BOOK WEEK 2013

Last week it was 'Book Week' in St. Catherine's. It was a great week and room 13 would like to thank Mr O' Sé for the debating competition, Ms Murphy for running the book fair, Mr McGrath and Mr Fahy for running the book swap and Ms Carrig and the literacy team for organising a super week!

The week began with displaying all the work the children had completed in the run up to book week. The children put great effort into all the competitions.

A selection of our book covers, poems and limericks.

Book week models

Bookmarks

On Monday author Derek Landy visited the school and gave a very interesting and entertaining talk. Afterwards he signed copies of his book. Room 13 were particularly delighted to see Derek visiting our school as we wrote the initial email inviting him to our book week.

On Thursday children's writer Liam Farrell visited St Catherine's. He spoke to fifth and sixth classes about how he plans a story. It was a very interesting talk and the children are now using Liam's advice and writing their own stories based on nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

It was dress up as a book character day on Friday. There were many different book characters to be seen in room 13. Well done everyone who made a great effort to dress up!

On Friday we also held the final of the book week debates. Room 13's team made up of Dayna, Gearóid and Kellie faced room 12's team. Both teams were excellent. Room 12's team won by a margin of 3 points. A big well done to all nine teams from room 11, 12 and 13 for a great week of debates and congratulations to the winners from Ms Deery's class.

That brings to an end the events of Book Week 2013. It was a great week.

Science

In January we explored how the ear works. We made models to show how our ears work.

We also looked at air resistance. We made parachutes and spinners to explore how air resistance works.

Tie- Dye

We finished our worked on Fabric and Fibre with some tie-dye work. 
The children brought in a white top and tied it up anyway they liked with some elastic bands. The tops were left to soak in the dye over the weekend. They were rinsed and then the elastic bands were taken off to reveal the patterns the children had made!

Some of the class modelling their tops!

A Busy December

History Day

We had a history day in December. The children in room 13 presented their history projects that they had been working on for homework. Each child picked an important person from history and did a project on this person. Alot of the children also dressed up on the day as a person from history, some chose to dress as the person they did their project on.

Many of the children brought in artifacts to show the class. It was great to see lots of items from the past that we no longer use. The children were practically interested in the old phone brought in by Ellen and they typewriter and mobile phones brought in by Ms O' Neill. 

A special thank you to Ms Carroll for her talk on the sinking of 'The Tayleur' and to Ms McDermott and her class for performing their play about 'The Tayleur'.

It was great to see some parents on the day too as it was also the school open day. 

Fabric and Fibre

In December we worked on fabric and fibre during our visual art lessons. We worked with hessian and made sock puppets based on children's story characters.