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Senior Infants Working on Laptops

        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!                                           


Peter and the Wolf

We looked at the story of Peter and the Wolf. It was written by Sergei Prokofiev. Each character in the story is represented by an instrument. Peter is the string instruments; the bird is the flute; Grandpa is the bassoon; the duck is the oboe; the cat is the clarinet; the wolf is the French horn; the hunters shots are the kettle drums. We
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Websites

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


Christopher Columbus Quiz

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Pomegranate Video

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]


Trans Atlantic Pomegranate Tasting

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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Weather Poems Using iPod Touches

                       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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Trans-Atlantic Twitter Conversation

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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Science Facts

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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Our Trip to Sligo Education Centre

On Friday October 8th, we went on a bus to Sligo Education Centre to show work on our iPod Touches. There were lots of principals from schools around Sligo there. Mary, who gave us the iPod Touches, was there as well. Fiona’s mum was there and Caoimhe O’s dad was there and Mrs. Clarke, our principal, was there. We were there for an hour.
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