Citywest & Saggart

Community National School

Second Class Room 6: Fun with Numicon

All week we had fun playing with the Numicon.  Numicon are little shapes with numbers of circles inside.  It was like playtime when we were learning maths.  Numicon helps us with our maths.  It helps us learn.  We even used it to count in Irish. Sometimes we have challenges with our Numicon.  We had to use only one type of Numicon shape to cover the whole board.  If you used 10s to cover the whole board, you would only need ten of them.  If you were using 5s, you would need twenty of them.  If you were using 4s, you would have twenty-five. Numicons are fun to use!  Numicons are the best! For more photographs, click...

First Class Room 9: NCCA Video

In anticipation of tomorrow’s meeting I have chosen a DVD for you to watch. Your child learns through eleven subjects in the primary school curriculum. Take a look at the following resources for a summary of what and how your child is learning at school, and what you can do to continue this learning at home. Please see the...

First Class Room 8: English Stations

In Room 8 we are having lots of fun moving around our different English Stations. Having stations means that everyone gets time to practice their handwriting, story writing, word work, reading as well as their comprehension skills. Plus it’s really fun which is an added bonus!   Take a look at us busy at work by clicking...

First Class Room 9: Questions for Simon

In anticipation of Tatyana’s visit from the Dublin Simon Community on Friday 2nd October we have been talking and discussing the issue of homelessness. We came up with some questions that we want to ask Tatyana. Please see below.     https://cscns.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VN850464.wma https://cscns.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VN850464.wma https://cscns.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VN850464.wma https://cscns.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VN850464.wma https://cscns.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VN850464.wma https://cscns.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VN850464.wma https://cscns.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/VN850464.wma...

First Class Room 8: A Busy Month

What a busy month Room 8 is having! Last week, we were looking at how much our toys have changed since we were babies. We each got to bring in a toy from home and show it to the class. We also predicted what sort of toys we will be playing with when we are 12 years old! That’s 5 years from now! This week, two of our students were celebrating Eid Mubarak. Room 8 had a lot of fun decorating and colouring in pictures. We decided to give our finished pictures to our two Muslim children so that they can hand out our beautiful pictures to their friends at the Mosque. On Friday, we had a very fun ‘Senses Walk’ around the school. We walked through the corridors using our sense of sight. When we reached the staff room, we used our sense sharp sense of smell, some children could smell the vegetable soup Ms. Bates had for lunch! Outside on the yard, our sense of hearing was used, the birds, the luas, and cars passing were all heard by our students. Our ‘Senses Walk’ was completed with the children tasting their delicious lunches before yard time.   Pictures to follow....

Senior Infants Room 7: Me, Myself and I!

We have had so much fun exploring the theme of “Myself” in Senior Infants. We played a great game of guess who with our baby photographs! We also wrote about the ways we have changed since we were a baby. We also painted great self portraits! Please click here to see more...