Santa Comes to Ransboro At breaktime today there was great commotion on the yard! The teachers called us all around to the front of the school. When we got there we saw Santa arriving on a horse and cart with Silvio’s dad!!!! The horse was called Maggie!! Santa got off and talked to all of us. Each
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Snowflakes We got this idea from a class that we are following on Twitter @REACHRocketeers! Teacher gave us three sheets of paper with lines on them showing you where to cut. We had to make six arms to form the snowflake. We cut the sheets of paper different ways and then sellotaped the arms together and then stapled them. After we formed
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On Monday, Senior Infants to Sixth Class went to the hall to watch the rehearsals for the junior infant’s nativity play. The girls were angels and the boys were shepherds. The whole school were singing along to the Christmas carols. Everybody in the school and the teachers enjoyed the junior infant’s wonderful performance. Everyone was enthusiastic leaving the hall. They are performing it
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We drew a fruit bowl from observation. Then we coloured it in using waterpencils. We looked at where the light was on the fruit and we tried to use shading techniques with the colouring pencils. We made the colour darker by adding more colour and less water.
We talked about the season of winter. We learned about the different types of weather we have in Ireland during winter. We looked at some real winter scenes and some winter paintings on the whiteboard. They were beautiful. Then we created our own winter scene and we painted it! We took some photos of them. 2nd & 3rd Class
6th Class were busy little elves!!! A few weeks ago we came up with a fundraising idea to help raise money for our trip toDelphiin June. We decided to make Christmas cards. Teacher got the supplies for our cards from the internet. We waited impatiently for the parcel to arrive! We were very happy when it did. We decided that we would
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Today we did an experiment for Science Week. For this experiment you need vinegar, washing up liquid, food colouring, bread soda and an empty bottle. Pour vinegar into the bottle until 3/4 full. Put a large squirt of washing up liquid into the bottle. Then we put food colouring into the bottle. Mix the ingredients together by twirling the bottle. Make a funnel
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Last week we did Glitter Art for our art work. We got a bottle of glue and squirted it on a piece of coloured card in a squiggly line. Then we shook some glitter on top of the glue. The glitter started to stick to the glue. Some people put different colours of glitter on their card. Then we put the pictures on the
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It’s Science Week this week ! We used the ‘10,000 Science Fact’ App on our iPods to find out some interesting Science facts! These are our favourites!!! Eating one apple adds 5 minutes to a person’s life. Moon was Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name! Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards and not the other way around! 200,000lbs
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Today we did a science experiment for Science Week. For the experiment you need a paper plate, a glass and some water. We filled the glass with water to the top. Then we put the paper plate on top of the glass and turned it upside down. The water didn’t fall out of the plastic cup. This was because gravity was pushing the water
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