Today is Safer Internet Day. It is a day for showing you how to use the internet properly and safely. We visited a website called Webwise and looked at a video about surfing the internet. We learned some Golden Rules about surfing the internet. These are some of those rules: Don’t always say “Yes” when a pop-up appears If you come across something bad
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This is our third video that we made this year. We worked in pairs and we had to dress up. We had to say “Níl” or “Tá”. We had to say it all in Irish. We used an iPod to make the video and then we put it on the Mac to make the movie. We watched in on wide screen on the white
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We made a video in Irish yesterday. It is called Éadaí. We made the video using an iPod. We had to dress up in different clothes. Teacher got the clothes in the costume room. Some of the clothes were too big for us. We had to say “Féach orm. Tá ____ orm”. We had fun making the Irish video. By Rang I   [media
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We got a paper plate and we put some masking tape on it. We then painted it with a sponge. When it was dry we put more masking tape on the plate and put another coat of paint on the plate. We did this four times. When the last coat was dry, we carefully picked off all the masking tape and it made a
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I have reached the final of the doodle 4 google competition! There are 15 finalists in each category. The winning student will have their doodle on the Google Ireland homepage for 24 hours.  They will also receive a €10,000 technology grant for their school and a laptop for the pupil and teacher. The winner of each category wins a laptop for themselves and their
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We made a video in Irish yesterday. We used the iPod to make the video. We videoed everybody in the class. We videoed “Ar Scoil” things that we were learning about last week. We imported the videos onto the Mac laptop. We used the iMovie programme to put the video together. It was weird listening to our voices on the video. We had fun
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Our class entered the Doodle for Google competition!  We had to create our own doodle with the theme I wish…! Last week our teacher received three envelopes in the post from Google!  We were so excited!  Inside were letters and certificates for three children in our class. Amber, Rosha and Cliodhna have reached the semi-final of the competition!  After the 23rd  of January their
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Christmas Concert     Today we had our Christmas concert. The whole hall was PACKED so some people had to stand, but they were still happy. Each class did a song or a poem. Lots of people wore festive hats and scarves.   Some parents had organised a Race Night that raised €3000. They presented a cheque to Mrs Clarke at the start.  
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We created a Christmas collage based on the Poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.  We used fabric for the rug, stockings, Santa Claus and Santa’s toy sack.  We created the rest of our collage with card.  It was great fun, we hope Santa likes them! 2nd & 3rd Class