Happy Easter

Wishing you all a very happy Easter and we hope you enjoy the break-lots of love from Room 1 :)

Easter Bunny

We arrived in school on Friday (the day of the Easter hols) to a very special surprise-a letter from 'the Easter bunny'. We were left instructions that we must follow. We followed the arrows that led us on an Easter egg hunt-we hopped all the way along with excitement. The gate to 'the secret garden' was open which gave us a big hint about where the chocolate must have been hiding. Earlier in the week, we had made bunny baskets which came in useful to carry our treats in :) Harry found a pot of gold in the garden with cool chocolate coins-we can't wait to gobble up all of the chocolate. The Easter bunny had been watching us and knew how well behaved and hard working we were so well done to all the boys and girls-treats well deserved!

Easter chicks

Easter Egg-citement

There were special visitors in the school this month. Ms. Hoban and her Senior Infants had seven chick to look after. They arrived as eggs in an incubator and the boys and girls were very lucky to see them hatch. We were allowed to visit and see the chicks-we visited twice. The first time we visited, two chicks had hatched and one egg had cracked. Both chicks were dark grey in colour and still in the incubator-they must be 24 hours in the incubator before being transferred into their pen or special box where they are fed and watered.  We revisited the chicks a week later and were greeted by 7 of them-this time 6 were grey in colour and one was orange and yellow in tone. They had all been transferred into their pen at this stag. Teacher was very brave and took four chicks out for us to play with on the floor-it was very important that we sat in a circle and kept the chicks within the circle-one or two managed to sneak out!!!!

We wrote a sentence in our copies about our visit to the chicks.

Happy Mother's Day

We would like to wish all the mammies in 'Room 1' a very Happy Mother's Day. We visited 'Newlands Garden Centre' to make flower baskets for Mother's Day. First we were handed a basket each filled with soil. We were instructed to make two holes in the soil to fill with flowers. I is very important to look after our flowers by giving them plenty of water and sun. Mammies were very happy with their gift.

We were kept busy making cards for mammies-our cards said 'we love you to the moon and back'.

We drew pictures of our map to the garden centre in our copies....

An Damhsa Mór

A Ceilí was organised in the school as part of 'Seachtaine na Gaeilge'. We were very busy dancing during the weeks leading up to the event. Rocaí Rua was very proud of us as we learned the steps 'as Gaeilge':

                              Isteach dó, trí, isteach dó trí. Amach dó, trí, amach dó, trí. A haon,                                                        dó, trí, ceathrar, cúig, sé, seacht. A haon, dó, trí, a haon, dó, trí. Ar ais                               dó, trí, ceathrar, cúig, sé, seacht. A haon, dó, trí, a haon, dó, trí.

Have a look at us dancing to our hearts content. 

Spring has sprung

In March, we learned all about changes that occur in the Spring time....baby animals are born, buds grow on the trees, days are getting longer, animals are coming out of hibernation and flowers are blossoming. We went on a Spring walk to observe all these wonderful changes. Have a look at our little adventure....

We checked in on our onions that we planted in 'The Secret Garden' back in November. John Kelly, our caretaker is taking care of them and checking in on their growth. The stalks have appeared but we will need more sun in order for them to grow. They will be ready to pick in the Summer time.