Happy Christmas
December 22, 2017
Happy Christmas to all of you and many good wishes for the New Year.
Party Surprise – The teacher was greeted with a ‘bang’ today when 6th class planned a surprise party! Thank you all for your cards, gifts and good wishes. What a super class, I will miss their cheer in the New Year. This was followed by some Christmas Karaoke madness!
Christmas Play – The whole school performed excellently in The Little Sisters of the Poor on Tuesday and in our Church on Thursday. Well done to 6th class for their acting. All the rehearsals were well worth it. And the volume and singing from everyone was super. A great way to finish at Christmas.
15th December 2017
December 18, 2017
History – The girls have been learning about the ancient civilisation of ‘The Aztecs’. Some interesting facts are: They lived in the City of Tenochtitlan, which is just outside present day Mexico city. They would sacrifice a person each day, usually an enemy or a slave, as they believed that the sun died at the end of each day and needed human blood in order to rise again the next day! Thankfully this practise is no longer carried on! Punishment for children in school, was to be pricked by a cactus plant! Something the girls are happy that their own teacher doesn’t do!
Music/Drama – Final rehearsals this week are going well and costumes are looking good.
Art – We completed our Art Construction projects this week. They turned out great. Well done to the girls for excellent team work and cooperation.
PE – This week was our last week of Yoga. The girls thoroughly enjoyed each Thursday and hopefully they will use some of the techniques learned in the own lives. Thanks to Rachel, their instructor, for her leadership. Namaste!
8th December 2017
December 8, 2017
Maths – We have moved on to 2-D shapes. The girls have been studying some new language and developing patterns. Our 2-D shape and space dictionary is very useful for these lessons. We have learned about dominoes, trominoes, tetrominoes, pentominoes, and hexominoes. Ask the girls to see if they can remember!
Art – Our Art construction projects are starting to take shape. We started with a roll of wire and after some hard work created a reindeer, a Christmas tree, a gingerbread house, a snowman and a robin. The papier machee stage is complete. Next week, we will start to paint and decorate them. See photos below.
Science – Here is the experiment from last week on how to make ice-cream, demonstrating the change of state, from liquid to solid and solid to liquid.
Equipment
Small zip lock bag
Large zip lock bag
A cup of milk
A cup of cream
Half a cup of sugar
A few drops of vanilla
Lots of ice cubes
A cup of salt
Method
1) Pour the milk and cream into the small zip lock bag, as well as the sugar and vanilla, and close it.
2) Add lots of ice cubes to the large zip lock bag. Following this, place the small zip lock bag inside the large one.
3) Pour the salt on the ice in the large bag and seal it.
4) Shake the bags around for 10 minutes.
5) After this place the bags in the freezer for an hour or so to finish the experiment off.
Predictions
I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, I presumed it would stay liquid.
Results
The formula turned thicker and semi solid after 10 minutes. It turned solid in the freezer to make ice-cream.
Why did this happen?
The salt made the temperature of ice lower and it got really cold. This caused the ice-cream liquid mixture to start to solidify. By placing it in the freezer, it turned fully solid.
This experiment showed the change of states of matter: milk/cream mixture (liquid) to ice-cream (solid); ice cubes (solid) to water (liquid).
By Leah and all of 6th class
Friday 1st December
December 1, 2017
Science – This week 6th class were learning about the ‘Properties and Characteristics of Material’. We learned about the composition of air, and the different layers of the atmosphere. We learned about the three states of matter – Solid, Liquid and Gas.
To demonstrate, the girls participated in an experiment, where they made Ice-Cream!! This was a fun group activity, which involved some very cold hands, but resulted in very tasty ice-cream! The liquid (cream and milk) changed into a solid (ice-cream). And the solid (ice) changed into a liquid (water). The girls will be writing up the experiment next week and we will add it to the blog, if anyone would like to try it at home.
Music/Drama – The Christmas play is underway with lots of rehearsing, singing, and costume design taking place!
Religion – The girls making their Confirmation will be attending mass on Saturday night, where they will officially be enrolling to make this very special Sacrament.
November 30th 2017
November 30, 2017
These are some of the Halloween creations!
Friday 24th November
November 24, 2017
Drama / Music – The girls got their parts of the annual Christmas play “Hey ewe!”. Rehearsals have begun!
Art – The girls were busy with pliers and wire this week, as they started their Art Construction projects. It took some patience and teamwork to work with the wire and cut, mould and attach parts to make their 3D sculptures take shape.
History – Through the use of our books and video clips, we learned about Nomadic tribes from around the world e.g. The Mongols, The San, The Aborigine and The Irish Traveller.
6th Class report on their visit to WIT for Science Week
Last Thursday 6th class went to the WIT for Science week. The event took place in the auditorium. We learned about Forces and Gravity. Anna Maria, Molly Mae, Favour, Ebony, Roisin and Amelia got the chance to do some experiments. We really enjoyed our visit. We are happy that we got the chance to go.
By Annabelle, Leah and Rebecca – 6th Class
