Gardening
In Autumn , we did our part for the school annual Soup Day by digging up the potatoes we planted last year! Its was great to help Múinteoir Cathal and lots of fun was had!
Awesome Electricity!
During Science week we completed lots of Science based activities and experiments! Many of those were based around Forces and Gravity!
We learned about electrical circuits and created our own with bulbs and motors!
Great work guys!
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Third Class Tour 2022
Third class had a fabulous school tour to Awesome Walls and the National Botanic Gardens! The bravery and agility taking on the walls was very impressive!!! We had a lovely picnic at the bandstand in Botanic gardens to recharge our batteries after Awesome Walls and then had a wonderful guided tour around the gardens. We managed to visit the Viking House, Ireland’s Woodland garden and took a trip around one of the wonderful glass houses to spot banana trees, pineapple plants, bug eating plants and lots of cacti!! Check out nationalbotanicgardens.ie for free summer workshops for kids!
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Another busy start to Term 3 with our third classes!! Both class groups got their hands dirty with the help of Elisabete, Markel and Mikel’s mum and M. Paddy! We had great fun wedding out the beds, mixing the compost and planting potatoes. Big thank you to Elisabete for helping out!!
Lá Glas 2022 ☘️ 🇮🇪
Our Seachtain na Gaeilge Assembly rehearsal! ☘️ 🇮🇪
Avril’s class taking some well deserved time out in our weekly yoga lesson with Aoife!
Check out this amazing collaborative art work from Pamir, Isabell, Eva, Sofia and Magdalena!! Great job!!
Well done to this pair from Maurette’s class on an exceptional effort on their country projects!
Another busy month in both 3rd classes. We’ve been working hard on our country projects. Maurette’s class have done some amazing group work in our novel lessons. Avril’s class have been exploring static electricity with balloons. Both classes have been exploring length in maths.
Well done to these two boys from Avril’s class on an exceptional job with their explanation writing!! It is proudly displayed on our First Steps Notice board!! 👏🏻
Avril’s class had great fun learning all about static electricity this week!
Both classes are back with a bang this term!! There have been some incredible efforts in our Literacy lessons, working on our ‘Explanation writing’ and our full size character portraits for our novel work! We have also got the creative juices flowing for this year’s Texaco Art Competition!’
Even though we couldn’t invite our friends and family to enjoy this years’ Christmas Performance, we did a great job for our teachers! Check out some clips and pictures below!
Lots of Christmas activities happening for third class at Thornleigh!! Mrs Claus joined us in the library for a story and we enjoyed hot chocolate and marshmallows afterwards as a special treat!
We have had a busy return to school after the midterm break but we managed to take some time out for our Annual Soup Day!! Check out our third class super growers and their giant courgette!!!
Happy Halloween from Avril and Maurette’s Third Classes who performed a fabulous Halloween Assembly for us!!
Some spooky math for fun activities to celebrate half term in M Avril and M Maurette’s classrooms!! 🎃
Check out some of the AMAZING displays from our very talented third class students!! They have all worked incredibly hard during STEAM month on their wonderful Jupiter projects, our Adopt a Tree exercises, the STEAM month math trail as well as preparing for their assembly performance on Halloween. In literacy we have been working hard on recount and report writing and have researched lots of facts for our Jupiter projects and Spider fact files! We have been busy expressing our creative talents in our music lessons, artwork and drama lessons with Miss Annemarie. In numeracy, we have been learning all about time and lines and angles! It has been such a busy and exciting start to third class, we are definitely ready for the midterm break!! Wishing you all a safe and enjoyable midterm break!
Our third classes have had a busy start to the term! Despite all of our hard work, we have managed to fit in some group project work about Jupiter and we had some great games during Friday’s Math for Fun! We had some gorgeous sunshine on our walk for Afghanistan this week and Maurette’s class worked as a team to build their ghoulish scarecrow as part of our STEAM month activities for October!!
Our class gallery
Our Virtual Winter Performance! |
Have a look at our virtual winter performance!
We have practiced and recorded the well known song 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' for our performance this year. We also spent a lot of time this month learning about Christmas around the world and decided to wish our friends and families a Happy Christmas in all of the languages we know! We hope you enjoy and have a great break!
From everyone in 2nd Class.
We have practiced and recorded the well known song 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' for our performance this year. We also spent a lot of time this month learning about Christmas around the world and decided to wish our friends and families a Happy Christmas in all of the languages we know! We hope you enjoy and have a great break!
From everyone in 2nd Class.
Our Winter Performace
Due to the Covid- 19 regulations, we were unfortunately unable to invite you all in to see our show. So we adapted and created a virtual one. The children worked really hard practicing over the last number of weeks! We each took a different part of the famous poem "Twas The Night Before Christmas". We also sung a famous Christmas song- "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" and one as Gaeilge - "Bualadh Bos!"
The children used such fantastic expression and sung wonderfully! Well done guys! Hope you all enjoy!
Múinteoir Seán & everyone in 2nd class
The children used such fantastic expression and sung wonderfully! Well done guys! Hope you all enjoy!
Múinteoir Seán & everyone in 2nd class
STEAM Week Experiments!
For STEAM week we had the opportunity to do some amazing Science experiments in our pods. We made Lava lamps using vegetable oil, water and Alka Seltzer tablets! They children really enjoyed seeing the bubbles being created!
For STEAM week we had the opportunity to do some amazing Science experiments in our pods. We made Lava lamps using vegetable oil, water and Alka Seltzer tablets! They children really enjoyed seeing the bubbles being created!
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Mouse brought in some pond insects for our latest OWLS lesson! It was great to see the tadpoles and Newts! Thanks Mouse!
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2D Symmetrical Shapes
We created symmetrical shapes using tangrams! You can see how creative the children's ideas were!
We created symmetrical shapes using tangrams! You can see how creative the children's ideas were!
November Update- Múinteoir Seán
Hi Everyone!
Another month completed! Time is flying as the saying goes! We had a fantastic November in 2nd class. The children have worked so hard and enjoyed so many fun activities! We have made use of the outdoor classroom a lot and went on a tally trail around the school as part of our Maths lessons! We used the data found to create a graph of what we seen in our school grounds. We also learned lots about Money and how important it is to give the correct change!! We have been working very hard on our conversational Irish or Cómhra! Is aoibheann linn labhairt cúpla focail Gaeilge! Our great friend Mouse was back and we were so excited to see him. He brought some pond insects with him and we learned lots about tadpoles and even seen a Newt! In our Literacy we focused on Narrative Writing this month and we created stories about those “Deep Dark Woods”!. The children used great imagination and ideas as well as lots of great vocabulary. The children have also been making excellent progress with their reading- aided by our Guided reading groups every Tuesday and Wednesday. Our month ended with an amazing STEAM week where we completed lots of amazing experiments- Lava Lamps, Skittles Rainbows and All About Germs!!
Thanks to Miss Katie for her help throughout the month!
Speak Soon
Múinteoir Seán
Hi Everyone!
Another month completed! Time is flying as the saying goes! We had a fantastic November in 2nd class. The children have worked so hard and enjoyed so many fun activities! We have made use of the outdoor classroom a lot and went on a tally trail around the school as part of our Maths lessons! We used the data found to create a graph of what we seen in our school grounds. We also learned lots about Money and how important it is to give the correct change!! We have been working very hard on our conversational Irish or Cómhra! Is aoibheann linn labhairt cúpla focail Gaeilge! Our great friend Mouse was back and we were so excited to see him. He brought some pond insects with him and we learned lots about tadpoles and even seen a Newt! In our Literacy we focused on Narrative Writing this month and we created stories about those “Deep Dark Woods”!. The children used great imagination and ideas as well as lots of great vocabulary. The children have also been making excellent progress with their reading- aided by our Guided reading groups every Tuesday and Wednesday. Our month ended with an amazing STEAM week where we completed lots of amazing experiments- Lava Lamps, Skittles Rainbows and All About Germs!!
Thanks to Miss Katie for her help throughout the month!
Speak Soon
Múinteoir Seán
Check out our exciting experiments for STEAM week!
This week we have completed a Glitter Germ experiment, made our own lava lamps and programmed Beebots in our pods!
This week we have completed a Glitter Germ experiment, made our own lava lamps and programmed Beebots in our pods!
November Update
November has been a busy, exciting month! We have continued our Guided Reading every Monday and Wednesday and have enjoyed reading a variety of genres and listening to each other reading. This month, we have focused on narrative writing, have written interesting stories and have given each other extremely positive feedback!
In Maths we have been covering data and money. We have collected lots of data from our class and created pictograms and bar graphs of our very own data. In money we have used coins to see how many ways we can create different amounts.
This month, we have started to make a big effort to use our Irish phrases every day. Each week we will be making an effort to use each Frása na Seachtaine as much as possible!
Mouse, our Nature expert has visited again this month. With Mouse we learned a lot about pond life and were fortunate enough to examine pond creatures in our classroom! We saw pond snails, water beetles and a newt! We have continued working on our ‘Irish Animal’ projects, with guidance from Mouse and are making great progress with them! We will be our class’ expert on our chosen animal and can teach others about this animal!
We all should be very proud of the hard work we have completed this month!
Ms. Katie
November has been a busy, exciting month! We have continued our Guided Reading every Monday and Wednesday and have enjoyed reading a variety of genres and listening to each other reading. This month, we have focused on narrative writing, have written interesting stories and have given each other extremely positive feedback!
In Maths we have been covering data and money. We have collected lots of data from our class and created pictograms and bar graphs of our very own data. In money we have used coins to see how many ways we can create different amounts.
This month, we have started to make a big effort to use our Irish phrases every day. Each week we will be making an effort to use each Frása na Seachtaine as much as possible!
Mouse, our Nature expert has visited again this month. With Mouse we learned a lot about pond life and were fortunate enough to examine pond creatures in our classroom! We saw pond snails, water beetles and a newt! We have continued working on our ‘Irish Animal’ projects, with guidance from Mouse and are making great progress with them! We will be our class’ expert on our chosen animal and can teach others about this animal!
We all should be very proud of the hard work we have completed this month!
Ms. Katie
Have a look at some of our fun festive art we have made this month!
October Update
Ms.Siobhán’s/ Ms.Katie’s 2nd Class
October has been a busy month in 2nd Class.
Guided Reading takes place in our pods every Monday and Wednesday with Ms.Katie. As we are already excellent readers we are really focusing on our comprehension skills. We are using strategies such a scanning, skimming, prediction and recall. All of these skills will enable us to become better more confident readers! In Maths we are continuing to revise number and our hundred square. It is so important to have a good foundation in number.
We have been fortunate enough to have our Nature Expert called Mouse come into 2nd Class. With his guidance we have begun work on our projects on an ‘Irish Animal’. We hope to have these projects completed by the end of November. Mouse brought in a live hedgehog for us to look at and we also hid nuts outside which we will look for in spring. For more information please see the website linked here. https://www.owls.ie/school-programme
As always we used our creative talents really well. Everyone performed a fantastic Halloween assembly in 2nd Class. We really spoke clearly and projected our voices when speaking. Katie and I were very proud of the children. We made Bats and Masks for our Halloween art which the children took home.
Overall, the children have completed some fantastic work in October and should be very proud of themselves.
Ms.Siobhán and Ms.Katie
Hi Everyone!
We have had a fantastic October in 2nd class! The children have learned so much and have worked really hard! In Numeracy we have been working on our number skills and looking patterns, the 100 square and Shapes! We did lots of English also and read some spooky stories and poems about Halloween! In Science we were privileged to have out friend Mouse return! He really is a nature ‘expert’ and we all hid some nuts, like the animals do when they hibernate. We will go and try and find them in January! Mouse also brought a hedgehog into our classroom which we were so excited about! 2nd class wore some amazing creative costumes for Halloween dress up day! We all enjoyed our break and was very nice to recharge!
Speak to you all soon!
Muinteoir Seán - 2nd Class
Ms.Siobhán’s/ Ms.Katie’s 2nd Class
October has been a busy month in 2nd Class.
Guided Reading takes place in our pods every Monday and Wednesday with Ms.Katie. As we are already excellent readers we are really focusing on our comprehension skills. We are using strategies such a scanning, skimming, prediction and recall. All of these skills will enable us to become better more confident readers! In Maths we are continuing to revise number and our hundred square. It is so important to have a good foundation in number.
We have been fortunate enough to have our Nature Expert called Mouse come into 2nd Class. With his guidance we have begun work on our projects on an ‘Irish Animal’. We hope to have these projects completed by the end of November. Mouse brought in a live hedgehog for us to look at and we also hid nuts outside which we will look for in spring. For more information please see the website linked here. https://www.owls.ie/school-programme
As always we used our creative talents really well. Everyone performed a fantastic Halloween assembly in 2nd Class. We really spoke clearly and projected our voices when speaking. Katie and I were very proud of the children. We made Bats and Masks for our Halloween art which the children took home.
Overall, the children have completed some fantastic work in October and should be very proud of themselves.
Ms.Siobhán and Ms.Katie
Hi Everyone!
We have had a fantastic October in 2nd class! The children have learned so much and have worked really hard! In Numeracy we have been working on our number skills and looking patterns, the 100 square and Shapes! We did lots of English also and read some spooky stories and poems about Halloween! In Science we were privileged to have out friend Mouse return! He really is a nature ‘expert’ and we all hid some nuts, like the animals do when they hibernate. We will go and try and find them in January! Mouse also brought a hedgehog into our classroom which we were so excited about! 2nd class wore some amazing creative costumes for Halloween dress up day! We all enjoyed our break and was very nice to recharge!
Speak to you all soon!
Muinteoir Seán - 2nd Class
