Our daffodils have bloomed. They are a lovely yellow colour. We put each of them into a drink of coloured water - one red, one blue and
one green. The daffodils drank up the coloured water and have now changed colour themselves. This drinking of the water is by capillary action.
Our class are taking part in the Agri Aware potato growing challenge. Our school was sent some compost, a grow bag and a potato seed. We have planted and watered the potato, and we hope to harvest lots of potatoes in June.
We are very excited about watching them all grow.
When the potato plant was pulled out of the ground we could see all the little potatoes growing out of the roots. 
We collected, washed, dried and weighed the potatoes. We harvested six, and together they weighed 2 and a half ounces. If we had left them in the soil longer we think they would have grown much bigger and heavier.
Seo an Prionsa agus an Banphrionsa.
Seo iad na prionsaí eile agus na síoga.
Seo iad na daoine atá ag obair sa phálás. 
Ms. Tierney was in Uganda last summer. She had a wonderful time. Now our school is twinned with the school she taught at last summer. Ms. Tierney brought pictures, videos and lovely things from Uganda. She showed them to us today. She let us try on the grass skirts and the Ugandan shawls. We even tried playing the Ugandan drum.
Ms. Tierney's friend Emer came to talk to all of us about Uganda too. It was very interesting.
We had a visit from some of the Galway firemen, with the fire engine today. We were shown the inside and outside of the fire engine, and we had a chance to squirt the power hose. 
It was very interesting and good fun.
We made 3D shapes from matchsticks and blue tack. Can you see our cube, our triangular pyramid and our square pyramid? The pyramids were both stronger than the cube when teacher pushed down on them with her hand.
We made the same shapes with magnetic shapes (rods and spheres).
We tried making the shapes with marshmallows too. That was fun but very messy. Marshmallows are so sticky!
white snowdrops, 
yellow crocuses 
and green shamrock leaves.
We also checked the horse chestnut trees near the school. Those buds are not out yet either. Horse chestnut buds are very interesting. They are really sticky. That means that the delicate leaves inside the buds stay nice and safe and warm and dry when the weather is very cold and wet.
On the 14th of February it will be St. Valentine's Day. We are making nice things out of hearts for Valentine's Day.
We used 6 hearts to make nice 'Somebunny Loves You' cards.
We made some lovely stain glass patterns with tissue paper and black sugar paper. When we stick them on the window the light shines nicely through them.
matchsticks and marla, pattern blocks and tangrams. Each day we switch activities so each table gets to try each activity.
