Indian Creative Dance

Indian Dance

We studied India and in P.E. we did creative dancing to Indian music, the pupils worked in groups and created their own dance to the Indian music.  Here is one group who are dressed in Indian attire.

Fifth Class Planting Potatoes

Planting Potatoes

by Fifth Class

Some of the girls relaxing in the secret garden before we started planting

Holly and Faye opening the bag of potatoes that we are planting

We all stood around the bed where we were planting the potatoes

We put the potatoes in a row in the bed leaving enough space between each

We made sure that when we put the potato in the ground it had an eye facing upwards

Laiba placed the potato in the bed with an eye facing upwards

We all took turns planting potatoes

We planted the potatoes along the side of the bed

When we ran out of room along the side, we planted a row down the middle of the bed

Here are the potatoes in a row in the middle of the bed

We covered the planted potatoes with the compost
We will check our potatoes regularly and water them if they need it.



5th Class Planting Methi

                              Planting Methi
                                                                       by Fifth Class

We filled the window box halfway with compost

Faye cut open the packet of Methi

Wioleta sprinkled the Methi onto the compost evenly

Jessica then covered the Methi with more compost

We then watered the Methi

We are watering the Methi every day and when it has grown we will replant it in a bed in our secret garden.

Science:

In science we tie-dyed some white material. First we folded the material in different ways and then we put elastic bands over the material to secure it. We used warm water, salt and blue and red fabric dye powder. We put the fabric into the dye and waited ten minutes. When we took the elastic band off, there was a pattern on the fabric. We had so much fun!

Art:

In art we explored the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. We learned about his style of painting and looked at some pictures of his work – faces painted with shapes of fruit and vegetables.

 

We also did sewing using our tie-dyed material. We made our own accessories and they came out brilliant.

 

 

 

 

We learned how to weave using a loom, string and material.

English:

In English we wrote review on our favourite restaurant. First we did a brainstorm and then drafted our review in our copies. We edited our own work and corrected punctuation and spelling mistakes using a dictionary. Then we wrote it on a nice page which we decorated with colours.

 

 

Geography:

Over the past two weeks we learned all about fashion and fads and types of clothing from all around the world. In geography we looked at hats from different countries around the world. Scotland and France have similar hats. Lots of countries also have their own traditional clothes like Africa, Scotland and Spain. Africa has long colourful dresses, Spain has puffy dresses with polka dots on them and in Scotland the men wear kilts.

We also learned about the history of fashion from 1900s-1990s. Dresses changed in length and style, miniskirts came in and out of fashion and jeans were only acceptable from the 1970s!

 

Music:

In music, we listened to African music. We learned a call and response song called Che Che Koolay. We also learned the dance to it and wore grass skirts while we performed it. In Africa this song was passed down from generation to generation. Graziella brought in an African drum and showed us how to play it. She played along to Che Che Koolay while we sang – it sounded great!

 

 

 

Irish:

In Irish we played “Feicim rud éigin le mo shúilín beag a thosaíonn leis an litir…” which is “I spy with my little eye”. Everybody got a turn and it was really fun. We also played a guessing game which helped us learn about Bia agus Éadaí.

We created picture boards together about going to a restaurant with our family and friends and ordering  food.

 

 

 

 

We put together a photo story about shopping.

Chuaigh mé go dtí an siopa agus cheannaigh mé...

 

Maths:

We learned about 2D shapes using pentominoes. Pentominoes are made up of 5 squares. We cut patterns out and coloured them in. We were all given a shape to make eg: love heart, smiley face, castle and a swan. We created the shape and made a poster out of it. They look great!

We also learned about lines of symmetry and designed symmetrical butterflies and clothes.

 

We also explore 3D shapes and made a few different examples with paper and play dough with sticks.

 

 

 

Religion

On 21^st of November, it was Presentation day and we went to mass. We learned lots about Nano Nagle - her name is Honora, she lived in the beautiful valley of the Blackwater, she studied in Paris and she set up schools for the poor when it was dangerous to do so because of the Penal Laws. We wrote a poem all about her and presented it to Sr. Mary. On 31^st of October, Pope Francis bestowed the title Venerable on her.

 

Science

The Digestive System:

We thought the digestive system was very interesting. We did an experiment to see how it works:

1. We put crackers into a bag and sealed the bag – the mouth

2. Then we put water into the bag and mashed it up – chewing
3. We added orange juice and oat meal – acids in the stomach

4. Then we put it all into tights – small intestine

5. We put a bowl under the tights and squeezed the juice out and that is how the digestive system works – large intestine  
 

S.P.H.E.

In S.P.H.E. we did an advertisement and a brands quiz. We had to name the logos , the names and match them together. In the brand quiz we had to guess how the brand got its name – it was tricky. We also got to make up our own product with a logo and a slogan. We made our own products in teams of six. We had fun and made great products.

 

GAEILGE:

We created a digital photo story called Oíche Shamhna. We drew a Halloween picture, coloured it in and labelled everything in Irish. We learned a Halloween poem in Irish out of our Sin É 5 book. We also did a crossword together in our class. Everyone read a sentence in Irish for the photostory and we chose the music for it ourselves.

 

 

MATHS:

Last week we played a loop game to see how good our tables were. On Monday our time was 2 minutes and 25 seconds and by Friday we were 11 seconds faster and we got much better. We also used Tangrams – a Chinese puzzles made up of seven shapes. We had to make lots of different pictures using all seven shapes. Our class also made a game called ‘Top Shapes’. It was lots of fun.

By using our time tables we made Digit Sum Spirals. We had to fill in a grid in our copies and find a hidden sequence. Using the sequence and following directions we created a spiral – they came out really nice. Each table did a different times table.

 

ART:

We made mummy bags using paper, string and toilet roll.

 

We also created Tangram art – we made dogs, swans, fish, cats, people, houses, animals, birds and candles.

 

 

 

GEOGRAPHY:

We made our own map on the board and learned how to use a key and read a map using a grid.

HISTORY:

We learned about the history of Halloween. Did you know Halloween came from Ireland? It came from the Celts over 2000 years ago. The Celts had a feast called Samhain which means November. We did a cross word in groups and we had to go around the room to look for the answers. We have also started to learn about farming. There are lots of different kids of farms including: Dairy, Beef, Sheep, Tillage and Mixed.

ENGLISH:

Last week we learned about recipes. We wrote our own smoothie recipes – we had to decide what ingredients to use and write out the method. We made a smoothie on Friday – we used apples, bananas, strawberry yoghurt, milk and orange juice. 17 girls liked it but 10 didn’t.

 

P.E.:

We learned to dance to Thriller by Michael Jackson. We did athletics too – sprinting, running and relay races. We did lots of exercises and played the Bean game. We all had so much fun.

MUSIC:

Over the past two weeks we have learned four songs on the Tin Whistle –BB Blues, Glory B, Jazzamatazz and EBGBs. We also played a game called Don’t Clap This Rhythm Back, listened and responded to scary music and learned the song Thriller.

 

RELIGION:

In Religion we learned about Bono, he is an example of a modern-day prophet. A prophet is someone who works in the name of God. We also learned to song Críost Liom in two groups.