Greenwave - Buds in Spring

We went on a nature walk yesterday. We saw lots of different kinds of buds. We liked the Ash and the Horse Chestnut buds. Ash buds are small and black. Horse Chestnut buds are brown and sticky. We also saw the horseshoe shapes on the branches of the horse chestnut trees. We will be watching these trees to see if we can see when the bud burst happens - when the new green leaves burst out of the buds.

Drinking Daffodils

We were wondering how daffodils get the water they need to grow. Do they drink the rain through their petals, or drink it through their stems? We think that they get water through their stems. We tested this by putting food colouring in the water that the daffodils are drinking. We left the daffodils overnight. Sure enough, after only one night in coloured water we can see the colours in the petals of the daffodils.

More Spring art

After our exciting week with the Drama competiton, and seeing all the photos of frogs and frog spawn, we painted our impressions of frogs and drama. Can you guess which is which?

Spring Art

We are talking a lot about spring, baby animals and frogs. Today we made some lovely spring lambs out of cotton wool. We hope to see baby lambs in the fields too.

Look at the lovely stain glass windows we made after talking about stain glass windows in churches.

Frogs in Spring

Teacher found a pond with lots and lots of frogs in it. There was also lots of frogspawn. We know that this will turn into tadpoles and then into adult frogs.

A bat in our class

Jordan found a little bat by his window at home. Unfortunately it had died. He brought it in to school to show us all. We all had a look at the bat. We could see its wings, tail, ears, toes. We wonder what happened to it.

Drumming lessons

Our class are learning to drum. We are having lessons with Alan.

We have great fun.

We do warm up exercises, play drumming games like blindfish and drum and dance. We are learning lots of great drumming beats.

Planting Seeds

Today we planted some seeds. We are trying to grow tomatoes from seed. Teacher brought in some soil and some compost from her garden. We talked about compost and how to make good compost from left-over food and peelings. We had 13 tomato seeds. We wonder how many will grow. Tomorrow we are going to plant broad beans. We put them into a cup of water overnight to help soften the seeds. Tomorrow we are going to plant them in some interesting ways.

March 19th 2009. Look at how big our broad beans have grown.

Féile Scoildrámaíochta

We are ready to perform now. Our story Teach Ró-Bheag is interesting. Look at our great costumes. We have a family, farmers, postmen, milkman, gardaí, doctors, a nurse, firemen and painters.
Tá muid ag baint an-taitneamh as an bhFéile Dramaíochta. Tá muid réidh anois le gach rud, agus ag tnú go mór leis an gcomórtas ar an Déardaoin.

The Mulkerrins Brothers

The Mulkerrrins Brothers came to visit our school to show us Irish music and dancing. They are great. We hope they do very well in their TV appearance on March 15th. Good Luck boys.

My Special Toy

We brought in some special toys from home. We told the class why they are so special to us.

Love Bugs

Our little Lovebugs for Valentine's Day.

3D shapes

February 11th, 2009

We are using our activities to construct 3D shapes. We can make cubes, cuboids, triangular prisms, triangular pyramids and square pyramids

out of jigsaw pieces, solid 2D pieces, hollow 2D pieces and geomags.
Here is a selection of the shapes we made.

Space Art

We are talking about space and the planets. We used paper and coloured chalks to make really cool space and spacecraft pictures.We also drew really nice space pictures.

Fun in the Snow

We are having a very cold week. We have had frost, ice and even some snow. We went outside in the snow when it was snowing. We tried to look at the 6 sided snowflakes but they melted very quickly.