Happy Christmas Everyone!

Happy Christmas from Room 15!

All wrapped up!

This week we have been making lollipop stick presents. It has taken us a few days but we don't mind because everyone in our class loves art. First we stuck the lollipop sticks onto some red cardboard. The next day once the glue had dried we painted some designs onto the sticks to make it look like wrapping paper. Today once the paint had dried we decorated it with Christmas ribbon and made as little bow using ribbon and tinsel.

We think they look great!

Christmas Craziness!

This week we had a Christmas around the world theme with Catherine for Magic of Music. We listened to Handels Messiah which was played in Dublin, a traditional christmas song from Hawaii, Jingle bells with a Mexican theme and then Jingle Bells from Jamaica. It was fantastic! We dressed up in different costumes. We really really enjoyed this afternoon.

Take a look at our wonderful Music lessons.

Sam's visit to Scoil Mhuire!

The Sam Maguire Cup came to visit us today in Scoil Mhuire. We were so excited! All classes went to the hall and we sang Molly Malone. Sixth class sang a special song about the Sam Maguire Cup coming back to Dublin.

We hope Dublin can win the All Ireland again next year!

African rhythms!

This week in Magic of Music we were concentrating on a rhythm from Ghana. first we all clapped then three different rhythms, then the class were split into three groups, each group taking a different rhythm to clap. Finally we used some percussion instruments to create the African rhythm. It was brilliant! Catherine even gave us grass skirts to dress us up in more suitable clothing for our performance.

Magical Maths!

Yesterday the big girls from Colaiste Bride came to our class. They helped us to use our maths eyes. We put up posters around the school to help the other classes to find their maths eyes. We had a big discussion about where in the village we could exercise our maths eyes. When we next meet up we will begin to take photographs of all the interesting maths we find.

You should try to use your maths at home too. There is maths all around us, you just need to look!

Splashing About!

Our swimming lessons have begun. For the past few weeks we have been going to the Clondalkin  Leisure Centre on a Monday to have swimming lessons. First class are going too. Hail, rain or shine we walk to the pool on  Monday morning! we have been very lucky that so far it has not been wet. We are divided into three groups to improve our swimming. We have three more weeks left before the Christmas holidays. It is so much fun. Monday is now the best day of the week!!

The Magic of Music

Today we had our first Magic of Music lesson with Catherine. It was so much fun. We played a rhythm game, clapped, danced, sang and used some percussion instruments to learn about the different notes - Granny semibreve, Mr Minim, Mrs Crotchet and Little Miss Quaver.

Maths Eyes

Our class have started a project with the Transition year girls from Colaiste Bride called Maths Eyes. We will be looking at different things in Clondalkin village through our maths eyes and taking photographs to show the maths that is around us every day. We are very excited to be doing this with the TY girls.

Class Photo

Today every class got a photograph taken for the school calender. A lovely man named Tommy arranged us into three rows, two standing and one sitting. We took several photos. He made us laugh!! Thanks Tommy!!

Fantastic Fashion!!

This morning we had our School Fashion Show. All accessories had to be made using recycled materials. We worked very hard to make accessories for today's show. But the hard work really paid off!!!!

We made a variety of hats, bags, purses, bracelets, necklaces, hairbands, glasses, rings, suitcases, legwarmers, mittens and ties. 

We walked down the catwalk and modeled our accessories in groups of 5. 

These are our groups. 

This group had 6 people! 

We used plastic bottles, cereal boxes, foam, old clothes, tin foil, tissue boxes, milk bottles, egg cartons, paper plates, magazines, newspaper, wrapping paper, old belts, hairbands, wool, cotton wool and lots more recyclable materials. We found all these materials at home, in the attic, in the green bin and in our classroom recycle bin. 

A small selection of what we made: 

Fun Friday Walk!

On Friday the 11th of October we had our annual school walk to Corkagh Park. We partnered up and set off on our walk at 9:30. Mr Hennessy with first class led the walk. He brought us on a long long walk through the park before heading to the playground for some fun!

Along the walk we saw a lake with some ducks and swans.

We walked for an hour and a half through the park. We were very happy to get to the playground!

Drawing

During our first month back at school we have been busy drawing! We drew self portraits and we think they turned out well!

First we examined our faces in a mirror or a recent photograph. It is important to look at the shape of your head.We asked ourselves some questions to help us –  Is your chin as wide as your forehead? How far apart are your eyes? Do you have a long/short/wide/narrow nose? What shape is your mouth? Do you have a fringe? Are your ears visible with your hairstyle?Once we had finished drawing we coloured in our self portraits using pastels. These can be tricky to use because they can smudge easily. We used our fingers to blend the colours. When our self portraits were finished we sprayed them with hairspray to stop the colour from smudging or fading.

We are very proud of our drawings, take a look and see!