Belgrove Senior Girls' School

Seafield Road West, Clontarf, Dublin 3 • 01 833 1888 • info@belgroveseniorgirls.ie

Category Archives: 3rd Class Blogs

Catherine Brodie

October 18, 2019

0 Comments

Categories:

Ms Brodie's Blog

Maths Week in Room 5

We had great fun this week with Maths!

We went on a Shape Trail spotting 2D shapes around the school. The Hexagon was the hardest to find, but we eventually found one in the base of a Cone in yard.

We found our Cityscape pictures tessellating in the corridor.

We had fun with our tables too and had a Queen of the Tables competition. Comhghairdeas to our finalists Ruth, Maria, Olivia and our class winner Julia.

The highlight of our week was preparing our Door for the Maths Door competition. We went with the Story of 5 theme as we are in Room 5 and we have 25 (5×5) girls in our class!

Finally we had Friday Maths Stations and a Whole School Maths Assembly in the Halla. We were the proud winners of Best Door for 3^rd Class, which we were all very excited about! Overall a very successfully Maths Week for 2019.

If you want to continue to have fun with maths check out the following game to practise your tables. Click on the image to open the game.

Catherine Brodie

October 15, 2019

0 Comments

Categories:

Ms Brodie's Blog

Tree Project

Sycamore & Ash

Before the leaves fall completely from our deciduous trees we are checking out the Ash and Sycamore trees!

The girls are asked to do a project, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, Max two Scrapbook pages, one for each tree. Project due Wednesday 6th November.

You must include:

Why trees are so important.
Types of trees – Deciduous & Evergreen
Leaf rubbing of Ash and Sycamore leaves or a simple sketch of the leaves
Describe the Seeds – (Keys & Helicopters)
Some interesting facts about each tree.

Best of luck!

Some useful resources and websites

Handouts and worksheet from school

www.askaboutireland.ie

https://treecouncil.ie/project/ash/

Secrets of the Sycamore

Catherine Brodie

May 2, 2019

0 Comments

Categories:

Time to tell the Time!

We have been studying TIME in Maths.

Tell the time on analogue and digital clocks, using 5 minute intervals
Calculate the time elapsed/duration between two given times
Given a time, figure out what the time would be ___ minutes earlier or later.

Here are some online games that you may find helpful for practising this topic:

http://www.timemonsters.com/speakingClock.html

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/

These websites have been tried and tested for suitability, but as always, please monitor your daughter carefully while using the Internet.

You can assist your child by drawing attention to Time at home, for example

Reading the time on the clock (digital and/or analogue)
Calculating the duration of a tv show given the start and end time
Calculating what time they will finish their 15mins of Library Book reading
Figuring out how many hours and minutes until bedtime
Encouraging your child to wear a watch can be very helpful

Have a great TIME trying them out!

Mrs. Brodie

Anita Walshe

March 15, 2019

0 Comments

Categories:

Telling the Time

We have been studying TIME in Maths. We have been using our colourful Rainbow Clocks in class to:

Tell the time on analogue and digital clocks, using 5 minute intervals
Calculate the time elapsed/duration between two given times
Given a time, figure out what the time would be ___ minutes earlier or later.

You can assist your child by drawing attention to Time at home, for example

Reading the time on the clock (digital and/or analogue)
Calculating the duration of a tv show given the start and end time
Calculating what time they will finish their 15mins of Library Book reading
Figuring out how many hours and minutes until bedtime
Encouraging your child to wear a watch can be very helpful.

Here are some online games that you may find helpful for practising this topic:

http://www.timemonsters.com/speakingClock.html

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/

These websites have been tried and tested for suitability, but as always, please monitor your daughter carefully while using the Internet .

Have a great TIME trying them out!

Ms Walshe

Catherine Brodie

March 10, 2019

0 Comments

Categories:

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Táimid ag céíliúradh Cóicís na Gaeilge ón 4ú go dtí 15ú Márta!

Tá alán eacthraí éasúla ar siúl ar fud na scoile cosúil le Nuacht an Lae, Ceist an Lae, Céilí Mór, Lá Glas, Taispeántas Hataí, Tráth na gceist agus alán rudaí eile.

Táimid ag cleachtadh go dian ár n-amhráin and damhsaí le haghaidh an Céilí agus an Ceolchoirm.

Beidh Lá Glas againn ar Dé Aoine an 15ú Márta 2019.

Bain trial as cúpla frásaí sa bhaile!

Anita Walshe

March 7, 2019

0 Comments

Categories:

The Beard Questionnaire

Our class has started to read ‘The Twits’, by Road Dahl.

Mr Twit has a beard. We would like to find out about other people who have beards.

Our class worked together to compose these questions. We would love if you could answer the questions on this page, or you may email the answers to our teacher at anita.walshe@belgroveseniorgirls.ie. You may also email a photo of your beard.

Thank you for helping us with our research.

From Ms Walshe’s Third Class

Categories:

The Great Tables Challenge!

We used the school laptops today to practise our tables. Click on the image to open the game.

Anita Walshe

February 6, 2019

0 Comments

Categories:

The Vikings

We are doing a project on the Vikings this month. Today we used the school laptops to do online research on this website:

https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/vikings/

We also read the chapter on Vikings in our ‘Unlocking SESE’ book.

The girls will bring home their research pages this week. They will have lots of opportunity to work on their project in class. The project is due on Tuesday 5th March.

Categories: