It has been a busy week in First Class and around the entire school with Maths Week. In Mr Smyth’s 1st Class it has been all about Maths. We measured our heights this week, had Maths games in class and a mega Maths Games morning in the hall with parents. In Maths Class we have been looking at categorising and sorting objects and in PE we even had our Maths eyes on with an Orientation activity. Its been Maths all round. Check out the pictures below! Later in the week we will survey another class about how they get to school for our geography lesson and make graphs of the results.

Here is a Recount piece of writing by 1st Class about our afternoon yesterday.

Painting Autumnal Colours

Yesterday, our class did some painting in class.

First we put on some painting bibs, got paint, brushes and paper ready and we mixed different colours together to make new colours.

After that, we painted some leaves using autumn colours- yellow, brown, red and orange.

In the end, we left the painting dry, tidied up, washed our hands and took our bibs off.

That was the best day ever!

This month in Mr Smyth’s First Class our theme for the month of Ocotber is Halloween.

In English, Gaeilge, History, Geography and Art  we are learning about various aspects of Halloween: from learning about the traditions and customs of Halloween in History, the language of Halloween in Oral Language lessons, Halloween Poetry, Halloween artwork in Art and Oiche Shamhna in Gaeilge. Additional to this the children will be learning about School- in History about what school was like in the past and in Geography about how we travel to and from school.

At home you can chat with your child about these themes.

Below is a link to a fun interactive hundred square which you can use at home to get to know the hundred square and to have fun and practice skip counting.

http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html

Please note: You will need to have Adobe Flash on your device. The game won’t work with an ipad.

This month in Mr Smyth’s First Class our theme for the month of September is Myself.

In English, Gaeilge, SPHE, History, Geography, Science and Art  we are learning about various aspects of ourselves: from learning about our body in Science, our own unique life history in History, our friendship with others in SPHE, drawing and self-portraits in Art and Me Fein in Gaeilge.

At home you can chat with your child about the theme.