Music week

From May 30th to June 2nd we celebrated music week in Scoil Mhuire. There were lots of activities in the school including drumming workshops in the hall. We had the school talent show where Alex, Ian, Gabriel, Caoimhe and Natan sang The Bare Necessities in front of the whole school. There were also lots of amazing singing and dancing acts from all the other classes.

Catherine came in as well to do a special lesson with first class in the hall.
We started off with a song and dance to warm up.

Then we were given percussion instruments to play. We used them to compose a piece of music that sounded like a rainstorm. Then we all played along to the song Brewing up a Storm by The Stunning.

As always we had lots of fun and learned a lot.

Bean plant update

Our bean plant grew so much in class we decided it was time to plant it outside in the garden.


We went out to the garden and chose a good spot beside the onions that we planted. John helped us to plant our bean plant in the ground and we gave it a drink of water. Then we had a good look at our onions which are growing nicely. We also had a look around the garden to see what the other classes had planted.

We love reading!

We love reading in room 9 and one of our favorite websites is https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ It is a wonderful website that's free for anyone to join and gives you access to hundreds of books that you can read on your computer or tablet. There are also games and activities based on each story so it is a fantastic resource for reading and learning at home.

Silver medals

In Room 9 we work hard every day to earn three stamps in our stamp book. Most of the class has filled their silver stamp book and last week we got our silver medals.

We are all working hard to fill our gold stamp book. If we get them filled not only do we get a gold medal we also get to go on the super swim!!!

Hatching chicks

In April the three senior infant classes got a very special delivery; chicken eggs that were ready to hatch in an incubator. The incubator is a special heated box that helped to keep the eggs warm so they can hatch. The Mammy hen usually does this job when she sits on her eggs. The first chick hatched within a day and two more chicks followed in the next couple of days. The chicks had a special house to live in  once they had hatched. Room 9 were very lucky and we got to visit the chicks twice. When we first visited them their feathers were wet and smooth. When we came back four days later their feathers were fluffed out and they had grown much bigger.

 Unfortunately, the chicks could only stay in Scoil Mhuire for a week. They are back on the farm now enjoying the sun.

Energy savers

At the start of May a man from Sustainable Energy Ireland came into our class to tell us about saving energy.
We discussed all the different places energy comes from and put on a short play about a farmer growing corn.

He introduced us to his puppet friend who was an energy waster. He always left the water running when he brushed his teeth, he never turned the lights or television off when he left the room and he drove to school even though he only lived 10 minutes way. We had to tell the puppet different ways to save energy.

 We are already excellent energy savers in room 9. Every week a different helper is appointed Energy Saver and it is their job to remind Ms O'Hara to turn off the lights and the interactive whiteboard. So we were able to tell the puppet to turn off the lights and television, to make sure not to leave the water running and to walk or cycle to school.
Finally, we learned that sometimes when you are cold it is easier and better for the environment if you put on extra clothes instead of turning the heating up. We had a lot of fun having a dressing up race.

Planting

In April we went out to the school garden to do some planting. John suggested that we plant red onions as it is the right time of year to plant them. He had cleared a patch in the garden just for us and helped us with the planting. It was a lovely day so we also went for a walk in the convent garden to look at the spring flowers and look at the leaves which were beginning to grow on the trees.