Miss Costello's First Class

Drama in Scoil Chaitriona Junior

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Bubble Video - Bubble Man Come to School

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Bubble Man Creating Bubbles

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Video of Smoke Filled Bubble in a Bubble

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Bubble Magic Man Comes To Scoil Chaitriona Junior

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WE had great fun during Science Week. We did lots of experiments and some people came to our school. Here is Steven, 'The Bubble Magic Man.'

Bubble Magic Man

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Bubble Magic Man

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Designing Bridges - Science Week

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Designing Bridges - Science Week

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Rocket Launch video

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Rocket Launch

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Paper Helicopter Video

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Paper helicopters

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Science - Making Paper Helicopters

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Spooky Spiders

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Delicious Healthy Fruit Salad

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Fruit Salads

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Yum yum, sandwich making time.

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Instructions-making sandwiches

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Autumn Pictures

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Printing fruits

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painting in Room 15

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guess who

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Autumn paintings

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printing with autumn fruits

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Skipping in Scoil Chaitríona Junior

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Skip Hop Comes Back to Scoil Chaitríona Junior

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RTE symphony orchestra

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Skip hop in Scoil Chaitríona Junior

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Skip hop came to our school. We learned lots of new tricks including double dutch, backwards, crossing arms, jumping, skipping with partners, using the long rope and many more. We had a fantastic time!

Skip Hop comes to Scoil Chaitriona Junior

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Skipping in Scoil Chaitriona Junior

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Christmas Art

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Santa Letters

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In Literacy, we wrote letters to Santa. We then went for a walk to the post office to send the letters.

Santa actually wrote back to us. It was very exciting.

carols

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christmas play

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christmas show

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An Aimsir

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Electricity Show

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Electricity Show

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Mirror Writing

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When white light meets a shiny surface like a mirror, it bounces off it and is reflected back.

All of the letters in ‘CHOICE DICE’ are symmetrical (top to bottom).

When you look in the mirror the top of your picture becomes the bottom and vice versa. This makes it very difficult to drawa around, especially when you change direction..

Witches Walk

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Science - levers

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A lever is basically just a long stick that you push or pull against a fulcrum to move something. A lever helps you move something heavy, or make something go fast.

When you push or pull one part of a lever you make a push or pull on another part in the opposite direction

Making Helicopters - Science - Forces

2010-11-09T21:24:00.000Z

In this activity children explore how some things fall and how varying the size of the

rotor blades, the shape of the rotor blades and the weight of a paper helicopter affect

the way a helicopter spins

Halloween Art

2010-11-09T21:13:00.000Z

Here is some of our Halloween Art.

We had great fun making our scarey pictures and spooky spiders for our glitter webs.

Planting daffodils

2010-11-09T21:12:00.000Z

We are in charge of the garden and plants this week.

We use a trowel to dig a hole in the ground. We plant the bulb with the root going downwards. We must plant it deep into the soil so it will survive the winter weather.

Making rice-crispy buns

2010-11-09T21:07:00.001Z

In school we made rice-crispy buns. We looked at melting - solids and liquids - in science. In literacy we wrote using instructional writing frames. We enjoyed making the buns and we LOVED eating them and licking the spoon and bowls.

YUM YUM - RICE CRISPY BUNS

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Autumn Walk - looking at leaves

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An Acorn

We saw the truck sweeping up the leaves. Wet leaves on the road can be dangerous - especially for the postman on his bike!!!

Collecting Leaves

Autumn Walks - looking at leaves

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We studied the different types of leaves. When we went back to our class we did leaf rubbings.

We found helicopters!!

Our School Garden

2010-11-09T20:49:00.000Z

We have moved our school garden to a more sheltered area for the winter months. We looked at the different tools that we will be using for planting and looking after our garden.

BABARO

2010-11-09T20:47:00.000Z

We had an amazing time at Babaro's Children Festival. Everyone really enjoyed Echoa. There was lots of music, dance and laughter. The light show was fasinating!! We made a book about our favourite parts of the show. Everyone liked different things. We talked about what we liked and why.

Babaro - A trip to the show ECHOA

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Our Trip to Babaro - Echoa

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"Celery Science"

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This experiment demonstrates how water moves though plants and teaches the children what a "control" is in any experiment.

Static Spinning Straws

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Rubbing the straw makes it negatively charged and this induces a positive charge in your hand. The attraction between the straw and your hand makes the straw follow your hand as you move it.

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Free Myspace Generators

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Halloween Countdowns

Playing in the park

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We love going on the flying fox - WEEEE!!

Hold on tight!

AGHHHH!!!

Safe and Sound - back on the ground!!!

Push me higher!!!!!

How many of us can fit on this swing?

A trip to the park

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We had great fun playing on the bars and ropes.

Yipee - I'm going on the flying fox!!

We enjoy playing on the swings.

Climbing the rope ladders is great fun!!

How high can I climb?

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Our Trip to the Park

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Welcome to First Class

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To All the boys and girls who have joined first class this year - WELCOME!!! We are going to have great fun... We will be doing lots of work this year but along with work, we will enjoy being creative by doing lots of art and crafts, we will play games in PE and go to the park, we will investigate and enjoy doing experiments in Science and we will have fun performing in our drama classes. I am looking forward to it, I hope you are too!!!!

Happy Holidays

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Best wishes to all the children who are moving to the senior side. I had a great year with you and ye all did really well in second class. I hope you have fantastic holidays and I look forward to you coming back to visit to tell me all about them. If you want copies of the photos and videos that we took throughout the year, please bring in a memory key and I will transfer them for you. Happy and safe holidays. See you all in September. XX

pet day in our school

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Pet day at our school

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Pet day in our school

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Pet day in our school

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Pet Day

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Today, we were very lucky. People from pet world came to visit us. They brought animals to our school. It was very interesting. We saw a rabbit, a guinea pig, a snake and a bearded Dragon. We learned how to look after pets. We also got to feel the different animals. Here are some pictures of the animals we saw. Thank you to all at petworld. Bearded Dragon Guinea Pig White Rabbit Snake

Flying Fox

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Recycling in Scoil Chaitriona

2010-06-01T23:05:00.002+01:00

We watched the new recycling bins being brought to the school.

Flying fox

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Children Playing

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Recently the weather has been lovely. To celebrate finishing our end of year tests, we went to the park to celebrate. Here are some photos of us playing.

Fancy Dress - Exploring other cultures

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Recycling in Scoil Chaitriona

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Photos preparing for our communion

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Here is a photo of our First Holy Communion

growing beans

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Volcanoes

2010-04-25T23:42:00.001+01:00

In Science this week, we made volcanoes. We learned about the different features of a volcano and we enjoyed watching them erupt!

More Volcanoes

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playing in the snow

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Gardening

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Runner Beans

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Runner beans

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Planting runner beans.

Solving Maths Problems

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Here are some strategies we use to help us solve number probems.

Winter Art

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We learned about penguins and other animals that live in polar regions. We made information books about penguins, polar bears and icebergs.

In report writing we used:

Title

Introduction Setting the Scene

Paragraphs We used sub-heading and started each one with a sentence about the topic.

Diagrams and charts

Conclusion we summed up what we wrote

Glossary

Blurb.

We know when writing reports that we must always write in the Present Tense.

We used detailed descriptions

We always write in the 3rd person

We used facts and examples

We tried to vary our sentence structure.

Here are pictures of our penguin information books and the winter display.

SPHE - Chinese New Year

2010-04-15T11:24:00.005+01:00

We learned about China and how people celebrate Chinese New Year. We made Chinese New Year Lanterns and created information books to teach people about the country of China.

Click on the links to find more art and crafts to make to celebrate Chinese New Year.

gardening

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Garden

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Our New Garden

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mothers day

2010-03-20T23:22:00.003Z

For mother's day we knit purses for our mums and we made cards to say thank you for everything that they do for us. Mum, we hope you like them.. We only have a small selection of photos here because most of the children took them home to look after them before mother's day. Hopefully, we will do more knitting later on during the year.

mothers day

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Mothers Day

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St Patricks Day parade in Renmore

2010-03-20T23:12:00.003Z

Thank you to all in the senior side for inviting us to watch your wonderful parade in Renmore. We really enjoyed it!!!

St Patricks Day

2010-03-20T23:07:00.002Z

We had a great time watching our past pupils (Scoil Chaitríona Snr) performing in the Renmore version of the St. Patricks Day parade. They were fantastic!!! Thank you so much for inviting us to watch ye.

cold weather

2010-03-20T22:24:00.002Z

Recently it was very cold in Galway. We decided to check which were the best materials for keeping us warm. We did experiments to test the best insulators. http://www.kids-science-experiments.com/insulators.htm Here is a picture of a thermometer: We covered jars in cotton material, paper, tin foil and we didn't cover one jar. In our experiments we discovered that the jar covered in tinfoil remained the warmest for the longest time. Here are some photos of us playing in the snow!!!

Christmas Baking

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Christmas Baking

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Our Autumn Walks

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We went on an Autumn Walk to learn more about our locality. We collected different types of leaves and we used them in our art lessons. Here is a website that we used to learn more about Autumn Leaves: http://www.kidzone.ws/plants/ Here are some photos of our Autumn Walk. We noticed that the leaves on the tress have changed colours. Some of the leaves have fallen off the trees.

Some of the children brought clip boards with them. They were then able to record different things that they saw. They were able to shade over the leaves with pencils and they compared the leaves that they found with pictures of leaves from our work book.

We enjoyed working with our partners, we collected many different types of leaves.

Here is a picture of some of the children in our class enjoying their nature walk.

Making Sandwiches

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We made sandwiches in our class and then we wrote out recipes using our Instructional Writing skills.

This is a ham and butter sandwich made from brown bread.

We really enjoyed our delicious, healthy sandwiches!!!

Some people chose to make blackcurrent and butter sandwiches.

This is a healthy tomato and cheese sandwich.

We spread the butter or mayonaise onto the bread using a knife.

The children cut their sandwiches using a sharp knife. But we were very careful!!!

YUM YUM-Tasty Tomato Sandwiches!!!

Don't forget to eat the crusts!!! That's the healthiest part of the bread!!!

Thumbs UP!!! WELL DONE rang a Dó!!! A delicious, healthy lunch for everyone!!!

We wrote up the instructions for making Healthy Sandwiches. We know the features of instructional texts...

We remember to have a title, to write down our ingredients (what we need), the method (what to do), we use numbers to mark each step and each instruction starts with a verb.

We always include a diagram / picture and it is handy to leave a tip for people who will be following our instructions eg. Get an adult to help with cutting when using a sharp knife!!

Here is a website to help you with writing instructions:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/writing/instructions/play.shtml