Fun!!!

We have had a busy week! At the end of last week, Kay came in to do some gardening with us and we got to sow some seeds!

We went on our school tour to Let's Go! in NUIG.

And we also had our school sports day! We had running races, a sack race, a potato and spoon race and a three-legged race! We all got medals for taking part and ice-cream!

Luckily for us we had amazing weather for all our activities!!!

Tom Cuffe

Tom Cuffe came to our class to teach us about different types of birds. We learned about fast birds, large birds and dangers that birds face everyday. We also drew our own Grey Herons. Thanks, Tom!

Hip-Hop

We were very lucky this week as we got to go to hip-hop dancing with Fabienne! We had loads of fun!

Hallowe'en Walk

We dressed up for our Hallowe'en walk before mid-term break. We walked around Renmore. We had lots of fun!

Ballybane Library

We were very lucky to be able to go to Ballybane Library last week. We got to meet author Carmel Ui Cheallaigh and listen to her as she read from some of her books. She also gave us some lovely colouring pages to take with us.

Maths Week

Last week was Maths Week. We did lots of fun maths games and activities throughout the week.

As it is Coding Week this week, we have been experimenting with our own coding in class. We had loads of fun programming using 'Kodables' on the iPad and on the laptop.

The good news is that we can try programming at home!!! We just need to download the software from 'Kodable' and enter our class code, which is renmore15. All our names are there for us to go on our own coding adventure!

On Monday, we took part in Hip Hop dancing with Fabienne! We had loads of fun! It was great to get some exercise and have fun at the same time.

September in Our New Class

Welcome to our new blog!

We are settled back into school now and we wanted to share with you some activities we got up to during our first month in First Class!

Galway were playing in the All-Ireland Hurling Final in September. We made and painted Galway jerseys (maroon and white) to support them. Sadly, they didn't win this time but we will be ready to support them again next year.

We also had a fun afternoon gardening with Kay. We all got a chance to plant some daffodil seeds. We will keep an eye on them and watch their progress over the next few months.

School tour

We went on our school tour today! We got the bus to the Kingfisher in NUIG for an action packed day filled with fun activities. We really enjoyed our trip and were all very tired when we got back!!!

Hurling blitz

We went to a fun hurling blitz at Liam Mellow's today, where we played with the other first classes. We had loads of fun, and what a day we had...the sun was splitting the rocks! We all got a medal for taking part. Thanks Timmy for a great day!

Music in the Classroom

Today, we went to Leisureland to watch the RTE concert orchestra perform 'Music in the Classroom.' We had great fun! We had spent the last few weeks learning the songs so we were well prepared for the performance. 

Explorer's Education Programme

Noirin came back to visit us today and to teach us some more about marine life. We learned lots of big words - one was 'camouflage.' We then did a fun activity where we cut out shapes from newspaper and tried to camouflage them onto another sheet of newspaper!

Noirin looked at our project which was about seahorses. We learned lots about seahorses when doing our project. Did you know that seahorses swim upright and that they are the slowest fish in the ocean?

Finally, Noirin showed us a diagram of a squid, before producing a real squid for us to examine! We took turns holding him before Noirin cut him open so we could see inside him! We even got to write using his ink!

Before Noirin left she presented us with a certificate for taking part in the Explorer's Education Programme. We had great fun. Thanks, Noirin!

Marine science fun!

Today, Noirin from the Explorer's Project came into our class to talk to us about marine science. She showed us some dried sea creatures, including a starfish, a seahorse, a sea snail and a set of shark's teeth! We then did an experiment to determine whether fresh water is heavier than salt water. 

We put red food colouring in the salt water and as you can see, we discovered it is heavier than fresh water!

The Bug Doctor!

Today we had a visit from the bug doctor! What a fun surprise! We went to the hall where we met Michel.

Firstly, Michel showed us a real, live tarantula! He explained that the tarantula is an arachnid who won't attack unless he feels threatened.

Then, we saw a scorpion. Some of us were very brave and held the scorpion in our hands!!!

Michel then passed around some millipedes. We thought they tickled us with all of their legs!

Then we saw some stick insects, a lizard and a snake!!! We scratched the lizard's back (which was quite sharp) and felt the snake (he was very rubbery!)

We had so much fun at the bug doctor today. Thanks, Michel!