The Polar Express

We boarded the polar express on the 21st and took our seats. The train pulled off at 9.30a.m.. Ms. O'Malleys went throgh the carriage giving out drinks and treats. We had good fun in our jimjams for the day!!



christmas celebration

We practised very hard for our Christmas celebration. We sang songs and recited poems and it was a great success.

Christmas plate art

Of course Santa needs his food left out Christmas Eve night and we made these lovely Christmas plates to leave his mince pies on!!!

More creativity

We really were all busy during the lead up to Christmas. Jillian made this lovely Christmas cottage, Emily D made a moving santa and Zara made a Christmas angel.

Creative Anna

Look what Anna was busy at home making this week

Travel Action Day

What a busy day we had on Friday. Because it was travel action day, all our activities for that day were based around the travel topic.

We came to school by balloon, wrote acrostic poems about traveling to school, did the dance moves for the safe cross code along with a travel safety talk by Garda Emma. Anna Fa and Emily Ha went to a Bicycle Maintenance workshop with Wollingworth bikes and relayed all the information back to us.
We had a great and busy day!! check out some of the pictures and a video from the day.

                                    




SAM 5240 from Lorraine O'Malley on Vimeo.

art in response to our novel

We finished up our novel recently and the children drew the owl family in the tree to complete our scheme of work. Look at us concentrating hard on our drawings!

counties of Ireland

click on the picture to play a game

try this other game as well!--------->
or try the website below

Ordnance Survey Ireland

all about Ireland

Rabbit and Hare facts

 Here are some links to help you with your homework tonight. Click on the tabs below. Have fun researching!

facts about hares
facts about rabbits
facts about rabbits and hares

Maths games

Have a read of this to give you a clearer understanding of decimals. Understanding Decimals


Try these decimals game:

Game 1:Click on this picture and it will take you to "Fruit shoot" game. Have a go at level one!

 Game 2: What decimal number is being illustrated? Click on the picture to play the game?Time yourself, how quick are you?

Game 3:
Click on the picture to play the ordering game
  Pick the game that says "Decimals Tenths"                 Click "Decimals 0.1 to 9.9"                               

                                                                

Tom Crean and the Antartica

Click on the picture to test your knowledge of the Antartacia

 

 

Explore the sights and sounds of Antarctica through this excellent interactive website. Click here

 

Print off one of these activities and have a try! Frozen Fun!

Read a short piece of information about Tom Crean.
Click on the picture to read all about him and see can you answer these questions:
1. How many expeditions did Tom Crean did part in?
2.What age was Crean when he joined the Royal Navy?
3.Where was Tom Crean moored when he met Scott?
4. Crean had to return to the base camp to get help for his sick friends. Approximately how long was he walking for?
5. Where is Tom Crean buried?

Heres some video clips about Tom Crean and his adventures. These are the youtube clips that wouldn't upload in class!!!!!

Dráma-Lá sa pháirc

Éist leis na cailíní ag déanamh drámaí beag bunaithe ar "Lá sa Pháirc"

listen to ‘Gaeilge 9’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gaeilge 8’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gaeilge 5’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gaeilge 4’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gaeilge3’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gaeilge 2’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gaeilge’ on Audioboo

extract readings

We split up into groups of 3 and read an extract from the novel. Have a listen to use reading with expression. Can you recognise our voices?

listen to ‘Group 9’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Group 8’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Group 7’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Group 6’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Group5’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Group4’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Group3’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Group 2’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Chapter 1 group 1’ on Audioboo

Multiplication game

Now that we have done our 2 times, 5 times, 10times tables we should be able to have a go at this game. Click on the trees of the multiplication tables we have done.

The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark

Now that we have finished our first novel of the year, we are going to be talking about it and recapping on it for the next week or so. Here are some audio clips of the novel being read for you. These may be nice listen to and to hear a different voice reading the story!


What was your favourtie or least favourite part of the story? Comment below

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Part 4


Part 5

Halloween Art

Here is a small glimpse of some of our art work.

 

Dress up day for Barnardos

We had a great last day before the Midterm Break. We all dressed up in aid of the charity called Barnardos. The school raised so far €1100. Happy Midterm break everyone.

 

    some of the teachers looking great!

Is that Ms. McGowan??

Spooktacular music

We created soundtracks for horror movies today. We listened to a piece of music that was on a scary movie and we discussed what each instrument may have been used to stand for. We then split into groups and created our own piece of music for a scary movie. We had a lot of fun in our groups and made lots of noise!! Listen to our pieces of music and hopefully you won't get scared!

SAM 5007 from Lorraine O'Malley on Vimeo.

SAM 5005 from Lorraine O'Malley on Vimeo.

The Salmon of Knowledge

 We read and studied the legend of The Salmon of Knowledge in History. We then created comic strips to depict the story