We made a video in Irish yesterday. We used the iPod to make the video. We videoed everybody in the class. We videoed “Ar Scoil” things that we were learning about last week. We imported the videos onto the Mac laptop. We used the iMovie programme to put the video together. It was weird listening to our voices on the video. We had fun
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Today we did an experiment for Science Week. For this experiment you need vinegar, washing up liquid, food colouring, bread soda and an empty bottle. Pour vinegar into the bottle until 3/4 full. Put a large squirt of washing up liquid into the bottle. Then we put food colouring into the bottle. Mix the ingredients together by twirling the bottle. Make a funnel
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Last week we did Glitter Art for our art work. We got a bottle of glue and squirted it on a piece of coloured card in a squiggly line. Then we shook some glitter on top of the glue. The glitter started to stick to the glue. Some people put different colours of glitter on their card. Then we put the pictures on the
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Today we did a science experiment for Science Week. For the experiment you need a paper plate, a glass and some water. We filled the glass with water to the top. Then we put the paper plate on top of the glass and turned it upside down. The water didn’t fall out of the plastic cup. This was because gravity was pushing the water
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Today we did a science experiment for Science Week. We got balloons and a knitting needle for the experiment. We blew up the balloon until there was some dark balloon left at the bottom and at the top. Then we pushed the knitting needle through the bottom of the balloon first and then it came out through the top. The balloon did not burst
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This morning we did a science experiment for Science Week. For this experiment we needed food colouring, cotton wool, full fat milk, washing up liquid and some shallow plates. We had to pour the milk into the plates and let it settle. Then we poured the food colouring into the milk. We had yellow and red food colouring. The food colouring settled on top
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We came to school in our Hallowe’en costumes today. Our teacher took photographs of us beside the picture of the gorilla. We went outside playing in our costumes and some people had masks. There were zombies, skeletons, Darth Vader, dead brides, witches, vampires, Spanish dancers, a mummy, knights, Grim Reapers, a Ninja, a head cutter, an evil eye skull, pumpkins, devils, princesses. It was
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Today we made a podcast about people’s favourite food. We had to speak into a microphone in Gaeilge. Teacher gave us a tap on the shoulder to start. It was written in our Gaeilge copy. The name of the programme we used to record the podcast was Audacity. We listened to the podcast again to make sure it was right. It was great fun.
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Today we did our Friday Maths using QR Codes and our iPods. We went to the hall after first break to do the treasure hunt. We first had to find the hidden QR Codes, then we used the i-nigma app on the iPod to read the code. In the codes were maths questions and question numbers. We had a sheet to fill in the
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Last week we made butterflies. We folded the paper in two. Then we opened the paper and put three colours of paint on the paper. We closed the paper and spread the paint with our hands. We opened up the page and a nice coloured butterfly appeared. We let them dry overnight. Next day we cut them out and we stuck on a body,
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