We all dressed up for a good cause today. We raised €232 for Bernardos. It was funny and a little scary. Can you recognise your friends?
Click on the link to see some photos:
Éist agus féach, seo é amhrán a chum ár múinteoir.
This is our Halloween song, introduced in Spanish and English by Ana and sung in Irish. Just click on the link below:
We painted a Hallowe’en sunset. Then we painted a silhouette of a witch flying in the sky.
Look at our wonderful witch fashion show.
We have been learning about squirrels. We made squirrels using a template. Mrs. Doran wrote the instructions on the whiteboard……but she didn’t show us how to put our squirrel together. We had to figure that out for ourselves.
Did you know????
Squirrels live in a nest called a drey.
Red squirrels like to eat pine cones.
Grey squirrels like to eat acorns.
Squirrels do not hibernate. They sleep for long times during the day in winter. On sunny days they will come out of their drey for a quick snack. But sometimes they cannot remember where they hid their food!
Mrs. Woodbyrne’s Fourth Class made some spooky word sums for Mrs. Doran’s First Class to celebrate Maths Week. The Fourth Class girls created lots of word sums and they wrote them out, some girls drew pictures to illustrate the word sums. Half the classes worked in Mrs. Doran’s room and the other half worked in Mrs. Woodbyrne’s room. Cubes were used to help solve the problems. All the children had lots of fun.
We learned all about King Midas. He was a very greedy Greek king. He got a wish and his wish was that everything he touched turned to gold, but he knew that he was in trouble when he tried to eat his tea…..
Click on the link below to see a video of our song. We hope that you like it:
Recently we were delighted and honoured to win the “Platinum” award (first prize) in the schools’ competition of the annual Wexford In Bloom awards. This was a tremendous achievement for such a new garden and it is a testament to all of the hard work from our volunteers and Stephen our caretaker, the wonderful design and planting of Betsy Hickey and James Ginnell and the support of our Parents’ Council, our BOM and the EPA. It is also great news for our Green Schools Committee lead by Ms. English and Ms. Hughes. Come along any time and visit “An Gairdín Glas” and see why we won.
Following wins against Bree, Horeswood and Glynn-Barntown the Mercy girls are currently going very well in the Rackard League. The match against Horeswood in Campile was played in difficult conditions and we had to play into a strong breeze in the first half. Thanks to some excellent defending from all 13 players we were level at half-time and with the aid of some early scores in the second-half we emerged winners by 5 points. The match against Glynn-Barntown was a home match and we emerged comfortable winners after a great team performance. All subs also managed to get on for some of the match and they will all benefit from the experience. Our last match is against Fethard and again it will be at home. If we manage to emerge victorious we will be in the county semi-final for the 4th year in a row. Well done to all the players for their efforts so far, but the toughest matches have yet to come.
Literacy and Numeracy help for children ~ http://www.helpmykidlearn.ie
Lots of different subject activities ~ http://www.crickweb.co.uk
Literacy and Numeracy help for children
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We were very excited today to plant some bulbs in the garden.
Stephen, Geraldine and Ms. Hughes hepled us.
We all planted one bulb each. It was great fun!
When we were finished we balanced on the beam and made funny faces.
We love our school garden!
We sorted out all our crayons.
You will see in the pictures how we matched all the different colours together.
We like sorting and matching.
We will be doing lots more activities like this next week for MATHS WEEK.
Hello everyone!
We are the Junior Infants in Room 5.
We are very busy learning lots of new things and having fun.
We love to sing and this is one of our favourite songs.
It tells the story of what we do everyday.
If you come and visit we will sing it for you!
Off to school
Into school and down we sit,
Talk and think a little bit,
Take some crayons, draw a lot,
Have a rest when we get hot.
OFF WE GO – HEY HO HO,
OFF WE GO TO SCHOOL
OFF WE GO HEY HO HO,
OFF TO ALL THINGS NEW.
Work is over, day is done,
We thank God for all the fun,
Take our coats down from the rack,
‘Goodbye teacher, we’ll be back!’
HOME WE GO HEY HO HO,
HOME WE GO FROM SCHOOL,
HOME WE GO HEY HO HO,
WE WILL BE BACK SOON.
The National Council For Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) has developed a set of help sheets for parents of primary school children. Click on the first link below for Junior and Senior Infants and the second one for First and Second Classes.
http://www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Parents/Primary/Infant_classes_Maths_resources/Infant_Classes_Maths_Resources.html
http://www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Parents/Primary/1st_and_2nd_Classes/
The Mercy School will soon embark on their new Green Flag theme of Bio-diversity.
So what exactly is Bio-diversity?
Biodiversity is the huge variety and variation of life that surrounds us. Biodiverstiy is
essential in keeping the environment healthy and fit for human life. The first and
most important objective of the theme is to develop awareness and understand
its importance to our everyday lives. This can be achieved through improving or
preserving our local biodiversity, in An Ghairdín Glas and at home. We hope to
increase the richness and numbers of species in the school garden. This can be
achieved through the building of the Bug Hotel.
We will continue to work on our other themes of litter/waste…energy….water…
and travel.
