Friday 29 October 2010

Update on our caterpillars


Well, no news on this front.  Teacher continues to provide delicious cabbage leaves, grass and other assorted leaves, and raindrops for all meals.  The caterpillars are happily snoozing in their cocoons.  The parasitic wasp eggs look much the same as ever, and Inchy the inchworm misses all the kids in our class and can't wait to go back to school on Monday!

Friday 22 October 2010

Halloween Walk





We really enjoyed today's Halloween Walk.  The teacher was scarey, and had rotten teeth, but our costumes were fantastic.  Don't we look great?

Thursday 21 October 2010

Hallowe'en Data chart

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Today we had a chat about what are our favourite Hallowe'en things.  Then we each chose a picture of our favourite Hallowe'en thing.  We made a data chart of this and we chatted about how many in each group, which group had the most/least.  We counted each group.  Even teachers who popped into our class got a chance to tell us what they liked.  We are getting very good at the language of Maths, counting, adding, comparing.  Our chart looks great too!

Tuesday 19 October 2010

Hallowe'en prints

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

We are enjoying all our Hallowe'en artwork. Today we used sponges to make some very interesting art prints.

Story telling at Ballybane library


Planting daffodil bulbs

Sunday 17 October 2010

Teacher's inchworm


Today teacher found her first inchworm.  It looks like a worm with 6 legs in front and 6 legs at the back (2 of those are very thick).  An inchworm is a larva of a moth, so if we bring him into class he will turn into a chrysalis, then a moth.  You should see how he moves, by bending like an elastic band.  He is such an interesting little creature.  See  for yourself, then listen to the song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0lQ0bdcjfY&feature=related or  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXi3bjKowJU  At school we tried letting Inchy the inch worm crawl on our hands.  It was fun.  We have put him in our Butterfly Garden, in the hope that he will change first into a chrysalis, then into a moth.
Look at the great pine cone that was brought in to school for our Nature Table today

Thursday 14 October 2010

Visit to St. Brigit's garden


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Wednesday 13 October 2010

Classifying bugs


Visit from Sr. Breda

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
 Sr. Breda came to visit us today.  We sang songs with her, said a prayer, and talked about Autumn.  She was very nice to us, and we thoroughly enjoyed her visits.  Thank you Sr. Breda for visiting us.

Tuesday 12 October 2010

Bug Hunting


Nature's finest: Cobwebs

It is close to Hallowe'en and we are talking about witches, bonfires, black cats and spiders.
This morning was very misty and teacher saw some fabulous spiders' webs on her way to school.

The drops of mist collected on the webs, and were glistening.  Spiders' webs are so pretty, but they are extremely strong too, and are in fact traps, for catching a spider's favourite food - flies and other small insects. Yum, Yum!!!!

Monday 11 October 2010

Maths Trail

Monday, October 11th, 2010
This week is Maths Week in Ireland.  Today we went on a Maths Trail - looking for colours and shapes in our environment.  We drew flowers and berries, counted trees and cars, wrote number plates and colours, and  picked leaves and seeds.  We saw lots of squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, diamonds and even some star shapes.  It was so much fun looking at maths all round us.

Our Solar System

Monday, October 11th, 2010
We are learning all about the 8 planets in our Solar system.  There is a great song about our planets which we are watching on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzj6UEbIvKA

Have a look at the planets on http://kidzone.ws/planets/index.htm and http://www.nasm.si.edu/etp/ and http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/ and http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html