy and a picnic blanket, we ate our lunch and played a game.

We needed to bring

• Rain jacket

• Picnic blanket

• Treat

• A teddy

The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark

‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ is a book. It’s about a little barn owl who wanted to be a day bird. His name is Plop. Each chapter, he learned more about the dark. Finally he made his decision about the dark

By Beatrix

Happy New Year! January was a very busy month for 1st and 2nd Class!

In Art we watched a video of the fireworks on New Year’s Eve. We used card to print fireworks. We drew cityscapes underneath.

We learned about the artist Paul Klee, and looked at his paining of ‘The Goldfish’. This was the inspiration for our art. We learned how to do Scratch Art. First, we had to colour our whole page in crayons, this was very tough work! Next, we painted the page with black paint. Finally, we used match sticks to scratch out our underwater or space scenes.

In SESE, we talked about how our ancestors predicted the weather by looking at the sky and watching the behaviour of animals. We learned a few of the sayings such as ‘Seagull, seagull sitting on the sand, it’s never good weather when you’re on land’. We illustrated them beautifully!

In RE we learned about the story of Abraham and how God always keeps his promises. We found some of God’s promises in the bible and wrote them on stars: e.g. God will always love us, He gives us comfort & He is always with us.

For PE we have been doing Gymnastics in the hall. We learned how to do lots of rolls such as the egg roll, log roll, James Bond roll and the teddy bear roll. We improved so much over the month!

We also have been doing Futsal in school, thanks to the PTA. We have a wonderful time every Tuesday playing fun warm up games and matches!

We welcomed Ms Hunter to our classroom during the month of January from DCU. She has been teaching us a lot of fun lessons in school. With Ms Hunter, we have been learning all about space, the planets and the moon. We have been making planets out of paper mâché for Art and we researched about Neil Armstrong on the iPads. In Music, we sang the song ‘I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon’ from Sesame Street. In Maths we went on a 3D Shape Hunt around the school grounds and created structures out of 3D shapes from home! In Gaeilge we did the theme Éadaí (Clothes), we have a washing line in our classroom to help remind us of all of the new vocabulary we have learned.

Penguin Art

We did penguins in November with paint, paper, scissors and glue. I made a crown out of paper for mine and everyone’s were nice. Some had hats, earmuffs and crowns like me. Art is my favourite and I like penguins like my teacher.

By Eden

Food Pyramid

We were learning about the Food Pyramid. At the top were sweets because they are not healthy but carbohydrates are healthy.

By Jack

Science Week

Detective

In November a detective came in. We were trying to figure out who stole the Venus Diamond. We had to find fingerprints.

By Hans

Raisin Experiment

For Science Week, we did a Raisin Experiment. We got a jar and filled the jar with fizzy water to see if it would help the raisin float or not.

By Hugo

Skittle Experiment

It was Science Week and we did a cool experiment and it was exciting. We even got to eat one, I had a purple one. I was so happy.

By Sarah C

Separating Colours

We did an experiment about separating colours. These are the steps:

1.    First tape the end of each strip of filter paper to a lollipop stick.

2.   Draw a thick line in marker across each strip of paper.

We saw the colours separating when the water touched the colours

By Luke

Data

In November we made graphs in something called Data. Data is in Maths. Miss Walker said it was like 3rd and 4th work! We did our favourite colours. I voted for blue. The colours we had were red (14), purple (5), blue (4), black (1) and green (0).

By Zoe

Decorated Tree

We made Christmas decorations for homework. I made a snowflake; we hung it up on the tree.

By Sam

Christmas Jumper Day

On Friday, the day of the Late Late Toy Show, we had Christmas Jumper Day. Some of us didn’t wear jumpers. We decorated a paper jumper and we got popcorn from the PTA and brought the popcorn home for the Toy Show.

By Nayana.

In October, we made Halloween pictures, but they were all 2D Shapes! There were pumpkins, witches, haunted houses and monsters too!

By Beatrix

1st & 2nd Class News

Colour Wheel Umbrellas

In Art we learned about primary and secondary colours. We used the colours blue, yellow and red to mix colours to make a colour wheel in the shape of an umbrella. We drew a picture of a person holding the umbrella underneath. Using white crayons, we drew raindrops and painted over the background in blue watercolours.

PE

PE is fun. We played Forest Fire every PE day and other games too. We do PE every Friday.

By Thomas & Ivan

Reading Buddies

In September, we started Reading Buddies. We do Reading Buddies with 3rd & 4th Class. My buddy is Emma and my favourite book is about Mo Salah.

By Nayana

Our Summer Memories

On the first day of school, we wrote about our summer memories. I wrote about my holiday in France with my family. I tried oysters and snails. We found a hedgehog in the house where we stayed.

By Zoe

The Twits

We read a story about the Twits by Roald Dahl. It was very good. Mrs Twit put worms in Mr Twit’s spaghetti. The to get Mrs Twit back, Mr twit put frogs in Mrs Twit’s bed.

By Sarah

We focused on the quote ‘If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely’. We did Art where you get yellow strips of paper and write good things about ourselves. We stuck them to a sun.

Secret Friends

Every week we get a new secret friend. Secret friends are people that we have to be kind to for a week. It is fun.

By Saoirse

Wrinkled Hearts

In SPHE and Art we learned about wrinkled hearts. We got the idea by watching a story of people getting sadder when a person says unkind things to them. We usually do Art on Wednesdays so we did Art about wrinkled hearts. We were given a heart shape out of paper and we coloured it in and we had wrinkle it.

By Anja

Yoga

In September we did four weeks of yoga. It was super fun. We learned some new poses like putting our legs over our heads and doing the three-legged dog. The lady who taught us was called Elaine. We did yoga on yoga mats. We did yoga on Mondays. It was so much fun!

By Iseult