The band met again: Wednesday 23rd January after school.
We have been working on our Trad Pieces the past two weeks……
Now it’s time again for “The Sound Of Music” Songs.
Next Thursday Choir and Band members will attend the musical at the Bórd Gáis Energy Theatre. We are learning some of the songs in band. So far we play:
Edelweiss
Do – A – Deer
My Favoutite Things….
Today was our first time playing My Favourite Things!
We will be listening out for our favourite songs when we go to the theatre…..
Listen to how well we got on today! Our first time seeing the music and playing this together! Well done everyone!
We invite you to sing along together at home in preparation for the special occasion of the Ceremony of Light. 29th January 2020. We will be singing together on the night.
Opening Song – Gather Round
We gather in body, we gather in mind, In peace and in quiet together to find
God’s Holy Spirit round and about us, Through us, with us and in us.
Today after school The Band met and started preparations for this term’s events. Mr. Kelly had 2 new POLKAS ready for us to learn. Some players who also play in Trad Groups know these pieces and helped us all!
A POLKA can be very fast! So… today we decided:
SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE! (Aesop’s Fables)
We recorded our slow polkas so we can all practice at home. ENJOY!
Today we decorated Christmas Tree Cookies for our families.
First we each counted the people in our family with cubes. Then we traded each cube for a cookie! Like shopping!
Some of us had less cookies than others so we decided to have a fair share ……. like in DIVISION. We are learning about division in Maths. It’s all about fair sharing….. sometimes there might be cookies left over!
So we looked at who had the MOST cookies and we all matched this number.
Now each of us has 6 cookies!
We saved 6 cookies for one of our friends who was not at school today.
Once we each had 6 cookies we melted the chocolate “Bain Marie” (in a bowl over hot water). Next we spread the melted chocolate on the cookies and decorated them with sprinkles. We prepared boxes and gift tags!
Today we met to prepare fresh pasta and to play UNO.
See how we got on.
To make the dough you need: 3 eggs, 2 cups of plain flour, a pinch of salt and a tablespoon of cooking oil. Mrs Macnamara made the dough earlier and showed us the photos!
We flattened and stretched the dough by turning it through the roller machine. Then we attached the cutting rollers and rolled it through again and it came out in thin strips. It was fun to do!
Mrs. Clancy helped us cook the fresh pasta. While it was cooking we played a game of UNO. It’s a great card game. We have to get rid of our cards and say UNO when we have just one card left. Pádraig was first get rid of all his cards! 🙂 When play stops the rest of us add up our card numbers! Maths is everywhere! It is in the cooking and the card games!
Serve with cheese and tomato sauce and eat with friends! Bon appetite!
Next, we prepared two jugs: one with milk and vanilla and the other with yoghurt, apple juice and runny honey. Then we put the fruits into the two jugs. We took turns doing the jobs.
With the help of the adults we set up the BLENDER. It was really loud and we watched all the ingredients whiz and swirl together.
TASTING:
We tasted both smoothies. The milk smoothie was very smooth…. and the yoghurt smoohtie was really tangy!
We all picked our favourite. Then some of us mixed them together!
It doesn’t have to be summer to enjoy smoothies with friends! Friday was a really wet day! We had all been out to the new all weather pitch in the rain! Bishop Denis blessed and opened the pitch.
Today we gathered all the ingredients and things we need to make FRENCH TOAST. We decided to call it “Friendship Toast”. You can visit this website and you can follow our picture collages of how we worked together to make Friendship Toast! Try it at home. It’s YUM!
We needed:
4 eggs
2 cap fulls of vanilla extract
A small jug of milk
Slices of bread
Butter for frying
STEP 1: Mix the eggs, vanilla and milk….
STEP 2: Cut the bread shapes and dip soak them in the egg mixture.
On the 6th of September 2019 the cross country trials took place at the Sallins GAA pitch. The top 10 girls and top 10 boys were chosen to go to the race in Celbridge AC track. The race took place on the 27th of September. The girls’ race was 1km, and overall the team came in 3rd place. The boys’ race was next, and overall the team came 2nd. They ran 1.5km. We were all very proud of our performance on the day. We would like to thank Mr. Kelly, Ms. Stapleton, Ms. Dunning and Derek for helping us train for the race and on the day.
Written by Kate, Cillian, Cormac, Darragh and Aniela (6th class)
The Garden Club met in the School Garden after school and got some great planting, weeding, drawing and painting done! Very relaxing in the sunshine too!
View our GALLERY of today’s activities. We all had a lovely time. The garden is looking wonderful too!
Today we went to the garden to plant our pea seeds. We are taking part in the INNOCENT BIG GROW project.
Here we are in the garden classroom. We followed the instructions on the seed packet. We used compost made by the Wormery worms in our school garden. Our seeds will germinate in the polly tunnel over the Easter Holidays!
Last month we had Seachtain na Gaeilge.
It took place from the 1st to the 17th of March.
Each lunch break one class performed on the intercom speaking as Gaeilge (an blurb).
On the 13th of March Alexandra College pupils visited our school and we exchanged traditional Irish music.
Mr Kennedy’s class went down to Mr O’Connor’s class for a coircal comhrá.
Classes also practiced Irish dancing and on the 15th of March the whole school went to the big yard agus bhí céilí mór againn. Bhí go leor spraoi againn.
This week Mr. Kennedy’s 6th class focused on a topic called “Ratio” in maths.
In maths Ratio is a way of showing the similarities between quantities of something. We learned how to simplify a Ratio by dividing both parts by the same number. We were given baskets of different items such as lollipop sticks, cubes, counters and cards.
E.G. The ratio of apples: oranges is 4:6.
Divide both numbers by 2.
4:6
/ \
÷2 ÷2
\ /
2:3
By: Róisín.M, Séarlait.O’C, Kalvin.C and Jessica.K.
The Junior Infants and Senior Infants were delighted this week to see four baby lambs and their two mother ewes come to visit them in the school yard.
Farmer Brian was very impressed with how good the children were and how gentle they were with the animals. He let them pet the baby lambs too, who were only three days old.
In March and April we are planting out our , vegetable seedlings, potatoes, sunflower seeds and caring for and watering the new plants. There is so much work to be done and we are very busy on Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 4 pm.
Last term Mr Kennedy’s 6th class read the novel ‘The London Eye Mystery’. This book is about the search for a thirteen year old boy who went missing on the London Eye. His two cousins Ted and Kat work hard to find him. We thought that it was very enjoyable and interesting and we recommend it.
As part of Seachtaine na Gaeilge our school took part in a seanfhocail art competition. Some took on the challenge themselves and the rest were in pairs. We had to illustrate a poster to describe our seanfhocal. When we finished our posters they were put on display and some school staff members chose the best described seanfhocal from each class. On Friday the 15th the winners from each class were announced and they went to the small hall to receive their prize.
On Friday 22nd of March,We hosted a coffee morning in Ms. O’Connor’s room in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. If anyone wanted to come along for a treat and a drink, they would need to donate a minimum of 1 euro . These are some of the things we baked; Rice Krispie buns, Flapjacks and decorated digestive biscuits.
We counted the donated money and people donated a total of €143.20 which is a great amount and we did not expect to get this much. Each and every penny will help those in need .
The Coffee Morning was a great success! Thank you to all who participated!
This March Mr.Kennedy’s 6th class were studying length in maths. We went out to our school field in groups of threes and fours and measured it. We split the field into sides and named each side A, B, C, D etc. We estimated and measured all of the 7 sides. After we measured we came back inside and added up our measurements.
The next day we started a scaled map of the field. In order to do this we divided the measurements by 1000 which was a scale(cm) of 1:1000 to fit on A3 paper. Then we did a scale of 1:500 and then 1:200. We really enjoyed studying length.
On Friday the 15th of March every class in the school went out to the Senior Yard. We all danced to the music for ‘Shoe the Donkey’ and ‘Ballaí Luimní’ (The Walls of Limerick). Everyone had been practicing for the past few weeks, so we were all excited to get out and bust our moves!!!
We got to dance to both songs twice. Everybody really enjoyed this experience and we hope it happens next year.
Bhí a lán spraoi againn!
This term, Mr Kennedy’s sixth class are currently reading the International Bestseller ‘Wonder’ written by R.J. Palacio. It’s about a boy who can’t blend in but was born to stand out .This book has power to move hearts and change minds and wreaks emotional havoc.
The main characters are Auggie, Via, Mom ,Dad, Jack, Julian and Summer. We learn how they go through their daily lives and how they cope with their problems.
The Bookseller said it was “Tremendously moving… an uplifting, hopeful and important book” and we agree.