A Visit to Athenry Castle and a trip to the Playground!

 Fourth Class enjoyed a trip to Athenry Castle recently, to see this Norman Castle. This was very interesting, as we had been learning about the Normans. We were very lucky, as the sun was shining!

We went to Monivea Village for a picnic and a trip to the playground to celebrate all of the hard work that 4th class did with Miss Mc. Donagh. She was a great Teacher who joined us for a month.

Term 2: Light, Lego, Clothes and Ducks!

 We had fun learning about Light in Science and then investigated light and shadows, prisms, and how light travels, using a variety of objects. 

We really enjoyed building Lego while following instructions when Bricks4kids visited the school!

We all enjoyed learning about Clothes Manufacturing, the History of Fashion and we also designed our own clothes and then made them!

The Ducklings are a welcome addition to our school - so cute and fluffy!

Term 1 in Fourth Class

We have had a great start to 4th Class this year. We have been working hard in all subjects across the curriculum, but have also been involved in lots of fun activities. 

We started September by looking to the past. We were learning about Schools in the Past and did some excellent drawings of what schools looked like long ago. We also went on a Field Trip to the village and Monivea Woods to investigate minibeasts and to identify trees in the local area. We had a checklist of the bugs and trees that we could identify, and then we drew them when we were back at school.

We were also learning about litter and waste, so we decided to do a clean-up of our school grounds, using litter pickers. We found lots of litter but had fun picking it up.

In History, we learnt about the Ancient Egyptians, which was very interesting. We wrote our names in Hieroglyhics, researched the lives of Ancient Egyptians on the i-pads, designed our own Death Masks, and made pyramids, mummies and sarcophogi. In Science, we learned about how the Ancient Egyptians used levers and pulleys to construct the pyramids. So, we investigated what we could do with levers and pulleys using items in our pencil cases!