Ms Hill's First and Second Class

The girls and boys looked very festive for a Christmas jumper day in aid of Galway Hospice. A great effort by everyone. Well done!

1st and 2nd Class have been working so hard learning their Christmas carols for the upcoming Carol Service. They are really looking forward to performing their carols in the church. They should be so proud of themselves.  They will sing Mary's Boy Child, Mary and Following a Star!

 

Learning about data peaked a lot of interest in rang a haon agus a dó when they realised smarties were involved! The children were very excited to receive a box of smarties to count and then they recorded how many of each colour they had on a block graph. They were amazed to discover that not every box has the same of each colour and the total amount of sweets in the box can also vary. 

The children in 1st and 2nd Class have been working very hard learning about report writing. Here you can see them researching and gathering information for their animal reports. They really enjoyed using the EPIC books app on the school iPads to source their information. Once the planning stage is complete they will begin to write their first drafts. Watch this space for their final drafts which will be completed in January. 

 Our penguins are waddling into winter. We experimented with mixing various shades of blue, purple and white to make the colours for our penguin backgrounds. We used black paper, white and orange paper to make our penguins and the snow and made cool scarves and hats for them. 

Great fun was had during Science Week in 1st and 2nd Class where the children made their own lava lamps, conducted the bouncy egg, the leak proof bag and magic milk experiments. The children worked very hard as scientists at home too and planned, conducted and recorded an experiment of their choosing which was screened in our classroom at the end of science week. We really enjoyed watching everyone's videos. Well done all!