6th class had a lovely morning with Dale Treadwell of Naturally Wild today. Dale discussed the importance of how triangles fit into everyday life and in grand structures around the world such as the Eiffel Tower. The pressure from all angles provides strength which...
--Creative Leaf Art Animals by 6th Class Room 31-- We had a lot of fun working outdoors to create animals for our art work!
Senior Infants have been learning all about Spring and spring showers. We decided to recycle some of our plastic bottles including our pancake mix bottles to create rain gauges. A rain gauge helps us measure how much rain falls over a certain time. The children love...
Ms. O’ Donoghue’s class brought their learning outdoors. After learning how to read and tell the time, the class went outside to draw given times, on the yard with chalk.
Mr Conlan’s 5th Class had a great time measuring the height of the new Ball Wall for Maths Week. Don’t worry, we weren’t climbing ladders or renting cherrypickers!!! We used an instrument called a clinometer and our knowledge of triangles to calculate the height. ...
This May we went to visit the garden in our local Education Centre here in Navan. Thanks to director, Dr Éadaoin McGovern, we had a most wonderful afternoon! The garden in the education has incredible plants, herbs, fruit trees, bug hotel, pond and seating areas. We...
Junior Infants in Ms. Brogan's class have been learning about mini beasts such as snails, slugs, worms, wood lice and ladybirds . We went on a little minibeast hunt and found some strange and amazing creatures. Then we drew and painted them. We also made some Snail...
Ms. Greally's class took advantage of the blustery weather this week and used their new literacy skills to design kites! They have worked hard to understand the procedural writing process and followed a step by step procedure in order to develop their aerodynamic...
Ms. Brogan's Junior Infants have been learning about the life cycles of frogs and other spring related themes!