Third Class

Miss Maurette's and Miss Aoife's
3rd Class 2016/ 2017

Miss Maurette's 3rd Class 2016/2017

Miss Aoife's 3rd Class 2016/ 2017

literacy week 2017

We got to do lots of lovely English activities as part of Literacy Week 2017, including s visit from a storyteller, a bookmark competition and a book fair. We did a shared writing activity with Ms. Ellyn's Junior Infants which ended up in us writing our own books together. We also did some reading with Ms Aoife H's Senior Infants. We were all really impressed by how well the Senior Infants could read and we enjoyed reading stories to them and helping them to understand some trickier books in the library! Lots of people made a really big effort for dress up day.....even some of the teachers! Thanks to Ms Pamela and all the English Team for organizing such a fun week for us!

science week 2016

Visit from the Irish Coast Guard

As part of Science Week 2016, we had a visit from the Irish Coast Guard. We had a great time with the Coast Guards, who told us all about their jobs and how they rescue people from cliffs and the sea. We also learned how to call for help if we ever find ourselves in danger at sea. They even let us have a go at using some of their equipment! Check out our slideshow below!

Junior Einstein

As part of Science Week, a real life scientist came to Thornleigh, and did some amazing experiments with us using everyday things. It was so much fun! Check out our slideshow below!

Thanksgiving Turkeys....Gobble gobble!

Halloween Art- Goofy Pumpkins

We did lots of Halloween lessons before mid-term break in 3rd class. We learned all about the history of Halloween and about Halloween customs in Ireland. We read a story about a witches' academy called "The Worst Witch". In music, we learned a song called "Dark Disco". Our favourite lesson by far though, was making our goofy pumpkin art. We hope you like what we created!

halloween dress up 2016

There were some very spooky characters to be seen on our Halloween dress up day. We're not really sure where our pupils went that day but this scary bunch turned up instead! Hopefully our "real pupils" will be back after the Halloween break! Happy Halloween everyone!

DIWALI RANGOLI PATTERNS

We learned all about Diwali in our Learn Together lessons.Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights celebrated every year in autumn. This year it will be celebrated on October 31st. It is an official holiday in India, Fiji, Mauritius, Pakistan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka, amongst other countries. As part of the celebrations, chalk rangoli patterns are created outside people's front doors. We made our own colourful rangoli, they have really brightened up our classroom!

WE ARE ALL UNIQUE!

At the start of our school year, we talked a lot about how we are all unique and how this makes our class interesting. We created this lovely silhouette art to celebrate our uniqueness. Can you spot anyone you know??!

OUR CLASS MOTTO BY MISS MAURETTE'S 3rd CLASS

First Steps

This month, the children in 3rd class completed wonderful report writing pieces based on various animals.

Maths

SESE

A FANTASTIC Sports Day 25/May/2016

Well Second class had a fabulous sports day today. We had so much fun participating in; Space hoppers, Egg & Spoon race, Soccer matches, Unihoc, Obstacle courses, Basketball, Dodgeball, Parachute games and even welly throwing. We were extra spoiled when the ice cream van arrived to top our day off!

Busy Working in Thornleigh!

We went litter picking to help out with the Tidy Towns initiative in Applewood. Look at all the rubbish that we gathered to try and make our community a tidier and more pleasant area.

2nd class drew some terrific self-portraits. See if you can figure out who is who!

February 2016

We did lots of exciting things in February like; bird watching, participating in Junior achievements and lots more!

A busy January

We hav been very busy this January learning lots of new things about Australia, Transport in the past, Renewable energy, Mondrian Art and of course making our New Years Resolutions and bird feeders!

Second class made birdhouses with a little help from Mouse and Hedgehog from OWLS!

We had another busy November and December in Second Class. Here are some more samples of our work.

maths for fun in second class!

Our first week back!

Well were back after a well earned break, but it was back to work straight away! We were busy learning how to write letters, doing print and construction in making our penguins for Art, and lots more! We also had a visitor from OWLS - Mr Mouse who brought in Hobnob the hedgehog.

happy mid term break

We have had a really busy Term and have learned lots of new things! Look at our Kandinsky inspired art that we did for Maths week. We also did projects on Italy and lots of art too. We all dressed up in lovely costumes to celebrate Hallowe'en. Have a great mid term break everyone!

OUR SPOOKY HALLOWEEN ART!

national tree day

On National Tree Day, the Tree Council of Ireland gave us a Hazel Tree so that we could plant it in out school. Fingers crossed it grows nice and tall!

Second class have had a busy first month. Here is some of our artwork for September. Muinteoir Matt’s class came up with the motto ‘we are better together’. Underneath you’ll also find our scarecrows which we painted using watercolours!

second class - tree adventure

Both Second classes went out on a tree trail in search of all our native Irish trees. We explored the trees in our locality and identified their characteristics!