The Life of Van Gogh

Today we learnt lots more about the life of Van Gogh in art and history. 

Here are some of the children's written pieces about Vincent Van Gogh... 

Garden Centre

Múinteoir Sinéad's class have opened a mini garden centre in their class!! 

Over the next few weeks they will be planting their own flowers, fruits and vegetables. 

We can't wait to taste some of the delicious foods when they have grown! 

Vincent Van Gogh

Today we started learning about Vincent Van Gogh, the famous Dutch artist. 

Tomorrow, we are going to paint our own versions of his famous "Sunflowers" painting. 

Learn more about Vincent Van Gogh by watching this video on YouTube. 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=van+gogh

Our News

We were very happy to be back at school after our two week break for the Easter holidays. We shared all our news with each other this morning. 

Nikita, Robert, Karolina, Michael, Maeve and Aurelia told us all about their holidays. Daniel told us what he got up to on his sports camp. 

Nicholas, Emilia, Armanda, Roc, Emilis, Rizwana and Wiktoria had a great time relaxing and playing with their friends. 

Brineille went to the beach with her mom and Wiktoria caught some crabs on the beach! Mateusz bought a new game in Smyth! 

We have lots of more exciting stories to share with you. Make sure you visit our class to hear our news! 

Drama

We have been practising our questioning skills through the drama strategy - hot seating.  We like to interview characters from our favourite Wonderland stories to find out more about the character or story. It's really fun! 

Scientists

We love science in our class! We are great at carrying out science investigations. sometimes we like to do them at home too. 

Nikita likes science investigations. 

Going blue for Autism Awareness Day

Today we wore blue clothes to help raise money for Galway Autism Partnership. We all brought in €2 for G.A.P. 

Easter Crafts

We have been very busy in first class making Easter cards and baskets! 

The very first Easter

Today, Múinteoir Sinéad read us a lovely story about the very first Easter. 

We drew lovely pictures based on the story in our religion copies. 

Easter Baskets

Easter is fast approaching and we were very busy in first class working on our Easter crafts. 

We used modelling clay to make Easter baskets. 

It was lots of fun rolling, pulling and pinching  the clay to make the clay pots. 

We used clay tools to create designs on the outside of the clay pots. 

We will paint them when they are dry. 

Science Investigation - How daffodils get water

Today we were investigating how daffodils drinks water. 

First we set out all the equipment we needed. 

For his investigation we needed jugs of water, food colouring and daffodils. 

Next, we made our predictions. 

Then we began the investigation. 

First we added the water and the food colouring. We picked green and red. 

Next we put the daffodils into the jugs of water. 

We made sure we had a "control" in our investigation. We will compare our investigation to the control over the next few days. 

Solar Eclipse

Today we were so lucky to see a solar eclipse. 

First, Múinteoir Sinéad told us all about solar eclipses and we watched a short video on YouTube all about solar eclipses. 

We went out to the school yard at 9.30 and were hoping to see some of the eclipse. 

It was a little bit cloudy but we got to see part of the moon pass over the sun. It was an amazing sight! 

The solar eclipse. 

Writing Table

The boys and girls love to spend time at the writing table each week. They write notes, greeting cards and stories.