Tables Games

We are learning our tables daily. This month we are focusing on multiplication.

Today, we played a game called 'Beat The Clock' which was a fun way of practicing and improving the speed of our tables.

If you are looking for a fun way of learning your tables at home, have a look at the following link, it has lots of cool games for use with a laptop/tablet.

It is really important to revise over our tables daily.

Enjoy!



http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

Lion King agus Waving Flag as gaeilge.

Lion King as gaeilge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqmw0_cbYQ0&noredirect=1

Waving Flag (abair leat) as gaeilge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX4uAzn-3oU

Roald Dahl Dress Up inspiration!

This Thursday, 29th September, to celebrate 100 years of Roald Dahl, our school is having a ‘Roald Dahl Dress-Up Day’. It's an exciting opportunity for the students in our school to dress up as one of their favourite Roald Dahl characters. Please remember, you do not need to buy anything, use some old clothing to create your costume.


If you are in need of some inspiration, have a look at the following website which gives some fantastic costume ideas:


http://www.roalddahl.com/charity/fundraising-and-events/dahlicious-dress-up-day/dressing-up-tips


We love Roald Dahl in our class. Here are some photos of some of the brilliant drawings of our favourite characters.

Our Conscience Alley!

Our conscience guides our behaviour, helping us make sensible decisions between right and wrong.

In 5th class we are trying to be as independent and responsible as we can so it’s important that we can make good decisions.

Last week we used the idea ofthe 'conscience alley' to explore difficult situations were faced with from time to time. Using different dilemmas, one student walked through the conscience alley, listening to all the different thoughts (from our other class members) that may go through our heads when we face a dilemma. It was a fun lesson in drama and it really helped us to understand that we need to listen to our conscience when making decisions.

 

Engrossed in learning!

We are very lucky to have access to the school ipads weekly.
They really enhance our lessons and we enjoy learning on them.

We receive the ipads 3 times a week:

1. On a Monday, during English station teaching we use the ipads at one of our stations. For this block of station teaching, we are using the ipads to learn about different forms of 'recount' writing. Today we explored news articles using the ipads.

2. On Monday afternoons during 'buddy reading' time with Ms. Farrell's Junior Infants we share the ipads. Today was our first time working with the junior infants. We really enjoyed pairing up with our new buddies to teach them how to use the ipads. Next week we will pick a suitable story on the ipads for our new junior buddies, it will be a great chance for our class to practice our reading fluency.

3. Every Wednesday afternoon we work on the ipads to develop our learning in different subjects. Last week we had an introduction to Blogging which the class are going to start doing next week. The pevious week we linked in with our Geography work and did some research on our local area.

We are very confident users of ICT in our class and really look forward to using technology in the class as much as we can.

Keep an eye on our blog for more information on all the learning in our class.





Ms. Calnan working with the boys on the ipads!

Busy at work!



Engrossed in our learning!

Web of Kindness

Have a look at our web of kindness we created in SPHE yesterday.

Our web was simply created by sharing a compliment with someone, it put a smile on all of our faces and reminded us how easy it is to make someone feel better. 

Kindness has no boundaries no matter what age we are!