The class got into the Christmas spirit by writing stories. The plot was that Santa had a problem. They conjured up creative problems and even more imaginative solutions. A number of girls illustrated fabulous covers, and wrote wonderful blurbs.
Most of the class wanted to enter their stories in the Raheny Library Christmas Story Competition. Out of 188 entries, I’m delighted that Julia was one of the winners! Comhgairdeas leat, a Julia!
Thank you to everyone who came along to our class’s Christmas Show. You were a fantastic audience, and the girls all enjoyed performing their songs, poems and dances for you. Nollaig Shona!
We learned a cool trick to help us with our 9s skip counting and x9 tables. Then we watched these videos to help us even more.
All of Third Class danced to this song at PE on Friday. Can you remember any of the moves?
Great Britain Project Ainm ______________
A good project is easy to read and the information is presented neatly. Here are some guidelines to help you. The title of your project is Great Britain and it is due on Tuesday 17th December.
Here are some ideas of paragraphs to include, remember you don’t have to include all of them!
Useful Websites:
Please monitor your daughter carefully when using the Internet. These websites have been checked for suitability, but navigation away from them may not be safe for her.
Best of luck! I am looking forward to seeing your awesome project work!
Ms Walshe
What can you learn about the Sun from this video? Our class worked together to compose these questions:
We started multiplication this month! We’ve been practising skip counting since September, so we’re finding it pretty easy 🙂
Challenge yourself to count faster and faster in 8s as the video speeds up!
These two videos will help you to practise your tables, and quiz you to see if you really know them.
For girls (and parents) that love a Maths trick, here’s one about multiples of 8.
Our class spent Science Week investigating Light.
The class was divided into three stations. Everyone worked in pairs, and read the instructions of each experiment carefully, to figure out what to do.
The class especially enjoyed using torches to investigate if materials were opaque, transparent or translucent. We had to be very careful pouring out the water when we investigated refraction. We saw funny reflections of ourselves when we looked at concave and convex mirrors.
Afterwards, the class reflected on what they learned, what they enjoyed and what they found challenging.
The highlight of the week was our Science Morning on Thursday 14th November. Thank you to all of the parents, grandparents and siblings who visited Room 9. We hope you learned a lot!
Today we tried a new game. We found a reason (or lots of reasons!) why each one doesn’t belong.
For the top two games, we used Maths language like acute angle, obtuse angle, right angle, hexagon, triangle, odd, even, square number, digit.
Can you find any more reasons? Now try the two games below!
Before the mid-term break, our class did a Nature Walk along Seafield Road, to investigate Sycamore and Ash trees near the school. We collected leaves and seeds. The class also did bark and leaf rubbings.
We watched these useful videos:
The class used the school laptops to research the Ash tree, using the website https://treecouncil.ie/project/ash/
In November, we will continue our tree study by researching the Ash, using http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/1st-+-2nd-class/1st-2nd-class-environment/leafy-lovelies/trees/native-trees/ash/index.xml
We’ll study the Sycamore on http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/5th-+-6th-class/5th-+-6th-class-environme/leafy-lovelies/trees/non-native-trees/sycamore/index.xml
Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí!
