Project Work 3rd and 4th

The boys in 3rd and 4th have been learning about birds in their Science lessons over the last few weeks. Every boy was given a bird to study. They had to email their projects to their teacher and here are their amazing projects. Well done to everyone great work.

In order to read the projects please click on the blue writing of the project title. I hope all projects upload correctly. If anyone has any problems with any of tehm please make a note and let me know after the holidays.

Have a great break and well done again boys on some great projects.

magpie-1 Keelan

Blue Tit  Tom S

Northern Gannet Tom W

The swift Shane

The Sky Lark  Conor

The Curlew Bird  Adam

Swans Dylan

swallow Alex

Seagul  Jack C

Raven Jack T

My Project on Birds Tony

Kingfisher  Alan

Gold Finch  Laurent

Geese  Tommy

Eurasian Coot  Diarmuid

cuckoo  Aiden

Corncrakes  Reece

Chaffinch  Luke

Class DOJO Winners 3rd & 4th

Huge Congratulations to Dylan Tuohy, Diarmuid Coleman and Tom Seymour for being the top 3 points scorers in the Class Dojo Reward system. Well done to all boys and keep up the good work after Easter.

Maths Trail

On Thursday last the boys in 3rd and 4th participated in a maths trail around the school. Thye were divided into teams and had to move around the grounds of the school and answer questions that included activities such as measuring, estimating, counting, tallying, graphing, co-ordingating as well as working closely with their team mates. It was a very worthwhile and enjoyable experience.

Well done boys… We might do another one after Easter.

Pakie Ryan Memorial

Well done Ben and Darragh for participating in the Pakie Ryan Memorial fun run last weekend. What a great way to spend your weekend boys well done!!!

Community Games Congratulations

Huge Congratulations to all boys who participated in the Community Games events during the year. Well done to the soccer teams who won medals earlier in the year. You did amazing.

Last week the U11 Tag Rugby team did very well agianst Clooney Quinn and won a silver medal on a score line of 10-8. Well done to Tony, Cian, Brian, Oisin, Julian and Diarmuid.

Also last week two boys from our school participated in the Community Games U16 Group Music and won Gold Medals. Well done to Shane and Fionn.

Keep up the great Extra Curricular Activities Boys.

Cooking Healthy Foods with 3rd and 4th

Today in 3rd and 4th class we decided to make our own soup as we read the story Stone Soup last week in our Reading Zone Books. The boys discussed poossible vegetables to go into the soup and the method used to make the soup. We also spoke about the various soups one can have. We also decided to make healthy Porridge and Yoghurt Brown Bread to go with our vegetable soup.

I have attached the recipies we used and some photos from the days work.

Give them a try over Easter boys.

Ingredients Porridge and Yoghurt Brown Bread

2 tsp of bread soda

2 tbsp of oil (we used rapeseed oil)

1 large tub of natural yogurt (500 ml)

2 tubs of porridge oats

Optional: handful of sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, poppy seeds

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C / 350°F / Gas Mark 4. Grease standard loaf tin (2lbs/900g – 18.5 x 11.5 x 9cm).

 Place bread soda, oil and the yogurt in a mixing bowl.

Using the same yogurt tub measure 2 tubs of porridge oats and add to the bowl. Add your favourite seeds at this point. Stir thoroughly.

Pour the batter into your loaf tin.

Place in the oven and cook for approx. 45 mins (depending on your oven).

Ten minutes before the end of cooking time, remove the bread from the tin, turn upside down and cook for remaining 10 mins.

Leave to cool on wire tray wrapped in clean tea towel.

Chef’s Tip:

The trick with this recipe is to know your oven. The danger is that it looks very well cooked, but the inside is still too moist. It may take a few attempts to get it just right.

Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 large yellow onion, chopped

2 carrots, chopped

2 celery stalks, chopped

1/2 pound potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks

2 stock cubes with two litres of water (you can add more or less depending on the consistency desired)

salt and pepper to flavour

Directions

1. Heat oil in a large saucepan or stockpot over medium-high heat. Add the onion, carrots, and celery. Cook until tender but not brown, about 5 minutes.
2. Add the stock, potatoes, and ½ teaspoon salt. Increase heat to high and bring to a boil.
3. Reduce heat to medium and simmer, partially covered, 15 minutes.
4. Use a hand blender to blend up the soup and serve.

Looking forward to cooking again after Easter boys!!!!

Solve the Crime….

The boys in 3rd and 4th participated in a co-operative games activity last week as part of their PE lessons. They were divided into teams and had to find specific cones with information on them. The information lead to them solving a crime. They had so much fin at this and we hope to carry out the task again this week.

Congratulations to the winning team of Jack, Luke, Adam, Ben and Keelan. Well done boys!!!

Bridge Building Club

Well done to all the boys who took part in the lunch time Bridge Building Club over the past number of weeks. You worked excellently in your groups and it was great to see all your designs coming to life.

Data in first class.

First class are reading graphs this week in maths. We played a game from http://www.classmaths.com. We clicked on data, then representing data. We played the fourth game called bugs in the system. The boys loved playing this game and making bar graphs.

Ogham stone.

First and second class discovered that in the time of St Patrick, people wrote messages on large stones. We call these ogham stones. Killaloe has an ogham stone. It is over 1000 years old. We visited it today and sketched it.