Uh-oh!!!

Our class pumpkin isn't looking too healthy - must have stood too close to the bonfire!

What the class think! See what the boys and girls from Room 5 have to say

We are learning about magic e and second class is learning  about the titanic. Third class goes to quaid's  class.





We are learning about Halloween things like witches and where Halloween comes from. We are also learning about what we eat at Halloween and why witches come to scare us on Halloween. Finally we are discovering how the dead comes alive to scare us and why we say trick or treat. - Calum (24-10-13)

Halloween

Here's a spooky Halloween song to get you ready for what is sure to be a very spooky week in Room 5!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsyEX9iIN-I


Second class were working hard on a Halloween project this week - check out the school hall for the finished articles! We learned a lot about Halloween, including how it started, why we dress up, what we eat at Halloween, why we light bonfires, and where the name Jack O'Lantern came from!       

Here we are hard at work:

  

 

And here are the completed results:

 

 

 

 



 We have two Halloween poems this week, one in English agus ceann amháin as Gaeilge:

Oíche Shamhna

                                                     Oíche Shamhna , is maith liom í,

Ag gleasadh suas , sin spórt is spraoi,

                                                         Cailleach dubh is púca bán,

Cnónna, úlla, agus milseáin,

Ciseán lán i mo lámh,

Bí cúramach leis an tine chnámh!

Tinte ealaíne ag lasadh sa spéir,

Áthas ar na páistí go léir!

 

 

 

Swish goes the Broomstick

There was an old witch,

Believe it if you can,

She tapped at the window

And she ran, ran, ran.

She ran helter-skelter,

With her toes in the air,

Cornstalks flying

From her old witchy hair.

(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!)

 Swish! Goes her broomstick,

Meow! Goes her cat,

Plop! Goes her hop-toad

Sitting on her hat.

“Weee!” chuckled she,

“Hi-dee-ho-hi!

Hallowe’en night

When witches fly-y-y-y-y!”

 

 

Maths Week update

We had lots of fun with Maths during Maths Week. There was a maze outside in the yard, and we had to find our way to the middle quicker than anyone else, and we also had to find a cone inside the maze and bring it back out again before the others did. This was great fun!

We did brain teasers every day, and we got pretty good at them. See if you can work this one out.



What comes next........? It's a tricky one!

We also did some art that had Maths in it. It was based on tessellations, which are a bit like patterns only more complicated, but we were well able for them. We did a Halloween-themed tessellation -  can you guess what these are?

We got the idea from Mike Maloney's tessellation "Ghosts"

A witchy excuse!!

Today we had to imagine that we were a witch or a wizard, and that we had just been caught speeding on our broom by the local Garda. Here are some examples of the excuses we thought up and wrote about:

• "I have to go Trick-or-treating"
• "I have to go and fix a leprechaun's rainbow"
• "I am late to pick up my witch brew"
• "My frog is in hospital dying of cancer and I am on the way to visit him"
• "I am going to witchy Vegas"
• "I have to change my son's nappy"
• "I am going to my baby's birthday"
• "I have to go to the toilet"
• "I'm on my way to Pizza Land for a witches holiday to see the Statue of Pizza"
• "I'm on my way to put a spell on someone and turn them into a fat elephant"
• "I am late to get my fried frogs legs for dinner"
• "My sister is with another witch, if I don't get to her I'll never see her again"
• "I'm going to a party in New York"
• "I'm on my way to a funeral"
• "I am going to Dreamland where all the wizards go for Halloween"
• "I am late for a meeting in Transylvania"
• "I'm on my way to Witch Land to take part in a spell contest"
• "I'm on my way to a magic show""
• "I am late for a witch meeting"

Some great imagination in Second and Third class!!

Maths Week

Next week is Maths Week in school, and this will show us that Maths can be found in lots of different places and things, not just in our Planet Maths books! We will be doing loads of fun and interesting things, like puzzles, mazes, brainteasers, board games, code breaking and trails. It's going to be an exciting week!

Here are a few websites with games to get you started:

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/faf_grade1.html

http://media.abcya.com/content/math_facts_game/math_facts_game.swf

http://media.abcya.com/content/math_bingo/math_bingo.swf

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/rockhopper_grade1.html

Enjoy!

Some new Maths games for you:
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/files/bowlingalley.swf

http://www.ictgames.com/soccer_subtraction.html

http://v7.k12.com/sample_lessons/activities/images/swfs/building_expressions_final.swf

98FM!!!!!!

In very exciting news this week, our very own Ciara from 3rd class was on the Ray Foley Show on 98FM on Tuesday morning. Ciara had to make some very scary animal noises to help Ray with his story. You can listen to Ciara by clicking on the link below. Well done Ciara!

www.kinsealyns.ie/MrKennedys_music/Ciara Ray Foley Show.wma