We have had a busy week celebrating Literacy week. We entered the door competition with our 'Bookflix' theme, using books that we have read and would like to read soon.
On Wednesday we had a lovely afternoon playing games in the hall, using our oral language skills along the way.
Both our class and Mr Moriarty's class have been learning about World War II in history so we performed a play about the blackout in Ireland during the war, called 'When Ireland was quiet'. We welcomed a big crowd in on Friday to watch our performance.
Our genre of writing for this month is Poetry. We combined writing with art and ICT by typing and printing our haikus and then painting a background to display them. We chose the theme of floods for inspiration!
We were very lucky to have story teller Seosamh visit our school and tell us the story of Fionn Mac Chumhaill through english agus trí Ghaeilge with engaging animation.
To finish off Literacy week, we took a trip to our local library where we listened to some lovely stories told to us by Liz. The standout story had to be 'The Extraordinary Gardiner'. We then visualised the two worlds in the story through art.
We had great fun celebrating Halloween in 4th class. We used our imaginations writing Halloween themed procedural writing and looked at the history of Halloween. For music, we chose an Halloween theme and used percussion instruments to recreate that scene, such as a haunted house. Our Halloween walk was a great success. We enjoyed showing off our costumes on our walk around Inchicore.
4th class got the chance to try out our new playroom for the senior children in the school. We had a wonderful afternoon getting creative with the kinetic sand and playdough and building our team work skills playing card games and giant connect 4.
Last Friday, 4th Class took on the big job of hosting and presenting the Senior Assembly and they did a fantastic job! The pupils showed off their public speaking skills as they stood up in front of a large crowd of students and teachers. They spoke clearly, confidently, and kept everyone engaged from start to finish.
Well done to all of 4th Class for their hard work and teamwork in preparing for the assembly. You should all be very proud of yourselves!
