More Communion art

Communion long ago

Michael is a grandad in  our class.

He made his communion 57 years ago!

We heard really interesting things about making communion so long ago.

Here are some of the interesting things we learned:

Mass was in Latin, not in English or Irish

The priest did not look at the people, he looked at the back of the altar

Boys wore short trousers until they went to secondary school

You could not eat or drink anything at all before receiving communion every Sunday

First communion was made on Sundays rather than on Saturdays

After making communion, everyone went home to have breakfast (not dinner!)

Children visited the nuns after they made their communion, and the nuns gave them sweets to eat

A huge Thank You to Michael for such an interesting talk (and of course for the sweets).

Hens and chicks

A big Thank You to Ms. McGrath for bringing a hen with her little chicks to school today.

Anansi stories

Watch out for lice!

Spotted recently in our class.

Click on the picture above to find out how to get rid of these unwelcome visitors.

Also remember to:

Once a week, take a peek

(in your child's hair)

Badges!

Look at the fabulous badges we got in school today.

They are to remind us of 1916 and our great country IRELAND!

Communion Art

 

Our visit to Alere last Wednesday

Photos from our visit to Alere with the Time to Read programme can be seen by clicking on the photo below:

Fantastic animals with Lara

Lara joined us in class today to help us imagine and make some really fantastic creatures.

Have a look:

We looked at the textures of different animal skins, and we made up animals with different patterened skins:

We drew our own strange animals:

We used lots of different art methods (collage, tracing, pencils, chalks, multi-material collage, mosaic, frottage (rubbings), stencils and pointillism (dots) to be creative in the design of our own fantastic animals. 

 The results are amazing!

We are so proud of our art.

Many thanks to Lara for such a wonderfully artistic day!

There are lots more photos of our art class here

Note about summer camp in Scoil Chaitríona Junior

Please click on the picture below to see notes given to your child recently:

Latest note: Summer Camp in school this summer  (Note sent: Wednesday, April 13th, 2016)

Daffodils in Food Dye

We put 3 daffodils in food dye at about 9:30 this morning.

The first daffodil was in red food colour, the second in blue and the third had its stem cut so it could have part of the stem in red and part in blue.

What do you suppose happened as the daffodils drank the food dye?

Have a look:

Here are our daffodils at 9:30am:

About an hour later:

Before first break:

Before second break:

And finally......at hometime:

From this

  to this:

WOW!

(1 day later.....)

French Teachers

We were delighted to welcome Caroline, Valerie, Caroline and Maryse to our class today.
They are primary school teachers from the Massif Central in France, and they are improving their (already excellent) English for two weeks in Galway.

We showed them how we learn maths through activities, and how we learn Irish.

They in turn taught us about where they come from in France,

showed us lovely pictures of nearby inactive volcanoes,

and local foods and drinks.

The French teachers taught us a song about the body in French.

It really was fun, we all joined in.

Thank you for visiting us today.

We hope you enjoyed visiting a primary school in Ireland.

Maybe we can be pen pals or SKYPE pals with your students in France.

Bon Vacances en Irlande!