Maths Week

Last week was Maths Week! We got to do lots of different maths activities throughout the week and had plenty of fun working in pairs and in groups! We played a tables game where we had to beat the clock, passing the maths ball as many times as possible, we took part in a Maths Week Kahoot quiz, we created a Maths Eyes photo collage, we played maths board games, used Tangrams to create challenging shapes, played maths games on the iPads and more! It certainly was a busy week of maths!Take a look at what we got up to below…

A Visit from Rev. Kevin

Last week Rev. Kevin came to class to speak with us about the Bible. We had been learning about the Bible and how it is structured. It’s such a big book it can be tricky to navigate! Rev. Kevin told us all about the story of the Bible, how it is a book full of good, and how it is the story of God’s people everywhere.

Anyone for Cricket?

Over the last 2 weeks we have started some cricket training in school with a coach from Clontarf Cricket Club. We have been having great fun batting and fielding as well as developing some key skills. Take a look at our progress so far:

Recount Writing – Being Editors

This week in English, we were reading some examples of recounts. We had to get our editor brains working so that we could read through the recounts and identify the different key features which need to be included (past tense verbs, time words and phrases, capital letters and end punctuation, chronological order and more!) We colour coded these to see which recounts were the best.

Addition of BIG Numbers

This week we have been working on adding big numbers including thousands, hundreds, tens and units. We did a whole mix of activities including copybook work, whiteboard work, using playing cards, mental arithmetic, using dice and using lots of other concrete maths materials. Check out our work below:

Times Tables Practice

Times tables can be tricky! Here’s a document you can use as a glance sheet to help practice your tables at home.

Multiplication Tables cheat sheet Download

Mé Féin agus Mo Chlann

Bhí Rang 4 ag obair ar an téama ‘Mé Féin’. Seo físeán chun cabhrú libh na focail agus frásaí a chleachtadh sa bhaile!

Adding Big Numbers

This week we’ve been working on adding big numbers. If you’re working on this at home too, here’s a video to help!

It’s Out of this World!

We’ve been learning all about the planet Earth in space, as well as the history of The Space Race between the Soviet Union and the USA. It has been such an interesting topic to learn about and we have really enjoyed it! We took inspiration from this to create stunning solar system scenes. Imagine you are looking out of a window in your spacecraft… maybe this is what you could see.

We used a printing technique called marbling to create the colours and patterns on our planets and we used splatter painting to create our galaxy backgrounds. We think you’ll agree that they’re mesmerising!

Once all our pieces were created and dried, we combined them to produce beautiful space scenes. Our splatter painting became beautiful stars and our marbling became fantastic planets. We added some sparkle too! You might notice our yellow stars too – these stars display our opinions based on our class walking debate: ‘It was ethical to send Laika the dog to space in order to further advance human space exploration’. This was a very interesting debate to take part in and we all shared some great opinions!

We also researched the only 12 people who have walked on the Moon. Did you know that all 12 people who have walked on the Moon did so between 1969 and 1972? No one has been there since so the footprints of these 12 astronauts are still there, perfectly undisturbed! Here we are completing our research:

Assembly – God’s Creation

Last week, our class led our school assemblies. We chose the theme of God’s Creation to share with the school. On Monday we shared a poem we wrote as a class about the 7 day of the Creation. On Wednesday we shared our favourite or the most striking parts of the Creation in our opinions. On Friday we shared some posters and slogans which we had made all about how we can protect and conserve God’s Creation. Check out our work below: