Second Class Blog
Nuacht Rang a Dó
2nd Class out enjoying their ‘Daily Mile’ walk this morning. Good to see the girls wrapped up in their coats as temperatures are after dropping.
Fáilte ar ais Rang a Dó
Welcome back to all the pupils in 2nd class. This week 2nd class designed their Maths problem solving bookmark ‘R.U.D.E.’ Word problems can be tricky so 2nd class came up with a strategy to help them solve word problems.
Read the question at least 3 times.
Underline key words, circle numbers.
Draw a picture + write a maths sentence.
Estimate your answer.
Nuacht Rang a Dó
Gaeilge: Scéal ‘Lá fuar’ agus ‘Sa Phictúirlann’. Ceist ‘Nach bhfuil an pictúir go deas? Tá sé go haoibhinn / Tá sé go deas.
Maths: Money, recognising, exchanging and using coins up to the value of 50 cents. Calculating how many items may be bought with a given sum of money. Colouring and cutting out coins.
Grow in Love: The girls have been learning about the story of ‘David and Goliath’ and today have been introduced to the story of St. Brigid.
Art: The girls have been designing their umbrellas for their ‘Rainy Days’ art pieces.
Nuacht Rang a Dó
Gaeilge: Scéal ‘An Fear Sneachta’. Ceist ‘Conas atá an aimsir? Tá sé fuar/scamallch/tirimfluich.
Coiscéim: Over the last two weeks 2nd class have been learning about the Titanic. We have been writing newspaper articles, designing porthole pictures, acting out and discussing the reactions of people on board when the ship hit the iceberg, putting the Titanic events in order as a timeline and testing out the buoyancy of various objects with a floating/sinking experiment.
Maths: We have been dividing sets of counters (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14…) into halves and quarters and folding and colouring half/quarter/two, quarters of shapes.
In Geography we have looking at and identifying the various types of homes and houses in our locality e.g. bungalow, semi-detached, terrace etc.
Nuacht Rang a Dó
On Tuesday we had our Christmas Carol Service in the Little Sisters and on Wednesday in the Church.On Tuesday we had our Christmas Carol Service in the Little Sisters and on Wednesday in the Church.
Rang a Dó have been busy creating their Christmas art pieces over the last few weeks; Christmas Tree and Rudolph the red nose reindeer.
From all in Rang a Dó, we wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a Happy and peaceful New Year. Boldog Karácsonyt!! Wesolych Swiat!! счастливого рождества!!
Nuacht Rang a Dó
On Mondays over the last five weeks, 2nd class have been travelling to Kingfisher for swimming lessons. We have thoroughly enjoyed ourselves while gaining great confidence around water and making ‘safe’ decisions.
We are coming the end of our class novel ‘Georges Marvellous Medicine’ by Roald Dahl. 2nd Class have been engaging with the Roald Dahl theme in Coiscéim, learning about his life, other books he wrote and writing their own rhymes.
We have been practicing our Christmas Carols; Gabriel Calling, Little Star, The Tree of Light, Kuyimba and Children of the World.
Second Class news.
The second last blog….hard to believe!
The highlight this week was our tour of Waterford city and our visit to Reginald’s Tower.
We saw many of the historical places in the city: Rice bridge, the Granary, the Clock Tower, the Granville Hotel to name but a few. Our tour of Reginald’s Tower lasted over an hour and was really really interesting. The guide told us the history of the tower, and pointed out all the interesting features.
Then we went to the People’s Park for lunch and had some fun in the playground.
We have been busy practising for our presentation next Thursday, and we hope you can join us in the hall at 1.30 pm (June 28th)
See you then!
