The children have been reading “War Children” as part of the Library initiative ‘One Book, One County’. They have found it very interesting and have enjoyed reading each of the short stories.
Today, they were visited by the library and had the opportunity to make their very own Stop Motion Lego Movies based on a scene from the book.
A great opportunity for some active learning. The children were enthusiastic and seemed to love every minute. Books really do fuel imagination!
This month we have been focusing on persuasive writing. After learning about how to write using persuasive language, the boys and girls designed their own brochures to persuade families to go on a ‘Winter Retreat’. The children really enjoyed this activity and produced some excellent writing.
The children also shared some of their ideas in the ‘Reader’s Chair’.
During October 2019, we commenced something new in our classroom called Reader’s Theatre!
In order to develop fluency and allow the children the chance to focus on their reading tone, changing their voice for different characters their reading pace and also their eye contact, children pick a paragraph of writing of their choice(e.g. Poem, Favourite Story, Piece from a Magazine or Comic) to read for the class. The children have a week to practice a piece(chosen on Monday)and then read for the class in Reader’s Theatre (on the Friday).
Four pupils take part in Reader’s Theatre per week. The children are really enjoying their time in Reader’s Theatre and it is fantastic to listen to them perfecting their reading skills, using their own chosen material. Well done boys and girls! Keep up the great work!
All the infants have been working really hard on learning their nursery rhymes over the last few months both at school and at home. They impressed us all as they chanted their 8 rhymes from the start of the year and so successfully passed their very first 8 rhyme challenge in their new classes!
Well done everyone!!
Art has been very exciting over the last few weeks especially when the boys and girls experimented with clay! What masterpieces they moulded when the most amazing prickly hedgehogs emerged from their creative work.
Junior and Senior Infants have been very busy since settling into school. Senior infants enjoyed making lots of different patterns. Junior infants loved making their new numbers with playdough.
This year we were ‘SPOOKTACULARLY’ busy in Mrs Mc Guirk’s classroom. We created many pieces of art which can be seen below in our gallery. We played Irish games and sang Irish Songs for ‘Oíche Shamhna’. We created some lovely ‘Cat agus Frámaí Oíche Shamnha’. Our maths lesson included Halloween addition and roll the dice to make the pumpkin. We looked at Acrostic Poems and Mrs. Mc Guirk was delighted with the creativity shown by her pupils when they wrote some of their own. We learned about Halloween Safety in S.P.H.E. and also learned about the History of Halloween in History! In music, we practised our moves to some Halloween Songs. We enjoyed playing lots of Halloween games like ‘Bob the apple’ and ‘Snatch the Apple’. We also kept active by getting involved in an active Halloween themed event as part of our Active School and Health Promoting School campaign!!
Pictures of our active event can be seen on our Active Flag Page.
At the end of the day, we also got to make ourselves a little Halloween Treat to take home!
We got active for our Health Promoting Schools Campaign on Thursday 24th October 2019. We looked terrifyingly good as we did our various circuits.
Well done everyone for your participation and a huge thank you to all our active leaders for leading the events.
And the winners are…
