SCHOOL TOUR 2009
Causey Farm
Our tour this year was the best one yet! We got to go to a bog and go swimming in the mud, feed animals and pet them, blow giant bubbles, make things out of clay, go on a treasure hunt and ride on the tractor. There were so many things to do that we had to make a separate page for all the photos!! You can find them HERE.
Maths - Measurement
We were learning about how to measure length. Before using metres, we learned about measuring using spans and strides. We measured the classroom and we travelled outside to measure the width and length of the yard. We made estimations of the width and length before we measured in pairs and on our own. We discovered that strides and spans were not always an accurate way to measure because we all have different sized spans and strides!! Our teacher used only half the number of strides that we did because she could stretch further!
Speech and Drama
We performed our poems for Ms. Boyle today and we all did extremely well. We all got medals and certificates.
Material Hunt
We took advantage of the sunny weather to go on a material hunt around the school. We tried to find examples of materials that were smooth, hard, soft, transparent and shiny. When we looked close enough around the school we found lots of examples! We also looked for examples of types of materials - plastic, wood, metal and paper. When we looked at the teachers' cars in the carpark we could find an example of each type of material [plastic window wipers, wooden box sitting on the back seat, metal all around the car and a paper pay parking ticket stuck to our teacher's window!]
We have been busy writing every day in our classroom so you can imagine how many stories we have now! We're going to publish some of our stories on our site. However, because the stories are pages (in some case chapters!) long and some of us spend weeks working on them, they can get quite long. So, we are going to post them on a separate page (click this link or the Writing Workshop Page link above). When new stories are added, we will post the links here so you can read the fantastic new stories and fact books that we write!
Topic Poems
We have been learning about nouns and verbs and have put that knowledge to good use to write topic poems. If you want to write your own topic poem, here are the steps:
1. Choose your topic
2. Create a list of nouns based on your topic.
3. Create a list of verbs based on your topic and the nouns.
4. Combine the nouns and verbs to create your topic poem.
5. Don't forget to include your title and ending line!!!!
Here are some examples of the poems we wrote this week.
The Meadow ~ by Vicky
People calling,
Kids picking,
Cousins playing,
Flowers wishing.
Animals getting up,
Rainbows glowing,
Sun rising,
Trees growing,
The meadow is happy.
The snake aches,
And then the snake makes a quake,
And then he gets a drink from the lake,
"Ahhh no more ache," said the snake.
Poem ~ by Clodagh
Monsters thrilling,
Houses alive!
Children playing,
Football attacking,
Spooky stuff thrilling in the night,
All ghouls say goodnight!!
Football Match ~ by Conor B
Footballs rolling,
Grass flying around.
A match is finishing,
The stage is colourful.
Pigs oinking,
The sheep is baaing.
The cow is mooing,
The hen is laying,
The donkey is laughing.
Jack shooting,
Baby pooping,
Old man snoring,
Do-dos flying,
Spaceship crashing,
Doggy blasting.
Birds are singing,
Bats are flying through the sky.
Birds are flying through the sky,
Bats are singing.
Nature is happy.
They have ripped teeth.
They throw sums at you!
"Ahhh Maths Books!"
Girls putting lipstick on the maths books,
Boys doing kung-fu,
Teachers jumping out the window!
Kids running out of the classroom,
Books chasing kids,
Irish words saying bad words in Irish,
Books laughing,
"Ha ha ha."
