Third Class Blog
World Book Day
I hope everyone in 3rd is staying safe and warm. Today is World Book Day where we were meant to dress up as our favourite characters from one of our favourite books. Why not dress up anyway and take a picture.
Visit the World book Day website – www.worldbookday.com where you will find videos like The Imagination channel, Storycraft videos and Storytime online. There are interviews with authors and a writer’s corner.
Free resources for World Book Day:
https://www.clpe.org.uk/library-and-resources/free-resources-world-book-day
As part of World Book Day, why not introduce children to some of the fantastic authors and illustrators that create some of the best picture books available? You can access videos of authors reading their books aloud and sharing how to illustrate characters from their books on the Authors and Illustrators pages on the Power of Pictures section of the website.
You can also see some of the best children’s poets performing their poetry on the Poet pages of the Poetryline section of the website.
Have a fantastic World Book Day! And stay safe!
Lá Sneachta
Good Morning Rang a Trí. As school is closed today I have listed some activities for you to complete.
• Create an acrostic poem entitled ‘Snow Day’ or ‘Storm Emma’ or Beast from the East e.g.
S
N
O
W
D
A
Y
• Create your very own ‘Active Schools’ poster. Try come up with a catchy slogan for our school e.g. ‘Stop snoozing and get moving’. I will collect your posters when we return to school.
• 6 Times Tables:
(a) Write 6 times tables in the snow (only if it’s safe to do so)
(b) Get a stopwatch, time yourself saying the 6 times tables (6 1’s 6….)
• Library Book:
(a) Read your library book aloud.
(b) Make/write a prediction (I think….).
(c) Make/write a connection (This reminds me of…).
(d) Draw your visualisation (see, hear, taste, touch, smell).
(e) Write down four/five ‘I wonder…’ questions.
• Peace Proms: Revise the words and actions to the songs.
Mind the Beast from the East. Enjoy the snow day and stay safe and warm!
Nuacht Rang a Trí
Peace Proms: On Thursday both 3rd and 4th class travelled to The Hub in Kilkenny for a rehearsal for our Peace Proms concert. We were singing and from 10:00am until 11.30. We were practicing and singing with other schools. The girls represented their school very well and paid great attention to Greg the conductor. Over the next 3 weeks we will be practicing very hard for the concert on Sunday 4th of March.
Art: Over the past few weeks we have been singing the song ‘Reach for the stars’ and this week we created colourful ‘Star Bursts’.
Nuacht Rang a Trí
Gaeilge: Táimid ag foghlaim scéal nua ‘Ag dul ar Scoil’ agus ag labhairt faoi scoil.
Maths: We had Maths Stations this Wednesday where we revised Decimals and played loop games.
English: We have started a new novel for term 2 ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl. The girls have become experts in identifying witches.
Peace Proms: Since we came back we have been learning the Hairspray Medley which includes – ‘Good Morning Baltimore’, ‘Nicest Kids in Town’ and ‘You can’t stop the beat’.
Nuacht Rang a Trí
Art: We have been creating Lollipop Stick Snowmen and skating our way into the holidays.
Maths: We have been sharing/dividing items equally between 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 people. Writing division sentences. Putting lollipop sticks into equal sets/groups.
Gaeilge: Ag caint faoi am Nollag agus an Aimsir (An Geimhreadh)
We had the Little Sisters (tue) and Church (thurs) Performances. We really enjoyed the singing.
Nollag Shona ó Rang a Trí
Nuacht Rang a 3
Art: Third Class have been very busy working on their Lighthouse Scenes and Hands/Feet art.
Christmas Carols: We have been practicing ‘Away in a Manger’ and ‘How much further to Bethlehem’.
Maths: We had maths stations on Wednesday. Some stations involved Maths games, problem solving and skip counting.
Nuacht Rang a Trí
This week in 3rd class we have been practising our Peace Prom song ‘Reach’ and we have actions to accompany it. We have just started the ‘Earth’ song also.
Gaeilge: we have been learning our scéal ‘Tinn sa Leaba’.
Maths: we have been exploring and identifying fractions; halves, quarters, eights. We used fraction walls to look at equivalent fractions and geo-boards to look at breaking areas into equal parts.
History Story: we are learning about Oisín i dTír na nÓg
