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Our P.E. days are Tuesday and Thursday

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Supporting your child with reading comprehension

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Supporting your child with reading comprehension

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supporting children with reading comprehension

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We used the month of September to get to know each other and to settle back into our school routine. We discussed what we liked about school and what we are looking forward to learning about this year.

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We had a taster dance lesson this month. A dance coach came in and taught us a short dance routine. We had a lot of fun.

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Self-Expression Day - 28th October (Friday)

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Self-Expression Day - 28th October (Friday)

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We investigated the colour wheel and primary/ secondary colours. We then discussed colour values including tones and shades. We then created paintings by taking one colour (yellow, red or blue) and mixing it with black and white to create different shades. They turned out great!

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We have been loving this weekly activity where the class are shown a shape, for example half an umbrella or half a bat's wing, and they must create something else using the shape. The creativity that the class has displayed during this activity has been incredible!

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We had a blast at our cricket lesson! A cricket coach came in and taught us some basics of the game. He was really impressed by our skills!

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We have been working hard on our recount writing skills. We have written lots of pieces within this genre including 'A Day on the Amazon River' (our September Geography topic), 'My Favourite Dream' (written in dream jars like in our read aloud The BFG), 'My Favourite Birthday' and 'Weekend News'.

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We were learning all about the properties of 2D shapes. We then investigated the meaning of tessellating shapes and what makes tessellations possible. We created our own tessellations by making a stencil of a tessellating shape and using the stencil to create a work of art.

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We learned all about 'Día de los Muertos' (Day of the Dead). Luckily, we have a 'Día de los Muertos' expert in our class (Max S) and he answered all of the questions we had about the festival. He brought in caretas (masks) and a sombrero for the class to take a look at. He also showed us pictures of La Catrina and an example of the types of ofrendas (offerings) people put on their home alters during 'Día de los Muertos'. We then coloured in our own sugar skulls!

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In our science lessons we were learning all about the different types of birds we see every day. We learned that oil helps to make birds' feathers waterproof. This is because oil is hydrophobic. We did an experiment to investigate this and to observe how substances of different densities react in water. We started with a glass half filled with water, then we added oil and noticed that the oil sat on top of the water, next we added a few drops of food colouring so that we could see what was about to happen in the glass. Finally, we added salt and watched it create a lot of movement in the glass. As the salt passed through the oil a blob of oil became attached to the grain of salt, when it reached the bottom of the glass and the salt dissolved the oil floated back up to the top, creating lots of bubbles in our glass.

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We thought about the things that make us happy and filled out our happiness boxes! We stuck them up in the classroom so that we could look at them any time we needed a reminder!

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We researched famous scientists and learned how to create our own rainbows for science week!

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In geography we researched different types of bridges and then we set ourselves the task of creating those bridges out of lego and investigating whether or not they could hold various objects.

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We have been working on our procedural writing skills this month by both reading and writing instructions on how to create some winter themed artwork! We have created some really fabulous pieces! We even had some on display at our winter art gallery!

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We set ourselves some targets for the last few weeks of December and when we achieved our goals we rewarded ourselves with a hot chocolate party! We had a blast!

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We have been loving our basketball training with our coach, Ger, every Monday! We have been working on our throwing, catching, running and jumping skills!

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In history we were learning about Ancient Japan which led us to research lots of interesting facts and traditions related to Japan. We wanted to try our hand at Origami and we loved the results!

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As we continued to learn about Japan, we learned about the traditional haiku. A haiku is a type of short poetry which contains 17 syllables. We had so much fun writing these and we presented them using our best cursive handwriting!

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We have been working hard at learning our songs for The Big Sing which will take place in March in The National Stadium.

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We celebrated Chinese New Year by making lanterns in the traditional lucky colours of red and yellow!

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We had so much fun taking part in the Write A Book Project this year! Everyone wrote such imaginative stories, making sure they were packed full of adjectives, and presented them so fabulously with their neatest handwriting!

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In Geography and History this month we have been learning all about Italy! We have learned all about the foods that we love that come from Italy, the famous people from Italy and the major towns and cities! We learned about mosaics and even had some fun creating our own! Have a look at the pictures and see if you can figure out which famous Italian landmark we were recreating in mosaics! We learned about famous artists from Italy, such as Da Vinci and Michaelangelo, and we tried our hand at painting our own self-portraits in the style of Modigliani! We love how they turned out!

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This month in science we conducted an experiment to investigate which materials would keep ice cool the longest! We used cotton wool, a toilet roll holder, a plastic bag, paper and a towel!

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We worked so hard during January that we started February off with a trip to the local playground! We had so much fun!

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We have been working hard at learning our songs for The Big Sing which will take place in March in The National Stadium.

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We had the best time at The Big Sing! We sang and danced our hearts out!

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We have revised words and phrases that we use to describe our appearance and we are putting these to good use by playing Guess Who? as gaeilge! We are really looking forward to Seachtain na Gaeilge!

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We are looking at fractions again in maths and this time we have added tenths into the mix! We have been enjoying building fraction walls and completing tasks based on the knowledge we have gained!

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We looked at the features of Ireland's coast in Geography this month! We read about sea stacks, sea arches and sea caves and also researched some islands that surround Ireland. We made advertisements for some of the islands that could be used to attract more tourists! This was also a great chance for us to try out some persuasive writing before we dive into that topic in English next month!

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We always enjoy our time in the library every Wednesday morning!

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We had a blast celebrating world book day! We came to school dressed in costumes of characters from our favourite books! We completed an extremely tricky word search and designed new covers for some of the books in our library! We also had a big school-wide book swap! Children brought in their unwanted books and got to pick up new ones to read and enjoy!

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Check out our collaborative art project!

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We have progressed onto decimals in Maths! We are having fun and working hard at converting fractions into decimals!

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We are learning all about maps in Geography this month. We have looked at the language we use to give people directions, people who use maps in their jobs and how to read a map using the key. We have even tried making our own symbols that could be used in a key!

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We took a trip down to first class to read them some books as gaeilge!

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We were invited over to Gaelscoil na Giúise for a céilí and we had a ball!

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We celebrated St. Patrick's Day by wearing green, making rainbow spirals and dancing our hearts out!

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We showed our support for World Down Syndrome Day by wearing odd socks to school!

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We have moved on to Length in maths! We did some long jumps in the yard and measured the length of our jumps! We also moved around the classroom making estimates about how long things are and then measured them to compare the actual lengths to our estimates!

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We have been learning all about America in Geography and it has been very exciting! We looked at the different states within America, what the flag looks like and represents and we learned how to draw the Statue of Liberty!

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We celebrated Earth Day by making spinning world art! Have a look at our creations!

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We have been learning all about Vikings this month! We completed projects in pairs or groups and we also made Viking longships, swords and shields out of clay! We have been loving this topic!

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We got our Write a Book projects back! Huge congratulations to all of the authors!

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We had fun with some team building activities! We worked on using effective communication and working together towards a common goal!

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We used the school laptops to research different animals that are from America and we wrote reports on our findings! We wrote reports about bears, sharks, wolves and spiders (to name a few)!

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We learned all about the American artist Andy Warhol and we felt inspired to create our own versions of his art!

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We tested out our junk-art Viking ships to see if they would float for 1 minute! We came to the conclusion that the best materials to help with floating were sticky tape and plastic cups as these were the most water resistant!

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We got the chance to work with Adam, the wonderful GAA coach, for two football sessions this month! Lucky us!

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We have set ourselves some targets for the next four weeks and if we can reach all of our goals we will be celebrating with an ice cream party!

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We gathered facts about bees and made poster projects showing what we had learned! We love being creative while making these projects!

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Most of our class took part in the football blitz for 2nd and 3rd class! We had gorgeous weather and displayed some excellent moments of good sportspersonship! So many happy faces! Well done to all!

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We said goodbye to May and kicked off June with our school tour! We took a trip to Fort Lucan and had the time of our lives! Check out all of those happy faces!

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We finished learning about volcanos by conducting an experiment to see if we could make our own. We gathered the materials and read through the steps and off we went! Check out our results in the pictures!

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We set ourselves some targets and after four weeks we had achieved our goals and earned ourselves an ice cream party!

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We had so much fun being active and having fun at Sports For All Day!

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To celebrate Jersey Day we designed our own jerseys!

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We were feeling creative so we made these 3D art projects! We love how they turned out!

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Class Novel - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Class Novel - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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We have been reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in class. We are loving getting to know all of the characters and the wizarding world! We are completing quizzes on each chapter.