The girls and boys in 3rd and 4th class have been super busy from Halloween to Christmas. In Gaeilge, we have been looking at the theme of An Scoil and learning lots of vocabulary around this theme. We have been singing songs and practicing poems in this subject too. In the last week, we have been looking at An Nolliag, learning lots of Christmas vocabulary, alongside making Irish Christmas cards.
In English we focused on persausive and narrative writing. We discussed the impact of advertising slogans and jingles on our purchases and completed our own persausive ads, trying to convince people to buy ROBOTS. We also composed our own Christmas stories through narrative writing.
In maths, we have been focusing on multiplication and I am proud of how the boys and girls have mastered this. We have engaged in lots of maths games and hands-on activities to come to grips with this topic. We used our ‘maths bags’ to figure out some Christmas themed problems.
For Science Week in November, we looked at Light and Sound and we experimented with reflections in mirrors and identified sounds solely by listening. We learned about the science of how we hear sounds with our ears.
We learned lots of interesting facts about our county and country in Geography. In History , we looked at Games and Pastimes in the past compared to nowadays, completing interviews with our parents and grandparents to explore this. We learned about the history of Christmas and traditions around the world.
In S.P.H.E., we have focused on the negative effects of smoking and also the importance of personal hygiene for our wellbeing.
In religion, we have been focusing on the theme of Advent and Christmas.
In Art, we completed drawings of local buildings, made clay decorations and elf door hangers and entered the Monaghan Shopping Centre Christmas colouring competion.
We have been busy practising for and taking part in our Christmas play ‘No One Wraps Like an Elf’. We have fantastic actors, singers and dancers in our class! They put on a fabulous performance in Lisdoonan Hall!
We took part in Friendship Day, the M.S. Readathon, Crazy Hair Day and also had a visit from Santa.
Well Done Boys and Girls on a fantastic term! Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year to everyone!!
