Our house.

This week we learned all about the different types of homess! Some include,
Detached.
Semi-detached
Bungalow
Dormer
Appartment
Caravan
An Iglu
Two storey
Three storey
A mansion
A treehouse

If you can think of any more feel free to comment, or tell teacher in class.

 We learned about local landmarks in Edenderry and we took a look at what it might be like to be homeless.

Below is a video that we created using pictures, recordings, videos and music that we liked.

We had to put the video together in class and 'edit' out any bits that we didnt think worked well. This is how we 'produced' and 'directed'our video.

We hope you enjoy it!

Thanks to all the parents that helped in e-mailing pictures and bringing them in to class. We realy appreciate it! If your child's photo did not appear in this video dont worry, they were not forgotten! There will be more videos comming soon where they will be used! Thanks for all the efforts made!..Mr. O'Regan

Jack and the Beanstalk

Our first podcast

Today was a very exciting day in 'the smarties' classroom. We made our very first podcast!! Everybody got together today to make this recording but first we had each create a book review.
What we did?
Last week we all read at least one book. After we had read the book we wrote about it. Writing about a book after you have read it is called 'reviewing' a book. We 'reviewed' our books under the following headings.
1. Title;    the name of the book.
2.Author; the person who wrote the book.
3. Illustrator the person who drew the pictures for the book.
4. Characters;   the people who are in the book.
5. Setting the place the story happens.
6. Story;  here we write a little bit about the story, but we are careful not to say too much about the ending!!
7. Recommendation;   what did you think of the book? how many marks of ten would you give it?

 Here is the podcast!

You can also do a review on a panto, a film, a story, a video or even an event! If you have any suggestions for anything we could review in class please post a comment and share it with us!
If you would like to write a review up on your computer and post it there will be extra stars for your table after Christmas!

Carol Singing in Dunnes Stores 2010

Here you can see a video of our carol singing in Dunnes Stores. Thanks to all ther teachers and staff who helped out and a special thanks to all thoes who contributed to the appeal. The money will all go towards a great cause.

Chinese myths; dragons

This week we made dragons from clay. We rolled the clay into a ball and used our fingers to pinch out differen shaped dragons. We then made different types of dragons from by using various paints. Dragons come from Chinese history. The Chinese believed in a lot of different types of dragons. Each dragon had the body parts from different animals. Some had paws from a tiger, antlers from a deer, ears from an ox, scales and a tongue from a snake and many more.
Look at the different types of dragons we have created in our video below.

For more information on dragons open this slideshow that we have studied!!
http://presentations.pppst.com/dragons.ppt