We have just finished reading Flat Stanley, our first novel of the year and we participated in lots of activities related to the book. We made a Flat Stanley of our own, took him home and to different places. Some children had their photograph taken with him and brought them into school. We painted Flat Stanley, drew Stanley disguised as a shepherdess, designed a
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Children in 5th class Ransboro did a project on the theme “A better future for all the worlds’ children.” We worked in groups of two, each group selecting a country that Irish Aid assists. We thought about, talked through and researched the particular country of our choice. We examined the eight millennium development goals in detail. We paid particular attention to goals which combat
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In 5th class we formed three groups and we read and analysed three novels simultaneously by Michael Morpurgo; The Butterfly Lion, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke’s Kingdom. We selected our favourite images, metaphors, phrases and interesting words. We explored common themes in Morpurgo’s novels, such as friendship with animals, relationship between young and old, care of the natural environment, war, overcoming obstacles, maritime
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Over the last month, third class have been studying some of the works of Roald Dahl. Rather than the usual approach of the whole class reading and responding to the same novel, we decided to try a theme based approach to explore the novels. The class was divided into 3 groups with each group reading a
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In Fifth class we have been involved in debating for the past few months and have enjoyed it very much .It was a fun way to read and research topics like the benefits of homework, climate change, use of iPads in the class and charity begins at home. There were six on our debating team; three speakers, a chairperson and two time keepers, though
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We’ve been singing along to this version of the Old Mac Donald song this week. Sing along to it at home.
We are working on the story “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell at the moment. It teaches about animals in the zoo and gives them descriptive characteristics. Here is a video of the story:
We are doing work on the nursery rhyme Little Boo Peep this week. This is a nice animated version of the rhyme to look at.
We are doing some work on the story of Cinderella this week. Here is a nice animated version of the story to look at.
We are starting the “Handwriting Without Tears” Programme. This is the first song of the programme which teaches that letters start at the top.