Enjoy the summer holidays!

The school year has come to an end. We had a brilliant time in our brand new school building and brand new classroom. Time flies when you're having fun :) 

Have a brilliant summer, and I look forward to seeing everybody again on my return to the school,

Mr. Burke 

Mini-beast Hunt

We have been mini-beast hunting. If you have some soil that you think might have some mini-beasts in it, please send a small sample in in a plastic bag over the next few days.

Pictures of our bug-catching apparatus to follow!

Funga Alafia!

We have been extremely busy getting ready for the school Intercultural Day on Wednesday June 19th. We are preparing a  song and dance called Funga Alafia, which originates in Nigeria. 

Please try practising the song at home! 

We have been composing! Listen to the types of sounds that a cat might make during the day by clicking play on the video.

Cha Cha Slide 

Take a look at the Maths page to see the dance we have been learning to help with left and right.

Rainforests 

If you would like to learn more about rainforests, look at this website: http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids
There are some fun games and stories there that you might like to try out.

I bought me a cat 

These are the differences that we could see between Scoil Chormaic CNS and Clondrinagh NS.

• In Clondrinagh, all children have their own desk. 
• Clondrinagh has really old desks (50 years old!), but ours were only bought last year. 
• Clondrinagh NS is 50 years old, but Scoil Chormaic is only 3 years old, and our building isn't even one year old. 
• Scoil Chormaic CNS is much bigger
• There are fields and farms around Clondrinagh NS
• Clondrinagh NS has 21 children, but we have 190 children
• Miss O'Neill's classroom is much smaller
• Clondrinagh NS starts at 9.30 am, but we start at 9.00 am
• Clondrinagh NS has Senior Infants, First Class, Second Class all in the same classroom. We only have one class in our rooms.
• The road to Clondrinagh NS is much narrower, and has many more trees and bushes
• We have more playgrounds

These are the similarities that we could see:

• We both do PE, Maths, Irish , English, Art and much much more
• We both have Golden Rules
• We are both trying to Green School Flags
• We both go out to play at the same time

Today we had some very special virtual visitors to our classroom - children from Miss O'Neill's class in Clondrinagh National School in Lissycasey, County Clare. Over the last few weeks we have been posting letters and pictures to Clondrinagh, telling them about Scoil Chormaic CNS and Balbriggan.

You can see Clondrinagh National School here:

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We called them on Skype and spoke for over an hour about the differences and similarities between our schools and where our schools are located. We'll post up more information about this  soon!