Well Spring is well and truly in the air! The daffodils, primroses and crocuses are in abundance, while the cherry blossom is beginning to burst open its beautiful delicate blooms. We have had sightings of frogspawn, and reports of lambs being born and foals being born, not forgetting the beautiful murmuration of starlings we saw in Meath this week. Some of our classes are back in school, and we have a date to return ourselves, so great hope ahead and plenty of new life and new beginnings in the natural world.
6th class, you have continued to work really well from home. You consistently turn up on zoom each day and are returning great samples of work. Not long until we get back in our classroom so let's give it our all for the last week ahead!
Here is some of what you have been up to the past few weeks:
6th class, you have continued to work really well from home. You consistently turn up on zoom each day and are returning great samples of work. Not long until we get back in our classroom so let's give it our all for the last week ahead!
Here is some of what you have been up to the past few weeks:
Beautiful creativity to be seen in Yosr's artwork above and Lauren's photography (below)
We learned about the very famous illustrator Quentin Blake, and tried out some of his drawing techniques as well as learning about his biography. Many thanks to Ms. Greene for her lesson and to Joan for her video tutorials on this one! 6th class did lovely work here! Who knows, we could have future illustrators among us!
We finished our class novel 'Holes' by Louis Sachar. Some of you did lovely end of novel activities which show a great understanding of a great story.
We celebrated World Book Day by sharing stories on zoom, doing scavenger hunts , and most importantly taking the time to get lost in a book that day. Below Aneta tells us about one of her favourite books, and some others made origami page holders/bookmarks!
Mrs Gillick shared one of her favourite stories by Dr. Seuss which encourages us all of the hope of great things determined by the choices we make. We may have many obstacles to overcome but when we believe in ourselves and face up to our fears and problems, we can achieve great things! A great message in these times! On we must go through this pandemic!
We explored some advertising strategies and food packaging and how these can impact the choices we make.
As part of engineering we explored bridges and tried building a structure that could hold a weight.....Some great ideas came about!
Learning decimals and fractions is not easy but my goodness 6th class , you have put great effort into this work on your own!
6th class have done a huge amount of work on World War 2. Here is some insight from Aneta and Yosr
6th class , this is a lovely sample of some of the great learning that is going on at kitchen tables, in bedrooms, and in any quiet spaces in your homes. Many of you also finished up your projects and have put together impressive presentations which I will post up in a separate blog update. I have learned a lot from them as will anyone else who views them....a great way to share learning. Thank you all!