Every Monday, the Red reading group from First Class come to Caitriona's room to do work from their dictionaries. We have learned that the dictionary has lots of words in it and it can be very helpful to look up words that you don't know or don't know how to spell. You can have dictionaries in different languages. We looked up new words in our dictionaries and put the words into sentences. Last week we prepared stories using new words. We are proud of our stories! Kitchen Work by Adam … [Read more...]
€1000 Raised for MS Ireland
December 17, 2010 By
A huge THANK YOU and WELL DONE to all those who took part in the MS Readathon this year. Together you raised €1000 which goes to helping people living with MS. Not only did we have a great time reading lots of books and raising money for a great cause, we now get to spend €100 (10% of what we raised) on books for our school library as a thank you gift from MS Ireland! … [Read more...]
Jack Frost
December 10, 2010 By
This week First class have been learning a new winter poem. It is called “Jack Frost was in the Garden” by John P. Smeeton. We have been learning how to say the poem off by heart using interesting voices. We acted out the poem in groups and drew pictures of our favourite part of the poem. Here is the poem, I hope you enjoy reading it. Jack Frost was in the Garden Jack Frost was in the garden; I saw him there at dawn; He was dancing round the bushes And prancing on the lawn. He had … [Read more...]
Super-safety conscious children!
December 10, 2010 By
A huge well done to Molly in First Class who spotted a puddle at her class' cloakroom today, left from some wet boots this morning! She went straight to get paper towels to wipe it up in case it caused an accident! Well done Molly! … [Read more...]
First Class Stories!
December 10, 2010 By
Three children from First Class worked hard on these First Class Stories today! They picked out four tricky words each and then turned them into a story. Molly and Ella's Story "I'm going to the library with all my friends" said Emily. "I cant wait because I want to pick a nice book with long pages. The book that I want to get is called Chestnuthill." "Yippee!" said all her friends. "There are ponies in Chestnuthill. Outside there are lots of little ponies and big ponies that … [Read more...]
Animal Projects
November 26, 2010 By
There was great excitement in First Class this week as we began our very first projects. We all chose an animal we would like to research and began searching for information books in our library. Some children went on the internet with an adult at home to get more information on their animal. Using the information we found during our research we began writing the drafts of our projects. We will be publishing our projects next week and we are looking forward to showing our brilliant work to … [Read more...]
How are you feeling?
November 19, 2010 By
This week in First Class we have been talking about feelings. We talked about the different kinds of feelings we can have; sometimes we feel sad and other times we feel happy. We talked about times when we can feel angry or scared. We we very lucky because everyone was very honest when we were discussing our feelings so now we know that it's okay to feel the way we're feeling. We decided that it's good to talk about how we feel because everyone has feelings. We played some games about … [Read more...]
Exploring Colour in First Class
November 12, 2010 By
Today in first class we discussed our favourite colours. We talked about how colours make us feel and what words we could use to describe them; blue makes us feel cold and pink is fluffy, red makes us feel sporty and black is hard. We also experimented with a special kind of painting. We mixed icing sugar and water and put it on our pages. Then we dropped drops of paint on the wet paper. The colours moved out and mixed together making cool colours and designs. … [Read more...]
Farm Friends
November 12, 2010 By
It was a cloudy evening. The stars were coming out and the moon was in the sky. All of the little farm animals were snuggling up with their mammies and daddies. The fox was looking for his dinner but the hen and the duck managed to escape. The cow and the sheep got into a fight. Then the wolf tried to eat all of the little animals. The mouse was looking for cheese but the slugs scrumbled them up. The ant got safely home. The pig saw the mouse and he chased him. In the … [Read more...]
Fionn and the Dragon
November 5, 2010 By
This week, First class have been learning about the story of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Dragon. We imagined we were brave warriors in the Fianna and we got to touch the dragon while he was asleep in his cave. Today, we talked about how the dragon felt and how we could draw the different textures. Some dragons are spiky, some are scaly, others are lumpy and more are hairy. We started making our dragons using the textures we drew and our magical dragons will be sleeping in our classroom next … [Read more...]
