{"id":17022,"date":"2026-02-08T22:15:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=17022"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:46:12","slug":"mr-delaneys-3rd-class-start-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=17022","title":{"rendered":"Mr Delaney&#8217;s 3rd Class Start to 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With not a minute to spare, 3rd Class have been very busy in the new year. Thankfully with the strong personalities and all the hard workers in the class, they have got through it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Maths<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In maths the children have been working through a variety of challenging topics including division for the first time. They have been developing their maths talk and using a variety of new language when looking at chance. The boys and girls were learning about the characteristics of different 3D shapes and sorting them into different boxes in the Carroll Diagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time, the children have been learning about division and have picked it up very quickly.\u00a0They were able to spot the connections with multiplication and have used that to their advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maths-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maths-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maths-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maths-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maths-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maths.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the Christmas break, the children were working hard on narrative stories and taking us into vast worlds with their extraordinary imagination. Now in the new year, the children have been working hard on their report writing where they have written reports on endangered animals and natural disasters from around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Gaeilge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00e1 an chuid deanta sa ghaeilge. Roimh an nollaig, caith na p\u00e1ist\u00ed an chuid am ag deanamh st\u00e1idir ar na siopa\u00ed \u00e9agsula at\u00e1 timpeall orainn agus d\u2019inis siad dom cad a f\u00e9idir leo a cheannach sna siopa\u00ed sin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00d3n t-am ar th\u00e1inig siad ar ais \u00f3n sos, bh\u00ed na p\u00e1ist\u00ed ag foghlaim faoin bia \u00e9agsula agus chonas b\u00e9ala bl\u00e1sta a ordaigh i mbialann. S\u00edlim go bhfuil piotsa ar insint gach duine sa rang.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00e1 iontas beag ag teacht an seachtain seo. B\u00e9idh na p\u00e1ist\u00ed an gn\u00f3thach ag \u00fas\u00e1id a chuid gaeilge agus iad sa chistin !!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone in this class should class themselves as artists with some of the work they have produced in the last few months. The children have been using clay to create pots and scary monsters with a wide range of features. See if you can count all the eyes that were made!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Science<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The class have put on their white coats and have been exploring what happens when different materials mix. They have predicted if they mix and if they can go back to their original state as well. The children have mixed liquids, solids and liquids and solids. It was messy but it was worth it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/art-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With not a minute to spare, 3rd Class have been very busy in the new year. Thankfully with the strong personalities and all the hard workers in the class, they have got through it all.\u00a0 Maths In maths the children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=17022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17028,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions\/17028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}