Room 14 – Ms Doyle

The girls were very excited to be back in school. We spent the start of September getting to know each other. Excellent work was completed by the class around the theme 'All About Me'.

We were very lucky this month to receive a visit from Emma -Jane Leeson. Emma-Jane is the author of the Johnny Magory Stories. She is the reader in residence for Kildare Library Service. We really enjoyed the reading and creative writing workshop from Emma-Jane.

We were learning about animals and habitats in Science and Geography. We decided to try to make our own bird feeders out of recycled materials to help us learn more about birds. We even completed our own procedural writing on 'How to make a bird feeder'.

We have been very busy completing our own masterpieces in art.

We learned how to print using tinfoil. This was so much fun. It was almost like magic!

We created our own Stone Age inspired cave paintings using chalk pastels. We really enjoyed using our fingers to blend the colours on the page.

George Seurat is famous for pointillism. We explored pointillism creating our own landscapes using paint and cotton buds.

We used the school environment to help us learn about 2D shapes. We were surprised to find 2D shapes hiding all around the school!

In our class we are investigating what seeds need to grow.  We each planted our own cress seeds. We made sure they had good soil, water and light. We also planted some seeds with no light, some with no water and some with no soil. We are looking forward to seeing the results.

Our class has been very lucky to have spent the last six weeks completing swimming lessons in K Leisure. The girls thoroughly enjoyed the weekly bus trips and swim classes where they learned and practiced a wide range of swimming strokes. We would like to give a big thank you to all the swimming instructors. We had a blast!

October was filled with loads of fun Halloween activities from creating spooky art to dress up for our Spooky Walk!

We had a special visit from Patrick Hunt. We learned so much about nature from him. First we planted broad beans in the school garden. Then we were on a fascinating nature walk where we learned lots of nature facts about the plants on the school grounds.

We carried out a variety of science experiments for Science Week. These were lots of fun. One of them even used Skittles. We had to have a small taste of course!! To end the week we took part in an online webinar about all things milk, cheese and dairy foods. During this fun, interactive session, we got the chance to pose questions to food scientists as they demonstrated some fun milk-based experiments.

Our class has been working very hard in preparing a prayer service for Presentation Day. This prayer service explores the life and work of Nano Nagle. We really enjoyed learning the songs and practicing our parts.

We had great fun dressing up in our winter woolies on Friday.  We designed our own winter woolies jumpers in art and even had a talent show before home time!

We worked very hard designing our very own Christmas Cards. We were super excited to see our cards come to life!!!!

Our class had a fantastic time performing in our school musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". We sang two songs " Coat of Many Colours" and "Jacob and Sons".

Happy New Year!!! To celebrate we wrote our own Happy New Year acrostic poems. We also had lots of fun creating our own firework inspired scratch art.

Our class read Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl as our class novel. We really enjoyed the story. We completed many fun writing activities based on the book. We even got to create our own tea stained wanted posters based on a story character of our choice!!

We learned about the story behind the willow pattern plates. Look at our beautifully illustrated plates which tell the story of - and the story behind -the Willow Pattern Plate. 

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