Our volcano erupts!

Today in Room 23, our class volcano erupted.

The girls explained that the bicarbonate soda reacts with the vinegar to create an ‘eruption’.

Take a look at how it all happened!

An Explosive Time!

Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about volcanos.

We have made a class volcano. Take a look at it.

   

Volcanologists report that it is due to erupt on Monday!

Christmas is coming..........

Christmas is coming and we have been getting ready in Room 23!

Our classroom is beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 

We have got our Christmas tree up. We think it looks really cool as the lights twinkle in the dark.

We also made a Christmas Tree using our hands and some green paint! 

We have our class crib on display too.

The girls in Room 23 are feeling very excited in the run up to Christmas and we are all looking forward to it.

Advent

We had our Advent Assembly this week where we explained about the Advent Wreath and that this is the second week of Advent. 

We lit the second purple candle which the girls said symbolises peace. The girls said a special prayer and sang the Advent song.

Later, some of the girls got to go to the Cathedral to see the Advent Wreath.

Science Week

This week is science week and the Cavan Science Robot came to visit in the mobile cinema today!

This morning, Room 23 got the chance to visit the mobile cinema where a science professor demonstrated some very interesting science experiments for us.

We learned about how a rocket ship works along with some other very interesting facts.

To top it all off we got a chance to watch two other ‘scientists’, Wallace and Gromit. They made some very interesting inventions.

Story Nana

We had our second visit to Story Nana this morning.

Story Nana read us some very interesting stories about an old lady who ate a scrumptious chocolate bun.

Story Nana also read us a story about a scary monster who was a vegetarian.

What a busy few weeks!

We have had a busy few weeks in Room 23. 

Before our Halloween break we were busy learning about 2-D shapes in Maths and we drew some 2-D shapes on our class pumpkin. 

Can you remember the names of all the different shapes?

We learned about what life was like at home for our grandparents when they were young.

We even interviewed them. Some of the girls were surprised that their grandparents had to share their rooms with their brothers and sisters.

The girls were shocked that there was very little TV to watch and no computer games!

Instead of playing, we learned that many of our grandparents had to work on the farm at home. It wasn’t all work though. We learned some old traditional games that our grandparents used to play. We tried out a game of “In and Out the Dusty Bluebells”, “Grandmothers Footsteps”, and “Duck, Duck, Goose!”

We dressed up in our Halloween costumes on the day of our Halloween holidays. 

We helped raise money for Childline. We all had a bowl of Cheerios to help raise money for the charity. 

Halloween Fireworks

We were busy today preparing for Halloween!

We were blowing the paint through straws to make some

colourful fireworks!

 

1916 Easter Rising Centenary

Wednesday will be a very special day for us in St. Clare’s.

The army will be arriving to present our school with the Irish flag and we will be given a copy of the proclamation too.

This is all part of the upcoming 1916 Easter Rising centenary celebrations for next year.

When we are presented with the flag and proclamation, we will sing our National Anthem, “Amhrán na bhFiann”. 

We have been listening to it and singing it over the last few days.

Here is a link to Amhrán na bhFiann, so you can practise.

Relaxation

We started our relaxation today.

We learned about some different breathing exercises that can help us to unwind and de-stress. 

Don’t forget to wear PE tracksuits on Mondays.

Learning about money

This week we are learning about money in Maths.

We are learning how to calculate what change we have to give back from up to €1.00

We have been busy playing shop in class and practising giving back change.

This can be tricky.

Click on this link to play and practise some money games.

We are dancing

Room 23 continue to enjoy dance every Wednesday with our dance instructor, Caroline.

This week we got to make up some of our own dances!

Check out some of our moves.

Don’t forget to practise for next Wednesday.

Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup starts today.

Room 23 are sending all their support to the Ireland team.

We learned that the name of the cup all the teams are playing for is called “The Webb Ellis Cup”

Room 23 had great fun designing support posters for the Irish team.

C’MON IRELAND!!

Milk

 

Don’t forget, tomorrow is the final day to bring in money for milk.

Room 23 is moving tomorrow!

Our classroom will look a bit different tomorrow!!

We have all been looking forward to moving in. 

It has been worth the wait.