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Ms Murray's Class Blog

Friday 24th November

24/11/2017

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What a fantastic week it has been having Ms Costello in our class. It really feels like she's been with us for ever and the children absolutely adore her! So we have been up to loads this week...

Maths

We've been learning about circles and even got to make our own by measuring our wool to the correct length and sticking it to the circle on our page. One for the scrapbooks I think. 
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We have also been practising our sets and discussing why things belong together and how we have sorted them.

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Goegraphy

Learning about map making has been great fun... we even got to map our school!
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Irish

Ms Costello makes learning Irish so much fun! Our new topic is Bia (food) and we know lots of new words!

Homework

So many of the children spotted the hidden task on their homework sheet! The children were asked to draw their OWN flowers on the poem. Well done to everyone who did such lovely colouring in this week! PLEASE REMEMBER: Please keep the homework folder in your child's schoolbag. I did not get some of the new wordless readers back today, I cannot give out new ones until they are all returned. Please ensure they are keep in the folder to be collected on a Friday. 
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I hope that you will get a chance to make a Winter Hat over the weekend to wear on Monday For our sponsored Winter Walk. Look forward to seeing you on Monday if you can make it. 

Kind Regards,

​Ms Murray
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Friday 17th November

17/11/2017

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Science Week! 

To celebrate Science Week we have been super lucky to have our very our Professor Science Pants (impromptu name) visit us every day! Each day, Professor S for short comes bursting through the door after morning break looking mad as a hatter and ladened down with all sorts of science equipment... strangly Ms Murray is nowhere to been seen for the next hour and a half??? probably enjoying a well earned extended coffee break we think...  ​
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So once the children and calmed after overexerting themselves with excitement here what Professor S has been doing with us in our class over the last week...

Professor Puffendorf's Secret Potions

Cram packed with great illustrations and a fun, yet moral story line, this book is perfect to get everyone in the mood for some potion making! It's also got plenty of topical language to explore. The only thing is Professor S has no time for Professor Puffendorf calling herself the world's greatest scientist!
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Fizzing Test Tubes! ...​

This experiment involved some  steady hand and a little messy work... ingredients included corrosive acid and exploding powder with a little drop magic potion...
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Growing salt crystals...

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Another day's experiment was a group one. The children watched as Professor S add a magic ingredient (table salt) into the steaming solution (very hot water add some green food colouring to make it more potion like)... we have to be extremely careful because one drop too much and we would be blown to smithereens... but too little and the crystals wouldn't form right. So the children watched in suspense as bit by bit we made the correct solution without resulting in explosions.

Magic colours...

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The next experiment was more hands on for the children... colour dissolving using skittles. I used blotting paper in this one but any paper would work. The fun part here was using lots science equipment like tweezers and magnifying glasses. Everyone felt like a mad scientist! ​
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Exploring Sound...

To start us off I played this... you don't get more inspiring than Wintergatan Marble Music Machine! the children found this fascinating. 
Exploring different fillings in our own sound machines... shell maracas (originally invented by our very own scientist Maci)  we talked about loud and quiet sounds. 
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Most of these experiments were suitable to add to their Aistear play... although at the end of aistear all the skittles had disappeared and there were no colours on the paper sheets???... perhaps it was an invisible potion? ​
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One of the days, Professor S brought Wendel's Workshop to read to the children. This is a great book for inspiring budding inventors and it links in so well our Aistear junk art... At the end of the day the children were exploring any piece of junk the could find to plan and create their own inventions. 
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Working together to plan our own robots! You can never have enough junk according to Wendell! 
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School Topic

How many caretakers does it take to fix a chair? lol!
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We are coming to the end of our school topic next week and the children have learnt so much about their school and the people who work in it. I got a super hero cape in this one! 

Maths

Lots of number work in maths this week.
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Homework

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Well done to these three super stars who designed their own beautiful leaves! And well done to all the girls and boys who did such lovely colouring on their sheets. They also did a beautiful rendition of Little Leaves but unfortunately I ran out of space on my phone to record it! Next week we will be starting wordless readers, I will send a note home about how to read them with your child. 
Enjoy the weekend and we look forward to having Ms Costello with us from Monday for four week while she completes her teaching practice. 

Kind Regards,
​Ms Murray
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Friday 10th November!

10/11/2017

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Homework!

Well done to everyone for completing their homework so well this week. A great start for your first week of homework. I hope everyone enjoyed the time spent discussing the poem and drawing their pictures. As I mentioned before the homework is not meant to be a struggle so please come to me if you are having any difficulty completing it. I understand that phonics may be a little confusing for parents, you may not be familiar with how we teach letter sounds, the Jolly Phonics app is free and helps you with the letter sound. *Remember* We do not teach letter names at this point. It can cause confusion when learning to blend words. The children can colour in a sound each day in their sounds copy but please do not go ahead.
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Well done for drawing such super little birds of your own!
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The children really enjoyed this week's poem and did a super recital for you here. I can see they've been practicing really hard at home. Well Done!

Homework Poem from Ms Murray on Vimeo.

Maths

This week we were learning all about length. We were comparing socks (clean ones!) using lots of maths language like long/longest, short/shortest. have a go with them at home by measure some things around the house. they should know that they need to measure from the same point to get an accurate measurement.
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Aistear Play

Our new topic is School this week and we are learning s much about the people who work in our school and getting to know our new environment. Ask them about the different people who work in our school! 

Teacher's Classroom

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Busy Caretakers

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Secretary's Office

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Language Towards Literacy lessons help the children develop their topical language.
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And of course we love any opportunity to bring our maths learning into our play! All that junk art you brought us in is getting great use! 
Have a great weekend everyone!

Kind Regards,

​Ms Murray!
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