Holiday Wishes!

Today was our last day at school, and we had a great time! I really hope you all had a good year and I would like to thank you all for your cards, notes, drawings and gifts. You were all so thoughtful! I am really going to miss the very special class I had this year!!  I hope that  you all enjoy the holidays!!

P.S. Keep watching the blog during the week. I'll be putting up our school tour video!!! 

Slan Anois,

Mr. O' Regan

The Solar System

This week we are learning about all the other planets that are around the Earth. These planets are in our solar system. Here is a website that will show you all of the planets. Click here to learn about them. Mommy or Daddy might have to help you read about the planets.

World Book Day 2012

To celebrate world book day we dressed up as some of our favourite characters from books. From Batman to Bieber everybody had great fun. We talked about our favourite books and then we went to the library to hear a few stories.
Can you remember the name of the books we read at the library?
Who were the characters in them?

Each child has been been given a book voucher to celebrate world book day. This voucher can be used in most book stores, so get out and start reading!

Here is a video of how the day went. Hope you enjoy

Random collections.

This week we began to sort random collections. We used bottle caps to sort collections into different groups.
One property collections - these were collections of caps with one thing in common.
Two property collections - these were collections of caps with two things in common.
Three property collections - these were collections of caps with three things in common.
Four property collections - these were collections of caps with four things in common.

There are four rules for sorting collections, they are;
Size

Colour

Texture

Shape


Why dont you collect different things at home and sort them into collections using these four rules??

A world of Imagination. Sketching and painting the playground using pointillism.

Pointillism is a new way of painting we discovered this week. It is simple to do. All you need is some paint and some cotton buds. Then you dot your picture to fill in the colours you like. Simple!! Hope you enjoy the video!

Update on our flowers.

In class we have planted flowers. They have began to bud. Do you know what our flowers look like??

We have also brought home our won sunflowers. You can e-mail your teacher a picture of your sunflower as it grows to scoilbhrideteacher@gmail.com and it will be put up here on our blog.

Flower power.

This week we learned all about a flower.  We found out that a flower grows from a bulb and needs lots of light and water to grow. We are going to plant out own sunflower in class next week and we will keep you updated on how it grows.  Here is a link to a game we play in class. There is also a quiz you can take. Try it and tell Mr. O Regan what score you get in school tomorrow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/growing_plants_fs.shtml