Mr Donnelly’s class have been busy studying 3D shapes and static electricity in STEM. We made models from nets and carried out science experiments with balloons.
We also studied Impressionism and the work of Claude Monet, before making our own Water Lily watercolour paintings. We hope you enjoy!
Mr Donnelly’s and Ms Leonard’s classes have been learning all about St. Brigid and making St. Brigid’s crosses, an important Irish Christian symbol. They are also a fun craft activity!
We had lots of fun using Scratch coding platform as part of STEM in 2nd Class to explore the basics of computer programming. We hope to cover a few lessons to keep developing our skills. Scratch is free to sign up to and use. Maybe the children can show you at home what they can do!
On Thursday Ms Sweetman’s class and Mr Donnelly’s class decided to do some festive shared reading and took turns reading each other some wonderful seasonal books. Junior Infants are becoming very independent around the school and 2nd Class were great role models to their younger school mates. Well done everyone, and happy Christmas!
Second class have been having lots of festive fun printing with different materials and ideas. We looked at different ways of printing and then used baking tins, blue-tac and wooden blocks to make our own prints and copies.
2nd Class were busy last week using cardboard and various fastening techniques to make different buildings. After visiting buildings in Grangegorman, getting architecture lessons from Emma and construction tips from Alex, we planned our buildings and used a little imagination and creativity in making and decorating them. We hope you enjoy!
We have some fantastic parents in 2nd Class who have come in to share their skills and expertise with us as we continue to learn about the design and construction of buildings. Architect Emma has been coming in to explain what her job is about and to look at things like purpose, brief and planning. We went on to create drawings ourselves, following a range of instructions. Carpenter Alex came in to show us pictures of some of his work and he brought in lots of exciting tools too. Thank you very much!
