We have recently  commenced our Incredible Edibles programme. This is a fun initiative  that allows us to be healthier individuals and guides us through what's involved in  making and growing food. To date we have completed three tasks. We have learned about food origin( where food comes from), identified Irish food products and finally  the planting element. We have planted chives, turnips, spinach, potatoes, strawberries, lettuce and carrots. All of these are steadily growing and we hope to plant them in the coming weeks.
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We recently had a very informative chat  from a Green Schools representative.  During this workshop, we did mini tasks which showed us different ways of Living Healthy and "Going Green." Healthy Food, Healthy Body, Healthy Mind and Healthy Environment were the key themes we focused on.
Healthy Foods- We tried to identify the names of fruit and vegetables. 
Healthy Body- The different functions of body parts.
Healthy  Mind- What we do to have a clear mind and deal with stress.
Healthy Environment- How we can continue to take care of the world around us.
These were awesome tasks!  

We are very proud of our lighthouses that we constructed.Well done everyone!

We were given the chance to   work with beebots.We had great fun trying to figure out how to make them move and to move in the correct direction!

We have been learning about 3-D Shapes in Maths.We constructed our own models   using   match sticks and blu tac.We had great fun.

We were very lucky to have Eileen Grant  come into our class and talk about climate change.

We  had lots of fun  experimenting with our magnets. We tested lots of objects like keys, coins,  cans and paper clips. Some items were attracted to the magnets but some did not attract.   It was lots of fun seeing the objects being pulled towards the magnets. 

Bhí ceolchoirm sa scoil inniu le haghaidh Seachtain na Gaeilge. Bhíomar ag canadh, ag damsha agus ag rá dánta as gaeilge.  Bhain gach duine an taitneamh as.

We learned how to make delicious pancakes  in school and got to help make the   pancake mix. We learned what ingredients and equipment are needed for pancakes. They were   super yummy.

 This week we have been celebrating Engineering Week 2019 in 6th class. We were  very fortunate to have 5 engineers visit our classes over the last few days to talk to us about their areas of expertise.
Our visitors included 2 Biomedical Engineers, an Environmental  engineer, a Sound engineer and an Energy engineer. We learned SO much from each of them and we   can definitely say that this week has heightened both our awareness, along with our interest in the world of engineering. It certainly is a career path that is now on many of our minds!
We would like to say a special thanks to all the brilliant engineers who gave up their valuable time in order to visit us. Huge thanks also to Mr. Cunningham  who organised all of this weeks exciting activities!

We carried out floating and sinking experiments using plasticine, a bowl of water, a banana, an orange, paper clips, unifix cubes and buttons. We tested out the items at different stages, made predictions as to whether the items would float or sink and recorded our results. 

Well done to Fionn in Ms. Lane's 2nd class who won player of the week. Fionn played fairly and showed respect on the yard last week and we are all proud of him. Congrats Fionn!!

Today,  Monday March   4th, we were very lucky to have Sarah and Lizanne from N.U.I.G in to visit our classrooms. They are both studying Biomedical  Engineering and spoke to us about all the  different areas of engineering  we can study when we are older.  They  explained to us what is involved in their area of engineering and  showed us very interesting objects such as bones, knee replacements  ,  a 3D heart and a heart stent.  They gave us a task at the end to see who could build the tallest tower using spaghetti, blu - tack and sellotape with a marshmallow on top . Our towers were very impressive and some reached over one metre tall.  

This week in room 10, we became the proud owners of a salt water fish tank when Pádraic from the National Aquarium came to our class for an 'Ocean Explorers' workshop.
Firstly, he began by giving us a quiz to test our marine knowledge! Then he taught us all about the sea creatures we would be getting, along with how to care for them. Once we had all of that taken in, he set the tank up for us and introduced us to our new friends!
In our tank we have a butterfish, a prawn, a periwinkle, a 2 spotted goby, a hermit crab, a sand goby, and a sea anemone. We of course had to personalise them by giving them their own unique (and quite creative)  names!

The tank will be here with us for 4 weeks and we will be inviting the other classes down to see it very soon!

We were kept very busy working on different aspects of 2D shape during Maths stations recently. We worked with tangrams, pentominos, symmetry and coordinates during the lessons.