St Gabriel’s has a visiting horticulturist from Heritage Ireland coming to help us with our school garden. Today 5th class were learning about the different plants growing in our garden and how to maintain them. 5th class enjoyed “growing” their understanding of all the wonders in our garden.
5th Class have had a lot of fun being creative with clay this week. They made some great pieces and today they were using acrylic paints to add designs and colour to their work.
5th Class were working hard this week making their little snowmen. They had lots of fun making them and even more fun naming them. A big Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from 5th Class!
This week, 5th Class were working on making flowers using corrugated card. They used various coloured card to create their beautiful bouquets.
5th Class had a guided tour of Collin’s Barracks Museum today. We were looking at “Continuity and Change” and how food and clothes have changed in Ireland throughout history.
In Art this week, 5th Class have been working on construction. Using lots of different materials, they were able to construct paper plate owls. The class had lots of fun making these and there will be plenty more construction art to come!
In science this week, 5th Class were learning about forces and air resistance. They worked on creating and testing parachutes to see if the size of the parachute had an affect on the air resistance. They calculated the area of the parachutes, the average drop speeds and they learned about scientific report writing and experimental variables
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