Active School Week – fun and movement
Mickey Downs put all the classes through their paces, junior infants to 2nd enjoyed a variety of activities and 3rd to 6th tried circuit training.
Active School Week – Dance
All the classes were paired up to learn a dance with Aoibhín Buckley and enjoyed showing off their dance moves.
Active School Week – Soccer
Junior and Senior Infants worked on their soccer skills with Jim Sheridan, second class worked with Benny O’Loughlin and third class with Paul Keavney. All the classes had a great time.
Safe Cross Code
After reading The Hodgeheg a story about a hedgehog trying to find a safe place to cross the road we looked at different ways of crossing the road including the Safe Cross Code. We then made Safe Cross Code books which we read to Junior Infants. On the astro turf we made some roads using cones and practiced crossing the road with them to
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Story time with 2nd and Junior Infants
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.
Fruit Kabobs in Second Class
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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Halloween in Second Class
We had a spooky day in second class on the last day of term with the children dressing in a variety of costumes.
Authors in Second Class
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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Second Class Art
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.
Sports Day Second Class
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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