Belgrove Senior Girls' School

We’re learning how to tell the time in 5 minute intervals, using a digital and an analogue clock. Here are some games to practise telling the time.

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/

https://www.splashlearn.com/s/math-games/identify-quarter-past-and-quarter-to

Táimid ag foghlaim amhrán iontach deas sa seomra ranga…

Clap, Clap, Ta-ble, Ta-ble, Clap Up Down

Clap, Sweep, Top, Table, bottom, hand down.

An bhfuil Feel-Good-Flow ann nuair atá tú ag cleachtadh? 🙂

We are so excited about Christmas in Room 9!

Throughout the month, we have been visited by Caoimhe, an elf of kindness. None of us have spotted her (though Alessia, Tess and Alex thought they spied a red figure near teacher’s laptop one Friday) but we really look forward to finding her gold envelopes. She has been setting us kindness challenges.

The whole class learned two Christmas poems and a song. Everyone embraced the acting part they were assigned, and used their creativity to come up with fabulous costumes, extra lines and dance moves. The first time we tried to record our performances in the school garden, we were accompanied by the sound of a chainsaw. Thankfully, the second time, you could just hear our beautiful voices. You can check out our performances on Seesaw (under Student Announcements).

We’ve done so much Art this month. We created beautiful Advent wreaths to mark the countdown to Christmas.

We used washi tape, felt and fluffy pompoms to create these wintry scenes.

It took careful measurement, drawing and cutting, but these festive tote bags are TOTES amaze!

We designed these fabulous Christmas jumpers, and put them on our Strength People to keep them cosy in our well ventilated classroom! Before bringing them home, we used pipe cleaners to make coat hangers to hang them from the Christmas tree.
Look at the awesome cribs that we made using lollipop sticks and matchsticks.

To paint the skies of our wintry landscapes, we mixed paint to explore colour tones.

We used the leftover green painted paper to create lovely Christmas cards.

During our Geography lessons, we researched Great Britain using our atlases and our Small World Geography books. We also researched the websites on the Class Blog Great Britain project post using the school laptops. Everyone enjoyed presenting their projects to the class, before reflecting on their learning with the Great Britain Project self assessment.

During our History lesson, we read the story of The Salmon of Knowledge in our Small World History books. Then we watched the story as told by the storytellers of Candlelit Tales.

In groups, we compared and contrasted the book and video versions using Venn diagrams.

In Maths, we discussed Chance, how possible it is that something might happen. We enjoyed using our imagination and creativity to conjure up statements that we categorised as Certain, Probable, Possible and Impossible.

We were all delighted to hear Ella’s wonderful news. She collaborated with her sister, Sarah, to write a fabulous story called, The Magic Glasses. Their story won the Specsavers Children’s Story Competition 2021. Their prize includes a hamper of books and €500 worth of books for our school library. Congratulations, Ella and Sarah!

It’s been a challenging year in many ways. However we really enjoyed discussing our Rainbow Moments of 3rd Class so far in our SPHE lesson. We can improve our Well Being by training our minds to notice all the little positive parts of each day.

We look forward to having even more Rainbow Moments in 2022.

Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir!

We thought of those who are no longer with us, with this beautiful Garden of Remembrance. It made us smile to share happy memories of them during our Religion lesson.

In our English lesson, we read about the Moon landing in 1969.

We also learned about the Golden Record, which was sent into Space in 1977, with images and recording from Planet Earth. We wrote our own messages, and listed images and sounds that we would send into Space any aliens to interpret.

In Geography, we studied the Sun. We loved listening to this Storybots song.

Amelie and Layna learned all of the words by heart and performed an awesome dance to accompany the rap in front of the class.

We created a bright display of super facts about the Sun.

In History, we watched this great video about the Greek legend of Icarus, who flew too close to the Sun.

We played Summary Bingo, and then planned a written summary on our whiteboards. Our summaries were so good, that we just had to make them into Summary Storyboards. Here are just a few of them…

During Science Week, we conducted lots of Light experiments to explore Refraction.

We also investigated whether materials were opaque, translucent or transparent.

We did PE in the school garden and garden room, before the weather turned really chilly.

Rinne gach grúpa teach álainn sa cheacht Gaeilge! Cé mhéad seomra atá ann? Cad atá sa seomra codlata agus sa chistin?

Is breá linn éisteacht le amhráin as Gaeilge i rith am lóin sa seomra ranga. Is maith linn na trí amhráin seo.

The title of your next solo project is Great Britain. It is due on Monday 20th December. We will continue to research and read about Great Britain in school. You will be given time in class and homework time to complete it.

A good project is easy to read and the information is presented neatly.  Here are some guidelines to help you.

• Your project should be 3 or 4 pages of an A3 scrapbook.
• Choose 4 topics to write about.
• You can find your information in your SESE copy, ‘Small World’, websites, books, newspapers or magazines
• Your project information must be written in your own words, so paraphrase when you can.
• Your project must include a map of Great Britain, showing countries, cities, rivers and mountains. You should include at least 3 other pictures or diagrams. They can be drawn or printed.
• Include a bibliography at the end, which is a list of where you found your information.

Here are some ideas of topics to include:

1. What countries make up Great Britain? What are the capital cities?
2. Physical Geography: Rivers, lakes, mountains, seas
3. Famous landmarks or tourist attractions
4. Flag of Great Britain and of England, Scotland and Wales. What do they symbolise (what do the colours/pictures mean)?
5. Money
6. Sport
7. History that involves England, Scotland or Wales
8. The Royal Family (Monarchy)Famous people from Great Britain ( pop stars, politicians, sports stars, authors)
9. Animals
10. Food
11. Festivals and traditions
12. Brexit
13. School and education
14. Languages
15. Music
16. Industry and trade (what they make and what they buy/sell)
17. Transport
18. Communication (post, telephone)

Useful Websites:

• http://projectbritain.com/
• http://kids.britannica.com/
• https://www.greatbritishbucketlist.com/fun-facts-about-great-britain/

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.