Córfhéile na Scoileanna

On the 7th of March our class took part in Córfhéile na Scoileanna which took place at the Basketball arena in Tallaght.

 We sang three songs 'Beauty and the Beast' 'How Far I'll go' and 'Síoraí Spraoi'. A big thanks to Deirdre Lumsden for helping us with our singing and dancing.

Grandparents Day

Last week we celebrated grandparents day to tell all the amazing grandparents how wonderful they are. We discussed how special our grandparents are to us and all the things they do for us.
We made accrostic poems for them and wrote a short piece about our own grandparents.
We were delighted to see so many grandparents visit our classroom.
Thank you for all that you do.
From all the grandchildren in room 13.

                            Arts and crafts

A Trip to the Ark

Before the Christmas holidays we took a trip to the Ark in Temple Bar to see A Christmas Carol.
We really enjoyed the trip and were very impressed by the actors performance.

Winter Trees

We were inspired by the birch tree for our Winter art.
We used masking tape to create the shape of the birch tree.
We then painted over the tape with pink and purple water colours.
While the paint was still wet we sprinkled some salt to give the picture more texture.
When it dried we peeled away the tape and used black crayon to fill in the details of the tree.
We really enjoyed the proccess.
     

                            
                               Step one

                            
                               Step two

                           
                               Step three

                            
                                Step four
       
                            
                              Finished product
                             

The National Museum of Ireland

                                 The Stone Age
We have been doing a lot of work learning about the stone age.
A few weeks ago we went on a trip to the National Museum of Ireland to see some artefacts from this period.
We really enjoyed seeing the tools and pottery that they made.
We saw a passage tomb that was created from stones of this period.
We discovered more about the food they ate and what type of transport they used.
We would highly recommend taking a trip to the museum.
Keep an eye on our blog for more work on this topic.

             National Museum of Ireland

                                  Flint

                            Pottery

                      Decorated stone

                               passage tomb