Welcome back to Rang a Dó!
We can hardly believe we have come to the end of this school year. What a busy and exciting last term we have had!
We received the sacrament of First Holy Communion on the 20th May. We all had a special job to do on the day, reading a prayer or bringing a gift to the altar. We decorated the walls of the church with our fabulous artwork. It was a lovely celebration and Ms. Moloney was very proud of us all! Thank you to Emily Clarke who provided the wonderful music for the mass. We would also like to say a huge thank you to the Parents’ Council who organised refreshments in the hall after the mass and decorated the hall beautifully.
Earlier this month, we took a trip to Mallow GAA Sports Complex for our ‘Let’s Go’ School Tour. We took part in lots of fun activities; zorb ball roll, KMX karts, human table football, team challenges, air mountain and so much more. We were exhausted after the day but we had a great time.
We took part in Active Week. We played parachute games, cooperative games, races, learned Zumba dances and the whole school even took part in a marathon and collectively ran 42km altogether. Wow!
We have been reading the novel ‘The Sheep Pig’ by Dick King-Smith this month. We enjoyed taking turns reading, changing our voices for the various characters and chatting about the story. We explored the theme of ‘Siopadóireacht’ in Gaeilge and learned the Gaeilge for lots of different animals. We enjoyed singing ‘Seachain an Crogall’ and adding actions.
In our Rainbow Oral Language, we explored the themes of Transport and Inventions. In SESE, we learned about the development of the bicycle over the years, from the dandy horse to the mountain bike. We learned about the Wright brothers and that the first ever flight took place in 1903. We made our own boats using plasticine and tested their buoyancy in water by adding ‘passengers’. We listened to the story of the great Pirate Queen, Gráinne Ní Mháille.
2nd class explored Magnetism. We learned about the north and the south poles and that opposite poles attract and the same repel. We enjoyed freely exploring the magnets in the classroom. We also learned about sea turtles and did our best to sculpt a sea turtle from clay. They turned out great!
We planted sunflowers with Ms. Ruddle as part of Biodiversity Week. We watered and cared for our seeds every day and watched them grow. We linked this to explanatory writing and wrote about ‘How a Seed Turns into a Plant!’
2nd class love art and were very creative this term. We painted beautiful summer flowers using warm and cool colours. We used washing up liquid and blue food colouring to create cool watery backgrounds for our scuba divers.
What a wonderful year we had spent together in 2nd class.
We would like to say a big thank you to Ms. Quinn and Marian for all the help they have given us this year.
Have a lovely summer!
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