Last week in sixth class we watched a video on water filtration and it inspired us to do an experiment in groups on water filtration for World Water Day. We went to the organic garden and half filled jars with clay. We then added water to the jars and mixed the clay and water together. We placed a coffee filter into a funnel which
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Bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge ar siúl ar fud na tíre ar feadh an coicís seo caite. I Rang VI rinneamar roinnt podchraoltaí chun an ócáid a cheiliúradh. Is féidir éisteacht le na podchraoltaí thíos: Podchraoladh 05 – Mamma Mia: Na daltaí ag canadh an t-amhrán “Mamma Mia” as Gaeilge. Podchraoladh 04 – Seanfhocail: na daltaí ag rá seanfhocail a d’fhoghlaim siad i rith na
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This year in Rang VI we decided to do some Podcasting. We started by making a Word of the Day Podcast. We posted on a platform called SoundCloud. Three pupils per day participate in creating the podcast – two presenters and a sound engineer. We use Audacity to record the podcast. We also occasionally use the Garageband App. We did a special Podcast featuring
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The pupils and staff of The Glen went on a trip to Strandhill Airport today. The trip was organised as part of our work on an airport theme for the past few weeks. This, in turn, was part of our overall school theme of Transport for the month of November. Pupils got a chance to put into action all of the things that they
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The pupils and staff in The Glen have spent the last couple of weeks creating a special Christmas Tree. The tree is made from plastic cups which are glued to circles of corrugated plastic. All of the cups were first covered in different shades of green, using tissue paper and crepe paper. We cut out different sizes of circles of corrugated plastic and glued
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Pupils from The Glen have been doing some work about Spring.They made some Spring flowers using painted handprints which they really enjoyed. They then cut out the flowers, stems and leaves and displayed them on the wall.
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.