Look how our garden has grown!

Today we visited our vegetable garden and sampled some of our produce.  Nine pupils out of our class ate scallions for the first time and thought they were delicious!

Symmetry in Maths

We used mirrors to demonstrate mirror symmetry in maths.

School Vegetable Garden

On Friday 11th April we planted the vegetable school garden.  In turn planted peas, onions, cauliflower, cabbage, beetroot and lettuce.

Georgian Dublin

In History we looked a homes from different eras and looked in detail at the Georgian houses in Dublin.  We then made our own models of the Georgian houses in Art class.

Junior Infants Visit 3rd and 4th Classroom to use MS Paint!

On Thursday 6th March Junior infants visited 3rd and 4th class where they were shown and helped by the pupils to use MS Paint.  Visit their blog to see what they created.

Creating pictures using 2-D shapes

In maths class on Wednesday, 19th Feburay we created pictures using only 2-D shapes in Microsoft paint.  Can you name all the 2D shapes in our pictures?  We worked in pairs and really enjoyed this activity.  Here are some of our pictures we made.  (Visit our class website to see the full album).

Europe

 Winning Poem by Fabien

If in Europe and you’re Hungary to eat,

Try some Turkey roasted in Greece

If you’re thirsty when you dine

Spain, Germany, France and Italy make great wine.

Switzerland is famous for it’s watches

And more importantly, it’s yummy chocolates!

Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg take a short cut

Together they are know as the Benelux

Malta and Cyprus are very small

Russia is the biggest of them all.

Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway

Together they tell a fiercesome story,

Of Long Ships and hairy Vikings,

Raiders who are very frightening.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are great,

Together they make up the Baltic States.

Old Mrs. Kelleher knew it as Czechoslovakia

These days divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia.

When she was young Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia

Were even part of Yugoslavia!

For vampires visit Transylvania

When you are next in Romania.

Poland gave us pope John Paul

Who came to Ireland to visit all.

Portugal is good for the sun,

In Austria’s mountains you can have some fun.

If you can think of something to rhyme with Bulgaria

Then I say – well fair play to ya!!

United Kingdom is an island

Made up of Scotland, England, wales and Northern Ireland

Ireland is way out west

But it is the country I like to live in best.

Children of Lír

Today in History we read the legend 'The Children of Lír.  In groups we created freeze frames from the story.

Science Experiment

How does water get into a plant?

How does water travel inside a plant?

Have a look at our results

In our school play we did the X-mas Factor. There were four judges; Nicole, Louis, Sharon and Simon and there were also three acts; a girl band, a boy band and madam Zimmer; an old lady. Dermot O' Leary was the host. As it was nearly Christmas, we sang lots of Christmas songs. At the end, there was a big surprise when Sharon started to sing her song instead of an act. The show was held in Kilcornan Hall on the 5th of December at 7pm. We really enjoyed being involved in the play.
By Fiona and Eve

Autumn Leaves and Fruit

Can you name all the leaves and fruit?

Hovercraft Experiment

We created a hovercraft in class, made from a CD, top of a bottle and a balloon.

3rd and 4th class 2013/2014

Getting active in Rang 4

For Active School week we all 'Got To Dance' using the Wii.  

Our Rock Collection

In Geography we studied different rocks found in Ireland and around the world.  We discovered that rocks can be hard or soft, permeable or impermeable and have many different uses such as, walls, roads, roofing, kitchen work tops and jewellery.

In our collection we have limestone from Co. Galway, Basalt from the Giants Causeway, Co. Antrim,  Red Jasper, Tiger Eye and Agate from South Africa and Turqurenite from France.

Drama - Life on a coffin ship

In drama class we created freeze frame images of people travelling on coffin ships from Ireland to America in the 1850s.

Tessellating Shapes

Today in maths we drew patterns of tessellating shapes on squared paper and cut out shapes and arranged them into tessellating patterns.

Christmas Carol Singers

In Art class today we made Christmas Carol Singers using odd socks, toilet roll holders, ribbon, paint and paper.

Galway Science and Technology Festival

Pupils from Mrs Kelleher's 3rd and 4th class attended the Galway Science and Technology Festival in NUIG on Sunday 25th November.  Brendan Smith, education officer at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) of NUI Galway had invited  the pupils to attend and demonstrate how they have integrated SCRATCH programming language into the Maths curriculum.  Twenty four pupils from the class demonstrated their programming skills to hundreds of visitors throughout the day.

  

Fashion through the decades

Today in class we examined items of clothing from the 1940s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.
 Some of useven modelled the clothes.