More Volcanic Eruptions

This is what happened when we mixed baking powder and vinegar! Have a look!

Time

We will be working on time soon. We will put links to any nice games to work on time at home here. We will be revising 'o'clock' and 'half past' and working on 'quarter past' and 'quarter to'. Best way of course is to have a look at the clock at home and keep practising reading the time!

Another great game!

Click here for a Time game!

Clock Works

Primary Games- Time

This game is more difficult. If you know how to read all the different times you could try this one. It is challenging!
Bang on Time

Pen pals

Exciting News!! We are going to be pen pals with the 2nd class girls in Scoil Naomh Pádraig! Over the next few months we will be practising our letter writing skills and enjoying the experience of 'receiving mail' in school!

The boys have penned a first draft of their letters today in school but will need them to be tidied up and added to at home. Perhaps their second drafts could be written on nice writing paper and put into an envelope? Or maybe the boys would like to decorate their letter and make it as presentable and colourful as possible?! There is no need to affix a stamp as they will be hand-delivered by the teachers to ensure safe delivery!!

And, Ms. McDonagh's class have written their first draft today. We will be doing our final draft at home on Thursday. You can get your envelopes ready!

Experiment - Diet Coke and Mentos Eruption

What an exciting experiment we did today! Have a look at the photos to see what we did! We have to draw a labelled diagram of what we did and what happened tonight for homework. These photos will help!

Click to view them as a slideshow!

Interview for the scrapbook

The latest piece for the Communion scrapbook is an interview to be conducted with someone who has made their First Holy Communion.

Because today is Grandparents' Day, we suggested that the boys do this interview with Granny or Grandad!

The second page should have a photo or drawing of this person on their communion day.

Happy Grandparents' Day!!

Bottle top appeal

Hi there,

A couple of 5th class boys came into our room today to tell us about a lady who badly needs a wheelchair and can't afford to buy one.

They are endeavouring to collect as many bottle caps as they can so that they can exchange them for money in a recycling centre. They are appealing to us to bring them into school over the next few weeks.

Please take them off milk cartons, water bottles, orange juice bottles etc...and bring them into school!

Let's support our 5th class boys and this lady who they want to help.

Kindest regards,
2nd class.

Comprehension strategy - Prediction

A strategy is a plan. When footballers are playing a match they have a strategy in place, they have a plan of action. Good readers have a plan when they read as well.

One of the strategies we have been learning about this is predicting. Predicting is when we think about what might happen next in a story. We use the title, pictures, our prior knowledge and the information the author gives us as clues to make a good guess about what the story might be about or what might happen next. We can make predictions before reading, during our reading and after reading.

If we make predictions about the story we want to find out what is going to happen and check if our predictions were right. We know that our predictions will not always be right and that is okay.

This is our hand signal that we are going to use in school when we have a prediction to make. We can use it at home too when we are reading. We make the letter P with our hands.