Saoirse’s Mom came to visit and tell us all about the food pyramid. She told us about food that is healthy and unhealthy for us.
We learned how much sugar is in different foods. We made food smoothies. They were delicious.
We also planted tulips for the Spring. These we have kept in the garden to the front of the school so we can keep an eye on them over the winter months.
Today we planted lettuce seeds trying to establish what we needed for the seeds to grow?
Heat, light or water?
Greenmount was treated to an hour long jazz band performance on the Friday of Cork Jazz Weekend. Fresh off the plane from Holland, Lamarotte had us dancing and singing along. Some of our talented and brave school band members even joined in.
We finally finished our Friendship Project for Friendship week. We painted Lifesize Portraits of ourselves at playtime. We are on display on our corridor.
Féach! We made lovely Hallowe’en Art.
A Jazz band called on Friday.
We dressed up for our Hallowe’en party. We played snap apple, bob apple, ate Bairín Breac and Trick or Treat.
Number Bingo for Maths week.
We baked bread like The Little Red hen.
We had fun pretending to be The Little Red Hen.
We made Dingle Dangle Scarecrow puppets.
Teacher gives out prizes on Friday for the Student of the week, Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine and The Best Reader.
Eric celebrated his 6th birthday.
Ms. Linehan’s Class have been busy creating a Norman Motte and Bailey. They used recycled materials and their art supplies. Most importantly, they collaboratively worked in teams. Beautiful work.