Chinese New Year

We have been learning about the Chinese New Year traditions this week. 

To celebrate the end of festival we challenged ourselves to use some chopsticks, which was trickier than we thought! 

We played a traditional Chinese game called Jianzi. It was fun, but very hard! 

Since the Giant Panda is one of the national animals we created fact files with lots of interesting information about pandas. 

For art, we drew Chinese New Year firework displays using chalk pastels. 

We tried to write some numbers in Chinese writing! It was very tricky indeed! 

We made Chinese lanterns too! 

Coding

Múinteoir Ciarán showed us how to code with the Lego this week. It was great fun building the Lego and then using the ipad to create the code to make the Lego piece move!

Junior Lego League

We were delighted to start the Junior Lego League this week. Múinteoir Ciarán is helping us with the project. This week we learnt about cargo and its importance in our communities. 

Tom Crean

In history, we learnt about the famous Irish explorer Tom Crean. He had a really interesting life and journey to explore the Antarctica. 

Christmas Jumper Day

We look so festive in our Christmas Jumpers! 

Christmas Artwork

Our classroom is looking so festive with all of our beautiful artwork on display. 

Music Generation

Today we finally got to use the bow with our violins! It was very tricky so we will need lots of practice! 

Santa Dash

The Active Schools organised a fun Santa Dash. It was great fun to put on our Christmas hats and run some laps on the yard. We even did Santa laps on the run!!  🎅

Owls

Our class novel is The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. We have learnt so many interesting facts about barn owls. 

Here is some of our owl themed art!