The Sleepy Shepherd Nativity Play

Today we performed in a play. Our play was called The Sleepy Shepherd. We hope you enjoyed it! We sang songs and even had lines to say! Lots of mammies and daddies came to see the play - some nannies and grandads too. 

Here we are all dressed up before going out to the hall.

Here we are in the hall.

Teacher was so proud of us. Mrs. Burke Heneghan said we were fantastic!

Susie Circle

We are learning about the circle.

We say this rhyme.

I'm Susie Circle,

I'm happy as can be.

My one side goes round and round.

Can you draw me?

We made a circle table.

We traced circle shapes in our writing books.

We found the circles in our maths books.

We drew circles in our shape copy.

Listen to this song about circles.

Nollaig Shona Duit

That is how we say Happy Christmas in Irish!

We are getting so excited for Christmas.

We have been using the shapes we know to make Christmas artwork.

We cut out triangles and handprints to make a reindeer's head. We used white circles for eyes and we scrunched up red crepe paper ribbons to make the nose. Then we glued the handprints, eyes and nose to the triangle face!

We cut out three green triangles to make a Christmas tree. We stuck on a tree trunk and used paint and cotton buds to make the baubles.

Don't they look fantastic up on the walls!

We had Catherine from the Magic of Music visit us earlier today. She teaches music. We had so much fun with her. She told us the story of the Nutcracker. 

The Nutcracker is a ballet from a long long time ago. We danced to the music. The girls played the parts of the evil mice and the boys played the soldiers. They had to pretend fight until a show hit the King Mouse and knocked him to the floor!

Then we listened to Christmas songs and used instruments to accompany the music.

Please come back soon Catherine!

Sammy Square and Fun with Shapes!

We learned about the square this past week.

We say this rhyme about squares.

Sammy Square is my name

My four sides are just the same

Turn me round, I don't care

I'm always the same, I'm Sammy Square

When looking for a square we have to be really careful about checking the sides - the sides must be the same size! Otherwise it's not a square!

We made a square table.

We found the squares in our maths book.

We drew squares. We did our best to make sure the sides were the same size.

We listened to this song this week.

We made pictures using the flat shapes we have in the classroom. We used our imaginations and came up with some great ideas!

Our Green School

Our school got a green flag today. Now we have 6 green flags outside our school.

Count them next time you pass! We wore green to celebrate.

We all went to the hall during the day. The big girls in fifth and sixth class sang songs. They were fantastic! The members of the green school committee told us a story about a spoon and how we worked hard to get the new flag.

Minister Frances Fitzgerald came to our school for the celebration. We gave her a big bualadh bos (round of applause).

We hope to get many more green flags while we are in Scoil Mhuire.

Christmas is Coming and Pupil of the Week

Christmas is on it's way.

Look who is stuck in the chimney in our classroom!

We are learning the rhyme When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney.

We set up the crib in the classroom. Can you find baby Jesus?

We made our own crib scenes using triangles and circles. We cut out the shapes and then arranged them to look like Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, the shepherds and the three kings. Look at us at work.

We have them hanging up in the classroom.

Here is our Pupil of the Week for last week.

Well done!

Tommy Triangle

We learned about the triangle last week.

We learned a rhyme about triangles.

I'm Tommy Triangle

Look at me

Count my sides

1, 2, 3

I'm Tommy Triangle

Look at me

Count my corners

1, 2, 3

Once a shape has three sides and three corners it is a triangle.
These are all triangles - check and see!

We made a triangle table.

We drew triangles.

We cut out triangles.

One day we made a set of triangles.
The shapes that were not triangles went outside the set.

Another day we made a set of triangles, a set of rectangles and a set of not triangles and not rectangles.

We found the triangles in our maths books.

Listen to this song about triangles.

Ricky Rectangle

Last week we learned all about rectangles.

A rectangle has four sides and four corners. Count them and see!

A rectangle has two long sides and two short sides.

Sometimes the long sides are at the top and bottom.

Sometimes the short sides are at the top and bottom.

We learned a rhyme about rectangles.

Ricky Rectangle is my name.

My four sides are not the same.

Two are short and two are long.

Count my sides, come right along.

1, 2, 3, 4

We went on a rectangle hunt in the classroom. Rectangles are everywhere. The door, the tops of the tables, the windows, our books and copies, the whiteboard. So many things are rectangle shapes!

We made a rectangle table.

We found rectangles in the shape box.

We sorted our shapes into sets of rectangles and not rectangles.

The next day we put rectangles in the set of rectangles and said that the other shapes were outside the set.

We drew rectangles in our shape book.

Can you find all the rectangles in this picture?

We can!

Listen to this song about rectangles.