Our Favourite Christmas thing

We had a class vote to see what Christmas thing we like the most.We chose between presents,trees,reindeer,Santa and snowmen.Santa won by  a  mile!

Handa's Surprise and fruit printing

After hearing about life in Chad, we read a lovely story called Handa's Surprise where we saw pictures of delicious fruit that grows in Africa.Then we did prints with fruit like pineapple,bananas,apples and passion fruit.

A visit from Captain Tom

A soldier called Captain Tom visited us recently.He spoke about army training and the work the army does in Ireland.Soldiers get to jump out of planes on parachutes!He also told us about the time he visited  Chad in Africa and what life was like over there.He showed us great photographs.

He taught the children how to do an army salute.The children loved his visit!

Rockets in fabric and fibre

After our rockets experiment, we read a story about a little bear who flies to the moon in a home made rocket.Then we made our own rockets using sparkly crepe paper  and felt.

Fizzy Rockets!

We did a rocket experiment with Vitamin c tablets recently.We added water to full tablets,half tablets,and sometimes two or three tablets ,put the lid on and then counted down to blast off! It was exciting.Sometimes it took ten seconds.Sometimes it only took two.

Halloween and Witch's Walk

We made bats for Halloween to make our room spookier for our resident witch Flutterella.
We played a game with our reader words where we had to guess what word was on our backs.The children were very good at it.
Today we had our witch's walk - our classroom was full of skeletons and witches and monsters and other spooky creatures.It was sunny but cold during the walk - one little witch said she was frozen to bits.We had a quick game of Spooky Spooky(a gruesome version of Hokey Pokey) to warm us up when we got back .
First and Second Class did a fantastic Thriller dance in the yard which the children loved.Happy Halloween!

Flutterella the witch

A witch called Flutterella has been staying with us the past while -her broomstick is broken and she is waiting for it to be fixed.We don't see her but she leaves us notes,spooky things and treats  and does magic spells in our room.We made up a spell to help her the other day.She left us smelly cabbage and told us to use it - so we did an experiment with it today to see if things were acid or alkali.She also left us an inflatable pumpkin -we threw it to each other outside.It's fun having a witch to stay!