We visited these websites yesterday in class: Sneeze Safe – this told us about how to sneeze properly and how to stop spreading germs San Francisco Symphony for Kids – we listened to the sound of different instruments of the orchestra like the oboe, the clarinet and the French horn
We are very excited. We were chosen to work with a Professional craftsperson through projects with CRAFTed. The lady who will be coming into our class works with clay, she is a ceramist. Her name is Kim Sharkey. Kim has her own studio and website, www.peaceofearthpots.ie. We will start our project next February. We are looking forward to working with Kim and learning all about
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This is a video that we found on the iPod Touch while looking for five facts about the pomegranate. We thought you’d like to see it. [media id=4]
Rang III Pomegranate Tasting Today we tasted pomegranates in school. 22 people liked them and 5 people didn’t like them. We were tasting them with two other schools in America on Twitter. The schools we were tasting them with are in Indiana, USA. We ate the seeds, they were nice and juicy. Some people didn’t like the seeds but liked the juice. Lots of
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Electrical Circuits Last Friday we made electrical circuits. The class was split into 5 groups. Each group was given a basket with wires, batteries, bulbs, a battery holder and a bulb holder. Each group then worked out how to connect the wires and battery in order to light the bulb. We came up with lots of different versions! Some groups
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Sixth Class used a poetry app on the iPod Touches to create poems about disastrous weather conditions. We have been studying hurricanes, typoons, tornadoes, blizzards, floods and storms in Geography. We each chose a weather force and wrote a poem about it. Here are some of our poems. Snow Typhoons By Emer H By Oisin S Swirls all around Forms in
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We started using Twitter in the classroom last year. We continued to tweet this year and regularly tweet about things we are learning in class and things we write about on our school blog. This week, we joined other schools who have been tweeting about things we were learning during Science Week. It was while we were looking at our tweets this week that
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We made clowns out of card. We had to colour them. Then we had to neatly cut them out . We also had to get two of the same coins and stick them onto the hands of the clown. Then we tried to balance the clown by the nose on our finger. We also tried balancing it on the rim of a teacup. We even
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We used the 10,000 Science Facts app on our iPod Touches to find out interesting facts for Science Week. Here are some of the things that we found out: A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber Singapore means “City of Lions” A 1,200 pound horse eats about seven times its own weight each year A banana tree isn’t really
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