Today we went to see Ms McGuire’s class do their play. It was called Humpty Dumpty and was very funny. Our favourite bit was when the organic sheep were dancing.

Winter Scenes

We made some Winter Scenes in November. First we painted the background to make it look like a Winter's Day. Then we made some clay objects such as animals, trees and caves. Next we used lots of different materials to add detail. Finally we wrote a description or a list of all the different things in our scenes
We then invited Ms Dillons class to come and see them.

Science Experiments

Here are some experiments we have done this year.

Lion in a Cage
Did you know your eyes can play tricks on you?
We put a picture of a lion on one side of a pencil and a picture of a cage on the other. When we spun it really fast, it looked like the lion was inside the cage.

Fizzy Rockets
We put a Vitamin C table and a little water into a tube. Then we put the lid on tight and turned it upside down. The tablet and the water started to fizz inside the tube releasing air. So much air was produced that it forced the tube to fly up in the air, just like a rocket!

Inflating Glove

This was a little like the Fizzy Rocket experiment, Except this time we used bread soda and vinger. We put some vinegar in a jar and bread soda into the fingers of a rubber glove and placed the glove over the jar. When we lifted up the fingers, the bread soda fell into the jar and mixed with the bread soda. The mixture began to fizzy producing air which inflated or blew up the glove.

Condensation and Evaporation

We found out that when we left a jar of water near the heater the water began to disappear. This is because the heat causes the water to evaporate into tiny droplets and rise up into the air.

Then we got two more jars of water and put some ice cubes into one. After a while we noticed that the outside of the jar with iced water was wet. This was because it made the water droplets in the air get cold and condense back into water drops on the glass.

This is what happens in the Water Cycle. Water evaporates up into the sky from puddles, rivers, lakes and streams when the sun heats it. But when the droplets get high up, they get cold and join together forming clouds. As they get colder more drops join together getting heavier before falling to the ground as raindrops.

Bug Man

Earlier this year we had a visit from the Bug Man. We got to see and touch lots of exciting animals

We saw some giant snails,

some millipedes,

a snake and lots more. Michal even became a rat, but luckily the snake didn't get him :)

We read the story Fionn and the Dragon this month. Afterwards we all picked our favourite scene and drew a picture of it. Then we were able to put them together to tell the story again.
Fionn was the leader of the Fianna, Ireland’s army thousands of years ago. We’ve been reading other stories about all his famous deeds.

Here we are practising our number bonds and number recognition

September

In September, while we had the lovely weather, we went on a trip to the beach. We had a great time collecting shells such as mussells and periwinkles and we even managed to find some crabs.

Lots of us worked together to make some fantastic sandcastles with huge forts surrounding them.

On the way home we practised our balancing. We got all the way along :)

Science Exhibition and Maths Trail

We had lots of fun today!! First, this morning, we had a visit from a fantastic scientist (he was so good some of us thought he was a magician at first!!!) There was lots of bangs and even a few fireballs to mesmerize us.

Later on we went on a Maths Trail around the school. Using the Maths we learnt this year, we worked in teams and found the answers.

Treasure Hunt

We went on a Shape Treasure Hunt with Ms Dillions class and found lots of shapes. Can you name the shapes we found?