Art Club with Aoife
Art club is beginning again with Aoife in term 3. It is on every Monday for 10 weeks from the 17th of April. If you are in 1st-6th class and would like to come along to do painting, drawing, sewing, clay and printing, give a labelled envelope with 40e to Aoife O'Grady.
Book Week Shared Reading
We were so lucky this week to have Jacob's mam visit our room for shared reading! We read a book about an Irish Leprechaun and a book about Gaza in Palestine called 'Sitti's Bird' and learned about the author Malak Mattar. We enjoyed getting engrossed in the story.
Egyptian Canopic Jars
As part of our Egyptian theme, we created some amazing Egyptian canopic jars. We used the papier maché method using goop and newspaper. Firstly, we constructed the general shape of the jar we wanted using recyclable materials. Next, we created goop using flour and water and then dipped strips of newspaper into it. We wrapped this tightly around the structure. Have a look at our process!
Books Glorious Books!
We are so excited to be celebrating Book Week next week! We have lots of fun activities and events planned and we would love you to be part of the fun!
Shared Reading Day: Parents are invited into our school during the morning of Tuesday 28th February from 09:00 am - 10:00am to read a book to their child's class. Home languages are greatly encouraged! Please contact your child's class teacher if you are interested in coming in.
Book Fair: The book Fair is coming to our school from March 1st - 6th. You can browse the online catalogue here - https://bookfairs.scholastic.ie/travelling-books/the-books Children can bring in EXACT change to purchase a book during scheduled times during the school day or parents can pre-pay for books online at the following link: https://bookfairs.scholastic.ie/travelling-books/pay. Parents are also welcome to visit the fair daily during the times of 1:10pm - 1:40pm and 2:10 - 2:45pm. A significant percentage of sales is allocated to the school to purchase new books for our whole school library, every purchase is much appreciated.
Dress up as your favourite book character for World Book Day - March 2nd! Homemade costumes are encouraged!
Most unusual place I've read a book competition! Children are encouraged to email Darragh with a picture of them reading a book in the most unusual place to win a prize from the book fair! No reading spot too crazy, get entering by emailing a picture to darragh@powerstownet.com
We will have spot prizes from the Book Fair for enthusiasm, creativity and great efforts throughout Book Week! Happy reading!
Thanks for reading all of that and for making Book week so special this and every year. Really appreciate all your support and efforts to get children interested in reading. Any questions please let me know!
The English Committee!
Shared Reading Day: Parents are invited into our school during the morning of Tuesday 28th February from 09:00 am - 10:00am to read a book to their child's class. Home languages are greatly encouraged! Please contact your child's class teacher if you are interested in coming in.
Book Fair: The book Fair is coming to our school from March 1st - 6th. You can browse the online catalogue here - https://bookfairs.scholastic.ie/travelling-books/the-books Children can bring in EXACT change to purchase a book during scheduled times during the school day or parents can pre-pay for books online at the following link: https://bookfairs.scholastic.ie/travelling-books/pay. Parents are also welcome to visit the fair daily during the times of 1:10pm - 1:40pm and 2:10 - 2:45pm. A significant percentage of sales is allocated to the school to purchase new books for our whole school library, every purchase is much appreciated.
Dress up as your favourite book character for World Book Day - March 2nd! Homemade costumes are encouraged!
Most unusual place I've read a book competition! Children are encouraged to email Darragh with a picture of them reading a book in the most unusual place to win a prize from the book fair! No reading spot too crazy, get entering by emailing a picture to darragh@powerstownet.com
We will have spot prizes from the Book Fair for enthusiasm, creativity and great efforts throughout Book Week! Happy reading!
Thanks for reading all of that and for making Book week so special this and every year. Really appreciate all your support and efforts to get children interested in reading. Any questions please let me know!
The English Committee!
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Clay creations
Wormery update
We finished completing the artwork on our school wormery and it is finally set up for our lovely new worms to live in. Craig came in and taught us all about how to look after them. Thanks Craig!
Scientist caps on...
As part of science week we investigated how blubber and insulation works. We created our own gloves out of different materials and tested them out in icy water!
Printers at work!
Athletics with Ciarán - check out our skills!
Learning about trees
3rd class were very lucky this week when we had a special visitor in to talk to us about trees. We learned lots of new facts about trees. We then went outside to explore our natural environment!
We tried new fruits and veg as part of Food Dudes!
Skittles Experiment
As part of science week, we did lots of experiments. Here we investigated how colour travels through hot vs cold water.
Dress up day!
We had so much fun showing off our costumes for Dress Up Day! Check out our costumes.
Aurora Southern Lights art
As part of our Antarctica November theme, third class created some beautiful chalk pastel art. We created landscape artwork of the Southern lights. We learned about how it is created through the magnetic fields of the Earth and discovered new techniques for shading value and tone.
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Maths week fun
3rd class had loads of fun this week exploring maths through maths week. We went on a maths trail, went to the Estimation Station in the Geodome and took part in a capacity relay race challenge. We discovered a lot of maths in our environment!
Rowan and Redwood classes video call Seán Blake
We were so lucky this week when we got to do a video call with Seán Blake who previously worked with NASA. We learned so much and had endless questions to ask!
Baking Báirín Breac
Féach orainn ag bácáil báirín breac mar pháirt den Gaeilge a bhíomar ag foghlaim!
Look at us baking Barmbrack as part of the Gaeilge lessons we were learning.
Look at us baking Barmbrack as part of the Gaeilge lessons we were learning.
National Tree Day 2022
Amazing Artists; Tinfoil Printing in Redwood Class
Redwood class showed off their amazing printing skills this week using tinfoil to print. We coloured in tinfoil using water based markers, sprayed the tinfoil and then printed white paper on to the tinfoil. The wet ink transferred over to the paper. How amazing are these?!
Foam printing in Redwood Class!
Information Session - Tues 13th/ Wed 14th
We are delighted now that restrictions have lifted to be able to host the information sessions in person.
Redwood Class with Aoife will be on Tuesday 13th in Redwood Class.
Rowan Class with Darragh will be on Wednesday 14th in Rowan Class.
We are very excited to see you there.
Redwood Class with Aoife will be on Tuesday 13th in Redwood Class.
Rowan Class with Darragh will be on Wednesday 14th in Rowan Class.
We are very excited to see you there.
