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Peer Tutoring in 3rd Class

10/03/2026 /

Peer tutoring is up and running in 3rd class and the children and enjoying the activities involved.

Peer tutoring involves the children being paired together – one working as a tutor and the other a tutee. Both tutor and tutee take turns in reading a book to each other – mainly fact / non fiction books. The tutee listens to the tutor read with good fluency. As the tutee reads, the tutor helps the tutee with any words they may be unsure of with the three Ps: Pause, Prompt and Praise.

Have a look at the children below as they read and work together.

Friday Treats in 2nd Class

03/03/2023 /

We had an exciting day today in 2nd class – we baked cookies!

 

We weighed out the ingredients, mixed them all up and baked them in the oven. Everyone had a chance to join in and roll out their own cookie.

 

We enjoyed our cookies during Golden Time.

4th Class – Room 4 March 25th

25/03/2020 /

Hello to all the children in Room  4 and their parents,

I hope you are all keeping safe and well since last week. It’s a very difficult time and we are all beginning to miss school and our friends but we must stay positive and all pull together to keep everyone safe so we can get back there very soon.  So remember, continue to get plenty of fresh air just outside your house and keep washing your hands.

I have sent some suggestions for work through Gmail so I hope you found that okay. Your parent should receive a text today with the email address to contact if you cannot get access.

Here are some suggestions for work this week:

English

https://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html?login=

This will help you revise the reading strategies that we were using during Guided Reading. This week we will focus on summarising something that we have read.

Instructions:

1. Click the link above

2. Log in – enter your name under the First Time? tab and click “get your key”

3. It will give you your own key – take a note of this and enter it each time you login so it can track what you have done.

4. On the page “Choose a reading strategy” select the picture of the torch, it’s called Summarising. Click on it.

5. 2 activities will come up – Monsters to the Rescue and A Pirate’s Life. There are options to watch a video and try it yourself so give all of it a try and let me know how you get on.

  • Continue reading your library book and remember you can do quizzes on Renaissance place for your own books at home and also there are quizzes on all the books which were free with the token for World Book Day https://ukhosted12.renlearn.co.uk/2255694/
  • Keep a written diary of this time. Talk about what you and your family are doing, the events that are cancelled, the shops and businesses that have closed down.

Maths

Well done to all of you who have tried the activities on Mangahigh – keep it up! If you haven’t logged in yet, give it a go this week. Mr Slevin has set some fun activities for you to complete.

SumDog

https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in

Everyone should have login details for this in your homework journal so try logging in and play some Maths games.

**If some people cannot find their login details, please let myself or Mr Slevin know and we can get them for you **

Mental Maths – Keep going with your Mental Maths and try do a day when you can.

Tables – https://www.transum.org/Tables/Times_Tables.asp  We’ve used this before in class, it’s a great way for learning and revising our times tables!

 
Webwise
The HTML Heroes focuses on safe and responsible uses of the Internet. Now that we have more time at home and access to the internet, it is important to be safe when online. The first part of the lessons focuses on the skills needed for browsing the web such as effective and safe searching, determining what online content can be trusted and managing screen time. It is particularly helpful for using the internet for schoolwork or for generally finding information for learning at home.
 
 
Mindfulness Online Colouring
 
When you click into these, hit the colour online button!
 
I hope you all have a good week and please stay in touch through email, I would love to hear from you all.
 
Stay Safe
 
Ms Kelly & Mr Slevin

World Book Day!

10/03/2020 /

On Friday, we celebrated World Book Day. Some classes dressed up as their favourite character from their favourite book. We had a World Book Day Assembly in the hall where each class talked about activities they were doing in their own classes for World Book Day. Each class performed something different, Junior and Senior Infants retold their favourite story, 1st class acted out their favourite story, 2nd class performed choral speaking of letters they wrote, 3rd class gave us clues and we had to guess what character they were talking about, 4th class recited poems, 5th class talked about their favourite books they have read and 6th class talked about the characters they dressed up as. It was great fun!

In Junior Infants, we dressed up as our favourite character from our favourite books. Some of us brought in our favourite books from home. We shared our favourite books from our class library with the 5th and 6th class children who came down to our classroom and read stories to us. We enjoyed going to our school library and choosing books. Ms Marren and Ms Cornyn read stories to us. We really enjoyed World Book Day!

 

Visit to Sligo Co. Library

16/10/2019 /

2nd & 3rd Class walked to the Library this morning to meet with Oisín Mc Gann, a famous Irish author. We love listening to his stories about Mad Granda and all that he gets up to! We had a wonderful time, listening to Oisín talk about his books and the pictures he loves to draw for his books. He read a really funny story about “Mad Granda and the Clepto’s “. We never knew what happens when things go missing at the back of the couch!

Oisín drew us a fabulous picture of Mad Granda and presented it to St. Edward’s NS – what a super present to get for our school!

We love books and we promised our Teachers we would make a real effort to visit the Library and borrow books.

Up Kerry!

30/08/2019 /

Kerry are playing Dublin in The All Ireland Football Final on Sunday in Croke Park. Ms.Browne is very excited – she has her ticket and is going to watch the match in Dublin. We hope Kerry win and bring Sam Maguire back to its rightful home !! Ms Browne told us that we will have NO HOMEWORK for the whole year if Kerry win the match.

Ciarraí Abú!!!!!

Bear Buddies!

04/04/2019 /

To celebrate World Book Day the children from Room 4 organised and set up a bear hunt for the children from the two infant classrooms and the Ark. They used the story of ‘We’re Going On a Bear Hunt’ as the basis of the trail.

Getting into character as bear hunters, the children from room 4 guided groups of infants along the trail in hope of catching some bears that were hiding in our school. The children had to go through the maze, over the hurdles, under the beach, around the track and through the tunnels while on their hunt.

Have a look at some pictures below to see how they got on! They had so much fun!

 

A nautical start to 2019

03/02/2019 /

Some Titanic art from Room 11. The children in 5th class have been busy learning all about the famous Titanic liner, exploring it through English, history, geography, science, drama and art!

Stig of the Dump

15/10/2018 /

The boys & girls in Room 4 are thoroughly enjoying our new class novel ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King. So far, we have met four characters, Grandma, Lou, Barney & Stig. We have come to learn that Stig is a wonderful inventor, using rubbish from the dump to build his home. One such invention is his cup. He cut a football in half and turned it into his drinking cup, scooping up water to drink. We can’t wait to find out what else he invents!!

 

Guided Reading in 4th Class

16/03/2018 /

This term in 4th class we have been focusing on reading and improving our comprehension skills. We have enjoyed partaking in guided reading sessions twice a week every week with our teacher Ms. Walsh, Gráinne and Ms. Lennon.

We had the chance to read both fiction and non-fiction books. We revised many comprehension strategies while reading such as making predictions, questioning, recalling information, summarising information and comparing & contrasting the books with other books we have read or movies we have seen.

We also enjoyed working & reading independently at times during the guided reading sessions.

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