We looked at the story of Peter and the Wolf. It was written by Sergei Prokofiev. Each character in the story is represented by an instrument. Peter is the string instruments; the bird is the flute; Grandpa is the bassoon; the duck is the oboe; the cat is the clarinet; the wolf is the French horn; the hunters shots are the kettle drums. We
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Yesterday we started Brainstorming with Mrs. Timoney and Mr. Quinn. Brainstorming is coming up with lots of ideas for any topic. We started off by writing the name of the theme in the middle of the page. Then you write things that remind you of the topic or how you feel about the topic. The most important thing is the ideas – spelling and
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Imelda Ryan and Bluebird her puppet came to the school today to talk to us about Travel and Transport for the Green School. She talked to the school at assembly in the Halla about Safe Cross Code, Walking more, cycling more, holding your parents hand when you are walking, using the bus more, sharing lifts, wearing bright clothes when walking, not disturbing the
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We visited these websites yesterday in class: Sneeze Safe – this told us about how to sneeze properly and how to stop spreading germs San Francisco Symphony for Kids – we listened to the sound of different instruments of the orchestra like the oboe, the clarinet and the French horn
The school has been a blanket of snow for the last few days. We made snowmen on the astroturf….. it was boys against girls! As you can see we had great fun! The boys won the challenge. They were very proud of themselves!!!
Santa came to our school in a helicopter. The helicopter was very loud. We were very excited Santa wore a red suit and he was very nice. He told us to be in bed before 9 o’clock on Christmas Eve. Santa gave us sweets. We took a picture with Santa, have a look! By Josh, Rosha & Evan.
We had a great surprise today when a very special visitor literally “dropped in” to visit the pupils of the school. Santa Claus himself took time out from his busy schedule to visit the pupils of the school. Unbelievably, he arrived by helicopter, explaining that one of the reindeer had a sore hoof and could not travel. The helicopter landed in the field beside
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We are very excited. We were chosen to work with a Professional craftsperson through projects with CRAFTed. The lady who will be coming into our class works with clay, she is a ceramist. Her name is Kim Sharkey. Kim has her own studio and website, www.peaceofearthpots.ie. We will start our project next February. We are looking forward to working with Kim and learning all about
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