Category: 3rd Class

3rd class were very busy this week getting into the Christmas spirit. We made Christmas snowflakes and decorated our classroom tree. We hope everyone enjoys our poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ and our song ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ which you can watch here or by clicking the link below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HS0r-D4cOWum285ImWYHS5WLDEI65ZGv/view?usp=sharing

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Mr. Bonner, Trish and all the boys and girls in 3rd class.

To celebrate Science Week, third class have been learning about liquids and density. Today we made lava lamps using oil,water, food coloring and fizzy tablets. We really enjoyed conducting the experiment. See our amazing results below!

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3rd Class went on a great trip to Waterways Ireland.

We learnt about fishes, the barges, bridges and canals.

Godfrey was our guide and he was great.

We also learnt about the locks which open and close to let the boats through them.

5 people in our class said they would like to live in a barge. Teacher thinks it might be nice in summer but not in winter!

We got great highlighters as well. Thank you to Godfrey for our tour.

This group of 3rd class children have worked so hard today on reading and ordering big numbers. Here is a picture of us as a human number line!

Hi from Room 8

We are all so happy to be back in school – although some of us are a bit tired from all the work we are doing!

Here’s a bit of information about us all:

Kai thinks the work is easy.  Dylan likes PE.  Abbie likes PE too.  Daire likes yard.  Karimah likes doing lots of work. Laila likes the talent shows.  Calum likes PE.  Denis likes laughing.  Patryck likes smiling.  Michael likes drama and PE.  Josephine likes drama too.  Érin likes going on trips.  Nathan likes games. Declan likes boxing.  Tyreik likes football.  Katelyn likes smiling and Mya likes reading.

We will keep you posted on how we’re getting on throughout the year!

From everyone in 3rd Class.

3rd class raffled books that we got from the book fair, here are the lucky winners!!

Tá rang a trí ag obair go dian an tseachtain seo!

We are great at researching on our class computers when we want to investigate more about certain topics. Here are Kelly and Millie working hard. They are computer whizz kids!

Thank you to the staff at the OPW who kindly arranged some activities for 3rd class for tree week. We had a great trip!

During one of their Literacy Lift groups 3rd class have been working hard on report writing. They each chose a topic and wrote a first draft including all of the information they thought was important for their reports. Here they are doing their best writing in order to complete their second draft. Lots of proofreading took place!

3rd class have been working so hard at maths and different activities to improve the ways that we figure out problems. Here we are playing a few of our games which involve a lot of thinking logically and looking for patterns.

This week is book week and 3rd class are busy reading lots of books!

We took a trip to easons where the author Eithne Massey talked about life as an author and she also read us extracts of her new book. She kindly gave the school a copy for our library.

Well done to 3rd class who are continuing to borrow from the library each Tuesday morning. We now even have some of the class trained up as library scanners so they take turns doing that job each week. They are experts at this stage!

Well done also to Calvin who has taken a great interest in reading! Every time Ms. Heverin looks over he has his head in a book! Especially the Captain Underpants series of books. Craig brought in a set from home to supplement what we already have in our library collection. They’ll keep us going for a while!

We are so lucky to have a fully stocked library in our school. We borrow books every Tuesday morning. Some of us are even trained up as librarians and we are experts at scanning back/scanning out books to each other!!

3rd class are investigating 3D shapes in maths this week and are learning so much about the properties of various shapes including how many faces, vertices and edges they have.

3rd class are learning about 3D shapes in Maths. We are constructing our own 3D shapes, it’s not as easy as it looks!! Lots of sticking and cutting involved!

3rd class were lucky to get a sneak peek at the book we contributed to. We cannot wait to buy our own copy of the book in January.

3rd class went to see a special showing of The Muppets Christmas Carol in Cineworld today. We really enjoyed it & it got us in the Christmas Cheer!

Well done to Douglas who is showing his skills at making fantastic things from lego! This took him 45 minutes to make.

Fire officers from Pearse Street fire station came into 3rd class to raise awareness about fire safety in our homes. We asked them lots of questions and we all got a pack with fire checklists to complete at home along with fun colouring and activity pages. We hope everyone will be safe over the Christmas especially with candles! Here is a link to a great activity page and quiz……

http://www.firesafety4kids.ie

This quiz refreshes the mind about certain things to do when trying to prevent a fire and steps to follow when faced with a fire.

Third class are worn out learning the great team sport of rounders! We love trying our best to get home runs!

Here we are in action…..

3rd class were so lucky to get to go and see the wordless play ‘Annebelle’s Star’ in the Ark Theatre yesterday. We were amazed at how one actress along with brilliant props was able to tell us the story without speaking at all!! The light effects and sound effects were fantastic!

Mark, Shannon and Diana got surprise hot chocolate before the yard today for excellent manners and behaviour. Well done! YUM! Warm bellies before yard! 🙂

Yum! 🙂

Here is a fantastic link to videos by Doctor Mad Science – a young boy who is excellent at doing experiments!! Please click the link to see lots of his cool stuff that you might like to try out at home! Happy Science Week!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/doctormadscience/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=1

3rd class are brilliant hockey players! We are exhausted after it!!

Fast movers! 🙂

The gardaí visited our classroom yesterday and warned us about the dangers of bonfires around Halloween time. We also read a message from the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Here is the message below……..

Dublin Fire Brigade has issued a warning on the dangers of unregulated bonfires and illegal fireworks, which result in catastrophic injuries each year including the loss of fingers and sometimes entire hands, and severe burns to the body and face.

“All bonfires are illegal – and our message is: do not go to them, and if you are aware of any material being stockpiled, please report it to us in confidence,” Lord Mayor of Dublin Oisín Quinn said.

Here is Calvin’s reaction to the pumpkin at 8.45am!!

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As part of our Geography lesson last week, 3rd class learned all about the many different rocks and the ways in which they are used. Here we are investigating their texture and appearance…..

We had a great time constructing Hundertwasser inspired buildings,

We decided on how to construct the buildings and stuck on cardboard boxes and cartons with masking tape.

Then we used wallpaper paste and print paper to cover our buildings.

When they were dry we painted them bright colours.

Then we decorated them with some fabric and fibre!

Thank you to Emma for the beautiful interactive hundertwasser display. We think it’s fantastic!

We have a lovely new maths corner in room 8 and are looking forward to solving lots of problems while using the steps we are learning at the moment. 

We have a writing tree in our class to help us with ideas for free writing. For example:

• going to the dentist
• if I won the lotto
• writing a complaint
• writing a letter to the caretaker Pat

We do our free writing every morning when we come into our class. Some people in the class are great at choosing different topics each day and their copies are so interesting to read!

Here we are busy at work……………

3rd class have settled back into school and are looking forward to a

great year!

We may not be the next Henry Shefflin or DJ Carey but we’re learning! 3rd class hurling with the lovely new equipment!

Big thank you to all of the kitchen ladies for cooking lovely dinners for us all year. Here we are having chicken curry- our favourite! Water please!!!

Well done to Aaron Gourley who won player of the tournament last week up in Stella Maris! We are so proud of him.

This week is national dairy week and to celebrate 3rd class learned lots about cheese and milk and yoghurts and had a dairy party today!! We LOVED the cheese & think now we will do this little party every second Friday!

To mark tree week, 3rd class were treated to a tree walk by the greenkeepers in St. Stephen’s Green. We had a great time learning lots from our guide Teresa. We planted a lovely hawthorn tree. We look forward to maybe visiting the tree next year to see how much it has grown!

Happy Saint Patrick’s weekend from all in 3rd class!!

3rd class got to go to the Ark theatre to see the performance Zoe’s play – it was brilliant! We got a huge fright when the wolves came out onto the set!! It was very good and we recommend it highly. Well done to everyone who behaved so well walking there and back. Here is a picture of us along by the river Liffey!

Well done to Aaron Gourley for reaching all of his targets – he got such a surprise with a treat of banoffee pie which his teacher made him! He gave it 10 out of 10! What a treat!

Keep up the good work Aaron!

Here are 3rd class working hard learning all about Peru & what better way to relax after than with a cup of hot chocolate! & piles of mini marshmallows!!

As part of junior achievement 3rd class got to visit John’s work! We were treated like royalty and got to explore the building and have treats on the fancy swingy chairs in the board room! Thank you SO much John & Sinead & everyone at Goodbodys!!

3rd class designed posters for anti bullying week.

3rd class learned all about the water cycle. We learned about evapouration, condensation, precipitation and collection. We even MADE our own water cycle!! Do you like it?!

We are doing gymnastics at the moment and are having a great time learning balances and ways to travel with using two and three parts of our bodies like our hands and feet. We are great at the forward and pencil rolls also! Have a look at the photos of us looking very flexible!

As part of Temple Bar Trad Festival a giant drum came to the school! We had great fun- even the teachers. We experimented with and explored many different rhythms. We’ve never smiled so much! The part we loved the most was running around the drum while playing it! 

Michael and Jordan pretended they were cross elves for their creative writing and typed up these! Happy Christmas to everyone & all the families of 3rd class boys and girls.

3rd class have been enjoying D.E.A.R time. It means Drop Everything And Read. Here are some of the benefits and advantages of D.E.A.R time:

• DEAR gives children the opportunity to read books of their own choice. So much of what we do in school involves books and reading material selected by the teacher. DEAR time lets children pick whatever reading material they want to just enjoy.
• DEAR allows children to see that reading for fun and pleasure is a valuable experience.
• DEAR can help develop better writing skills. The more children read, the more they are exposed to the written word – and that will lead to better reading and writing skills.

Here we are doing it straight after yard to get back into working mode!

 

This little girl is called Lily-Mae. She is four years old and lives in Galway. She has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. She loves dinosaurs and dancing. She is very sick at the moment but with the help of lots of people she will be dancing again soon!  Paddy Casey, Mickey Joe Harte, Mundy and many more singers got together with a choir of 250 people to record Elton John’s ‘Tiny Dancer’ song. They are trying to get it to number one for Christmas. It went on sale on itunes today and it is already number one there!! It costs just 99 cent and every cent goes to help families like Lily-Maye’s family. For their Christmas concert performance 3rd class are going to sing Tiny Dancer. We cannot wait. We’re going to send Lily-Mae photographs and a video of us singing it and as Nadia said, this will make her feel loved. 🙂  

3rd class visited the ILAC today for a science workshop. We learned about energy and renewable and non renewable sources of energy. We had great fun playing the energy game on the huge floor map using all our knowledge from the presentation and experiments. We made a battery with a potato!! we attached a wire to copper and lead stuck into the potato and lit up an LED lightbulb! Thanks to Una the facilitator- she brought the potatoes from her garden in Athy! 

This week was friendship week and in 3rd class we tried really hard to be nice friends to each other. We did friend interviews to find out lots about our friends and we all wrote something lovely about each pwer

We went to the Helix in DCU to Andrew Jeffery’s maths magic show for maths week. He showed us lots of tricks and we learned lots about number patterns. We had an unbelievable time with front row seats!!

Here are some pictures of 3rd class caught being really good and working hard! We have settled into our new home in room 8 and are going to have a really good year. Ms Heverin was our teacher when we were 4 and 5 year olds and now we are REALLY grown up 8 and 9 year olds! We will post up more news soon!!

Happy Christmas to all from 3rd Class!!!

On Friday (8th April) we did Easter Art with some of our parents.   We made Easter eggs with chickens and hay and put decorations on it.  It was lots of fun.  We enjoyed it very much and our parents enjoyed it too!  Have a look at some of our photos.