1st Class - winners of the Golden Boot for January & February!

  Bird Paintings  

We learned how to do a paint wash, make a wax resist picture and how to use outlines to make things stand out.

  Vase of Flowers  

We did another wax resist picture, this time with a vase and flowers. We tried to make interesting patterns on the vases and to use different colours to make the flowers stand out.

  Name Designs  

We spent a long time doing these pictures because we took our time planning the designs and patterns. Teacher wrote our name in bubble writing and then we designed the patterns around the names. We used different lines, colours and shapes.

  Dinosaurs  

The last paint wash picture we made was when we designed our own dinosaurs! We planned our pictures first and tried to make up a new dinosaur that nobody else would draw. Then we chose the colour washes we wanted to use. We also made sure we outlined our drawings in crayon so that they stood out.

  Response to Music  

~ Lightning Bird Wind River Man (Declan O'Rourke)

We listened to Declan O'Rourke's new song in class today. We each came up with our own version of what we thought a "lightning bird wind river man" would look like.

Primary Colour Patterns

We had a maths puzzle to figure out today and we needed to use paint! We had to design 3 panels using primary colours to make patterns. We then had to use primary colour paint. The puzzle was that we couldn't use the same crayon and paint in the same panel. We all managed to figure it out.

Our class and Ms. Larney's class entered the "Discover Science" awards this year. We completed lots of different science experiments. We had lots of fun entering the competition and best of all we WON! The school got a lovely new plaque to hang in the corridor and we'll all get a certificate. Here are some of the experiments we did!

Measuring our hand spans

Our partners drawing around our hands

Counting how many objects our hands could hold.... which hand can hold more?

We estimated first and then checked to see if we were right

Guzzler Patrol

Our class is in charge of Guzzler Patrol in the school. We make sure there are no energy guzzlers in every class and we also check up on the teachers ( & Mr. Mulligan!) to make sure that everyone is trying to reduce the amount of electricity they waste.

We make sure projectors and computers are turned off at lunchtime and home time

We check all the lights are turned off when it is bright and when there is nobody in the room. We also check the bathroom lights.

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We also check the laptop trolley is plugged out when it is not needed and we make sure that all the laptops are plugged in so that they only need to be charged once.

We check that the taps are not running in the bathrooms and that the taps in the classroom are turned off. 

We also recycle our paper in the green bins.

We turn off our radiators when it is cool so we don't waste heat. We also use a towel for spills/cleaning to save the paper towels.

We recycle our small plastic bottles and we make sure the visualisers are turned off as they waste electricity if they are on standby.

Examples of our experiments

We were in charge of making the new school logpile. We collected lots of logs, sticks and branches to use. We were very careful about how we built the logpile as you need to be careful because if it's too big we would get rats instead of bugs and that's NOT what we want! We want lots of creepy crawleys.... like beetles, woodlouse and ladybirds. The logpile is outside our class window so we can keep a close eye on any new developments!

We had GREAT fun on our sports day this year. We had 12 races in total and we were really tired by the end. Our favourite races were the relay races, the backwards run and the sack race.

Ms Halpenny organised a great day for the parents and children of 1st class. The mums and dads (much to their enjoyment!!) got to come into school and learn how to play games with their children. Thanks to all parents who came in and participated, your children really enjoyed the experience!

We're learning about warm and cool colours. We made patterned cool and warm fish and designed warm and cool coloured snakes.

Shape Robots

Using paper to construct robots.

Looking and responding to Van Gogh's "Starry Night."

Using different textures to create the space background, we used bright colours to draw and colour striking space rockets. We made them into 3D rockets by adding crepe paper.

As part of World Book Day, we designed book covers based on our favourite Panda books!

"Is maith liom...."

We are learning lots of new things in Maths this month. We are looking at tens and units and we're learning about subtraction (taking away) too!

Here are some links that we're using on the laptops in our class.

Shark Pool Place Value

Shark Place Value Version 2

Add Ten More

Dino Place Value

Island Chase Subtraction

Rabbit Take Away

Ten Less Football

World Cup Maths

(You can find more in the MATHS section of the IWB Page).

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