St. Molaga’s Art Week 2013 In St. Molaga’s Arts Week this year we explored audio processing and movie soundtracks – a tall order for a one-hour workshop! With a halloween theme in mind, each group created their own interpretation of an old silent cartoon about a scary snowman…!
Below are some photos of dress up day on Friday 25th October 2013
The 5th and 6th classes learned about the life of bees today. It was great fun, and we learned lots. We also made Bee Hotels which we will use to attract bees into our school. We will then monitor the bees and record how they are doing.
We wrote these stories based on the Owl and The Pussy Cat by Edward Lear. Click on the links to see our storybooks.
http://storybird.com/books/the-cat-and-the-bunnys-race/?token=3k2qv2b2ye
http://storybird.com/books/the-dog-and-mouse-by-odhran/?token=xrr6rjat6u
http://storybird.com/books/the-boy-and-the-girl-35/?token=nt7xnq8nxs
We are celebrating our annual Arts’ Week in St. Molaga’s N.S. This week is an opportunity for all pupils, staff and parents to focus on reading, literacy development and the arts. They also get an opportunity to meet authors and storytellers, listen to and make music and take part in different creative activities. Throughout the week there will a huge variety of workshops, demonstrations, weaving and art workshops as well as visits from local musicians, authors and musicians.
Mon21st: Visiting Author 5th/6th
Tues 22nd: Storyteller 3rd/4th
Wed 23rd: Composing with Peter Moran 6
Music Workshop 3rd
Drumming Workshop 4th
Thurs 24th: 5th/6th Secret Life of Bees
Fri 25th: Character Day
Felting/Weaving 5th
Armagh Rhymers 3rd/4th
| A Book Fair takes place from Mon 21st-Wed 23rd. Pupils will visit on Mon & Tuesday and can purchase books. Parents are welcome to visit our Book Fair on Wednesday 23rd from 9-11am. Books are great presents and there are great bargains available.Throughout the week there will a huge variety of workshops, demonstrations, dance classes, weaving and art workshops as well as visits from local musicians, authors and artists. The week will end with the ever popular Book Character Dress Up Day on Friday 25th. This day is a very entertaining day for all. We are asking all pupils to contribute at least €3 towards the cost of the activities for Arts’ Week. For more information on all that is happening in school have a look at our School Blog www.stmolaga.scoilnet.ie/blog which contains news, photos and projects from classes in St. Molaga’s.
Show Racism The Red Card: The 5th & 6th class pupils had an opportunity to see a film and discuss racism in sport and everyday life when Paul Kehoe of the FAI visited the school on the 17th Oct.
On Friday 18th October we held a Maths Table Quiz in our school hall. One class from each year attended. Ms Sullivan’s third class, Mr Gorman’s fourth class, Ms Brennock’s fifth class and Ms Ferguson’s sixth class took part. The quiz was really enjoyable and after each round there was a maths joke. The winning team were 3rd Isabella Omoregbee, 4th Serana Njoroge, 5th Randy Karbi-, 6th Sarah O’Connell We are fast approaching the mid-term break and everyone has settled in to life and work in St. Molaga’s N.S. We are currently undertaking the second year of our School Self Evaluation. Last year we focused on literacy and this year while continuing to develop our work on literacy we are focusing on Mathematics/Numeracy. We would like to thank all the parents/guardians who completed our questionnaire which will form part of our evaluation. We Guidelines for Homework: Approximate times for written work: 3rd:30 mins 5th:40-50mins 4th:30-40mins 6th:50-60mins Pupils are encouraged to read every night for homework. They may also be required to learn tables, poetry, etc as part of homework. If pupils take a lot longer than the recommended times to complete work, please inform the class teacher. Reading Tips for Parents is available from the school or on the school website.
Our Parent Teacher meetings will take place on the 20th and 21stth November and it is important that parents/guardians take time to meet their child’s teacher. You will receive notification of the date and time nearer the time.
Swimming will commence for all pupils in fourth classes on the Friday, 8th November.
The Junior and Senior Choirs are busy rehearsing and learning new songs and we would like to wish the senior choir the best of luck in the Choir competition in on the 25th. Go n’éirí an t’ádh libh.
We would like to remind parents of our Religion Programme Alive-O Home Links which are available on the school website. The links contain information on the content of the Alive-O programme and the prayers, songs and poems your children are reading and learning in school.
We would like to thank all the parents/guardians who have contributed €70 towards Visual Arts, Parents’ Association and the office/photocopying costs. We are happy for parents to pay in instalments as the funding pays for art/craft materials, photocopying and the general upkeep of resources in the school for use by the children. This year we are replacing the carpets in 8 classrooms main building. We ask all parents/guardians to continue to support their Parents’ Association and if possible to join the committee. Our P.A. committee meet here in the school and are always looking for new members to help in their various activities. We need parents to be involved as the work the P.A. undertakes supports the work and education of your children.
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This week in maths we are learning about Time.
Try these games from Woodlands Primary School to practice what we have learned in class.
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Time
These are some other games you can try too. Click on the link to go to the game.
24 Hour Clock
http://ie.ixl.com/math/class-5/convert-between-12-hour-and-24-hour-time
AM/PM and 24 Hour Clock
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/time/index.htm
Word Problems
http://ie.ixl.com/math/class-5/find-start-and-end-times-word-problems
Stop The Clock – one minute intervals 
http://resources.oswego.org/games/stoptheclock/sthec4.html
Investigate these statements about the human body
1. The average adult human is about 7.5 heads tall
Answer:
How did you investigate this?
2. When you spread your arms along your shoulders (measure from the tips of your middle fingers), you measure about the same as your body height
Answer:
How did you investigate this?
3. The length of your foot is about equal to the length of your forearm. (The forearm is the part of the arm from the elbow to the wrist.)
Answer:
How did you investigate this?
4. The length of your face is about equal to the length of your hand. Answer:
How did you investigate this?
5. Your eyes are separated by a distance of one eye width.
Answer:
How did you investigate this?
6. The distance from the bottom of your nose to the corner of your eye is equal to the height of your ear.
Answer:
How did you investigate this?
As part of this week’s activities we have a visit from author Debbie Thomas. She gave us some great tips to help our writing and told us about writing her books.
Ryan drew this picture of Dolly Parton
Well done
Great work
On Friday 18th October we held a maths table quiz in our school hall. One class from each year attended. Ms Sullivan’s third class, Mr Gorman’s fourth class, Ms Brennock’s fifth class and Ms Ferguson’s sixth class took part. The quiz was really enjoyable and after each round there was a maths joke.
The winning team were
3rd Isabella
4th Serana
5th Randy
6th Sarah
