Pupils in The Glen have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes over the past couple of weeks. We learned the names of the different shapes and did some work on them. We also made some of the shapes using polydron. Today we constructed some 3D shapes using mini marshmallows and cocktail sticks. We made cubes, cuboids, square pyramids and triangular pyramids. We ate
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Senior Infants used Ipods to take photos of 2D shapes in our Environment! We found lots of 2D shapes outside our school. Here are just a few..the school windows are made from 6 square window panes which altogether make a rectangle! The front doors are rectangular as is the letter box! There are triangles in the flower boxes and we saw circles in the wheels of
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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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We are learning a new rhyme this week called “Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed. This is the video for the rhyme.
During Maths Week Second Class did a maths trail. Read some of our comments below. “My maths trail was outside in the playground and front of the school.” – Aaron “We had six groups with five people in them.” – Áine “We had to stick together like a team and help people on our team.” – Orna “I liked the target circle. “ –
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We are learning the days of the week. This is a video to help us learn the names of the days of the week.
Numerosity is a new maths app for iPad just released in the iTunes App Store from the Thoughtbox company. Its purpose is to reinforce learning in the four main mathematical operations operations. A pupil in Rang VI has done a review of the app and these are his thoughts: My teacher asked my to do a review on this new maths game he found
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On Wednesday Mr.Quinn organised a maths trail outside for 6th class. They were split up into six groups of five and each group was given a metre stick and a booklet with questions in it. The groups got down to work quickly thinking hard about the questions. They had to move around quite a bit as the questions were based on lots of different places around the
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Last week our class went down to the halla for fun maths activity. We used the IPods to do a QR treasure hunt where we had to scan the QR codes to reveal math problems. We then had to write down the answers on our worksheets. Here are some quotes from the children on what they thought about the QR Treasure Hunt. “It was
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Some boys and girls were gone to an athletics fest today and there was a group left behind. Our teacher said that the people left behind could do something fun. We were split up into two groups of eight. One group went into the kitchen in the hall to bake while the other group worked quietly. The first thing we had to do was
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