We made this house at lunchtime!
We made this house at lunch. Half of us worked on the walls and the other half worked on the roof. We were very proud of our house! By Grace & Nicole
Fun Facts About The Seasons!!!
We are learning about what causes the seasons in class. The axis of the Earth is at a tilt of 23.5 degrees. It is this tilt that causes the seasons. The Earth orbits the sun while spinning on its own axis. The tilt causes different amounts of the suns energy to reach the Earth at different times during the year. When the suns
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Hallowe’en
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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QR Codes and Maths
On Tuesday, the 4th of October, we went to the hall to do a maths treasure hunt using QR codes. We have an app on our Ipods called i-nigma. We used this app to unlock the maths questions. We had a sheet to write down the answers. We had great fun. By E.C and C.L We have spotted QR codes on a number of
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World War Two Podcast
World War II We have just finished a class project on World War II. We divided up into groups of three. Each group had a different topic to research. We used the laptops to do our research and type it up. Then we presented our findings to the class. Finally we made a podcast of our findings. It was good fun! Here
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Gaeilge Podcast
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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6th Class Identity Day
6th Class Identity Day 7th October 2011 On Friday 7th October, 6th Class had an ‘Identity Day’. An ‘Identity Day’ is where everyone in the class tells the class something about themselves that no one else knows. We got the idea from a school that we are following on Twitter @Gill_Villeans. They are fromCanada. Some people brought in photographs and various objects
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Qr Codes Maths Treasure Hunt
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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Making Butterflies
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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