October 2022 – Page 3 – Scoil Bhríde, Crossmahon

Maths Week

Rang a 2 kicked off maths week by taking part in a maths trail around the school grounds.

Scuba diver in a bottle

Rang a Trí conducted an experiment to investigate how a scuba diver sinks! Pupils learned that the compression of gases causes the scuba diver to sink!

When the bottle is squeezed, the water pressure increases and the water is forced up into the straw which compresses the air bubble formed in the straw.

As the air bubble gets smaller, the density of the diver increases and the diver sinks!

When you release the bottle, the pressure lessens and the water moves back out of the straw. The air bubble in the straw returns to its original size causing the diver to become less dense and float back to the top of the bottle!

Maths Week in Rang 5

We had some fun today working out some riddles in Maths class. We realised how important it is to think outside the box.

Junior Infants….our story so far…

Literacy

We have learnt so many new ‘sight’ words over the past few weeks. We love making our words out of Play doh and using our word cards to make small sentences. We are starting to blend our sounds to make cvc words.

We are also working on our fine motor skills using stickers and tweezers and practising our patterns on out white boards and sand trays.

We are building TALL snd Short towers using cubes in maths . We also have been grouping objects in to sets according to colours, sizes, shapes and associations and also identifying objects which do not belong to a set.

Aistear

The Home:

Cutting and Construction: Cut and pasted Houses

Role Play: Played ’house’

Construction: Built houses

Small world: Built houses with Lego

Play Doh: made items associated with the home

The Doctors Surgery

Cutting and pasting- Cutting and pasting Witches

Play Doh: Mades faces with small pox and measles.

Tuft Tray: Children played with water beads and made medicines

Construction: We made ambulances using mobilio

Role Play: we played doctors and nurses to lots of sick patients. The receptionist was very busy!

PE, Playground Pals and DRAMA!!

We are learning catching and throwing skills using beanbags in PE and are loving playing with our ’playground pals’ on Wednesdays during big break. Pam is teaching us drama in the hall on Fridays.

Rugby

Rang a 2 really enjoyed rugby today with Santiago.

Cycle Right session 4 🚲

Rang a 3 enjoyed their fourth session of cycle right today and were put through their paces in a range of activities! Pupils learned how to signal when cycling through traffic and how to recognise different road markings and signs to help them travel safely.