Belgrove Senior Girls' School

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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.

Some of the x7 tables are a bit tricky.  I hope these videos will help you to practise and learn them.

Making up your own rhymes can help too, like ‘Multiplying 7 by 7 makes me feel fine, 7 x 7 = 49’. Can you make up one to share with the class?

Here’s a trick that you might enjoy, to find the multiples of 7 (the answers you get when you multiply by 7, or skip count in 7s).

The class read two lovely poems about St Brigid, one of Ireland’s patron saints.  One of the poems is about the conversion of Gaelic Chieftan from paganism to Christianity

Brigid wove a cross of rushes by a dying chieftain’s bed”
“Brigid what is that you’re making
From the rushes there?”, he said.
Brigid said,”A cross I’m weaving, like the cross where Jesus died.”
“Who was Jesus?” asked the chieftain,
“Why was this man crucified?”
Brigid told the gospel story to a dying pagan King.
Lying silently he listened,
Never saying anything.
Then he kissed the cross of rushes
Saying ,”Brigid, thanks to you,
I have come to love this Jesus,
I will follow his way too!”

By Emma Finnegan

We made St Brigid’s crosses from paper.  We were very glad to have help from our visiting teacher, Ms McEllistrim, and Sophie and Éabha, TY students from Holy Faith.

We studied Early Christian Ireland, and found out about monks that lived in Ireland over a thousand years ago.

We learned wonderful words and phrases like vellum, parchment, manuscript, filigree, high cross, refectory, beehive hut and abbot.

Teacher wanted the whole class to get new monk-style haircuts, but nobody wanted to get their head shaved into a tonsure.  Instead we did Monastery Drama Bingo to show off what we knew about life in Early Christian Ireland.

We created wonderful monastery art, with round towers, made from recycled kitchen rolls.