Open Shut Them Song
We are learning this song this week. It teaches opposite words as well as manners words. It is fun.
Mrs. Honey’s Hat
This week we are reading the story of Mrs. Honey’s Hat. You can listen to the story here.
Hickory Dickory Dock
We are doing some work on the Hickory Dickory Dock rhyme this week. This is a nice video of the rhyme.
Days of the Week
We are learning the days of the week. This is a video to help us learn the names of the days of the week.
Elmer the Elephant
We read a story about Elmer the Elephant. Elmer was different from the other elephants because he was lots of colours. So he covered himself in blackberry juice to make himself look like the other elephants. But then the rain came and washed off all the blackberry juice. All the elephants then made themselves all different colours and then Elmer covered himself in blackberry
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Yeats Day 2013
On Thursday the 13th of June, we celebrated Yeats Day. We learned about the life of WB Yeats, his family and about some of his poetry. We listened to ballads and drew pictures inspired by them. We listened to ‘The Ballad of Father Gilligan’ and ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’. The Ballad of Father Gilligan is about a priest who has to answer a
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6th Class Interview Author Marilyn Taylor
6th Class are just completing a class novel called “Faraway Home” by Marilyn Taylor. It tells the story of two Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria called Karl and Rosa who are sent on a Kindertransport to Millisle Farm in Northern Ireland. We organised an interview with the author, Marilyn Taylor. We each came up with three questions about the novel on our class blog
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Pupils Reveal Why Blogging Is Best
Pupils in 6th Class having been using individual blogs as part of their work this year. They have completed lots of exercises for homework on the blog across a range of curricular areas. Recently, they were asked their opinions on this way of working in preparation for the 9th ICT in Education Conference to be held in May in LIT Thurles. This class was
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Comprehension Programme Group Work
Pupils in 2nd to 6th classes have been taking part in the second phase of the Building Bridges of Understanding programme, which is the group work phase. In this phase, the classes were divided into groups of 4 or 5. After an initial modeling session, the groups proceeded to work on their own, with the learning support and class teacher sitting in on different
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Book Review: Lord Brocktree
The book I’m reviewing is called “Lord Brocktree”. It is part of a brilliant series, written by someone called Brian Jacques. The series is called “Redwall“, and you learn what this is by reading all the books. I have read nearly all of them, as most are in the County Library. Instead of human characters, it’s about (please don’t laugh) animals, and it’s set
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