Seachtain na Gaeilge takes place from 1st-17th March 2022 this year! We really made a big effort to use as many of our Irish phrases and vocabulary each day in class. We would like to thank Muireann who we linked up with through ‘Crowdcast’ and enjoyed an interactive bilingual session with, on Wednesday 9th March. We got dancing and learned some new Irish phrases too!! Thank-You to Monaghan County Library for putting us in touch!
Big Houses of Monaghan
Today we had an interactive lesson using Google Teams, with Pauline Tilson, who works for the Monaghan County Museum. We learned lots of very interesting facts about Hope Castle, Castle Leslie and Hillton House, to name a few of our local places of interest. We also had the chance to ask Pauline any questions we had. The boys and girls really came up with some very clever questions for Pauline. Well done!!
‘Pizza Perfect’
We had great fun today, listening to and following instructions in order to make and cook our Perfect Pizzas!! Our favourite part was definitely eating our lovely pizza creations. A big thank you to our teachers who organised this for us!!
1st and 2nd Class spread love and kindness for Christmas 2021
We contacted Carepack a few weeks ago as we wanted to make a difference to the lives of nursing home residents this Christmas. Through Carepack we got 22 names of nursing home residents one of which was given to each child in the class. When the children were given their names they then went shopping with their parents to buy a special gift for their resident.
The children were so amazing. They bought the most incredible gifts and some of them even made their own by drawing pictures and placing them in frames so that their resident could have them forever. The children also designed their own cards and wrote heartfelt wishes and messages.
Participating in Carepack this year was wonderful. It spread so much love and joy in our classroom and made the children more aware of the gift of giving and the real difference it makes to the lives of others.
The entire school community are so proud of all the children in 1st and 2nd class and want to say thank you to their parents too who helped them to be creative and heartfelt in their gift giving.
Happy Christmas from 1st and 2nd Class.
Food Dudes
Food Dudes is an award winning curriculum-linked evidence-based healthy eating programme, developed to encourage children to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables. It is based on repeated tastings of fresh fruit and vegetables, rewards and positive role models.
The boys and girls were delighted to take part again this year, and enjoyed plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. Well done everyone!
Visit from Santa 2021
We were very lucky on Monday 13th December to have a visit from the one-and-only Santa Claus. The children got to tell Santa what they want for Christmas, and received a beautiful photo and gift. What a special start to the week!
Thank you to our Parent’s Association for making it all possible!
1st and 2nd Class are ready for their Christmas Performance 2021
We had such great fun in our classroom preparing for our Christmas performance of ‘The Grinch who stole Christmas’. We worked so hard learning our lines, songs and dance routines and we were eagerly waiting for December 8th for our individual chance to shine. We got into the Christmas spirit for our special day by wearing our Christmas jumpers and accessories. Didn’t we look just fabulous?
We shone like the bright stars we are and we are so proud of ourselves.
Teacher said she is so proud of us too. We were so tired after all the hard work and excitement that we just had to take a well deserved rest!
We can’t wait for our parents to see the DVD.
December in 1st and 2nd Class
We decided to begin the month of December by allowing our creativity shine through. We all love being creative in 1st and 2nd class. We did some Christmas art. We made the most wonderful Snowman collage. It wasn’t easy because we had to cut out big and small pieces of coloured paper to add to our collages. The buttons for the snowman and the Christmas lights were the most difficult but we really enjoyed our art lesson. We are so excited for December and all the fun things we will do and learn in school in the lead up to Christmas!
Toy Show Day in 1st and 2nd Class
We ended November with such great excitement. We had a Toy Show Day on Friday the 26th November in our class. We learned and sang some songs from the Lion King. Teacher read us the story of A Hug For You by David King as she wanted to share with us how and where the journey of Adam’s virtual hug began. It was a cold day so teacher also gave us a treat of Hot Chocolate.
You will see from our faces that is was just delicious!
Halloween 2021 in 1st and 2nd Class
We had so much fun dressing up for Halloween, just look at our costumes! Don’t we all look fabulous?
What a great way to end our first eight weeks in 1st and 2nd Class. We have worked so hard and look forward to being back at school after our break for more learning and fun-filled activities.
Happy Halloween from all the boys and girls in 1st and 2nd Class!
