First & Second

Welcome to 1st and 2nd Class/ Rang a hAon agus Dó

Class Teacher: Mrs Veighey

First and Second continue to have busy, active days. We had great fun dressing up for Halloween and made witches' cats and cotton bud skeletons. We go swimming every Monday, we do drumming on Tuesdays and are skipping for ten minutes every day. We are munching our way through all sorts of fruit and veg with The Food Dudes. We got our new supplies from The PickerPals...litterpickers,reflective vests, gloves, activity books and a brand new Picker Pals Adventure Booklet. Each weekend two children can take home the Picker Packs and clean up a patch beside them. We studied Piet Mondrian and Andy Warhol in art and make our own art following their examples. We all made Oobleck with our ANA for science week showing that a material can be both solid and liquid at the same time. 

🎃Halloween Dress Up Day 🎃

First and Second class took part in lots of fun activities for Maths Week,  including maths stories, maths games on the whiteboard, maths puzzles, maths eyes, using concrete materials for our maths lessons, and playing Uno, Four in a Row and Snakes and Ladders. 

In September we welcomed a new boy and a new girl to First & Second  and everyone is settling in very well.  We are watching out for the signs of autumn and learning about hibernation.  We  love nature and have started a scrapbook to record and remember all the things we notice round about us. We studied Henri Matissse and his "painting with scissors" style of collage and experimented with our own collage art. Drumming has started with our fantastic teacher Luke and we liven up the school every Tuesday morning! We love to sing and have learned Molly Malone, There was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly and Wash Your Face in Orange Juice for starters. We loved reading The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl . We have made the most of the lovely Autumn days we have had this month