Halloween

We had so much fun preparing for Halloween.

As usual we had our Green Halloween Fashion Show. This year we made robot vests. We cut holes for our heads in the gold or silver paper and then decorated them with more paper, bottle caps and tubes.

We modeled them in the Fashion Show on Thursday.

The following day was Friday, the day we were getting the holidays. We dressed up in our Halloween costumes. We looked fantastic!

We made skeletons using cotton buds and glue. It was tricky getting them to stick onto the paper. Here are some skeletons we made.

We played Halloween games in the class such as Pin the Wart on the Witch, Halloween Bingo, The Grape on the Flour, Halloween Headbandz and Halloween Dominoes.

We had great fun!

We had assembly that day where one child got pupil of the week and another child won the raffle for the School Walk.

We also handed out the attendance certificates for children who haven't missed a day yet of school. Well done to them all! Keep up the good work!

We also went on a Spooky Walk around Clondalkin! I think we scared everyone in the village!

Enjoy the mid-term everyone!

Autumn

We were learning all about autumn in October.

We went on an autumn walk.

We collected leaves and did leaf rubbings.

We painted tree trunks and then used the pointillism technique to paint the leaves.

We created 3D trees by folding paper a certain way and cutting it to make branches. We stuck on leaves we cut with paper.

We created an acrostic poem based on autumn. We wrote it out using our best handwriting. The poems are displayed inside and outside our classroom along with the pointillism autumn trees, the leaf rubbings and the 3D autumn trees.

Autumn is here again
Up in the trees leaves are red
The fruit is ready for harvest
Underground animals are preparing to sleep
Migrating birds fly south
Nights are longer now

Here are two of our Pupils of the Week from October.

We started DEAR in October.
Drop Everything And Read.

For maths week we took part in fun maths stations - Tangrams, a game on the IWB, 100 square puzzles and making pictures using 2D shapes.