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Mr Kernan

Click here to see some dinosaur songs and rhymes we are learning in school.

 

This week we are learning our 10 times tables

During Maths and ICT on Tuesday 10th of Januray we all took the challenge. Can you try and beat your time.

"Well it was a wee bit hard at the start and then I got better. I learned to use the number lock and it got me faster. I can now complete it. I think I will try it at home".

If you want to let other people know your score click here and go onto learning NI. Our Tables challenge.

TABLE MOUNTAIN - ONE PLAYER

On our Interactive whiteboard we will be playing Table mountain. Mr Kernan, Mrs McCullagh and Mrs Prior against the rest of the class. We will also play boys against girls. Do you want to practice at home for it?

 

Our Reading Challenge

We are all particpating in a reading challenge. We try and read as much as possible every day and we record them on our reading challenge wheet..

Check out our totals so far;

T-Rex - 1630 pages

Brachiosaurus Group - 720 pages

Ovirpaptors - 2278 pages

Triceratops - 1021 pages

Velociraptors - 1560 pages

Congratulation to Ryan Kerins who read 1039 pages in 3 day and well done to everyone who has been making such an effort.

Homework - Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th December 2011

Read, Read , Read ... and don't forget Tin Whistle on Tuesday. Learn silent night for concert!


Homework - Wednesday 21st December to Sunday 8th January (optional)

You received a new reading challenge sheet - if you reach your target you have NO HOMEWORK on our first day back after the holidays (Monday 9th January)

If you forget to bring your sheet back (signed) on the first day back you will have homework that night so try and remember!

We are learning to use thousands, hundreds, tens and units.

We played Spin to win on our interactive whiteboard. Do you want to try it at home?

Will you take the challenge?

 

This is my dino section - Ryan Kerins

Random dino fact of the week!

the spine on spineosaurus's back that was used for tempature control like stegosaurus's plates got it the name spinosaurus!

now for jokes

1. what do dinosaurs have no other reptile has?

baby dinosaurs!

2. where does a t.rex sit when he comes to settle?

anywhere he wants!

Look at this dino picture - can you guess what kind of dinosaur it is?

 

Click here to access your learning NI Homework

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Congratulations to Hannah Allen!

Hannah won pupil of the week and she had a special guest to present the award!.

Lauren won pupil of the week a few weeks ago.

Congratulations to Sarah who won whistler of the week...

She was selected by Mr Davey as whistler of the week.

Ronan won T-shirt of the week!

We loved our trip to the museum on the 22nd of November!

 

We loved our dino talk and holding all the fossils..... except this one when we found out what it really is!

 

This week we are learning about th words

Last week we learned about ck words, The Th and the ck sound are both sounds represented by more than one letter.

This week we are revising number bonds to 13 and 15

 

Last week we also learned our number bonds to 14.

Last week we used our whiteboards to record some of our number bonds that add up to 14. Revise these every day.

In ICT this week we will revise number bonds to 13 - Do you want to revise your number bonds using Ghost Blasters 2?

Click on the picture below to practice your number bonds

(remember to change the 50 to a 13 or 15).

 

This week we are continuing to revise analogue and digital time.

Click on the picture below to play stop the clock. Can you beat Mr Kernan's time of 2 minutes 15 seconds? Maybe someone else in your family wants a go too.

Bang on Time

If you want to play more clock games click on the picture below. Remember this one is really hard. you may want to adjust the hand speed from 8 to 1.

 

We loved learning about Europe - click on the picture to check out the cool website.

This website has only just gone 'live'. Conall's Mum told us about it and she even helped to develop it. Like us she must be really good with computers!

Ryan won pupil of the week at Hallowe'en

 

Do you want to Practice your Exchanging?

You can log on to the My Maths Website www.mymaths.co.uk

Use the username and password you received in this week's homework overview. Remember your username and password is only for children in St Colman's Primary School.

Log on then you can follow these instructions. Click on;

1. Level 3
   
2. Number
   
3. Add Subtract Written
   
4. 3 Subtraction Columns
   
5. 'Lesson' - located at the bottom of the page
   
6. Now you have 7 choices - Number 1 (located on left and right hand side of the screen) shows how to lay out straight foward subtraction sums. Keep hitting 'next'.
   
7. 2 - gives the opportunity to complete straight forward subtraction sums. You can write in the answers and use the 'Markit' button. The abacus can also help you.
   
8. 3- shows you how to lay out sums with exchanging. It shows the correct method but it uses the words 'borrow' and pay back' while we use the term 'exchange'.
   
9. 4- gives us the opportunity to complete sums with 'exchanging'. We can use the 'Markit' button.
   
   Every time we click on these numbers they give us different sums. We have already attempted 1,2,3, and 4 on our interactive whiteboard in school. We have not tried 5,6 and 7 (these use hundreds, tens and units).

Exciting News;

Our next school trip will be in the ulster museum on Tuesday the 22nd of November.
We will be learning about dinosaurs. Written by ryan kerins

Library Visits;

This week (Wednesday 16th November) our class will take part in our third and final visit to the library. Remember to wrap up nice and warm and to bring a bag for your books.

LAst week we looked at non-book materials, computers and e-books.

Can you remember what we did in our first 2 visits?

(1) 5th October (General introduction to the Library and looking at fiction stock). We loved this trip. We were all really well behaved and we were able to borrow 2 books each.
(2) 19th October (Looking at the difference between fiction, non-ficion and reference books.
We loved our second trip too and the weather was not as bad as the first day!

We were very scary at Hallowe'en!

 

Mrs Prior and Mrs McCullagh helped Luxembourg to win the best group trophy!



Our European Topic - Try our quiz

These questions were on our European quiz a few weeks ago. Can you remember the answers?

p: You can print this page out if you wish.

Your Details

1. Name:
2. Class:

Questions

1. What is the Capital of Lithuania?
2. How many EU countries have red, white and blue in their flags?
3. What country has a white flag with a picture of an island on it?
4. Which country has Rome as it's capital?
5. How many stars are on the European Union flag?
6. Name 2 EU countries that have only red and white as their colours?
7. In which EU country would you find the Eiffel Tower?
8. In Which EU capital does Cristiano Ronaldo play his home matches now?
9. Which EU country recently defeated Australia in the rugby World Cup?
10. Did you know that you can view our website in Irish, French and Polish? Tough question - Try and find out what the Irish for "Name" is. You could translate this page into Irish to help you?

 

 

We learned a lot from our trip to Stormont

Click here to access the learning ni website.

 

Information for Parents:

Sincere thanks to all the parents and our wonderful Parents' Association who helped make the Christmas Bazaar such a success.

Parent/Teacher meeting Day:
Thursday 8th December 2011 (Children will not be in school on this day)

Little Oaks: Open Day - Thursday 8th December from 4.30pm - 6.00pm in Little Oaks Nursery.

Christmas Concerts:
This year the Christmas concerts will take place over 3 nights in December. Each year group will be on a separate night and to ensure that everyone gets a seat we have set an allocated amount of tickets per child per concert. You will not be able to pay at the door and tickets must be produced on entry. Tickets are on sale now at £2.00 each

P1/2 Concert A little Nativity (max 3 tickets per concert per child) Tuesday 13th December at 1.00pm & Wednesday 14th December at 7.00pm

P3/4 Concert The Christmas Receipe (max 3 tickets per concert per child)
Tuesday 13th December at 7.00pm & Thursday 15th December at 1.30pm

P5/6/7 Concert The Match Girl's Christmas (max 2 tickets per concert per child)
Wednesday 14th December at 1.30pm & Thursday 15th December at 7.00pm

Christmas Holidays:
Friday 23rd December at 12 noon until Friday 6th January 2012. Note: there is also an early closing on Thursday 22nd December at 1.00pm. School will reopen on Monday 9th January 2012 as normal.

On the 6th of November each teacher picked two people out of their class to be planet protectors.Ryan Kerins and Shauna Mahon were picked and their job was to be sure everyone in their class recycles and the teachers turn off electrical appliances at the end of the day that aren't in use.