Fun in Fourth Class

This week is Catholic Schools Week. This year's theme is 'a family of families'. As part of Catholic Schools Week we invited our grandparents into the classroom. We wrote acrostic poems for them, drew them, made a list of the things they have taught us, sang them a song and surveyed them on what their lives were like growing up. We also enjoyed showing them around our classroom and showing them our brilliant work. A huge thank you to the grandparents who were able to make it in! Here's some photographs, we had a lovely day:

Recently, fourth class read the story of 'The Dot' by Peter Reynolds. ***SPOILER ALERT*** This story is about a young girl, Vashti, who thinks she can't draw. Her teacher tells her to "make a mark and see where it takes you". Vashti does this, and soon the dot she has made on her page develops and develops and develops until Vashti has made many masterpieces that are showcased at her school art show! In fourth class we were shocked when teacher's only instruction to us for our art was to make a black dot on our page. After that we could do anything we liked! We made the solar system, flowers, numbers, people, abstract art, and much more. Have a look at some of our very own masterpieces.

We have really been enjoying visiting Clondalkin library each month. We have been taking out books and returning them at our next visit.

4th class have planted some herbs to brighten up the classroom after taking our Christmas decorations down. The herbs we chose from were parsley, mint, chives and coriander. Here are some pictures. We will keep you updated on the growth of our herbs and how we are looking after them. \

Fourth class had a lot of fun making snowstorms in jars this week. We learnt how oil and water do not usually mix but when you add an ingredient such as Alka Seltzers, which contain baking soda and acid, the force will make the two liquids mix for a few seconds. This created a snowstorm effect! Have a look at some of our pictures from this experiment: Pouring our glittery 'white water' into our oil. Snowstorm!!

..But our art is so delightful! Have a look at some of our Winter/Christmas themed art. These funky reindeer were fun to make. We experimented with lots of different patterns. We had to experiment with mixing many different shades of blue to make these Winter landscape scenes! We have been exploring materials and their properties in science and therefore thought it would be a good idea to use various different fabrics to make our penguins.  Making sure each paper strip was only 1cm wide when making these Christmas trees was quite hard! 

Fourth class have really been getting into the spirit of Christmas, and have been comparing and contrasting toys from the past to the toys we play with today. We also watched clips of old episodes of the Late Late Toy Show and compared these to this year's Toy Show. Here we are playing with some older toys.