Summer Term

Planting a school garden

Scoil Chaitríona Junior are thrilled to be included in this year's Medtronic Healthy Living project. Thanks to the Medtronic Foundation in Galway, we are being funded, advised on and helped with the building and planting of our own school garden. The work began in earnest today with our first planting session.

Kay Synott has come to be our advisor. She had a meeting with Brendan Smith (who will help us learn about foods that are good for us, and how to keep ourselves and our hearts healthy) and our teacher. They have chosen a good spot for our garden - in the front of the school, in a lovely sunny spot.

When Kay arrived today she had a chat with our class and Mrs. Newell's class about which fruits and vegetables we should plant and why? We decided not to plant bananas or oranges since they don't grow well in Ireland! We can't plant crisps or chips but if we plant potatoes we hope we can make our own crisps and/or chips.

We helped Kay prepare the raised boxes. We did the smoothing of the compost, making seed drills, planting the seeds, writing the labels, fetching water from the water butt, and watering the seeds. All the while we talked about what seeds need to grow (air, warmth and water), what is counted as a weed (any plant that is growing where it shouldn't be) and how to look after the seeds we planted. We know we should eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. We can't wait to try tasting the ones we planted.

Today we planted potatoes, sunflowers, onions, scallions, carrots and nasturtiums. Next Tuesday we will plant strawberries, spinach and peas. We just love gardening. Thanks Kay and Medtronic!!

Welcome back to our summer term

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Goodbye to Mr. Donnellan

Friday, March 26th, 2010

It is time to say "Goodbye" to Mr. Donnellan, who has been our teacher for the last month. We are very sorry to see you go and we want to say a big "Thank You" for being so nice, and for all the wonderful and exciting things you did with us during the month. We wish you well in your future teaching.

Making Easter boxes

Thursday, March 25, 2010
We have been talking a lot about Easter, the story of the Resurrection, celebrating Easter, Easter bunnies and chicks. Today we made some lovely Easter boxes. They look so pretty!

Room 5 artists

We have been painting in class. It is great fun and our paintings look great. Why not have a look at us at work?

More pottery work

Friday, March 19th, 2010

We love working with clay. Today we did lots of things with clay. We pinched it, squeezed, rolled, squashed, molded, and made clay pinch pots (which we didn't leave to dry this time), and fantastic animals, which will dry on the window sill and which we can paint next week. Have a look at our work:

Floating, sinking and making boats

Look at the great science class we had on floating and sinking, making boats and giving passengers a ride in the boats.

Maths: Capacity

In Maths we are talking about capacity, what holds less, what holds more liquid. We are using non-standard units of measurement, such as cups, glasses, jugs. We got to guess the capacity of lots of different containers, then try them out. Our guesses are getting better with each try.

Art for St. Patrick's Day

We made headbands, shamrock caterpillars and lucky leprechauns for St. Patrick's Day. They look great!

Watching the Senior School parade

Friday, March 12th,2010

Today the Senior School marching band marched round Renmore. It was really thrilling. We made St. Patrick's Day headbands and went out to watch the parade. We watched it when it started, and again as it finished. The day was cloudy, and much cooler than recent days, but it was still nice. We really enjoyed watching the band. Well done to all in the senior school for putting on such a great parade for us!

Mother's Day Art

Wednesday, March 11th
We have been very busy making nice art for Mother's Day (Don't let on till Sunday!) We made special flower cards and candle holders. They are so pretty and we made them with all our love. We can't wait to give them to our mums on Sunday!!

Pottery in Room 5

Monday, March 8th, 2010

We were very busy with clay this morning. Have a look at what we were at!

Looking at Horse Chestnut Buds

Friday, March 5th, 2010
We have a small Horse Chestnut tree in our school. We took a look at the brown sticky buds on the tree today, and we had a look at the horseshoe shaped scars on the branches. We are looking forward to seeing the new spring leaves soon.

Spring Lambs

Friday, March 5th, 2010
It is a lovely spring day. In the fields baby lambs are being born. We coloured a picture of a lamb and we stuck on cotton wool. They look really nice and lively.

Science Open Day

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

We held our Science Open Day this morning.

We invited our parents and grandparents, teachers from our school and the senior school, our chairman and lots of other classes to come and see all the work we have been doing all year in science. It was a busy morning. Each of us took responsibility for an experiment, and could tell all our visitors about how to do our experiment and how and why it worked. It was a fun but exhausting morning. (Click on each picture to see a bigger version of the page!)

The Hungry Caterpillar game

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

We played a great dice game with Mr. Donnellan. It is based on the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and it is a game which helps us decide which foods are good for us, and which foods are bad. We learned lots by playing this game.

Pretty Daffodils

Thursday, March 4th, 2020

The daffodils are beginning to bloom. We made our own daffodils out of toilet rolls. They look great!

All about Food

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

We are learning all about food, where it comes from, how it grows and which kinds of food are good for us. Today we tried tasting different kinds of foods - salty, sour and sweet. We tried a sour lemon, salty crisps and sweet jelly worms. We like tasting foods, but we know not to try anything unless we are with an adult we can trust.