Citywest & Saggart

Community National School

First Class Room 9: Interview with Mrs Allison Carter

Nov 28, 2016 | First Class – Mr Kinsella

First class have been learning all about the very important people in our school community. There are so many people that work tirelessly to make our school a happy and safe place to be. There’s Ms Doherty our principal, Karen our school secretary and John our caretaker to name but a few. But did you know that there is a very important group of people who work hard for our school when we are in school and when we go home. They are the parents association led by the chairperson, Mrs Allison Carter. Can you think of some of the fun things the parent’s association have organised for us? There are so so many! Below is a list of things that Room 9 could remember from the last year. Family fun day Design a card Shoebox appeal Write a card Valentine’s disco Cake sake Sponsored walk Shamrock pots Bingo The list is endless! First class recently invited the chairperson, Mrs Allison Carter, in to our class to ask her some very important questions. Below is a photo of Allison in Room 8 with Ms Bates and Room 9. For photos of Allison’s visit and of the recent bingo event, please click...

First Class Room 9: Science with David Fitzpatrick

Nov 18, 2016 | First Class – Mr Kinsella

Science Week took place in Citywest & Saggart CNS from the 14th November 2016 – 18th November 2016. We were lucky enough to have Dr David Fitzpatrick from the National University of Ireland to join us! David and his science team really got us working scientifically during the workshop. We used the following scientific skills: Predicting Observing Experimenting Questioning Recording and communicating First we tested bread, cornflakes and mushrooms with iodine. We used a pipette. We wanted to find out which food went black. If the food went black it meant that it had lots of energy in it for us and was good to eat. The cornflakes and the bread went black. The mushroom didn’t. David told us that this did not mean the mushroom was bad for us, but that it might not necessarily give us much energy to do fun things like playing. Better off sticking to bread and cornflakes. Mushrooms do have lots of vitamins and minerals. We then tested orange juice, water and yogurt for vitamin C. The orange juice was the only liquid that had vitamin C. Although it only had a very small amount. David said he would contact the people who make the juice to ask them why there was so little vitamin C in the orange juice. Let’s hope he gets an answer! Lastly David and a very special helper, made the famous elephant toothpaste for us! It was fantastic. The photo is below. For more photos please click...

First Class Room 9: Ordinal Numbers

Oct 21, 2016 | First Class – Mr Kinsella

Room 9 have been learning all about ordinal numbers this week. An ordinal number is a number that tells the position of something in a list. Ordinal numbers are in our life everyday. Every week in our class there is a new line leader or a new child in first place. Ordinal numbers can be written both as a word and as a numeral. For some photos of our hand’s on learning please click here. Below is how we write them as words and numerals: 1st       First 2nd     Second 3rd      Third 4th      Fourth 5th      Fifth 6th      Sixth 7th      Seventh 8th      Eighth 9th      Ninth 10th    Tenth Below is an interesting video that helped us learn all about ordinal numbers!...

First Class Room 9: Maths Doubles

Oct 14, 2016 | First Class – Mr Kinsella

Number strategies help us when working with numbers in maths. The strategies we have used so far in First Class are friendly numbers and the count on strategy. This week in maths, Room 9 have been learning all about the doubles number strategy in maths. Doubles are two numbers that are the same. When we know our doubles they make it easier for us to add! During maths lessons this week we used unifix cubes to make doubles up to twenty. We even learned a groovy song called the Doubles Game. You can check it out here. Can you answer our doubles quiz below? 1 + 1 = ? 2 + 2 = ? 3 + 3 = ? 4 + 4 = ? 5 + 5 = ? 6 + 6 = ? 7 + 7 = ? 8 + 8 = ? 9 + 9 = ? 10 + 10 = ? For some photographs of our active learning in maths this week please click...