Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Friday, 7 October 2011
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Autumn leaves are falling
Listen and watch this beautiful song about Autumn leaves: http://www.angles365.com/classroom/songsci04/fitxers/song04.swf
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Our caterpillars are in cocoons
Monday, 3rd October 2011
Over the weekend most of our caterpillars died (teacher can't figure out why).
The remaining 3 caterpillars spun cocoons and will wait for the warmer weather before they emerge as beautiful White Cabbage butterflies.
The green cocoons are White Cabbage butterfly cocoons, but the two brown cocoons are much smaller. Teacher found them under a wall at her home. We wonder what type of butterflies will emerge from these cocoons. Sleep tight butterflies, we'll see you in the Spring!!
Friday, 30 September 2011
Weather data for September
Friday, 30th September, 2011
We have been keeping an eye on the weather. Every day we put out our weather stick, with a thermometer, rain gauge and flower kite. Before home time we check the temperature, amount of rain that fell during the school day and how windy it is. We record these on our daily weather chart.
Today we took all this information and made a data chart. We talked about the type of weather most and least common this September, the amount of days with each weather type, and how many more or less days of one kind than of another. Here are our results:
We will make great weathermen and women when we are older!
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Monday, 26 September 2011
Caterpillars and a snail
Monday, 26th September
Teacher was watching the caterpillars eating the leaves. They eat such a lot each day.
A little snail joined the caterpillars on the cabbage leaves today.
Dino
Seo é Dino.
Téann Dino abhaile linn gach lá. Bíonn muid ag caint faoin lá le Dino ar scoil gach lá.
This is Dino. He goes to one of our houses each night.
The next day at school we chat about what Dino did in our house.
We really like it when it is our turn to have Dino.
Friday, 23 September 2011
A pond for Ferdie
Yesterday Ferdie the frog joined us in our classroom. Today, thanks to one very talented artist in our class, Ferdie has found a new frog, complete with lilly pads and fish. Well done, this is one very special pond!
Ferdie is so happy.
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Our caterpillars have shed their skins
Monday, September 19th, 2011
Growing so much, even over the weekend. We can't believe how much they eat now.
Thursday, 22nd September
Our caterpillars have grown too big for their skins, which they shed last night.
Here is a photo of the caterpillar skins, stuck to the side of the container.
Our bigger caterpillars look really healthy and happy.
Ferdie the frog
In our drama session we have been to the forest. There we met Ferdie the frog. He wanted to come back to the classroom with us, so we have let him stay in our classroom. We chose him a nice place to stay, on the Nature Table, sitting on some stones and leaves. We think he will be very comfortable there. We enjoyed our visit to the forest and especially the sights and sounds of Autumn.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
More number activities
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
We are having a lot of fun with numbers. Today we took out the number hopscotch and teacher played games with it. We played a game where one person from each team had to compete to find and stand on the number teacher called. The team with the most wins was the winning team.
The other game we played was called "sound of a number". Teacher dropped crayons into a tin, we had to listen well and then figure out how many crayons were in the tin. This took quite a lot of concentration.
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Happy Hedgehog
As Ms. McLoughlin cycled home after school she saw a little hedgehog just outside her garden. He looked very happy. He was sniffing in the leaves, maybe gathering his food before he hibernates for the winter, before his long long winter sleep. When hedgehogs are frightened they curl up into a ball, so that all the soft parts of their bodies are protected by their spines. This hedgehog wasn't frightened so he didn't need to curl up at all.
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