1st class have been learning about toys in the past in History. The class learnt about the history of teddy bears. They also designed their own teddy bear and made a lost poster about a toy that went missing from the story ‘The Lost Toys’. Everyone was asked to bring in their favourite teddy bear or toy that is linked to the past for show and tell on Friday afternoon. It was wonderful!
Before the break, JSNS participated in Maths Week!
The week was filled with fun activities including codebreaking in 6th Class and ‘Maths on Me’ dress up day. Here are some highlights from the week. Maths week Ireland is an all-island initiative promoting positive attitudes towards maths and highlighting the importance of maths in our lives. Maths Week is one of four national STEM festivals and is the world’s largest maths festival.
4th Class are debating whether Hallowe’en should be celebrated in school or not. They have been working hard to incorporate the characteristics of persuasive writing they’ve learnt.
What do you think?
2nd Class celebrated space week by creating their own mini factbooks on each planet with coloured pictures of the solar system. They learnt about the first man on the moon, sang about stars in Irish, the planets in English and successfully launched a balloon rocket!
They have done almost everything besides travelling there themselves!
Lovely work 2nd Class!
3rd class were recently involved in the launch for this year’s MS Readathon. They were visited by Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series, and a team from MS Readathon. You can read all about it here. Eoin read some of his books and answered lots of wonderful questions.
Find out more about the MS Readathon here.
*WOW Day tomorrow 9th October*
Our Green School Committee had their first meeting last week to discuss and brainstorm all the ways they can encourage everyone to walk to school more often. They came up with a great incentive for WOW day! Children can wear their favourite shoes and “bling” them up if they walk to school on WOW day tomorrow 9th October 2024. We can’t wait to see all the amazing creations!
1st class has been having lots of fun reading a book called Grandad’s Island. They have completed some fantastic pieces of writing about the story and in Art used lots of different resources to make an animal they would see in Grandad’s island.
Senior Infants have been having lots of fun learning about “colour”. The class read a wonderful story called Mixed by Arree Chung which taught them about primary colours and what happens when colours are mixed.
Senior Infants used what they learned to experiment in a wonderful colourful art lesson.
Lovely work Senior Infants!