1st & 2nd Classes 2021-22

Tuesday Nov 30th - Floor Plans
Our theme in SESE for the last fortnight was Houses and Homes. We drew some floor plans of our own houses.

Friday Nov 19th - Measuring the length and width of the school yard?

Friday Nov 17th - Wasp Visitor
This little guy visited us today. Pretty late in the year for a wasp. Just shows how mild the weather has been this autumn. 

Wednesday Nov 17th - Measuring length using non-standard units

Wednesday Nov 17th - Team Hope Christmas Shoeboxes
​Thanks to all in 1st and 2nd Class pupils and their parents who brought in shoeboxes crammed with goodies for children in need this Christmas. 

https://www.teamhope.ie/christmas-shoebox-appeal/ 

Friday Nov 12th - Diya Lamps
​Diwali is the most important holiday of the year in India. It takes place over 5 days around the start of November and celebrates the victory of good over evil. 

It is a festival of lights. Diya lamps are oil lamps made of clay and are very important during the festival of Diwali.

We made our own Diya lamp holders from old CDs, jems and glitter.

Wednesday Nov 10th - Science Week: Walking Rainbows
​We invetigated how water can travel up through a kitchen tissue by a process called capilliary action . This is where liquids can move up through narrow spaces working against the force of gravity.

We used the primary colours - red, blue and yellow and saw that when mixed they formed the secondary colours green, orange and purple.

6 glasses one each with red, yellow and blue food colouring

The yellow is moving very quickly

The blue and yellow have mixed to make green

The primary colours (red, blue and yellow) have mixed to make the secondary colours (green, orange and purple)

​Wednesday Nov 10th - Science Week: Gravity Defying Water
​Are you brave enough to sit under an upturned glass of water with only a piece of card over the mouth of the glass?
Thanks to our brave "volunteers" who took the chance.

You may not feel it but the weight of the air all around us is pushing in every direction. This is called "Air Pressure". The air pressure pushes up on the card from underneath, creating a force that is strong enough to hold the water in the glass. Hopefully!
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Thursday Nov 4th - Lighthouse through the seasons

Friday Oct 22nd
​Ghoulish goings-on at Manister National School today!! Waaaahhhhh!
And we are proud our Halloween Dress-up caper has raised a tidy sum for the Bumbleance (Children's Ambulance service)!

Wednesday 19th October 2021 - Science - Separating Colours
​Last week in science we looked at what happens when you mix different coloured paints.

Today we looked at how to separate colours by hanging filter papers with a line drawn with a coloured marker on them into water. The water moves up through the filter paper. There are different pigments (colours) in the ink in coloured markers. These pigments are different sizes and weights and get carried at different speeds by the water, causing them to separate out.  This is a process called CHROMATOGRAPHY.

Wednesday 19th October 2021 - Jesus saves Simon Peter's Mother-in-Law Still images.

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Tuesday 19th October 2021
We have been looking at symmetry and lines of symmetry in Maths today. We created our own colourful symmetrical butterflies.

Thursday 14th October 2021
Thanks to Olivia and Harry who brought this little guy to the school today before he gets released back to the wild. We had a toadally unfrogettable time during Freddie's visit. 

​Monday 11th October 2021
Harvest day for our vegetable beds. A super crop of onions and carrots. Unfortunately the crows cleaned out out potatoes this year. Though some of the "carrots" look suspiciously like worms.

Friday Oct 8th 2021
​This week is Space Week and we have been doing lots of space related classes. We looked up these space related words for our Word of the Day (meteor, orbit, solar, crater) and wrote a sentence with each of the words

In history we learnt about women in space - Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, Sally Ride was the first American woman in space and we are hoping that Dr Norah Patten will be the first Irish woman in space.

Blackrock Castle Observatory sent us our very own unique photo of the moon - you can see this below.

Our very own moon photo taken at Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork.

This is the telescope used to take our moon photo.

​In Science we investigated how the size and speed of a meteor effects crater formation.

We made meteors of different sizes from Play-Doh to investigate the size effect.

We meteors of the same size from Play-Doh and dropped them from different heights to investigate the speed effect. You can see that meteor number 4 which was dropped from the highest point made the deepest crates in the photo to the right.

In Science/Art we discussed the design of an astronaut's suit. We decided the most important things were that it had to keep you warm and you would also need a supply of oxygen just like a deep sea diver. Then we made our own space suits which you can see below

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​Thursday Oct 7th 2021
​The men coming up with some imaginative games at break time.

Wednesday Oct 6th 2021
​We have been doing a scavenger hunt for Autumn Nuts and Berries over the last week. Fantastic hunting was done by everyone and we managed to find all 18 items on our list and even a few extra.

Friday Sept 24th 2021
​Great fun at our European School Sports Day today. The shoe/sock quick dress was the best.

Déardaoin 23ú Meán Fómhair 2021 - Ag an Zú

Friday Sept 10th 2021
​We have been learning all about the human skeleton in science this week. We learnt lots of interesting facts.

• Did you know that the smallest bones are in your ear. They are called the hammer, anvil and stirrup and the three of them could fit on the tip of your little finger.
• The longest bone is your thigh bone and it is known as the femur.
• Over half the bones in you body are in your hands and feet.
• By weight, bone is stronger than steel.

We made our own cotton bud skeletons in art today.

Wednesday Sept 8th 2021
​In geography this week we have been learning about the main natural and man-made features in our locality. We marked these out on our own map below. On the right below is a wonderful map of the locality which Ms Butler made a number of years ago.

Friday Aug 27th 2021
​What a brilliant way to start the new school year with our super Limerick Senior Hurlers winning the All-Ireland. We decorated our own Liam MacCarthy Cups to celebrate and read about who Liam McCarthy was.
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Thursday Aug 26th 2021
​Welcome back everyone. We did this piece of collaborative colouring today. Can you find the piece you coloured?