Christmas in 5th and 6th class

5th and 6th class have been busy getting into the festive spirit recently! Well done to everyone involved in our Carol Service, which took place earlier this week. We were practicing very hard, learning all our songs, poems and lines! Here is a link to the show to see our performance: http://tooreenns.scoilnet.ie/blog/2015/12/17/senior-christmas-show-2015/

Christmas Art

Have a look at our decorations that we made. Our classroom is looking very festive with all our Christmas characters!

An angel and no less that three Santa Clauses! 

Cathal, James D and James G with their creations

Smiles all round: Rebecca, Ali, Caoimhe and Harry

Santa Claus looks good in orange and blue as well as red!

Christmas Characters: Lilian, Caoimhe, Ellen, Eddie and Adam!

Santa's Workshop with two busy elves and Rudolph ready to go!

Marine Life

Recently, we have been looking at marine life of the world. We created our own sea creatures using clay. We used different techniques when working with clay - coiling, pinching and rolling the clay into the shapes that we wanted. Once the clay was dry, we painted our sea creatures. Take a look at our creatures and a poem that inspired our creations!

I Went Fishing

I went fishing,

 Took some bait.

 Didn't go early,

 Didn't go late....

 Victoria, Caoimhe, Eddie and Grace with their 'Catch of the Day'!

Caught eight fish

 To put in my pail

 Seven were mackerel,

 But the eighth was a whale....

Ellen, Daniel, Daragh and a family of blue fish!

 The seven were easy

 To put in the tin,

But that whale caused me trouble

Before I packed him in...

Niamh, Matthew and Mark: Happy with their creations!

 Took my catch home.

 What did Mother say?

 “Get those eight fish out of here-

 We’re having steak today!”

Cathal, Ali, Geri-Maye and Meadbh with their very tropical coloured fish!

James, Harry, Fiachra and Roisin and some of their creatures of the deep!

Emer, James, Rebecca, Caoimhe: Lots of yellow fish here!

Adam, Kelan, Ushna: Marine biologists would be busy trying to identify these creative and colourful fish species!

Mayo Science and Technology Week

Well done to all 5th and 6th class teams involved in the Mayo Science and Technology Week Marshmallow Challenge. Two teams with the tallest free-standing structure represented our school in the regional finals in Claremorris. Well done Caoimhe, Harry, Geri-Maye, Fiachra, James, Rebecca, Cathal and Emer!

Team 1

Team 2

                               

                            

Happy Hallowe'en

Fifth and sixth class have been busy preparing for Hallowe'en. 

We wrote Hallowe'en themed poems - describing Halloween, a trip to Dracula's castle, and trick or treating! 

Also this week in art we painted spooky Hallowe'en scenes - Take a look!

Some of our 'Spook-tastic' Poetry

Great poetry and illustrations

Happy Hallowe'en!

Our eerie artwork!

Spooky castles and witches galore! 

 

Maths Week 2015

 As part of Maths Week 2015, 5th and 6th class completed a maths trail based around the classroom environment. This challenge tested our wits at maths - measuring, calculating, comparing, identifying, estimating and collecting data! Below are a few snap shots of us busy at maths!

                                                       

 

 

Mayo Science and Technology Week

This week we are preparing for the Mayo Science and Technology Week. The theme for this year is '2.0 Design your Future'. We are working on the Marshmallow Challenge, making the tallest free standing structure from 20 sticks of spaghetti and masking tape. Here are some photos of our work in progress, stay tuned for the finished projects!

 

                                                                                                   

Rainforest Art

In Science and Geography, we explored rainforests of the world. We also created our own rainforest images using oil pastels. Have a look!

Science: Plant Life

This week we are looking at how plants and their different parts function. We investigated how water travels up through the stem of a plant, using celery and blue food colouring. Here are some pictures of our experiments:

The Story of Amelia Earhart

During this past week in school we were learning about Amelia Earhart.She was a famous aviator from Kansas.We listened to a recording of a woman in Derry on the whiteboard talking about where and how she crash landed.We made news reports about her travelling around the world. Here are some of our newspaper reports on her disappearance:

Introduction to 5th and 6th Class

There are 26 pupils in our classroom. Welcome to our class blog, we hope you enjoy it. Our blog will be updated regularly with art work, science projects, history projects, class news, school tour information and creative writing.