Happy Ladybugs

We made some pencil holders out of clay today.
First we got used to the clay by banging, rolling and pinching it. Then we made a big ball and a small ball. We pushed the big ball into the table to get a flat bottom on it. Next we got some water and used a crosshatch design to try to help the head stick firmly onto the body. At this stage we drew in our lovely happy faces, and put the patterns on their backs.
We left our happy ladybugs by the radiator and we hope that they will be dry by next week so we can paint them.
As a class we decided that the world needed a bit of cheering up, so they all have really happy faces!
We hope you like them.

UPDATE:  We finished our lady bugs today. We painted them a different colour for each group.
We think they look seriously cool.... :)

Australian Dot Paintings

We have been examining Australian dot paintings, like these...

They are very bright and colourful. We tried make some of our own. Here are a few of them, we hope you like them...

Swimming

We had great excitement last Friday as we started our first swimming lesson. We will be going to Cavan Leisure Complex every Friday morning until the end of this term. All children are asked to bring their swimming costume, swimming hat, a towel and their swimming money that morning. We will be leaving at 9am sharp, so please don't be late!

Our Hallowe'en Pumpkin

We each designed what our own pumpkin should look like. Then we examined each others' designs and saw some bits that we had common. We picked out our two favourite types of eyes, our two favourite noses and our two favourite mouths. We then voted as to what our pumpkin should look like. Mr. Walsh was the only adult, so he had to cut out the different shapes. The photos show the process.

Our Scary Zombie poses

Here are some photographs of us posing as zombies.
This was the final part of our Thriller dance.
You can see Mary, our dance instructor helping out in the background.
Thanks again Mary, for all your help.

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Our Spooky Halloween Dance

We are currently perfecting the
"dead zombie" walk for our take Michael Jackson's Thriller dance.

We send a huge thank you to Mary the school's residential dance instructor!

Below is a link to the very scary original Michael Jackson Thriller video.

This is not suitable for very young people, or for those prone to zombie related illnesses! :)

Happy Halloween everyone!

Scary Michael Jackson Thriller video

Goodbye Mr. Smith

 

On Friday, Room 7 were very sad to have to say goodbye to Mr. Smith.

Thank you for all your help over the last month. You will were a brilliant teacher!