Show and Tell in the Senior Room

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Show and Tell

On the 10th and 11th of April, we did show and tell. We had a lot of interesting items such as an old record player, brownies, a side saddle, teddy bears from Hamleys and a cast iron kettle. Most of the demonstrations included a power point presentation. We had many pets in and outside our classroom such as dogs, a lamb and even a hen. Oscar, Laura’s dog was not able to come in this week so he came in last week! We had great fun looking at all the interesting objects and chasing the animals around the school. Do it again after Easter Miss?!

 

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Write a Book

Our Write a Books are finished

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Our Write – a-  Books  are finished!

By the 7th of March everybody had finally finished their wonderful write a books. A few days later they were sent to the Galway education centre to be distributed to another school. At the school they were judged by other teachers and eventually sent back to the education centre with long awaited results. Last week they were collected by one of our teachers.

We held an assembly where the winners and highly commended entrants were announced. There was a winner in every class as well as a few highly commended works. In the Senior classroom the winners included John, Chloe and Simon. Highly commended awards were given to Ben, Laura, Aine, Erica, Oisin, Hannah, Molly, Aoibhe and John. Congratulations to everyone who took part and well done for all the hard work. We are delighted to finally be finished it for another year but it was a rewarding experience.

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Studying Rocks in the Senior Room

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Studying Rocks in the Senior Room

We were studying rocks this week. We were asked to collect some rocks over our long weekend. We found some interesting types of rocks including basalt, marble, slate, limestone, sandstone and granite. Erica’s granny collects rocks from all over the world. Erica brought in some samples of her granny’s collection for us to study. She had fool’s gold (pyrite), rocks with one side polished so that you could see minerals in them, pink limestone, chalk and an egg shaped rock that was emerald green in colour! We learned about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. The area we live in is a mainly limestone area. Limestone is a sedimentary rock.

 

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Write-a-book Kiltiernan NS

Write-a-Book

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Write a Book

Most children have finished first drafts by now. After mid-term we will be editing and completing our dedication, acknowledgments, About the author and front and back covers. Everybody loves doing it. The teachers have all helped editing them. When we are finished in early March we will post some pictures on the website. Watch this space.

Quiz Time

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QUIZ TIME

This month we have entered three quizzes. The first quiz is on Friday the 24th January and takes place in the Meadow Court Loughrea. The second and third quizzes, run by the local Credit Unions are both taking place on Friday the 31st of January- one in Kinvara and the other in Gort.
We have a senior and junior team going to each quiz. We have been practicing very hard at school. We would like to thank Bridget and Rosaleen for helping us with our general knowledge. We wish all the participants the best of luck. We will let you know how we got on in next month’s update.

By Abbie and Jake 4th class