Science Week

As part of Science week we learned about electricity. We learned how to create static electricity by rubbing a balloon against our hair. The electricity created can repel objects.When Anna touched the surface of the Plasma Ball the electricity flowed from the Plasma Ball through her body, down to the ground (earth)!

Planetarium

The Armagh Planetarium came to our school as part of Science week. We found out about the sun, the moon and the stars. We also saw pictures of astronauts landing on the moon.

Sinbad the Sailor

The pantomime 'Sinbad the Sailor' came to our school on Wednesday 28th November. We really enjoyed it!

Magnetism

We learned about magnets this week.We tested various objects such as pencils, paper clips, cloth, money,thumb tacks,nails,steel balls and observed whether the magnet stuck to them or not.We found out that magnets are attracted to things that have iron in them.We also played the fishing game.We made fishing rods which had a magnet attached to it.Each fish had a paper clip attached to it.We fished for all sorts of fish in the pond!

Funky fabric and fibre costumes!

Miss Tully joined our class recently.Yesterday she showed us how to create a costume using paper, string, cotton wool, various types of fabric and straw. We loved creating funny costumes for boys and girls!!

Seascapes

Seascapes

We made different shades of blue. We added white to blue to make light blue and we added black to blue to make dark blue.We created beautiful paintings of the waves crashing against the rocks.

Witches walk

The Witches Walk

On Friday October 26th, we all dressed up for Halloween. There were pirates, princesses, witches, vampires, ninja turtles and power rangers in our classroom.Darth Vader showed up too! We went on our Witches Walk around Renmore and when we got back from our walk we had a Halloween Party.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We are very excited this week! As Halloween approaches we have been speaking to the witches who live on Hurricane Street and finding out what they get up to by night!We also found out what they eat, how they make spells and what can be found in their cauldron!We made spiders,trick or treat bags and silhouettes.

Making shapes

We created all sorts of shapes using matchsticks, lollipop sticks, geoboards, straws and pipe cleaners. Here are some examples of triangles, squares, rectangles and hexagons.

Welcome to first class!

There are twelve boys and nine girls in our class in Room 15 this year.

Discover Primary Science Award

We have been experimenting, investigating, observing, predicting and exploring all year long! On Friday 8th June our hard work paid off!We received the Discover Primary Science Award!
Here are some pictures of some of the experiments we have been doing.

Day at the beach

Ms. Gilligan's, Ms. Costello's and Ms. O Connor's first classes recently enjoyed a fantastic day at Ballyloughane beach. We explored the upper, middle and lower shore and found all sorts of shells, seaweeds and crustaceans. We found limpets, periwinkles, barnacles, mussels, cockles, sandhoppers, bladder wrack seaweed, channel wrack seaweed and serrated wrack seaweed.

We also explored the rockpools for fish and crabs.

The class really enjoyed making sand creations. They built forts, castles and bridges galore!

We also measured the length of parts of the beach using the trundle wheel.

We love the beach and hope we can visit Ballyloughane again soon!