In Science the girls were learning about materials used in our homes. They investigated lots of materials and sorted them into venn diagrams showing hard/soft, flexible/rigid and transparent/opaque.

They were quite creative in Visual Arts designing and making soft toys using fabric and fibre.

We had a lovely SPHE lesson where the girls brought in some photos of their lives through time. We put these in a human/photo timeline and used this to discuss how we have all grown and changed in so many ways over time.

We continued learning about materials used to build houses in Ireland in Science class. We investigated lots of different materials such as wood, plastic, iron, glass, fabric. We tested how strong they were, how flexible, how waterproof, and recorded our findings on a table.

We spent a few weeks creating string prints using string, glue and card in Visual Arts, and when they were dried we used printing ink and rollers to print our images. We also continued with the printing strand and did some monoprints.

We created some family stories in History of what life was like in the past when our parents and grandparents were young and made these into a class book for our library.

In the lead up to Christmas we used lots of household materials in Visual Arts to invent a snow mobile. It was a lot of fun (and mess!), team work and very interesting creations.

We investigated a number of materials in Science to find out which materials were better conductors of heat and better insulators.

In Geography we learned about the lives of people living and working in Waterford and on the Aran Islands. The girls worked in teams and at the end of the few weeks they created posters comparing and contrasting life in both areas, and presented these to the class.

And to add to our Christmas trees, we designed and created a Christmas tree ornament out of clay in Art, which the girls will have as a little memorbilia of 3rd class in the years to come.