Ms. McLoughlin's class, 2nd Class, Room 9

Friday, 10 May 2013

Friday, 3 May 2013

Worms in the apples!

What's worse than a worm in your apple?

........a half a worm in your apple. Yuck!

May altar

May is the month of Mary.

We have a little May altar with a statue of Mary, a candle, some lovely fresh flowers and a rosary beads.

We are saying a decade of the rosary each day in May.

Thursday, 2 May 2013

String telephones and our band

We have been learning about sounds and vibrations.

We tried out some string telephones. We were surprised that the sound of our voices could travel through the string.

We used our sounds:- voices and drum beats - to make a great class band.

Some of us used our morning play time to match up opposite words or to make lots of silly sentences.

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Fables

We are reading and watching lots of Aesop's Fables stories.

We love the messages of the fables.
Check out these great links to online fables:

An egg box hedgehog

Look at the fabulous hedgehog made from an egg box.

Such talented students and such talented parents.

Well done to all!

Intensive Literacy Learning

We are really lucky.

We have 5 teachers teaching us every day for 30 minutes.

We read story books with them,

we write in our copies,

make words with magnetic letters

and play word games.

This is a fun part of our day and we are improving at our reading at a great rate!
Thanks so much to all the teachers who are helping us.

PE time

We played "What time is it Mr. Wolf?" and really enjoyed it.

Next we practised egg and spoon races.

We finished our PE class with a fun game of "cat and mouse".

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

2D and 3D shapes that roll or slide

We had lots of fun with shapes today.

We had to name squares, rectangles, circles, triangles and hexagons and we had to find out which shapes roll, which shapes slide, and which do both.

Next we tried with our 3D shapes: cube, cuboid, cylinder, sphere, triangular prism, hexagonal prism, cone, triangular pyramid and square pyramid.

We discovered that all the shapes which rolled had circles in them.

Shapes with corners slide very well but don't roll!

Fun with sounds

We are learning all about sounds and hearing.

Today we made an elastic guitar and we noticed that the bigger the elastic is the lower the note it makes.

The opposite is true too. The smaller the elastic is the higher the sound it makes.

Teacher had a tuning fork.

She showed us how it makes a note and we all took turns listening the the note it makes.

Next she showed us what happens when you put the vibrating tuning fork in water. It makes a huge splash. We found this hard to do, but once you get good at it, it is really spectacular.

Teacher also showed us how a ping pong ball will bounce when you put a vibrating tuning fork against it.

We were able to get rice to vibrate and jump just by putting the vibrating tuning fork against the rice cup.

Finally we listened to what spoons sound like when you tap them against a table and hold their string outside your ear. We could hear all sorts of different bells! Again, the larger the spoon the lower the bell's note and the smaller the spoon the higher pitched the sound of the bell.

Monday, 29 April 2013

Ways to travel data

Look at our favourite ways to travel!

Food pyramid game and insect game

We played two great games in PE

We played a food pyramid game where we each had to choose a card, then find a space on the food pyramid to sit on. We really know where each food belongs on the food pyramid.

We also played a three legged game, which became an insect game when two pairs came together and tried to move with all 6 legs. This game was a lot of fun!