Sumdog

Here is the link to the Sumdog games

http://www.sumdog.com/

Your username and password are the same, and the school name is kinsealy. Use small letters for everything.

Enjoy!

An interesting visitor

Today we had Éanna Ní Lamhna from the radio show "Mooney Goes Wild" in with us to talk about wildlife, and creepy crawlies in particular. She told us lots of interesting information about spiders, including:

- spider's legs are on their head
- they have 8 eyes
- they have a special oil on their feet to stop them getting stuck on their own web
- they are cannibals, which means they eat other spiders
- when they want to have a baby with another spider, the male will bring a dead fly with him for the female to eat, instead of getting eaten himself
- black widows are spiders in America which eat their husbands!

She answered lots of our questions and also had a few examples of tarantulas (dead ones!) to show us. Thanks for coming in to see us Éanna!

Check out the RTE website here to see a special webcam video of birds in a nest:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/mooney/generic/2014/0512/616779-nestwatch-2014/

Nice jersey!

Ciara recently had the Dublin football team at her club, Parnells, and she was lucky enough to get her jersey signed by some of the players. Go on the Dubs!

Flappy birds

Would you like to make your own game? Click on this link to find out how.

http://learn.code.org/flappy/1

Gaelic football lessons

On Thursday we had Paddy in to teach us some Gaelic football. This was the first of a few weeks that he will be with us. We really enjoyed it, apart from when it started to lash rain at the end!

 

Calling all Minecraft fans

Are you into Minecraft? Yes? Well our very own Calum has put together some super (and helpful) YouTube videos explaining how he does in Minecraft. A big thank you and congrats to Calum for doing this, a pretty cool thing to be able to do, I think we'll all agree. Check them out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYb6pTezv9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnuIPx4VEpU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9B5eNV2K-Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3DIV4ssynE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drCDYsTdtSU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfrP9WwpmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDPpDqMncU

Magnets

Today we were learning all about magnets. We had two tasks to do. The first was to see how strong different magnets were, and we measured this by seeing how many paper clips we could hang from a magnet, which was taped to the end of a table. It was quite tricky to get them to stick together, and we needed steady hands! See if you can count how many we got to stick together.

 

 


Our second task was again about checking how strong magnets were, but this time we had to test them through different objects, like our desks and rulers, and see if they would stick pick up the paper clips. Some of the results were pretty cool!

http://youtu.be/OrKbikOdjYg

http://youtu.be/zcxA0hg4BAg