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As we come to the end of a busy and exciting term in Second Class, we are delighted to look back on all the wonderful learning and festive fun we have shared together.

One of the highlights of our month was taking part in our Christmas concert, Christmas with the Aliens. The children sang, acted, and performed with great confidence and enthusiasm, and we are so proud of all their hard work.

Throughout December, the classroom was full of creativity as we completed lots of festive art activities, decorating our room with colour, sparkle, and Christmas cheer. We also enjoyed learning about Christmas traditions in our families and around the world, discovering how people celebrate in many different ways.

In literacy, we worked on persuasive writing, using our best reasoning skills to write thoughtful and convincing letters to Santa—our arguments were very strong this year! In maths, we learned about money, subtraction and number patterns.

We also took part in our Communion enrolment preparation, beginning our journey toward this special sacrament.

Earlier in the term, we celebrated Science Week, carrying out fun investigations and exploring how things work. We also marked Anti-Bullying Week, learning the importance of kindness, inclusion, and speaking up for ourselves and others.

A big thank you also to the Parents’ Council for organising a fantastic treat bag and donuts. We enjoyed watching a Christmas movie together.  

It has been a term full of learning, laughter and festive spirit. Well done, Second Class, for your hard work and wonderful enthusiasm.  

Thanks to Linda for all her help in the classroom and on yard.

Happy Christmas everyone!

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In Literacy, we read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We loved this book and the characters in it. We had many laughs together reading about the funny incidents in the book. We designed wrappers for our own chocolate bar and we watched the movie once we were finished the book. This was a big highlight of the term!

We worked on Recount Writing and wrote excellent stories about A Scarecrow. We also spent time exploring characters and settings.

In Maths we explored open-ended tasks and counting activities. We loved discussing the various solutions that we came up. We also explored 2-d shapes and went on a shape hunt around the school. During Maths week we played games and participated in various activities.

Music Generation is back! This has been so much fun. We learned about tempo, music symbols and beat. Thank you Chloe for visiting us every Thursday.

Earlier in the term, we celebrated International Dot Day. We listened to ‘The Dot’ story and we were so creative and used our brilliant imaginations to create our own dot art.

In Science, we learned about mini beasts and materials on our school grounds. We went on hunts to explore our school grounds and found lots of interesting information.

In P.E. we were working on athletics. We participated in various activities such as hurdles, long jump, javelin throwing and races. We were also so lucky to have football training. We are learning lots of new skills and rules of the game. Thank you Cillian and Peter for our fun training sessions.

Stay tuned for more!

Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh!

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Nollaig Shona Daoibh ó Rang aTrí!

The children have worked super hard this term and are looking forward to a well-deserved break! The Christmas Show was a huge success and they should be proud of their performance!

This past month, we completed a study on Emperor Penguins and Antarctica which linked into lots of subject areas. We learned about Antarctica in Geography lessons, Emperor Penguins in Science. We read and discussed a story called ‘The Emperor’s Egg’ in English and took notes of interesting facts and information. We then drew baby emperor penguins with charcoal, using a smudging technique and glued them to a beautiful, icy blue background. We had lots of fun with this theme.

In English,we have been working on our Persuasive Writing. We took part in our very own Junior Dragon’s Den. The children used old cereal boxes as inspiration to come up with their very own cereal. They had to think of a brand name, flavour, price and about the nutritional value of their product. They then wrote out their persuasive texts in their copies and read them aloud to the class, aiming to convince their teacher and peers to buy their cereal. It was very interesting to see their imaginations flow!

Sticking with the winter theme, we also wrote Christmas Senses Poems which we shared with our classmates. Ms.McMahon was very impressed with our poetry writing skills. We made some beautiful artwork including bears in Christmas jumpers which linked in with Christmas Jumper Day. We even designed special Christmas cards which were delivered to the residents in Askeaton Nursing home to wish them a safe and happy Christmas.

We have been busy learning our multiplication tables all term and work hard daily practicing them in class. We particularly enjoy playing Tables Games like ‘Hit the Button’ and‘King/Queen of the Tables’ and ‘Daily Ten’. Knowing our Times Tables well has really helped with our maths work in Fractions and Problem Solving this month.

We were lucky enough to get to go on two school trips this month. Firstly, we were invited to watch ‘Back to the 80’s’ in L.I.T which was performed by students in Pallaskenry secondary school. It was fantastic! We also got to attend the Panto in Mary Immaculate College to see Aladdin. It was an excellent day out for the whole school.

3^rd class completed the Hot Chocolate Challenge. Through hard work and good behaviour,they collectively earned a delicious mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows, a candy cane and a chocolate on their last day of school. Maith Sibh !

We would like to give a special word of thanks to our wonderful SNA Marian who is in our classroom each morning and afternoon. She is super helpful and so kind to us and we are lucky to have her. 

Wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Welcome to Rang a 3! What an enjoyable,productive first term we have had. The children have settled back in and are happy to be back playing with their friends and everyone has made a super effort in all subject areas.

In Literacy, we were learning how to write a recount story. We planned, drafted, wrote, and published a story about a special day in our lives. The class enjoyed listening to excellent pieces about communions, birthday parties and day trips. There has been an autumnal vibe in third class the past few weeks. We love reciting ‘An Autumn Poem’ by Elsie N. Bradyand adding bits and pieces to our ‘Autumnal Treasures’ table. Thank you to all the children for finding colourful leaves, brown conkers, and shiny acorns.Well done Gemma for finding a bird’s nest. Thank you Henry and Amelia for the wonderful plants also. Things are getting spooky in rang a trí. A poem ‘The Witch’ by Jack Prelutsky linked into a directed art drawing of a frightening wicked witch casting evils spells on her broomstick. We played dictionary races to look up the key vocabulary from the poem.

In Art, the children used a printing technique to design some beautiful autumn leaves. See the photos of our wonderful work! Internation Dot Day Art was inspired by listening to the audio book ‘The Dot’by Peter H. Reynolds. Imagination and creativity flowed for this lesson! We learned how to sketch our self portraits while also learning about lines of symmetry. It was a tricky lesson but they turned out amazing.

Maths lessons have been full of hands on learning and interactive games this term. We practice our multiplication tables daily in class by playing Hit the Button/King and Queen of the tables and Buzz.We all took part in fun Maths week activities such as a class quiz, a scavenger hunt and building a tower with spaghetti and marshmallows. Well done to all the groups for working collaboratively to design and build sturdy structures. It was also super fun creating our own individual tangram animals and then sticking them together, so it became a while class tangram jigsaw! 3^rd class now know the difference between regular and irregular shapes and have been practicing place value, addition, and subtraction.

In Gaeilge, we learned vocabulary about Mé Féin, An Fómhar and Oíche Shamhna. We played bingo, Cluiche Kim, Deir Ó Ghrádaigh and Feicim le mo shúílín. We also learned some lovely new poems and songs- Shiúil Mé, Mo Mhála Scoile, Dilín O Deamhas, An Damhán Alla. The children are always complimented by guests who come into our room as they love to greet everyone with ‘Dia Duit’ and ‘Conas atá tú?’. Great job Josh on the huge effort you make to greet people!

We have a skilled and talented group of children in Rang a trí. Brendan and Dante loved showing a catapult they designed and made to the class. Very Cool! Lexi has been overseeing the growth of a bulb in our classroom. We are monitoring its progress daily. She likes to keep us guessing as to what flower it will be.

In History, we learned all about the Stone Age and how people lived in Ireland during that time. We examined some artefacts and watched an interesting video. The children had a quiz at the end to test their knowledge!

We have enjoyed using the fabulous athletics equipment which we received from the Limerick Sports Partnership. The children have been practicing their running, jumping, throwing, and catching in the Astro Turf.

Wednesdays are very busy days. 3^rd class can now count to 10, spell out their names and show their favourite hobbies through sign language. Well done everyone! We have learned how to clap beats to cool songs with Aoife and Nora from Music Generation. This will help learning our Peace Prom songs for the concert in UL in January which we are very excited for.

Thank you to our SNA Marian who has been super helpful all term. We love having her in the classroom. We are really looking forward to next term already!

Have an amazing Halloween everyone! Your costumes will be super!

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