Its been a busy March in Mr Smyth’s 4th Class.

In Art the children are working with Fabric and Fibre creating colourful pom poms and jazzy bracelets.

In Maths, they have been working on chance– throwing dice and flipping coins and working out the probability of the outcomes.

In 3-D Shape, they learned about the Euler’s Rule discovered by Leonhard Euler in 1758, a formula in 3D geometry that helps them work out the number of edges of a 3-D shape when they know the number of faces and number of vertices.

On World Book Day the children took part in a World Book Day quiz:

February was a busy month for the children in 4th Class with the children making Brigid’s crosses and Chinese Lanterns, surveying other classes for Maths activities on Data and Bar graphs and having Dance with Bernie and Tag Rugby with Leinster Rugby.

We had our STEM Try Five workshop number 3 with scientists from TUD Grangegorman. This one was on electricity learned about electrons, protons, flow of electricity and circuits. At the end the children made Star Projectors using a simple electrical circuit.

The class began their group History research project on Ancient Egypt where they began working in groups to research different aspects of Ancient Egyptian life from mummification, the Pharaohs and much more.

As part of learning about Chinese New Year and their zodiac animals, the class in Art created paper Chinese lanterns.

Last night, eight students from 4th, 5th and 6th Class attended the Credit Union Table Quiz in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Blanchardstown making up two teams of four.
There were 52 teams taking part in the quiz. Our two wonderful teams finished 7th and 10th overall. They should be very proud of themselves for the hardwork they have put in. A massive thanks to Mr Delaney for all his hard work in organising the teams for the event!

Today in Mr Smyth’s 4th Class, as part of the school wide, Kindness Week, the children designed recipes for Friendship Cake.

They discussed what ingredients make a good friendship and the steps/ instructions towards creating a good Friendship using the right ingredients.

Check out some of their lovely recipes below:

Today, Mr Smyth’s 4th Class welcomed a scientist and a musician from the National Concert Hall for a “Quavers to Quadratics” workshop where they learned about the relationship between music, sound and science. Check out some of the photos below.

Inspired by their study of Greek Mythology story “Theseus and the Minotaur” and by the beautiful picture book “Mary and Frankenstein” by Linda Bailey, accompanying their Over the Moon English reader, the children in 4th class created their own imaginative monster creations in clay today. Check out the photos below. Next week when they are dry they will add a splash of colour to the figures.

In history this month, 4th Class are learning about the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Check out the lovely artwork they created based on the story.