Over the last couple of weeks the children in Second class were working very hard on their versions of the Christmas story. Once they were completed they went down to Junior Infants to read the stories to them. Second Class remembered to ask questions while they were reading and everyone enjoyed themselves.
After reading an example of a procedure about making fruit kabobs we wrote our own procedures and followed them to make our own kabobs. We then enjoyed eating them. We all typed something about making fruit kabobs. We made fruit kabobs they were all very tasty but I liked the banana the best. Kaylah My favourite fruit was apple and orange. It was very
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As part of our topic on the wind, we looked at wind strength and direction. We made windsocks and windmills and took them to different parts of the school grounds on different days. From the photographs you can see which way the wind was blowing and how strongly it was blowing on the different days. Just for fun we ran up and down the
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We had a spooky day in second class on the last day of term with the children dressing in a variety of costumes.
Well done to everyone who participated in the try-a-tri on Thursday 22nd October organised by Sligo Triathlon Club, Youth Sport West and Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership. It was the biggest inter primary event in the country and 24 children from the school were involved. Thanks to all the parents who helped out with organising bikes, minding bags and uniforms etc. The try-a-tri consisted
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The running club is going well, there are some very enthusiastic runners and every one is trying to improve their own style, speed, fitness and distance. It was great to see so many children try out for the Sligo cross country. We entered four teams – junior girls and boys and senior girls and boys. Everyone ran well on the day, the senior boys
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During maths week we did a maths trail round the school. This involved counting, adding, identifying shapes and measuring using steps and strides. We all wrote a sentence about the maths trail. The hardest part of the maths trail was counting the squares on the backboard of the basketball hoop. Michael My favourite part of the maths trail was on the junior and senior
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Authors in Second Class The children have been busy writing stories based on a cat stuck up a tree. After editing their stories they each made a book with a front cover that included the title, author and illustrator and a back cover that showed the publisher, back page blurb, other books by these famous authors and a price. On Wednesday they read their
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Clarice Cliff was part of the ‘art deco’ artist movement. She loved to use vibrant colours; including blue, black, orange, green, red and yellow. We looked at some of her scenes and did our own paintings based on them.
Second class enjoyed a very active sports day. They started with races in the hall, followed by the bouncy castles and after break parachutes, space hoppers and dodge ball. They spent the afternoon on the field doing relay races, the egg and spoon, the long jump, an obstacle course, 3-legged races, tossing the welly and the tug of war. Somehow they managed to find
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