Road Safety in Scoil Mhuire

The RSA came to visit our school in December.

We learned the rules of the road.

We had a go practicing what we learnt on the pretend road in the hall. We had so much fun!

We got safety licences for being so good. This mean we are the bosses of safety when we go home. Watch out everyone... we see everything!

When we got back to the classroom we wrote out the rules we learned.

When walking we wear a safety vest.

When cycling we wear a safety vest and a helmet.

When in the car we wear our safety belts and sit on a booster seat.

Christmas time in Scoil Mhuire

In December we were getting ready for Christmas.

We made lovely Christmas cards for the ones we love.

We made winter trees using black paper stuck onto our wonderfully painted backgrounds.

We made clay snowmen and painted them.

We held a Carol Service in the school. We watched the fantastic Junior Infants put on a nativity show. We also met Santa Claus at assembly.

When we came back to school some of us brought in a toy we got at Christmas and talked about it.

Food Fun

In November we learnt about food.

We drew fruit bowls using pencils and oil pastels.

We spent a lot of time getting our still lives just right.

We printed with fruit and then cut out our prints.

In groups we decorated huge fruit bowls. We coloured them with crayon.

Sam Maguire

At the start of December the Sam Maguire came to visit.

We dressed in blue gathered in the hall.

We learned the song Molly Malone and sang it to Sam!

Listen to the song here.

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.

The School Walk

On Friday the 30th of October we went on our school walk to Corkagh Park.

We had great fun in the park.