We are delighted to be back in 3rd and 4th class with Ms Clarke. We have had so much fun over the last few weeks! Read our blog to see what we have been learning about.
In English this term, we are reading the novel "The BFG" by Roald Dahl. We love reading about Sophie and her amazing adventures with The BFG. We especially love the descriptions of the other terrible giants. For Roald Dahl day, we made our own BFG cut out character and we wrote about our favourite part of the story, drew our favourite character and wrote our own potions for a dream jar.
Hurling skills
In PE we have started hurling skills. Thanks to Padraic from Meath Coaching and Games for coming in every Thursday to coach us. We are having a great time learning new skills!
Science
In science we have been learning about the two types of
electricity - current and static. We had great fun trying out different
experiments when learning about static electricity. We could move pieces of
paper by "charging" up our pens with positive ions! We used a balloon
to pick up rice krispies. We then had great fun using the balloon to create
whacky hairstyles!
We tried to move the flow of water with our charged up pens.
It was amazing to see the water move towards the pen!
Meet the fish, eat the fish.
On Wednesday 18th October we had two special
visitors to our school. Pauric and Irene White from the Forge Restaurant came
to introduce us to many different types of fish. We also got to feel the fish
and we were surprised at how smooth the fish were. We then learned the process of fish finger
making. First we covered slices of salmon with flour. Next we dipped this in
egg wash. Finally we covered this in breadcrumbs. Then Irene fried the fish
fingers using rapeseed oil from Slane.
The smell was lovely and the fish fingers were delicious - the nicest
fish fingers that we have ever tasted!
We also learned how to make brown bread. We learned what
ingredients to use and where these ingredients came from. We were delighted to
taste the brown bread when it was baked. The smell in the classroom was lovely. We enjoyed delicious brown bread smothered in jam!
