Last week we were set a challenge....could we build a bridge?
Explorers class had to work together to build a lollipop stick bridge across a chasm of 30cm! It was a glorious week of designing, building, testing, fixing, failing, succeeding and investigation. As part of our STEM activities, we will be testing the bridges to see how much they weight they can support and which team designed an built the strongest bridge. Good luck everyone!
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We've had a fabulous first week back looking at Newbridge and the history of the town. We had great fun looking at old and new maps of the town and it's river.
You can see Newbridge from above here... https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.1714431,-6.8270012,7963m/data=!3m1!1e We wrote books about Newbridge and it's history, built bridges and fished in the Liffey in the role play area and drew maps of our journey to school. In English we have begun to look at story writing and in Maths we continued looking at our number skillls. In Irish we have been looking at the topic Caitheamh Aimsire. This week we are being historians and looking into the history of the town in which we go to school and lots of us live. NEWBRIDGE!We'll be sharing more during the week, but for now, here is a link to the National Library of Ireland website, where you can explore some fabulous photographs of Newbridge in the past.
http://catalogue.nli.ie/ You need to search for Newbridge and select photos. It has been a lovely week of quizzes and making! We've learned loads about the festival of Halloween and looked at our skills and what our next steps are.
I was amazed at the quality and standard of the writing in 1st class. Today was dress up day for Temple Street. There were some fabulous costumes, well done everyone! As well as working hard in English, Maths. Gaeilge and all of the other things we have to learn about in school, we've had super fun this week exploring the world of trees and the changes that happen to them in Autumn.
We wrote our own tree books, and took them home to show everyone! We built amazing woodland structures with twigs and mala and sequenced the brilliant story 'The Squirrels who Squabbled'. Well done also to Jack and Emma, who the class elected as our Student Council members for this year! Have a super weekend everyone. It has been a great week, and we've worked hard to develop our reading and writing skills whilst writing our 'Hibernating Animals' books. We found out loads of interesting things... but I'll leave that to the children to tell you! We are learning about Autumn. We are building homes for hibernating animals. We made leaf prints and it was so much fun. We are making animal books. David was reading to us about hibernating animals like bats and dormice and also bears and butterflies. We cut out leaves and stuck them on a tree. The leaves are actually painted and printed on a page. But there are also some leaves on the tree at the back of the classroom. We went into the forest to collect leaves as well.
by Molly, Julia and Jack Just a quick note to say "Well done!" to Explorer's Class. After school yesterday I spent some time looking at some of the work the children have done so far this year and I was amazed by the hard work, creativity and skills on display! Keep it up everyone!
Today, we learned what our new topic is going to be for the next couple of weeks..
Autumn! We talked about what we know about autumn already, and what we would like to find out about this wonderful season as well. Some of the questions we hope to answer are;
We went into the woods to explore and collect leaves for Art. It was a fabulous chance to experience Autumn in its windy glory! We found leaves, pine cones, conkers, berries, fungi and a squirrel was even spotted! Wake up! Wake up!
Give yourself a shakeup, Get your body moving. Reach up, jump up, Give your friends a 'thumbs up'! It's another new day! Get your feet, Dancing to the beat Get your body moving Raise a shout (HEY)! Let your feelings out, It's another new day! |
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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