Mr Kennedy's Blog

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

A super Friday

We had a very special guest pay us a visit on Friday - Sam Maguire! Kevin O Brien and Shane Carthy from the Dublin All-Ireland winning panel came to the school and brought the famous trophy with them. Everyone got pretty excited as you can see!

We also went on the school sponsored walk around the grounds of Teagasc. See the Active School Flag blog for some photos and a video.

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Maths games

Subtraction slide game: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/subtraction

Tens and units: http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers_v2.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/shapes/play/popup.shtml

http://media.abcya.com/content/shapes_geometry_game/shapes_geometry_game.swf

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/ngames/shapes.swf

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/3d/index.htm

Monday, 4 November 2013

Parent teacher meetings

Dear parent,

Parent-teacher meetings are to be held in the school next week. To make things run as smoothly as possible, meetings will take place over two days, on Monday (11^th) and Tuesday (12^th) afternoon. Parents of children in Second Class should come on Monday afternoon between 2.45 and 5.30pm. Parents of children in Third Class should come on Tuesday afternoon between 2.45 and 5.30pm. Meetings should last no longer than 10 minutes in order to be fair to everyone involved.

Should you be unable to make it on your appointed day next week, please let me know as soon as possible and we can arrange an alternative time and day.

Looking forward to meeting with you all.

Mr Kennedy

Saturday, 26 October 2013

Halloween part 2

On Friday, all the boys and girls disappeared and Room 5 got taken over by some very scary and funny characters - see if you can recognise any of them!

We also got into the spirit of Halloween by playing some traditional Halloween games: Snap Apple and Apple Bob. Some of us got a little bit wet but we had great fun. Bhí an-spóirt again!

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Uh-oh!!!

Our class pumpkin isn't looking too healthy - must have stood too close to the bonfire!

What the class think! See what the boys and girls from Room 5 have to say

We are learning about magic e and second class is learning about the titanic. Third class goes to quaid's class.

We are learning about Halloween things like witches and where Halloween comes from. We are also learning about what we eat at Halloween and why witches come to scare us on Halloween. Finally we are discovering how the dead comes alive to scare us and why we say trick or treat. - Calum (24-10-13)

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Halloween

Here's a spooky Halloween song to get you ready for what is sure to be a very spooky week in Room 5!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsyEX9iIN-I

Second class were working hard on a Halloween project this week - check out the school hall for the finished articles! We learned a lot about Halloween, including how it started, why we dress up, what we eat at Halloween, why we light bonfires, and where the name Jack O'Lantern came from!

Here we are hard at work: