Winter Art

All wrapped up for Winter!

Take a look at our winter outfits we designed, we have lots of woolly hats and scarves to keep out the cold!

Animals Homes

First class have been learning about badger's homes and foxes homes.

A badger coming out from the sett

 Badgers live in a sett underground. They are very clean animals, they even have an outside toilet!
They have lots of tunnels in their sett, as well as a chamber for the cubs to sleep in.
As well as learning about their homes, we learned some interesting facts about badgers:

• They are nocturnal.
• They have a good sense of smell and hearing.
• Badgers can live for up to 25 years
• Badgers are protected animals.
• Their tails can be up to 30cm long.

Foxes live in a den called an earth. Sometimes they dig their own, or move into an old rabbit burrow or badger sett!

When we did our K.W.L chart, we had lots of questions about foxes. Here are some of the things we found out:

• Foxes can have up to 13 cubs.
• They live for 4-6 years.
• There are over 48 different types of foxes in the world.
• A fox has 42 very sharp teeth!
• Their bushy tail is called a brush, it helps them balance and keeps them warm in the winter.

A young fox entering the earth

Here are some of the plans we drew for foxes and badgers homes:

Keep an eye out for these Irish animals and more when you are out and about! Follow the link to find out more about our native animals http://www.mammals-in-ireland.ie/species

Length

This week in maths, we are exploring length. Both classes have been busy estimating and measuring different items around the classroom. We have used crayons, cubes and lollipop sticks to measure how long things are. Length is always the longest side and we always guess first! Can you see below what we are measuring? What do you think is the longest item in our classroom?

Christmas Play

The Christmas play will be held on the 15th of December at 1.15pm for Infants and 1st class. We are busy learning lots of songs for our play, including 'Little Donkey'.
Click on the video below to practice!

2D Shapes

Senior Infants and First class have been learning all about 2D shapes. 2D shapes are all flat shapes.
Lots of shapes were sorted into groups by the Senior Infants, and later they made robots out of squares, rectangles, circles and triangles!
First class made some rockets that are shooting to the moon, take a look below!

A circle goes round and round and no end can be found!
A rectangle has 2 long sides and 2 short sides!

A triangle has 3 sides that meet at 3 points.
A square has 4 sides all the same size

1st class rockets! What shapes can you see?