Swimming

We have been going to swimming lessons in our local swimming pool each Friday for the last 6 weeks. We have been improving our fitness and learning different swimming styles. Our swimming abilities have really improved.

Happy Halloween

We dressed up to raise money for Emergency blood services. The school raised €317. Well done everyone!

Water absorption

We checked our flowers to see the result of our experiment. We can see clearly that flowers do absorb water.

Mayan Masks

 We learned all about The Mayans. We created our own masks by Paper Mache. After we left them to dry, we painted them according to what type of mask we made, e.g. a battle, celebration or death mask.

Space week

 

As part of space week it was our mission to create a rocket using Tangrams. Many of us completed our mission.

We did an experiment using fruits to see the size of the planets in relation to each other. First we were given some clues to help us out. We tried to figure out which was the biggest-smallest.

 

We figured it out! Mercury is the smallest planet- the closet to the sun- the size of a peppercorn. Next we had Venus and Earth, similar in size- the size of a cherry tomato. Then we had Mars, the size of a blueberry. The next is the biggest planet- Jupiter, the size of a watermelon. Saturn followed after, the size of a grapefruit. Uranus is next, the size of an apple. The planet the furtherest from the Sun is Neptune, the size of a lime

 

Library Visit

 

We visited our local library where we had some time to read some new books. We had a lovely time.

Space week

 As part of Space week we were learning about the size of the moon compared to the earth. We found out that the moon is one quarter the size of earth. We measured out the size the moon would be using real life objects. We then looked at the distance of the moon from earth. We made a guess at where we thought the moon was in relation to earth. Then we found out the moon is nine earth circumferences away from the earth.