Great News! We are finalists!

You will see below in a previous post that we took part in Mr. Tizzy Top's Carnival with Margaret from Garbo Productions. We enjoyed a drama workshop and also made our own carnival games in preparation for the workshop. Each class made a game from recycled materials and we are finalists.
13 finalists will launch Eco Week in April and the 2 overall winning classes will be announced on the day.
We are delighted all our hard work paid off and we are very proud of our carnival games - 'The Fox Game' and 'Gobble Ball'. Please see the previous post as we are looking for parents to let us know if you are available to accompany our class representatives in April. Have a look at our two games  .

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Ms. McDonagh's Class Pizza Making!

We went to Milanos last month! We had a great time and were chefs for the day. Have a look at the photos from our day out and we wrote about our day too! Enjoy!

Parents needed please!!

Great news!! Both second classes have been chosen as finalists in the S.D.C.C. 'Mr.Tizzy Top Carnival Game' competition. Our Mr. Fox game and Gobble Ball really impressed the judges in the County Council.

Two children from each class have been asked to represent our games on Monday, April 20th in Tallaght from 9.30 am-12 pm. They will have to explain and demonstrate the games to the South County Mayor!

We are looking for parents to let us know if they are available that day as the children must be accompanied by a parent or teacher.

Please write in homework journals next week if you are willing and available to bring your child to the venue on the day and we will pick names out of a hat!!

Well done to the boys again!

BINGO!

Easter Bingo is on tomorrow!! Please remember your €2.

Good luck everybody!

Short story competition results are in!!!

Congratulations to Dylan and Tiaan who won the short story competition!! Read below to see how much work they put into their entries!!!

Keep up the great writing everybody!!!

subtraction

 

We are learning about subtraction at the moment and are working hard to get our heads around the idea of 'regrouping' or 'borrowing'...

We regroup or borrow in subtraction when the number we are subtracting in the units column is greater than the number of units above it. We say, "If there's more on the floor, then GO NEXT DOOR!"

In the Irish Primary Curriculum, the children in 2nd class are expected to be able to "subtract numbers without and with renaming within 99." They are also expected to be able to conduct "written calculations after plenty of practical and mental calculations."

The links to the games below may help reinforce what we are learning about in class.

Links to subtraction games
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fruitshoot/fruitshoot_subtraction.htm
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/subtraction-games.html
http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/subtraction-regrouping.html
http://www.softschools.com/math/subtraction/3_digit_subtraction/3_digit_subtraction_with_regrouping/
http://www.softschools.com/math/subtraction/2_digit_subtraction/2_digit_subtraction_with_regrouping/

Juanita Browne visits the library!

We had a tremendously busy week this week! On Wednesday Ms.Fannin's class went to the library to listen to author Juanita Browne talk about her published books. She has written many books but wanted to talk to us specifically about her book about Irish mammals. This was perfect timing because we have just finished our class novel, 'Fantastic Mr.Fox' and as we all know, foxes are Irish mammals!

short story competition

As part of World Book Week, we are writing a short story for a school competition! This will be the main part of the homework over the next few days and can be on any topic, in any genre and based on any time period! It is due on Friday.

The boys have been doing a lot of free writing in class, getting used to forming sentences and learning how to start and end a tale. All of this writing practice will come in handy for the competition.

We are beginning to talk about showing and not telling in writing. For example, good writers don't just tell us it is cold, they show us how cold it is by describing the frost on the ground and the way that you can see your breath on the air etc...

We will be doing little writing workshops during the week which may also help with their story writing.

Have fun!

Trip to Milanos!!

On Wednesday the 25th February, we were going to Milanos. I woke up in excitement, happy as ever. We went to school and did our Mental Maths. Then, in 10 minutes we went to Milanos. I went in the principal's car! There were 2 front seats, 3 backs seats and 2 special very back seats. When we finally made it, we teamed up together to go to inside with Linda and Ms.Fannin. We got escorted upstairs and we got to meet the manager. He let us meet the chef too. Then he asked us to wash our hands and gave us an apron and a hat. They all had numbers, I was number 5. We went to the biggest table. The chef, Lolo poured flour to put the dough on it and then some on the top. Then we started to push the sides down. We pushed the middle down and it got longer. Wen it was long enough we started to pour the flour on the bottom of it. Then we used a rolling pin to flatten the pizza. We then got a spoon to mix the tomato sauce. We got cheese to put on the pizza. As we were waiting for our takeaway pizzas, he asked us questions about things he had told us earlier. Then we got out pizzas and a leaflet and we got to keep the hats. What a jolly day!! - Robert Kevitt.

Garbo productions comes to visit!

We had so much fun on Friday when Garbo Productions came to visit us! Before Margaret came in, we had to make carnival games out of recycled materials. We then used these to help poor Mr.Tizzy Top save the Moppets Carnival from Wizard DarkWad! We learned that litter picking is part of being a good citizen!!

Floating and Sinking

As part of our learning about Columbus, we investigated floating and sinking. We were all given a ball of modelling clay and asked to build a boat that would hold marble 'passengers' for a voyage!

Everybody made their boats and then we experimented to see which boats sank (like Columbus' ship the Santa Maria)and which boats floated. We sorted them into two groups.

The successful boats then had to compete with one another to see which of them would stay afloat the longest with marble 'passengers' aboard!

Daniel won the boat modelling competition in Ms. Fannin's class, well done Daniel!! Also, thank you Odhran for being cameraman on the day!

Shane won the boat modelling competition in Ms. McDonagh's class, well done Shane! We all tried again and had some more success!

Valentine's Day Art