Seomra Naíonáin Shinsir agus Rang 1 2022-2023
Welcome to the homepage of Naíonáin Shinsir agus Rang 1 2022-2023. We look forward to sharing some of our class work with you and hope you enjoy!
Active Schools Week
We had the most action packed Active Schools Week ever! Some of the activities included, active lines, daily teacher challenges, horse & jockey racing, parachute games, various races, a visit to the fantastic playpark in Smithboro, a water relay and playground games.
We learned Karate!
On Friday of Active Schools Week we had a taster Karate session. We really enjoyed it and a big thank you to our very own Karate Kid from 1st Class for helping out on the day.
Designing & Drawing Playparks
We worked in pairs to plan and design a playpark. After sketching our design on paper, we went outside and used chalk to draw our designs on the yard.
Mary Mary, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow?
A huge go raibh míle maith agat to one of our wonderful parents, Lisa McBride, who volunteered her time to help classes work in the school garden. We really enjoyed planting various types of sunflowers with her and enjoyed learning about what plants need to grow.
School Tour 2023 to W5, Belfast.
Anyone For Tennis?
We had so much fun learning to play tennis in May. The ready position, serve, forehand, backhand and volley are some of the skills we practiced. Thank you very much to our tennis coach Deirdre.
Check Out Our Egg-Cellent Nests!
Seachtain na Gaeilge - Caint, Craic agus Ceol
Pointillism & Georges Seurat
A Visit from Dale Treadwell
Dale Treadwell visited our school. We had lots of fun learning about plants, animals and minibeasts. Check out some of the photos!
We Wish You A Merry Christmas!
Fabric & Fibre
We handled and talked about lots of different fabrics and fibres and their uses. We created some art using these fabrics and fibres. We made fabric and fibre pictures. We weaved wool around lollypop stick crosses. We coiled wool and arranged the coils to look like flowers.
Science Week - November 2022
As part of Monaghan Cavan Science Festival, a lady called Catherine came to talk to us about how we can look after the environment.
Through Cavan Monaghan Science Festival, we also took part in a live webinar with Dublin Zoo called Working with Wildlife. We loved learning about the different animals in the zoo and how the zoo keeper takes care of them.
Halloween Dress Up
What fun we had dressing up for Halloween. Take a look at our photos from this year's Halloween party in Senior Infants and 1st Class. We hope we don't scare you too much!!!
Maths Week 2022
We had lots of fun in our class during Maths Week. We worked in groups on floor puzzles and we also played board games. Michaela Mohan visited our class to tell us all about how she uses maths in her businesses. In art we looked at the work of MC Escher. He used tessellations in his artwork. The way he used shapes and pattern was very clever. We made our own tessellation patterns. We also made pictures by cutting, arranging and sticking different shapes together. We played Maths games on the tablets too. We did an outdoor maths trail with some of the other classes. That was really fun. Mr McCague came in and played some music on his fiddle for us and taught us all about how he uses maths when playing music. We loved Maths Week. Maths is everywhere and it is fun!
Aerial View
We have been learning about aerial view in Geography this month. Another name for aerial view is Bird's Eye View. This is what we see when we look down on things from above, just like a bird flying up in the sky. We had great fun taking photos around the school from a bird's eye view. Take a look at our powerpoint and see if you can guess what objects we photographed from above.
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We are artists!
In September we drew self-portraits. We looked at drawings of buildings and examined the 2D shapes used in the drawings. We then drew our own buildings using a variety of 2D shapes. We also cut out, arranged and glued some 2D shapes to make a building collage. Next we looked at and talked about the shapes of various buildings and tried to identify some of the 3D shapes in the buildings. We then brought in a variety of 3D shapes from home and constructed our own buildings using these 3D shapes. You can see some samples of September's work in the photos below.
In October we talked about shape, pattern and texture in familiar objects. We learned about MC Escher, an artist who was very famous for his print work. He used lots of pattern and tessellations in his prints. We completed some tessellation puzzles and designed some of our own tessellation patterns using paper and crayons. We also designed our own tessellations using the tablets. Next we made some of our own prints using different print making techniques. We made leaf rubbings using crayons. We went on a nature walk and found different patterns and textures to make rubbings, for example, bark, stone wall, brick wall, tarmac and manhole covers. Next we did some impression printing using leaves and paint. We enjoyed looking at our work and talking about it. You can see some samples of October's work in the photos below.
In October we talked about shape, pattern and texture in familiar objects. We learned about MC Escher, an artist who was very famous for his print work. He used lots of pattern and tessellations in his prints. We completed some tessellation puzzles and designed some of our own tessellation patterns using paper and crayons. We also designed our own tessellations using the tablets. Next we made some of our own prints using different print making techniques. We made leaf rubbings using crayons. We went on a nature walk and found different patterns and textures to make rubbings, for example, bark, stone wall, brick wall, tarmac and manhole covers. Next we did some impression printing using leaves and paint. We enjoyed looking at our work and talking about it. You can see some samples of October's work in the photos below.
Seomra Naíonáin Shinsir agus Rang 1 2021-2022
Welcome to the homepage of Naíonáin Shinsir agus Rang 1. We have been working very hard this school year as well as enjoying being back among all our friends. We look forward to sharing some samples of our work with you over the course of the year.
Artwork
Naíonáin Shinsir agus Rang a hAon have shown their flair for art this year.
We would like to share a variety of the finished products with you!
We would like to share a variety of the finished products with you!
Getting Active!
"Hop, jump, skip and run,
Getting fit is lots of fun!"
We have enjoyed keeping our minds and bodies fit and healthy through our active movement breaks each day, inside and out!
Getting fit is lots of fun!"
We have enjoyed keeping our minds and bodies fit and healthy through our active movement breaks each day, inside and out!
