We are learning this song in Irish for Seachtain Na Gaeilge next week! Is amhrán iontach é!
Siar ó dheas i dtreo na farraige 'Measc na bláthanna buí 's na carriage Is fada liom bheith thiar aríst i gConamara An áit bheag dheas sin ar thit muid i ngrá An chéad áit ariamh ar thóg tú mo lámh Beidh muid ag siúl na trá le gealach lán le chéile anocht Luascadh, luascadh lena buachaillí Pógadh, pógadh lena cailíní Hey-ey-ey tóg amach mé Luascadh, luascadh lena buachaillí Pógadh, pógadh lena cailíní Hey-ey-ey tóg amach mé Bhí muid ag damhsa ar feadh na hoích(e) D'fhéach mé ortsa 's léim mo chroí An samhradh is fearr ar domhan a'm leat i gConamara Luascadh, luascadh lena buachaillí Pógadh, pógadh lena cailíní Hey-ey-ey tóg amach mé Luascadh le chéile ar feadh an lae Luascadh leatsa mar is tú an té Hey-ey-ey tóg amach mé
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We've continued to look at the theme of Space this week. It has been fabulous fun investigating the universe!
We've looked at the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the rest of our solar system and beyond! In the role play area we have been rocket engineers, busy adapting and fixing our spaceship. We looked at some videos of the International Space Station and discovered how astronauts eat, sleep, brush their teeth and even visit the bathroom! We made books all about space too, it is brilliant to see Explorers class developing their information gathering and writing skills. In English we had power hour and in Maths we looked at the topic of spatial awareness. Another fun and busy week in 1st class!
We designed and built boats, wrote messages in bottles (we were stranded on desert islands!) and continued to explore the world in the role play area. We wrote letters to Queen Isabella of Spain telling her about the discoveries we had made and the people we had met. In Gaeilge we are looking at the topic of clothes and in Maths we were investigating patterns. True to our name of Explorers Class, this week we have begun to look at the topic of Christopher Columbus and Exploration! We read the history of Christopher Columbus, watched a video about his exploits and looked at the history of exploration. It didn't take us long to discover that history is complicated and so there has been lots of conversation about the rights and wrongs of the way that people have explored our planet and treated one another this week! We started off discussing what we knew, and what we'd like to find out about Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration! What we already knew...
What we wanted to Know...
We've begun to try and answer these questions. In our Aistear time we've been creating maps of Columbus' journeys, making picture fact files about him. Exploring the world in the role play area, and exploring what materials float and sink so that we can design and build our own boats next week. We even got to explore different materials using a microscope attached to the computer!! In Maths this week we continued to explore the number system and we enjoyed our first week of Power Hour too!
It was a fabulous week of writing poetry, exploring doubling and halving, making games, and looking at the topic 'An Aimsir' in Gaeilge.
We studied some more poems and made a list of things that poems sometimes have, such as rhyming or repetition. Then we had a go of writing our own poems about our favourite toys and members of our family. We talked about the fact that poems can be happy, sad, funny or anything in between really! We discussed that it is up to the poet to say what they want to say! We had great fun exploring toys from the past and making our very own games! Happy New Year everyone! It was lovely to see all of first class greeting each other after the break and sharing their news of their adventures! This week we've looked at the properties of numbers, investigated the magic 'e' sound and the silent 'e' too. Have a look at this video and see if you can spot the magic and silent 'e' sounds (even though the song calls them all silent)! We also investigated poetry this week and even performed some well known poems in front of the class! A particular favourite was Michael Rosen's poem 'Don't'! In Aistear we've started looking at toys from the past, we compared them to modern toys and we wrote instructions for how to play games like Marbles, Spinning Tops, Jacks and Draughts. We also drew our family circle and played lots of 'old' games in the role play area.
This week we were learning about Arctic animals and we had lots of fun. We made pictures of Santa and his or her toolkit and animal fact files. We had lots of fun in the role play area. In Maths we did hard work.
By Caoilinn, Wiktoria, Kara and Michalena Today we performed a song for everyone in our assembly. We sang 'Toom Bah Ee Lero', a call and response song which we have been looking at during our music time. It was super to see 1st class perform in front of their peers. The rest of the week was as busy as ever, with a visit from Santa and plenty of work in English, Maths, Gaeilge and Aistear. In English we have been looking at describing things and at writing stories. I hope to be able to share some of the wonderful stories the children have been writing, but need to work out how to do that first! Below is a link to the song Toom Bah Ee lero We're very busy writing fact files about animals from Antarctica this week in Aistear. If you want to read about some of them at home, here is a handy guide we've been using in class.
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Our ClassHello everyone, we are the Explorers 1st Class at NETNS. Our teacher's name is David. A little note from DavidThis project website is designed so that Rang a hAaon can learn how to build and run their own website! I will be adding articles and resources as I learn how to as well!
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