Golden Tickets

We have some Golden Rules in our class for good behaviour and for good listening and if we follow them and try our best then we can earn a Golden Ticket. If someone earns 10 Golden Tickets then they get a prize. We place our Golden Tickets in an envelope which we decorated ourselves. We are all working very hard and we are earning lots of Golden Tickets. Teacher is very proud of us.

Halloween Walk

We went on our annual sponsored Halloween walk on Friday, 23rd of October. We all dressed up in Halloween costumes and went on a walk around Renmore to help raise funds for our school. It was great fun and we all really enjoyed it. Afterwards when we returned to class we had a big Halloween Party. A huge thank you to all those who helped get the children ready and to all those who sponsored us on our walk.

Can you guess who this teacher is?

Aren't we a scary bunch!!!
Hi from all of us!

We are just about to begin our Halleen Walk.

Our favourite Halloween things

We discussed our favourite Halloween things and then we made a data chart and recorded the results. As you can see bats were the most popular in our class followed by witches, pumpkins, skeletons and one ghost!!

Funny Bones

We have been reading a great Big Book called Funny Bones this week. It is very funny and it is all about a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton and what they get up to when they decide to go out at night and try to frighten somebody!! Things don't quite work out as they had planned and they end up trying to frighten each other! It is very funny and we all loved the book, particularly the part where they try to put the dog skeleton back together again!!

A visit from Garda Ronan

Garda Ronan shows us his handcuffs

Stephen's Dad, Ronan, came to visit us yesterday to tell us all about his work as a Garda. We were all very excited to see him. He asked us all what we thought a garda did and there was some great discussion!! He explained that the Gardai are there to keep us all safe and to protect us and he also discussed the importance of Road Safety with us.

Garda Ronan had a special belt with different compartments on it which held a torch, notebook, handcuffs and a walkie-talkie on it. He explained what they were for and why he uses them.

We also looked at his uniform (navy trousers, tie, jacket, hat , black boots and a light blue shirt). His shirt also had a special number on it attached on the shoulders along with the letters GA for Galway City.

Some of us would like to be a guard when we grow up. A huge thank you to Garda Ronan for coming to visit us.

A visit from a software developer

Denis' Dad , Maksym, came to visit us on Tuesday to tell us all about his work with computers. He talked about the many things computers are used for today (such as flying a plane and our interactive whiteboard to name just two!!) and how computers can be programmed to do things. We love computers in Room 3 and we love using the new interactive whiteboard every day. Denis' Dad Maksym, has to travel to lots of different places to help fix computers (even to London!) and he said that the most time consuming thing is to find out what the problem is with the computer, as he has to test all the parts , but once he finds the problem it is east to fix. Thank you so much Maksym for coming to visit us.

A visit from a Health Promotion Manager on Friday, 16th October

Adrienne waving us goodbye as she left on her bicycle Last Friday Evan's mum, Adrienne, came to visit us and she told us all about her work in Health Promotion with the HSE. She gave us lots of tips on how to stay healthy and active and told us that children should be doing at least one hour of physical activity each day. The hour of activity doesn't have to be all together and can be broken up into say ten minutes here and fifteen minutes there etc. It can also comprise of different activities such as walking to school (if it is not possible to walk to school due to distance then perhaps parents might consider parking up the road from the school and walking part of the way with their child/children), playing sport, running outside at play time etc.

Adrienne also spoke about healthy eating and how we all should be eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables per day. Sweets and sweet things are ok for treats now and again but we shouldn't be eating them too often and certainly not every day.
Adrienne also shared with us ways in which she and her family try to stay healthy.They eat healthy foods and regularly cycle together to school, to the park and to town. They also walk a lot together and chat while they walk which is lovely. If it is raining they have pull ups to help keep them dry. Some of the other children in our class also cycle regularly and lots of us play sports such as hurling and football and some go to Ballet and Gymnastics so overall we are a very fit bunch!!

Adrienne left us some lovely activities to do before she left and some booklets for our parents and then we all waved her goodbye as she cycled off on her bicycle. Thank you so much Adrienne for coming to talk to us. We really enjoyed your visit and learned a lot.