Happy Halloween!

We had such a great Halloween celebration today! I will put up the scary pictures of all the great costumes when we return to school after the midterm break!

Have a great week everybody! 

Bookworm Club

Our Bookworm Reading Club is going brilliantly. Our “Bookworms” read with an adult tutor and also read stories online. We always play a word game at the end and receive special bookworm prizes!
Bookworm club is facilitated by CYS and funded by Xilinx – THANK YOU!


Halloween Art…..

In the Parents Flower Arranging Course, this week they made scary Halloween Wreaths and lovely Halloween candle lamps!


Paired Reading

Well done to 4th and 6th classes who are doing Paired Reading!

Again thanks to parents for coming in to read with your child! 

Egg Trees!


The parents’ flower arranging class was very busy this morning creating fabulous Egg Trees!


3rd Class Investigate How Old Are Teachers’ Cars…

Not your typical teachers car
Today, Wednesday, Class Munster (Mr Stuart’s 3rd Class) investigated just how old are most teachers’ cars. Are they all new? All old? How old? Before you find out, what do you think? 

Well, first the class went into the teachers’ car park (not just teachers—also SNAs, visitors, and Nano Nagle staff) and looked at the registration plates. They tallied how many cars were bought in each year (90s, 00, 01, 02, … 10, 11). Then they checked their data before making a bar chart. What did they find out?

  1. There were 54 cars in all.
  2. 19 cars were 5 years old or newer; 35 were over 5 years old.
  3. 12 cars were over 10 years old.
  4. Half the cars were bought in 2004 or before, half after 2004.
  5. The years that most cars were bought in were 2003 (6) and 2007 (9).
  6. Only two cars were bought this year.

Last year in October another 3rd class did this investigation. There were 57 cars last year. Are more teachers ‘Walking on Wednesdays’ (W.O.W.)?

Paired Reading

Paired Reading started in 4th and 6th class yesterday! 


Flowers

Wow look at the lovely flower arrangements the parents made yesterday!