Water Safety

Séamus is a lifeguard. He came to talk to our class all about water safety. He explained how to stay safe at the beach and anywhere there is water. We hope to have a really good summer at the beach. Thank you Séamus for a great talk.

Tour to Turoe Pet Farm

Yesterday we went to Turoe Pet farm. We had a fantastic day. We travelled by coach to the farm. There was lots to do there. We started in the inflatable city where we did a lot of bouncing, and we went on the huge slide. Even teacher had a try. Next we had our lunch, we needed it after all the exercise.Before visiting the animals we had a quick game of football and a quick play in the playground. The farm was amazing. We saw rabbits, chickens, ducks, pigs, donkeys and their foals, horses and their foals, cows with horns, calves, sheep, goats, kids and even a crocodile! (We think he was asleep). We got to feed most of the animals. After having the end of our lunches we went into Jungle Town which was a great play area. Such a busy day. We were all safely home by hometime. I think everyone slept well after such a great tour (in spite of the rain).

Bubbles Galore

Bubbles Galore,
Monday, 16th June, 2008
Room 5 and Room 4 went out blowing bubbles this morning. We each had a bubble container. We blew bubbles, looked at all their colours, got bubbles to move using only our hands (by moving air) and using our mouths (blowing the air). We also caught bubbles, shared bubbles, and caught and burst lots of teachers bubbles. We found out lots about bubbles and we had a great time.
Even the bubbles themselves were happy!

Sound investigations with a tuning fork

Sound with Tuning Fork
Monday, 16th June, 2008
We tried touching a vibrating tuning off various objects in class. These are the things we used:
A cup of water, a ping pong ball and string, containers of rice, peas, sand and water.
When we put a vibrating tuning fork into a cup of water the water comes splashing out, but only if the tuning fork goes arms first into the water.
A ping pong ball on string will jump over and back lots of times when touched by a vibrating tuning fork.
Sand, rice, peas and water in containers will jump when the container is touched by a vibrating tuning fork. We can hear the nice note the tuning fork gives too.

Are materials waterproof or absorbent?

Properties of Materials
Are materials waterproof, or absorbent(do they soak up water well)?
Friday, 13th June 2008
These are the materials we tested:
Cloth, sponge, tinfoil, tissue, plastic, newspaper, ourselves.
We found out that cloth, sponges, tissues, and newspapers soaked up water really well. They are all absorbent.Tinfoil, plastic and our hands do not soak up water at all. They are all waterproof.
We had fun testing to see which belonged to each group.

Award of Science Excellence

Scoil Chaitriona Junior received our 4th Award of Science Excellence last Wednesday. 2 teachers (Ms. McLoughin and Ms.Ferguson)and three children, Rory, Thomas and Eoghan went to GMIT to collect our award. We got to try out some interactive science stalls, had a nice buffet, met Molly Cool, saw a wonderful science show given by 'Splooze'-Sue McGrath, and listened to a nice talk from a famous Irish scientist Eanna NiLamhna. It was a great day and we are very proud of our award. Well done to all who took part this year.

June Art

We are talking a lot about the seaside so we did some really nice pictures of the seaside. We used paint with sand in it so the picture even feels sandy. We used gummed paper to make nice shapes for our pictures.
Our Dads are in for a great treat with these Father's Day cards that we made in school.
After our school to Turoe Pet Farm, we did these nice farm prints with crayons and printed farm shapes.

Sports Day

Sports Day
Thursday, 29th May, 2008
It was a lovely sunny day. All the Senior Infants had our sports day. We ran a running race, a potato and spoon race and a sack race. It was a great day.