Our school has started a school garden this year and we have decided to grow Kale and Turnips. We are looking forward to caring for the plants and making sure they have enough food and water to help them survive. We will let you all know of any updates on our plants!!
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Due to Storm Emma, our trip to Easons Shop street on world book day was cancelled but luckily, we were able to go to on 9th of March. We had a fabulous day of listening to a story being told and we were so lucky to be each given a world book day book each. We also were allowed to dress up as our favourite characters from books we had read. Thank you so much to the staff of Easons for being so kind to invite us into their wonderful store. Over the last month, we started a project on Australia.We were divided into four groups,one covered landmarks, another covered art and music, another covered cities and the last group covered sports. it was very interesting and we had lots of fun. After learning about Tom Crean and his journeys to Antarctica, the boys from Mr. Kerin's 3rd Class designed their own penguins' using a toilet roll and coloured paper!
Congratulations to the boys from Mr. Kerin's Class on winning the Attendance awards for both December and January. Thanks to Mr. O' Dwyer and Four Star Pizza for the delicious pizza!
On Fridays, David Henry from St James GAA club comes to coach us how to play gaelic football.It is a very interesting experience for those of us who have not done it before.The two third classes he is coaching are : Ms Fordes 3rd class and Mr Kerins 3rd class. He also teaches us many skills like a soloing, hand passing and so on. It is very fun and we enjoy it very much.
The liam mcCarthy cup
Will Thornton from Connaght Rugby trained us for 6 weeks and it was fun. We learnt lots of skills and a couple of weeks later we did a tournament in Galwegians. We won 3 matches but lost one. It was a cold and miserable day but we tried our best and never gave up. Both of our teams worked hard and Will was very happy with our effort. By Yanis Tossenou and Seán O Halloran To celebrate Halloween we played lots of fun Halloween games such as Pin the tail on the Donkey, Bobbing for Apples and Snap Apple!
Every Thursday at 12 o'clock third class have iPad time!
During iPad time, we can improve our numeracy, literacy and ICT skills through fun apps and games! We really enjoy iPad time here at Mervue Boys School because it makes learning fun! Today we were visited by 6 little chicks - they were only a week old! There was one black one, a white one and four brown ones. The black one was really shy. Some of them were named after the footballers Messi and Ronaldo. Others were named Clare, John and Roman. We look forward to finding out which were boys and which were girls!
They slip on shiny surfaces so we had to keep them on a cloth. We loved rubbing them and even got to hold them. This scared us a little as their claws were sharp and they pecked us. We had to be very careful and gentle. We cupped them in our hands and placed our thumbs over their wings to hold them. We didn't much like when they pooped but learned that this meant they were afraid. The largest chick flapped it's wings and jumped in the air. When they went back in the cage they went for a nap under the heater. The chicks were really fluffy and cute. The farmer will collect them on Thursday and will hopefully answer our questions. We'll miss our adorable new friends! We had great fun investigating circuit boards. We had to use our problem solving skills to figure out how to get the battery to operate the light and buzzer by connecting the wires to each component. We had to really get our thinking caps on to figure out that we needed a second circuit to get both the light and buzzer working at the same time!
We created static electricity and watched how it attracted different things!
I rith an chéad agus an dara seachtain de mhí Márta bhí Coicís na Gaeilge ar siúl againn i Scoil Mhícil Naofa. Rinneamar a lán rudaí éagsúla.....10 ag a 10, damhsaí, amhráin.... Bhí an chraic againn!
WE dressed Up As Characters from our favourite books!David Donohue, the children's author, paid us a visit
We got to visit the pop up shop "Choco Treats", created by 6th class, in the hall today. We loved their chocolate covered sweets and fruit. We were so impressed with all the work that went into creating their product and shop. The hall looked amazing and the food tasted even better! Well done Ms. Curran and 6th class...a huge big thank you from all of us!!!
We promised you that we'd be back in Spring with an update on our Bee Garden and we hope we don't disappoint. We've been pulling grasses and watering the plot through the winter in the hope that we would find a few wild flowers beginning to sprout around now and we think we might be in luck. We managed to find a few little buds just beginning to grow and we're delighted with our finds. Jeanne helped us to identify a few - we've got red clover, yarrow, dandelions, birds foot trefoil and more.... We even managed to find a few wriggly friends who have helped to keep our soil aerated...can you spot them??? Fingers crossed we'll see a lot more growth over the next few months.
We were busy last week observing the different textures in tree barks and the different shapes of leaves in our school grounds - we took bark and leaf rubbings and collected some fallen leaves and twigs to create some really fun nature art.
We joined Operation Transformations 10 @10 and danced along with our whole school to Just Dance music. We had a ball!!!
What fun was had today performing our Christmas Play. Ms. Wallace was so impressed with all of our amazing performances....
We've won the Attendance Award for the second time this year and enjoyed a pizza party as a reward...thank you Mr. O'Dwyer...
We wrapped up today and took part in the Green Schools "Big Clean". We started around Mervue Church and Grotto and moved on to St. James Road. We were surprised by what we found but were happy we left our community a bit cleaner than we found it... |