Procedural writing

Want to know how to make your own bucket towers? The boys and girls wrote their own procedures today and included a helpful diagram too! Here is an example of their work..

The reviews are in....

Today we finished our class novel 'James and the Giant Peach'. We wrote book reviews on it and picked our favourite part. But there were so many to choose from. Why not ask us about them?

Happy Mothers Day!!

We celebrate mothers day on Sunday. We are thankful for our mums (and dads) for everything they do for us. Today we made flowers and cards for our mums, grandmothers or godmothers. It was lots of fun!

Bucket towers continued...

Here we see some of the children during the design process. They came across some problems during their work and discussed ways to fix the problem. Didn't they do well!!!

Bucket towers

Today we  made bucket towers using straws, tape, string and plastic cups. We LOVE being engineers in our class. We did ALL of this without any help from teacher. We are getting really good at engineering!!

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Congrats to the winners!

Engineering pics..

More photos of engineers hard at work...

Engineering bridges

Check out our very first attempt at engineering. We made beam bridges using lollipop sticks and tape. We all had the exact same resources and could not get any more. We are practicing for being real engineers when we will have to stick to a budget to buy our materials. Here are some pictures of our work.

Engineers week...towers!

We used spaghetti and tape to make our towers. Our teacher said they had to be free standing. We looked at the very famous Eiffel tower for inspiration. Take a look at the winning team! We are learning about the use of triangles in engineering and we learned how triangles are a strong shape!

Engineers week

We celebrated engineers week in Room 9 last week. It was really fun but it's hard getting an idea from your head and creating it with your hands. We made bridges, towers and boats. Here is our winning boat. Teacher said it had to float and must also hold weight!

Weather clocks

We have been learning about weather this week and made our own weather clocks!

Book fair

School held a book fair today and we got to skim through the books and pick one to keep!

Book tasting.

We had a book tasting at school and practiced the skill of skimming today! Our teacher gave us a short time to get a "taste" of the books in the library.

Reading with 5th class

Today the girls in 5th class visited us and read us stories . It was really nice and they are very good readers. We even read some books for them because we are good readers too!!

Our favourite books.

We brought in our favourite books for World Book Day. We told our friends why we liked them and what they were about. It was super fun!