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Ms. O’ Donoghue’s 3rd Class:
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Hi my name is Abbie and I’ll be reading our news today. We have been working really hard in third class over the last few weeks. Our teacher is very happy with all of the new Gaeilge we have been using in the classroom. In English, we enjoyed writing reports on different animals. We used the ipads to do some research and found some really interesting facts! In Geography, we have been learning all about the counties of Ireland, the different mountains in Ireland and the Wild Atlantic Way. Did you know that Carrantuohill is the tallest mountain in Ireland? We designed posters to promote the Wild Atlantic Way and our teacher was very impressed with them. We are really enjoying our class novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid. We created our own novel titles based on Diary of a Wimpy Kid and designed book covers. They were really creative and colourful! In Art, we used sponges and paint to design St Brigid's Cloak and they looked great. We have been working so hard in our Maths groups and we loved playing fraction bingo to help with our fractions. We are looking forward to pancake Tuesday next week! Have a great weekend everyone!
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Mr. J Langtry’s 3rd class:
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Hi my name is Riley and I’ll be reading the news today. We have been keeping busy and working hard since our last assembly. We have learned all about the Roman Empire and early christian Ireland in History. We learned about Skellig Michael off the coast of Kerry where monks once lived and they even shot some of Star Wars there too. We also completed group projects on the Roman empire using our i pads. We have just finished learning about lines and angles in maths. We have been learning the rules of basketball in P.E and playing some mini games and have been really enjoying it. We have also began reading our next class novel “Horrid Henrys Haunted House”. We want to wish a very happy birthday to Chloe who turns nine today and Erikas who turns nine on Monday. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Ms. Foley’s 4th Class:
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Hi my name is Corey and I will be reading our news today. We have had a busy few weeks in fourth class.
In history and art we learned a little bit about the Chinese New Year which is on Saturday. This is the year of dragon so we made colourful dragon art
In maths Miss Foley’s group have started learning about Time. It’s hard but everyone is trying really hard with it.
In English we are starting our class novel this week. It’s called ‘Small Steps’. We all look forward to finding out what this book is about.
In PE this week we were all working on our Gaelic football skills. Some of the skills were hard but we all worked very hard and got the hang of it.
In science we did an experiment with Gummy Bears. We were excited to see what happened to the gummy bears when they were put in salt water, sugar water and just plain water.
We hope everyone has a great weekend!
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Mr. Minogue’s 4th Class:
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Hi, my name is Mason and I will be reading the news for Mr Minogue’s class this week. Everyone really enjoyed the long weekend last weekend, and we all came in to school really refreshed on Tuesday. In Mr Minogue’s maths class, we have been looking at the chapter on the passage of time. Teacher is really impressed with how everyone in the group is doing, while we have also been enjoying some activities in relation to time and trying to beat the previous times set.
In English, we started our novel ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’. Everyone is finding the novel interesting, particularly the way it talks about what Ireland was like during the famine.
Finally, in PE we have been doing stations. In the stations, we have been doing loads of different activities and obstacle courses which everyone has been enjoying.
It really has been a great week this week.
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Ms. Naughton’s 5th Class:
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Hello my name is Keith and I will be reading the news.
We have been learning about explanation writing in English and we wrote some brilliant explanation pieces based on a topic of our choosing. Some people wrote about jellyfish, flowers and even a star! Sophie, Alannah, Mary and Robyn did some beautiful, neat work!
We have been busy in Gaeilge learning all about the brithar in the chead and dara reimniu in the aimsir laithreach. Teacher is really impressed with how much our Gaeilge has come on- especially Chloe, Dimeji and Chinonso who try their best to use the Gaeilge they know in class, we just need everyone to try and speak it more!
We have played hockey and basketball in pe, as well as a games of human hungry hippos and flip the turtle for our gross motor skills!
We have been learning about note values and tonic solfa in music- James in our class has a great ear for picking out the right notes!
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Ms. Hevehan’s 5th Class:
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Hi my name is Layla and I will be reading our news today. Recently we completed projects on volcanoes for homework and teacher was very impressed with our work. Then we created volcanoes in art using plastic bottles and newspaper and painted them to make them look realistic. Now for the fun part. In science we made our volcanoes erupt by mixing vinegar, baking soda and washing up liquid. It was really cool. We also finished reading our class novel wonder and watched the movie as a treat. Thank you to Mr Carr for teaching us this week, Have a great weekend everyone!
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Mr. Barrett’s 6th Class:
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Hi my name is Darragh and I’ll be reading the news today. Firstly a big welcome to our new teacher Mr O'Sullivan who has been teaching us for the past couple of weeks. In English, we have been reading our novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. We are nearly finished the book and have enjoyed learning about the different sides of life during World War II through reading it. In Maths, we started exploring the topic of weight, learning new skills such as estimating the weight of something, weighing items, and converting grams to kilograms and vice versa. In our art lessons this week, we created our own ‘pinch pot monsters’ using clay. We then painted our creatures, and left them out to dry. They have turned out very well and we will put the finishing touches onto them today! Finally, we used our digital skills on our iPads when we made our own animations. We took many pictures of drawings, props and even people, and put them all together to create our own mini animation movie. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Mr. Doyle's 6th Class:
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Hi my name is Maria and I will be reading the news for Mr. Doyle’s 6th Class. Since the last assembly we have been doing lots of science, we built balloon rockets, designed and made parachutes and created catapults out of lollipop sticks. It was a lot of hard work but also a lot of fun.
In English we have been looking at persuasive writing. We looked at old ads from the 1960s but they didn’t make us want to buy anything. We have been looking at how advertising and other people influence our decision making with Sandra in our Life skills lessons.
In PE we have been learning how to perform the Walls of Limerick ceilí (Kay-lee) dance. - Mr. Lynn please don’t ask for a demonstration, we aren’t ready yet!
In Irish, we have been studying the weather and watching An Aimsir on TG4. There has been lots more but we don’t want to keep you all day. Sin é agus go raibh maith agaibh.
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