World Book Day
Look at all the characters our classes dressed up as. Aren’t they wonderful! Well done to all and thank you to the mammies and daddies for putting in such a tremendous effort.
Posts by: Aine O'Connor
Strawberries and Potatoes
A big box of surprises arrived for us today. The excitement!
Inside was three strawberry plants and three seed potatoes. We learned how to plant them so that they can grow. We carefully put the strawberry plants and the seed potatoes into soil and gave them lots of water. Then we put them just inside the window for plenty sunlight.
We can’t wait until we can try our own home grown potatoes and strawberries but in the meantime, we’ll have to make do with the strawberries and potatoes that teacher brought from the shop.
We learned that the strawberries and potatoes that teacher bought in the shop were not from Ireland. The strawberries were from Spain and the potatoes were from France. Our strawberries and potatoes that we are growing will be Irish. I wonder which ones will be nicer??
Magic Milk Experiment
Our science experiment this week was Magic Milk. First we put the milk in a shallow dish:
Then we put in two different colours of food colouring:
Then we all got a cotton bud and dipped it in to some washing up liquid:
When you touch the cotton bud to the surface of the milk, all the colours start to swirl and move around in the milk making the milk magic! Wow!
Planting Lettuce
This week we planted lettuce seeds in biodegradable pots. It was messy work. We know that seeds need sunlight and water to grow so we put them just inside the window and watered them. We are really looking forward to eating our own home grown lettuce. Yum!
Ceilí Mór
We have been practising all week for a big ceilí in the yard. The rain stayed away long enough for us to get out and perform our dance. We had so much fun. Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone.
Pancake Tuesday
Today is Pancake Tuesday so Jennifer helped us to make yummy pancakes. Some of us had lemon and sugar on our pancakes and some of us had plain. They were delicious. We even got to flip a pancake. How exciting!! Thank you Jennifer and Ber.
Senior Infants
Our senior infants have been working so hard on writing independently. Here they are writing notes to their friends. How cute!
Space
We have been learning all about space and the sky. We know that the sun comes out during the day and that the moon comes out at night. But what’s beyond the sky? We learned that there are planets and stars in space. We read a story about astronauts who went to see Saturn in their rocket. Saturn is the planet with rings around it. The astronauts had to wear special suits to go into space. We loved pretending to be aliens.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone from all in Greenmount.
Our Christmas Musical
How fantastic do we look on the stage in our costumes. We performed the musical ‘The Snowman’. We hope you all enjoyed it. We certainly did. Merry Christmas everyone.
