Home   Articles posted by kgreene (Page 3)

kgreene

Posts bykgreene

Some of our Christmas art in First Class!

Christmas Stockings “We sewed Christmas stockings with a needle and some wool.  Then we decorated them, I am going to hang mine up on my Christmas tree!”, Patrick. “My stocking is beautiful!”, Aoibhe. “We had so much fun sticking pom poms and gems on our stockings!”, Isabel Snowglobes “I really liked making our snowglobes, especially when we put the glitter in and it went down
Learn more »


Our gazebo got a makeover!

First Class worked as a team to give our gazebo a ‘new look’!  It has been transformed into an Igloo!  This is to enhance our role play area, for our Arctic theme, which is running throughout the school this month!


Arctic Art – First Class

Some photos from our Arctic work in First Class…….


Balloon Trick!

Please see below for some photos and Instructions!! We did a cool science experiment with a balloon today! Instructions 1. Inflate your balloon until it is 3/4 way full of air. 2. Tie a knot in your balloon so the air doesn’t escape. 3. Look at both ends of your balloon.  At the very tip and at the knot the balloon is darker in
Learn more »


Hallowe’en Art

  First Class created very scary haunted houses in art last week. Here are some spooky pictures…….


First Class Maths Trail

Last week First Class did a maths trail using Ipods and QR codes! We had great fun!


Harvest time at Ransboro!

We were gardening today in school, we harvested some beetroot! The beetroot is purple with green leaves.  It grew in the soil from a seed. Seamus showed us some potatoes, white and red onions which he harvested earlier in September. The peas will be ready next week, we tasted some, they were delicious! We also tasted mint and chives! Here are some comments from the children
Learn more »


Not so Scary Scarecrows!!

We painted a background of a sky and different fields using water paints, then we added our scarecrows! Some comments from the children; “My scarecrow has 19 patches”, Romilly Rose. “Our scarecrows turned out lovely”, Conor. “My scarecrow is very scary”, Harry. “My scarecrow’s name is Aimee Lee”, Isabel. Aoibhinn added, “my scarecrow loves buttons, so I called her Buttons”! Here are some photos…  


Blast Off!

Senior Infants have been working on a Space theme in Aistear over the past few weeks, here are some photos of our activities!       Some of our activities included; We learned all about The Solar System and an easy way to remember the names of all the planets…My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets! We drew the solar system on black
Learn more »


Lighthouse Keepers’ Lunch

Senior Infants are reading The Lighthouse Keepers Stories. One of the stories is called, The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch.  We did some art work based on this story and studied an artist called Maud Lewis. Here are the some photos of us with our cool art!