Do you want to build a snowman?
We are working very hard at our procedural writing this month.
Christmas Windows
Look at the beautiful Christmas windows we created this week!
Winter Winds
Look at our art hanging outside our room.
We remember!
In November we remember all the people who have passed away. We wrote lovely prayers and hung them on our WOW WALL!
How to be a good friend
We created a step by step guide on how to be a good friend! We voted on the most important one “Have courage and stand up for your friends”!
Tables
We are revising all our addition tables for the next few weeks! We are learning them off by heart! We quizzed our partners today
Regrouping
Look at us regrouping in maths! We learned how to changed tens back into units in maths stations. We did more work on it this week!
Tea-Rriffic
We are learning all about procedural writing in English. We learned how to make a cup of tea. On Friday everyone brought in their own mug and we made a cup of tea. We even had biscuits!
novel
We are still reading our novel, Fantastic Mr Fox. We like to sit on the mat and listen to the audiobook.
Winter winds
This week for art we created winter winds using swirls. We added trees and snow on Friday. We will hang them up outside our classroom on Monday.
scratch
We are coding on our Chromebooks every Thursday!
Fantastic Mr.fox
Look at the beautiful art work we created based on our novel.
Handball
Thanks to Batt, Brendan, Nuala and all the transition students for teaching us handball over the past 2 weeks. Hopefully we can use our new skills at home and in the handball alley. Everyone from 2nd to 6th is going home with a new handball.
Table of the week
The Hippos won table of the week this week. They are delighted to have the cushions for next week.
Fantastic Mr Fox
This week we started our new novel Fantastic Mr Fox! We read the book for 5 minutes a day.
Maths Week
Look at us measuring items that are bigger and smaller than 1 metre today in stations.
Pumpkins
Today we carved pumpkins and created pumpkins with clay! It was such a busy day!
Witches wreath
Halloween is in full swing in Rang a 2 this week. Look at the beautiful wreaths we made. We picked autumn and halloween colours
Maths week
As part of maths week this year we started maths stations. Look at the towers we made with Ms Rice.
Óiche Shamhna
Féach ar ár bpictiúrí!!
typing club
Look at us typing again this week!
nature walk
On Friday our class went to the castle. We met Ger and learned lots of new facts about Conna Castle. After we went on a nature walk, we found conkers, leaves and acorns for our nature table in school.
patterns
In Maths we have been learning all about patterns. Today we used lots of materials to create different patterns.
Free writing
Every evening we work on our Free Writing. We pick a topic from our bingo sheet and write for 4 minutes with out stopping!! We are trying to increase it every day!
Leaf art
We created leaf art using pointilism. We are learning all about patterns in maths too.
Sorting nouns
We are learning all about the different kinds of nouns.
ÁR MÁLAÍ SCOILE
Féach ar ár málaí scoile a rinneamar inné!
Sugar
We investigated how much sugar drinks have. We compared lots of different drinks. We wrote about the experiment in our exploration copies!
Regrouping
We worked with cubes this week to revise regrouping in Maths! Everyone remembered what they had learned in 1st class!
We are learning to type in 2nd
Today we started typing on our Chromebooks. We used Ms Nagle’s desk and worked in groups of 2.
Golden time
We had golden time last week. We had so much fun playing with all the different games.
WOW WORK
Look at the WOW wall in our classroom
September Art
Look at the beautiful swallows that we painted.
Blitz
What a fantastic day at the parish blitz.
Spellings for Me
This is our first year using this amazing online spellings programme. We are so excited and have been busy testing on our school tablets this month.
DAthanna
Bhíomar ag foghlaim na dathanna.
Investiagation
As part of our history this week we conducted interviews in class.