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2nd and 3rd class school tour!
On June 8th Second and Third class went on their school tour to the Pine Forest in Kilternan. Even though the weather wasn’t great, the children had a great day!
They went for a walk down a very steep hill and came to a small river where they picked rushes and small twigs from some of the many trees. The children later used the rushes and twigs to make lovely hedgehogs. They also drew some beautiful pictures of animals that can be seen in the Irish countryside and made some funky colourful dinosaurs.
Take a look at the children at work and their finished products!
2nd class girls get to work drawing some animals.
Here is some of the 3rd class girls finsihing their drawings.
Girls hard at work drawing.
The girls drew lovely colouyrful drawings.
Wow! Look at the girls’ dinosaurs and hedgehogs!
Volcanic eruptions in E1!
With the volcano erputing in Iceland and its ash causing disruptions to flights all around Europe we decided that, we in E1, would carry out a study on volcanoes.
Using our inter-active whiteboard we leanred all about volcanoes. We found out what causes volcanoes to form and erupt, we then looked at a map of the world which identified places where there are volcanoes. Iceland has lots and lots of volcanoes!
After our study we decided to make out own volcanoes using clay!Take a look!
We carefully formed the shape of the volcano using clay.
We made sure there was a deep hole in the volcano just like a real volcano.
It took a few days for the clay volcanoes to dry so in the meantime we created a base that the volcano would be placed on. We made sure that there was lots of lava spilling out from the volcanoes!
Here we are creating the base!
We then painted the volcanoes. Don’t they look great!
We then made our volcanoes erupt using vinegar, red food colouring and baking powder! We had great fun!
Adding the baking powder to the vinegar and food colouring.
Watching the volcano erupt!
The erupting volcanoes looked like the pictures of the Icelandic volcano that we viewed on the inter-active whiteboard.
Big Day for Families in Gardiner Street School
Ms. Kelly with all of 2nd Class