You are all very welcome to our classroom page on Scoil Mhuire Machaire Áirne's school website. We are a great classroom, always looking after each other and being so very kind and always working hard which our teacher loves!
We LOVE learning and meeting our friends every day in Scoil Mhuire and we hope we can share some of our work with you here, although, we are so busy this is just a taster!
We LOVE learning and meeting our friends every day in Scoil Mhuire and we hope we can share some of our work with you here, although, we are so busy this is just a taster!
Our Christmas Friendship Tree
This year we did not exchange Christmas cards so instead we did a Christmas Friendship Tree. We decorated some Christmas baubles and wrote a message to our friends. Every class bubble did the Friendship Baubles then we hung them on a tree. All our warm Christmas wishes in one place. Happy Christmas everyone!
Christmas Art
Our Classroom Wreath
It's beginning to look like Christmas!
Christmas Poetry- Five Little Reindeer
Monaghan County Museum - Storytelling
Station Teaching
On Thursday and Friday our English is done through Station Teaching. We rotate through three stations of learning. One focuses on reading and comprehension, another on phonics and then we also have a Digital Technology/DT station. We love Station Teaching days!
Visual Arts - Cartoon Character Drawing
Earlier in the year we looked at proportion in the human face. Now we have been looking at cartoon drawings. Rules of proportion are not always followed in drawing cartoon faces, you have complete freedom to draw your character how you would like them. Meet our cartoon crew!
SESE- Science Week - Computer Programming
As part of Science week we looked at computer programming using friendly Beebots. We learned that an algorithm is a set of instructions. We practiced writing algorithms and we also programmed the Beebot to find a certain shape on the 2D shape mat. It was a fun way to revise our shapes in Maths and practice writing and inputting an algorithm in the Beebot.
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SESE- Science Week - Does Sanitising work?
SESE- Science Week - Investigating Bubble Mixtures
Carving our Pumpkin
Halloween Art
We have learning about the element of line in art and the idea of contrasting colour with monochrome colours . In our backgrounds we sectioned our page using a ruler and diagonal lines and then filled these sections with the many different types of line we have learned about including horizontal, vertical, dashed, diagonal, spiral, zig zag and wavy. You can see that the bright colours pop-out because of the contrast with the monochrome background.
Friday Characters working in class
Bob nó Bia- Trick or Treating
SPHE - Bullying
In SPHE we have been discussing the topic of Bullying. We learned that bullying can come in many different forms and make a person feel many different things which can be shown or acted-out in many different ways. We chatted about how bullying is not the same as having an argument or a falling-out with someone. We know that bullying is planned by the bully and it happens repeatedly. They plan to hurt and upset the other person. We read about a little boy called Dan who was being bullied at school but he did not know it because he did not understand what bullying was. We learned that it is very important to firstly tell the bully to STOP and make it clear to them that we do not like the way they are treating us. We also learned it is really important to tell a trusted adult in our lives about how we are feeling.
SESE Science
We have been learning about the season of Autumn and in particular we looked at trees in Science. When we had finished all our work in class we decided to go out on a walk around Magherarney to see if we could see any evidence of Autumn in our local environment and to see if we could identify any of the trees in it. Magherarney is a beautiful place with lots and lots to see. We are lucky to go to school in a place surrounded by nature. On our walk we saw loads of things such as blackberries or sméara dubha growing on the drisheacha / brambles. We visited the River Finn beside Saint Mary's Church and the old Magherarney school. We saw great examples of a coniferous tree with loads of cones and an Ash tree covered in bunches of keys. One of our nearest tree is a mighty oak. We know this is a native tree and we entertained all the neighbours and the tree by singing it our Oak Tree Song!
The Mighty Oak Tree
Art
The Human Face and Proportion
We have been learning about drawing the human face. We discussed facial features and where they are located on the face in relation to each other. We talked a lot about dividing the face in fractions. It is surprising to learn where exactly things are located on the face. For example your eyes are half way down your face even though we often think of them being at the top end of our head!
SPHE- Our Type of Classroom
We have been discussing this month the type of classroom atmosphere we would like to have for the year. By talking about the type of classroom we would like we were able to think about how we would need to be and act to work in a happy room each day. After all our discussions we were able to say what our ideal classroom would be like and agreed classroom rules that would help us achieve it.
The end of the season for Sunflowers
Line and Chalk Pastels
A return to school after a very different year
This year when we returned to school we took time in SPHE to learn some facts about Covid 19. The virus meant that we had a very different kind of school year last year and we are so happy to be back to school for a new school year. Things are a little different but our Mammies and Daddies had us well prepared and everything we need is in school including our elbow-operated sanitiser. We are great at remembering to sanitise our hands and our little song helps too!
