3rd and 4th Class 21/22

For the last number of weeks in English we have been looking at the genre of persuasive writing.  As part of this we explore the area of informal and informal debates. We looked at the role of the different people who are involved in formal debate. We also had our own formal debates as a class. 

This week for music we were looking at all things Eurovision. As part of this we had own mini Eurovision where got to the juries for different countries who take part in Eurovision.  We listened to twelve different songs which were a mixture from this year contest and some famous entries from years gone by. At the end we had to decide where we should give our votes to. After al countries had given their scores we had a clear winner. We picked Fairytale which won the Eurovision for Norway in 2009. 

Each day during Lent we as a class did laps for Lent, we also over the past number of weeks focused on the topic of Athletics in PE. This was to prepare us for our Cork City Try-Outs. We are delighted that we can be looking forward to attending such exciting events once again. At extremely tight races we were able to pick the students that will be representing the school.  Best of luck to all the students who will be going forward to represent our school.

We have been very busy focusing on the area of Easter recently in all subjects areas. Particularly in art, we completed a number of easy based lessons. Have a look at some of the Easter animals that we drew and designed. 

"We were delighted to partake in the Inspiring Ireland, Inspiring Students Interview with Chris Hadfield which was done in conjunction with over six hundred other classes in Ireland. Chris told us all about his experiences as an Astronaut and how his journey began at a very young age. He gave us some great advice about setting personal goals and how to achieve them. Some of his stories and experiences were fascinating.  

A big thank you to our caretaker Tim was took our class planting in our school garden recently. We planted potatoes in our plot in the garden. We will be maintaining our garden plot and watering it regularly. We can't  wait to watch them grow over the coming weeks and months. 

Currently in PE we are focusing on the area of Athletics. As part of this we have been looking at team relays, this has included how to pass a relay baton to a team mate while running. We had great doing a water relay in which had to pass the baton and a sponge. We then had to soak the sponge in water before sprinting to the other side of the yard and squeeze it into cups. The winners were the team who had their cups full first. 

Today we started looking at Block Coding in our class. For this we used the Hour of Code website. We completed a number of different challenged while creating code to play a Mario games. We had great fun explore block coding and we can't wait to further explore it over the coming weeks. 

As part of our Irish lessons during Seacthain Na Gaeilge we learnt and performed the song An Leipreachán. Have a lesson to our performance in the video below. 

Today out class took part in a live interactive webinar with a number of other schools around the country. This webinar  was facilitated by the Clare Education Centre. The topic of the webinar was Saint Patrick: The Man Who Changed Ireland. It was a very enjoyable and informative session which involved very entertaining story telling. We learnt a lot of new and interesting facts about the life of Saint Patrick. A big thank you to Clare Education Centre for running the webinar. 

Seachtain Na Gaeilge is in full swing in 3rd & 4th Class. We are completing a wide variety of lessons and activities to celebrate the week. 

Today we we completed a Irish General Knowledge Quiz using Kahoot. A big well done to winning team who won after a very tight and exciting finish. 

We were delighted to welcome back Pat Spratt to our school today. We had great fun and games in practicing our football skills. We can't wait to further practice skills these  over the coming weeks. We also also be looking at the area of Gaelic Games in PE for the coming 

Today we started working on our Minecraft for Education and Hour of Code accounts. We are delighted to be part of this initiative  which is being run by Ireland's Future is Mine. Over the next number of weeks we will explore the area of coding through the use of Minecraft. We had great today creating our own worlds and getting to join into other pupils worlds also.  We cannot wait to explore more over the next number of weeks. 

A big thank you to our local community Garda who recently had a zoom call with our class. The theme of the talk was regarding how to be a good neighbour. The talk was extremely practical and gave us loads of ideas of how we can be a good neighbour.  We are looking forward to our next talk and can't wait to be able to welcome our community Garda back into our classroom. 

Unfortunately, once again this year we were unable to put on a Christmas Performance for people to come and see. However, this didn't mean that we didn't celebrate Christmas in our class. As part of this we recorded a Christmas for all of you to listen to. Each of us got a learn in message which we recorded using our green screen and created the video using iMovie. We know Christmas might be different once again this year but this doesn't mean it will be any less magical and important. 

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! 

Last Friday, we watched the Panto Jack & The Beanstalk which was performed by West Midlands Theatre.  We really enjoyed it and it got five star reviews all-round!

Our Christmas cards that we designed a number of weeks are back are from the printers. We can't wait to bring them home and to send them out to our friends and families. 

For the past number of weeks in science we have been learning all about sound and how it travels. In particular we looked at how it travels through a solid, gas and a liquid. We looked at a number of different experiments when explore sound but certainly the string telephones was our favourite one.

In history we have been learning about famous Irish Buildings while during our IT lessons we have been looking how to use Google Slides. In pairs we decided a famous building to do further research, after completing our research we created a shared Google Slide. We hope you enjoy reading about are research below. 

Happy Halloween from all in 3rd & 4th class. We had great during our fancy dress and our Halloween parade in  the big yard with the rest of the school. After we took some pictures using our green screen background.