We had great fun playing some traditional Halloween games.
Click on the link to see lots of photographs of us dressed up and you can see us bobbing for apples in these pictures.
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Spooky Stories
This week’s story has to contain these words …as the door slammed I knew…You can read all of our stories on our class blog.
by Ben F
One Halloween I was out trick or treating with my friends. I was dressed up as a ghost, Haylie was dressed up as a ‘cereal’ killer and my other friend Dylan was dressed up as a zombie. We where having lots of fun calling from house to house, until we took a short cut down the dark alley way to the spooky house. We went into the garden and walked up to the door. The door was left slightly open so we pushed the door gently and called out ‘trick or treat’. There was no answer, so we quietly crept inside to have a look around. As the door slammed I knew we were in danger. Next we heard a loud laugh, we turned around and standing there were our parents, they had tricked us!
By Sophie
When the door slammed I knew it wasn’t just my imagination! I’d felt something creepy around my bedroom for some time now. Nicol had come for a play-date, we were colouring pictures when suddenly my crayon started moving on its own on the page. Eeek! we both froze and coldness came upon us.
Omg what was that, we looked at each other with scared faces then ran downstairs to tell my Mam. Mam said ‘don’t be silly girls, ghosts are not real’. We had dinner feeling reassured. Then we went back upstairs to find the whole room was covered in Halloween pictures!! Spoooky !!
We’re Going to Mars!
This is our boarding pass for the NASA Insight Mission to Mars!
Space Week –
We received this beautiful unique photograph of the moon from CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, as part of Space Week 2017.
Maths Week Puzzle – from Mathsweek.ie
Maths Week – Jokes
Why was the number 6 afraid of the number 7? (Because 7 ate 9)
Why was the snake so good at math? (He was an Adder!)
How do you make 7 even? (Take away the s!)
Why didn’t the quarter roll down the hill with the nickel? (Because it had more cents.)
What shape is like a lost parrot? (A polygon!)
What becomes smaller when you turn it upside down? (The number 9)
Skype Call – Sea Turtles, Sharks and Healthy Oceans
We had a Skype Call with Jennifer Nolan today. She taught us all about Sea Turtles and Sharks.
Jennifer also told us about all the litter in the ocean and how it is so harmful to sea creatures, especially Sea Turtles.
We got to ask Jennifer lots of questions and she showed us loads of great photographs. Click here to see some more.
We have decided in our class to try and only use re-usable bottles for our lunch drinks.
Helen of Troy
We were learning about the legend of Helen of Troy today. We imagined we had had been chosen to hide in the wooden horse. We wrote about what it would have been like.
We illustrated our pictures.
Planting Bulbs
Everybody in our class (and all the other 3rd class children) planted a bulb in the school grounds today.
Every year at this time of year the 3rd class children plant bulbs. They will flower in Spring. We planted tulips and daffodils.
Thank you to Michael the caretaker for digging all the holes!
Tree Day 2017
We had great fun today celebrating Tree Day 2017.
We went on a Tree Trail and examined an Oak tree in the school grounds. Then we all collected a variety of leaves and tried to identify them using the sheet that teacher gave us.
We also collected some berries, horse chestnuts and acorns.
It was hard to work out what some of the leaves were! Teacher had a book which helped us identify them.
We also planted an Alder sapling that we received from the Tree Council.
We planted conkers from a horse chestnut tree that we won’t see germinate until next spring!
Teacher brought in part of a tree stump and we were able to do rubbings and look at the age of the tree by counting its rings.
Bingo Fun!
We had great fun in maths today. Teacher rolled 3 dice and we had to add the numbers up and mark them on our bingo page!
Art Inspired by Jackson Pollock
We learned about the famous American artist Jackson Pollock today. He was famous for his ‘drip style’ painting. He is known as an ‘abstract expressionist’ painter. That means that his paintings don’t look like real things but instead try to express an emotion.
We really liked his paintings. We used this website to learn about him and see some of paintings. http://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-jackson-pollock
It was very messy painting, but we had great fun!Click here to see more photographs.
Maths Circuits
We love maths on Thursdays and Fridays! We do Maths Circuits where we can play games and have fun!
Laptops!
We had great fun today using the laptops. We played Duolingo to practice our Irish and then we played Kahoot. We loved the quizzes on Kahoot, they were great fun.
Colour Wheel and Colour Mixing
We learned about the three primary colours today and about colour mixing. We mixed the primary colours to make secondary colours. We did a great job completing our colour wheel!
