Mar 11, 2016 | Senior Infants - Ms Harney
We have been writing our own stories over the past few weeks. We have been using story cubes to help us write our stories. Today we rolled the story cubes to find out what characters and which setting we would be writing about. We had a choice between a princess and a cat as our characters and a house and under the sea as our settings. We always begin our stories with One day. There is always a problem in our story and we also need to solve this problem. We wrote some very interesting stories! Please click here to see some more...
Mar 3, 2016 | Senior Infants - Ms Harney
We had a fantastic week during Literacy Week. On Wednesday we dressed up as our favourite character from a book. There were pirates, princesses, Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf all listening to stories read by two of our Mums. It was brilliant to see all of the children listening to the different stories. Today we bought our very own book, it was very exciting! We also went up to the amazing school library to pick some books and read through some wonderful stories. Please click here to see some more photos of Literacy...
Mar 2, 2016 | First Class - Ms Bates
Today we celebrated World Book Day. We dressed up as our favourite characters from stories we have read. Some of us were princess, some of us were wizards and witches from Hogwarts and some of us were even superheroes! The day began with Jamal’s Daddy coming in to read us a story called ‘Whatever Next’ with us. It was reallyt fun to have a parent read to us in our classroom. After break, we were so excited because Ms Bates told us that a famous Author Gillian Perdue was visiting us! Gill read us her story called Conor’s Cowboy Suit! It was a very funny book and we even acted it out. After we acted out the story Gill took room 8 for some line dancing. We each were given cowboy hats and we acted out different cowboy scenes.. we even…. LINE DANCED, just like a real cowboy. When we were all worn out from pretending to be cowboys, we were given a colouring competition. We concentrated really hard.Fingers crossed somebody in Room 8 will win. We cannot wait to read more books by Author Gillian Perdue! Click here to see some photgraphs...
Mar 1, 2016 | First Class - Ms Bates
Wow! what an exciting week in Room 8. New laptops have arrived to the school and we each got to use them. We were shown how to go on to the internet and how to type in websites. We know to be safe while on the internet and to ask for help if something appears on our screen which we do not like. We read stories to our partner online and painted pretty pictures. It was a lot of fun to learn using technology. We love laptops. Please click here to see some...
Feb 25, 2016 | First Class - Mr Kinsella
2016 marks the centenary of The Easter Rising. This uprising was one of the defining moments of the struggle for Irish independence which began on Easter Monday 1916 with the reading of the proclamation, Poblacht na h-Eireann by Pádraig Pearse at the General Post Office (GPO) on Sackville Street (now known as O’Connell Street). It described a vision for an independent Ireland and its hopes and aspirations for a new autonomous free state. To commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Rising and to celebrate 100 years since the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, the Government has tasked Óglaigh na hÉireann with delivering a National Flag to every Primary School in the country. Óglaigh na hÉireann gave the children in Citywest & Saggart CNS the task of putting together their very own 2016 Proclamation that would compare the 1916 Proclamation and describe a vision for the next 100 years. To do this we did the following: We learned the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann off by heart! We studied the 1916 Proclamation, which was challenging, but with the help of our teacher we developed a good understanding about what it was the 1916 Proclamation envisaged for the country. We examined pictures of the 1916 Easter Rising and developed a sense of empathy of what it must have been like for the men, women and children of the country at this difficult time. We came up with four key messages that we felt described best our vision for the next 100 years. We put all our work together into this very special video. Proclamation Day is on 15th March 2016,...
Feb 25, 2016 | Junior Infants - Ms Larkin
Room 2 have been learning all about caterpillars and the life-cycle of the butterfly over the last two weeks. They read the fantastic story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, painted patterned caterpillars changing the colour from light to dark by mixing in black or white paint, build giant caterpillars and cocoons using their big blocks, and re-created the life-cycle of the butterfly in marla. They learnt a song about the Life-cycle of the Butterfly and put some actions to it, and a nursery rhyme called ‘Mary Mary Quite Contrary’ who grew lots of lovely flowers in her garden. They all chose a favourite flower during circle time – what is your favourite flower? Room 2 are also learning all about capacity, and have been experimenting with different containers to see which ones can hold more or less than others. They are getting really good at ordering containers from empty to full, and have been filling and experimenting with their flower pots and watering cans in the Garden Centre all week! The Junior Infants have gotten so good at their hand-writing and numbers, that they have also begun to use copybooks to keep all their fantastic work in- well done Room 2 on another super week of learning! Check out more pictures of them at work...
