In our first week back at school we worked together to create our class agreement.

We have created a wall in our classroom to display the work we are most proud of. This is our 'brightest work' for September.'

Can you see how creative we were with our costumes in room five at Halloween? We had great fun participating in a 'Witches Walk' around the school and had little Halloween party. It was so much fun to do work all dressed up especially when we got to read our novel in our new outdoor learning space.

We are reading a fantastic novel all about a hedgehog called Max who gets up to all sorts of different adventures trying to cross the road. We have brainstormed what kind of character Max is, wrote about the setting of the story, created diary entries pretending we were hedgehogs who had been on a night of hunting and we have also acted out freeze frames of different parts of the book. In Science we also learned fun facts about hedgehogs and how they hibernate each Winter. In Geography we examined where they are found. In the coming weeks we are going to design a new cover for the book, write a different ending to the story and will complete a book review when we are finished it. 

Between the 8th and 12th of November we carried out lots of different experiments for science week. Before we carried out each one we predicted what we might use the different materials for and what kind of experiment we would be carrying out. Some of our predictions even came true! We observed raisins dance, watched a rainbow appear on kitchen towel using food colouring, analysed why an egg that was on the bottom of a jar suddenly floated to the top when we added salt and pierced a bag full of water with sharp pencils.

One of our theme's in November is 'Homes'. In Science we learned all about earths and setts where badgers and foxes live, in English we wrote about our homes, in art we created 3D houses and also designed our own rooms from different recyclable items, in Gaeilge we authored and illustrated our very own books, in History we examined artefacts of photographs of Clane many years ago and in Geography we analysed different types of homes around the world. We all agreed that this theme has been one of our favourite so far this year.

We love integrating STEM as much as we can into our class work and love seeing how we can take these skills and apply them outside the classroom. Learning about female leaders in STEM also inspires us to try our best.

We all enjoyed watching 'The Late Late Toy Show' so much that after reading our written reviews of it we decided to put on our very own toy show. We brought a toy from home into school and carried out a review for the class. Asking our friends challenging questions about their toys was lots of fun.

We had lots of fun counting, sorting, adding and subtracting money using real money. Using Aldi catalogues we set up our own shops in our pods and learned so much about how to work out how to pay for different items in a shop.