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Maths Week

Maths Week – 13th to 21st October 2018 Next week is Maths Week! We will be playing lots of fun games and solving problems in class. For maths week we will not be doing our usual Mental Maths homework. Instead we will be given problems to solve and fun...

The Lungs

We have been learning about the lungs this month in science. We have learnt lots of new words associated with the lungs such as; diaphragm, bronchus and windpipe. We labelled diagrams in our copies. On Tuesday we had a visit from Caoimhe’s dad. He is a lung...

Maths – Division

This week in maths we are continuing with division. We have spent time as a class looking at different ways to solve division sums- grouping, repeated subtraction, inverse of multiplication. As I said at the information morning, a good knowledge of tables really helps...

E.U. Project

During October we will be learning about the European Union and countries within the E.U. As part of geography the girls will be presenting their first project. Each girl has been given an E.U. member country to research. The project will be bound in school and should...

Reading

Following up on our information morning I wanted to give a list of suitable titles and authors for fourth class. Reading is very important! Even in fourth class the girls should be reading aloud to an adult and also should be read to by an adult. A great way to do...

Nature Walk

This month as part of Science we will be using keys to identify Irish trees. Last week we went out and about to explore! Why use the textbook when we can be active and learn at the same time? 🙂    In the school grounds alone we were able to identify birch, hawthorn...