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.

Last week was Good Friends Week and the girls and boys in Mr Smyth’s Class had a fun and busy week.

The class had a visit from Cillian from RTE’s News2Day, which will feature on the television today, Tuesday, 10th September at 4.20pm.

The children were reading the book “Have you filled a bucket today?” and learning about how we can be kind to each other and “fill each others buckets” with kindness.

Check out some of the photos above, which include RTE’s visit to our school and our Class Charter which the children created themselves.

Today, First Class visited the “Stories Between Us” Exhibit in National Museum in Collins Barracks.

Read more about the exhibit  HERE