First & Second Class – 23/24

Farewell brunch

We had a beautiful breakfast this morning on our final Monday in school. We had pancakes, fruit, toast, cereals and so much more!!

school tour

We had a fantastic tour last week

Steam boxes

We had great fun last Thursday with these STEAM boxes as part of the parents open hour. We loved having our parents in with us.

Fun in the sun

We earned a PE spectacular this week.

Communion

Today we brought home our communion memory booklet and our communion art.

The twits

We are finished our booklet on The Twits.

match report

We wrote up a match report from the Sciath na Scol final. We went to 5th and 6th class and read our reports to the players.

Kahoot

Today we played our first game of Kahoot based on The Twits. We worked in pairs. We really enjoyed it.

ice cream treat

After our busy day at the sciath na Scol final we all got a treat back at the school.

Dive into summer

Look at the underwater portraits we created

Our Art

Communion

What a fantastic weekend we had last week at our First Holy Communion. Well dome to all the boys and girls.

picnic

We had a picnic last Friday to celebrate our First Holy Communion.

one last rehearsal

Our final rehearsal before the big day.

Right angles

Is it a right angle or not?

Adjectives

We are using our novel The Twits to learn about adjectives this week.

Chromebooks

We were typing on chromebooks today

Rocky Road

We made rocky road on Friday

3-D shapes

We created a list of all the 3-D shapes in our school.

Gymnastics

We started gymnastics today. We really enjoyed all the activities with Kenny.

The twits

We started our new novel The Twits. We all drew our own portraits of the Twits and listed their characteristics.

Conna Castle

We had a lovely nature walk to Conna castle today.

Champions!!!!!

Bhuaíomar an CHOMORTÁS!!!!

We won the carta glas competition this week!!! We worked so hard to be ag caint as Gaeilge!! We had 41 cards this week!! We all got a mini Easter egg!

Snakes and ladders

We played snakes and ladders today as gaeilge

Lá Glas

BunNies

Look at our easter bunnies

Lego

st Patrick’s day

Last supper

We are learning about the Last supper

Scor

We had a visit from the winners of Scor.

First confession

It was a very busy week this week. We had our First Confession on Monday.

Grandparents Day mass

Macaws

We completed these macaws using lots of colourful feathers made from paper. We added in leaves, branches and clouds.

Pot of gold

We got a head start on our St Patrick’s Day art today by creating these beautiful rainbow paper plates. We created pots of gold too. We hung them from the ceiling in our room

penguins

Look at our reports on penguins.

reports

We are writing reports on lots of animals.

daffodils

We drew and painted Ms Nagle’s favourite flowers.

pancakes

We combined art with pancake Tuesday to great our own pancakes

special visitor

THANK YOU so much to Ms Hickey and her family for calling to see us with some very special visitors.

Olympic torch

In art we used chalk to colour the Olympic flame and torch

giraffes

We spent the morning learning all about giraffes. We measured how tall they were too.

silent k

We learned all about silent K in phonics.

robins

We started learning about reports this week in English. We worked in pairs to create learning bridges when we answered the questions.

An fear sneachta

Bhíomar ag foghlaim An fear sneachta

nouns

We are learning all about nouns this week.

Snowmen

We coloured these snowman this week

word search

We created our own wordsearches today using all the Irish words we have been learning about An Nolan

hot chocolate

Today we wrote how to make hot chocolate in English. We had a treat after lunch and all got a cup of hot chocolate

an NolLag

Today we created word webs using all the vocab we learned in Irish. We are very proud of our work, we even made it a competition. Well done to our winner Charlie.

Google classroom

We started Google classroom this week. We are writing lots of sentences about ourselves.

decorations

We coloured these beautiful decorations today.

Chromebook

We got a special treat today and started using Chromebook. We all have a special log in code.

cards

We used old cards today and recycled them to make new cards.

PJ party

We earned 1,000 points in 3 weeks. Today we had a PJ party with some popcorn and a movie.

Christmas baubles

These baubles are hanging around our room.

reindeer

We designed reindeer this week by using different types of lines and patterns

reindeer reports

We learned all about reports in English and wrote all about reindeer in geography

hard G and soft G

Look at what we are learning in phonics

it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We decorated our classroom on Friday during golden time.

brain boxes

We play with these brain boxes to improve our memory skills plus they are great fun too.

winter landscapes

We painted these winter scenes this week inspired by the cold weather. We hung them across our room.

alphabetical order

We are learning all about alphabetical order this week. We all stood in alphabetical order outside today.

fingerprints

We used a balloon to check our fingerprints

soft c and hard c

Hard c makes the ck and soft C makes a S sound.

polar bears

We painted these bears just in time for the parent teacher meetings

skittles

yesterday we learned about dissolving. The colours dissolve when mixed with warm water

rain cloud in a jar

This week in stations we are doing a science experiment. We made it rain yesterday.

winter is here

We started winter art this week. Can you guess what it is?

compound words

2nd class are learning all about compound words in grammar.

Halloween

Our news

Look at the amazing joined handwriting by our 1st class.

cAMOGIE VISIT

We had a special visit last Friday from Cork Camogie All Ireland Winners Allie and Laura!

6th class reports

6th class came to read us their reports on Cycle Right.

Questions

We are learning all about questions in grammar. Today we had the answers and we had to think of the questions.

oíche Shamhna

We drew Halloween party pictures in Irish.

happy Halloween

We were very busy today creating these spooky Halloween lanterns.

maths stations

We started maths stations last week.

NatHracha AGus dréimirí

Bhíomar ag imirt cluiche Faoin Fomhar.

messy Monday

We made spooky slime today

up the saints

Look at us in our purple and yellow

Oral language

Every Friday we love listening to stories and playing vocab games.

sun dials

We placed sun dials around our school today. We are learning all about clocks in history.

assembly

We held our very first assembly this week. We sang our favourite song about the 7 continents.

Mass

We walked to mass today. We will be going on the 1st Friday of every month to prepare for Our First Holy Communion

teamwork

We played in teams for PE today.

SeOmra ranga

Bhíomar ag foghlaim An Scoil.

We are batty in 1st & 2nd

We painted these autumn sunsets, using black paint we created the tree silhouettes and then we cut out the bats.

Conna castle

We were invited into 3rd class today to see their amazing Conna Castles. We even saw some siblings along the way.

super stars stage school

Donna visited us today to play some drama games

cás LeAnn luaidhe

Féach at ár gcás peann luaidhe

more Autumn work

Autumn is a time for

We are exploring what happens in autumn.

an sCoil

Bhíomar ag foghlaim foclóir don scoil.

stain glass leaves

These colourful leaves really brighten up our classroom.

Autumn forests

We created these Autumn forests last week in art with sponges. We blended colours together.

Conna show

We are busy getting ready for Conna show this weekend

is maith liom

We created beautiful bunting in Irish this week

continents

In geography this week we discovered that there are 7 continents. We coloured in a map and learned a great song to help us remember the names of all 7.

Autumn leaves

We have started our first autumn pieces of art this week. We painted forests in the autumn. We used sponges to mix three autumn colours together. We will have to find space for them in our classroom.

Bia

We are learning about Bia. We can say all of these sentences. We even played a game of Bingo too!

self-portrait

Can you figure out whos who in these self-portraits?

Hedgehog

We created these hedgehogs in art last week.

umbrellas

Look at the rainbow umbrellas that we created this week.

When I grow up I want to be……

Numicon

We started revising the story of 10 today with our numicon. We added lots of different numbers together to make 10. We are also learning our +2 tables this week.