On Wednesday 19th January, 3rd class did a badminton lesson in the halla after school. We were supposed to do volleyball but the man who was coming to do volleyball couldn’t come because he was sick. So we did badminton instead. To play badminton, you need a long high net, a racket and a shuttlecock. You hit the shuttlecock with the racket over the
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Yesterday the class did a sound experiment. We started the experiment by scratching under the table and listening to what it sounded like. Then we put our ears on the table and scratched under the table again to see if there was any difference in the sound. When we put our ear to the table the sound was louder. When we sat up straight,
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Next Saturday week, 3rd class are going on a minibus to Portlaoise to give a workshop about using the iPods in the classroom. It will take three hours to get there and three hours to get back. Mrs. Clarke, our principal, and Mrs. O’ Rourke, our deputy principal, will be coming to the conference with us. We will stop for a snack on the
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On Tuesday January 18th we made small masks out of clay. A man came in with a bag of clay and strips of plastic for the tables. The clay felt cold, damp and mushy. We used special tools for making details on the masks. First, we rolled it into a ball. Next, we squished it down and used a pencil to make a cross.
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        We did Jolly Phonics on the laptops today. We played games on Jolly Phonics. We have lots of exciting things on Jolly Phonics.         We had lots of fun on Jolly Phonics. We like the laptops! We love Jolly Phonics!          Here are some pictures of us hard at work. Everybody likes the laptops. We were very good!                                           

We read the story of the lion and the mouse.  It is one of Aesop’s Fables. We looked at a clip on YouTube and we looked at lots of photographs of lions. We drew a picture of a lion using charcoal. We took a photograph of our lions. It was fun. What is the moral of this story? Little friends may prove to be
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First & Second Class 2011 – PDF Happy New Year from all of us in First and Second Class! We have made our own calendar by using Microsoft Publisher! We hope you like it!

Picture by Ellen (Rang III) Picture by Fiona (Rang III) Picture by Ciara Mc (Rang II) Picture by (Rang II)

Last year we started tinwhistle. First we learned the notes. Then we learned the crotchet (1 beat), the minim (2 beats) and the semibreve (4 beats). We got a scale for the tinwhistle. Then we started learing tunes. These are some tunes we have learned. Mary had a Little Lamb, London Bridge, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, The Wheels on the Bus, This old Man
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We made colured spider-web pictures using paint and lollipop sticks. First we put a a blob of paint in the middle of a sheet. Then we did rings of paint around the blob and used a lollipop stick to spread the paint out starting from the blob in the middle and out. Then we let them dry. We had great fun making them. by Lola and
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