Welcome to 4th Class (1). Make sure to check our page to find what has been happening in our class this year.
Important Notes:
Our P.E days for September & October are Wednesday & Friday. Please make sure your child wears runners and their tracksuits on these days. Uniforms should be worn at all other times.
Make sure you log onto your Google Account to access some tasks assigned in the Google Classroom. If you are having issues with signing in, please let me know.
Links to the interactive maths games we have been using in class this month:
https://ictgames.com/tablesTennis/mobile/index.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Remember we are aiming to have really quick answers with our tables in class each day.
September updates
We had a lot of fun getting to know each other this month. We played lots of getting to know you games and created some beautiful artwork to show what we like. These are displayed outside our classroom for all to see.
We love playing games during our English, Irish and Maths lessons. We used Jenga for answering some Mé féin questions and to practice our tables we play some dice games and board games at the start of our lessons each day. We were learning about contractions and we did an active lesson with a contractions relay in the hall.
For P.E we are covering the games and outdoor and adventure strand. We have been working on our throwing and catching fundamental movement skills. We love playing a new warm up game each week such as life saver tag, tic tac toe and rock paper scissors. For the outdoor and adventure strand, we focused on completing co-operative challenges. We built hula hoop huts and really enjoyed the parachute games.
During our well being Wednesdays we have been focusing on positive growth mindsets trying to do more positive self-talk when we find things difficult along with some mindcraft themed yoga. We enjoyed a movement break in the class where we did some active alphabet tasks and challenged our partners with some words from our spelling list. We also completed this for our Active homework too.
In SESE we looked at timelines and the use of BC and AD for the different years. As historians we looked at different homes in the past and placed these in chronological order.
We started coding with our visiting teacher Ailbhe. Each week half the class code using scratch and the other half along with half of the pupils from 4th class 2 come together and complete some STEM activities. We started our STEM lessons with a paper chain challenge. Using only one piece of a4 paper, a scissors and glue pupils had to design the longest possible paper chain. One group managed to design a chain over 3 metres long! The first theme for our STEM lessons was flight and we discussed helicopters in depth. We then designed our own paper helicopters and investigated to see which helicopter could stay in the air for the longest period of time. We launched them from the top of the stairwell and some took over 7 seconds to land on the ground level. We will continue with paper airplanes and rockets next month.
In art, we explored autumnal colours and the footprints of common Irish animals. Using cotton wool we painted a forest trail and drew a trail of footprints.