Blue Star Work

Hello everyone!

Here we are working on our Blue Star projects! We are learning all about Europe and we hope to get the Blue Star flag for our school as a result.

Writing Story Books in 5th and 6th

Hi everyone! 

5th and 6th class are working on an exciting project. As part of our narrative writing, we are writing story books for infants! It is much harder than it sounds. We have to go back to basic sentence structure, basic plot lines, use of alliteration and so on.  We also had to ensure the books covered themes which are important to us in school. We are focusing on friendship and anti-bullying at the moment. We are almost finished now, after a lot of work! We will be reading them to the infants once they're finished. They will be available in big book format, a regular book format and digital format.

 Brainstorming is the most important part!

 Creating the book cover:

 We even made the characters for the infants to hold!

  Planning plots and story lines!

Reporting and Baking in KNS!

We are very busy preparing for the Peace Proms Concert in school, it is only two weeks away! We also have our Credit Union Quiz next Friday, and we are motoring along on our Blue Star Flag. We are flat out! Teacher Valerie thought that some therapeutic baking which also helped us refine our procedural writing skills was in order. We measured our ingredients in decimal form as we are learning about decimals this week. We explored materials and how they can be altered in science through our baking, and we learned how to write recipes. We also incorporated art through icing our cakes and cupcakes! Who doesn't love seamless integration!

This week we examined The Irish Times and learned a lot about current events. We cut out the articles we found most interesting.

Examining the extortionate house prices and how long it would take to repay..

We completed our animal reports. 

 We started procedural writing, and we made two delicious cakes!

 Well done boys!

 And well done to the girls!

 Eating cupcakes on a Friday afternoon!

5th and 6th Class, January 2016

Hello everyone!

Happy New Year! We are back to business as usual in school. We have been studying report writing. We are beginning with animal reports, and next we will move on to write factual reports based on countries. We each chose a different animal. We had three minutes each to present the most important points of information about our animal in front of the class, being mindful of the public speaking rules. (make eye contact, don't turn your back to the crowd, be loud and proud!)

 

We learned about China and the Chinese New Year and we made these lanterns. We also explored Chinese symbols.

 

The girls enjoying DEAR time:

 The Kilcoskan Drama Society meet every Friday afternoon during golden time:

This week we started to learn about the Great Irish Famine. We are exploring the causes and effects of the famine, specifically the long term effects the famine had on Ireland, Liverpool and America. Our starting point was to brainstorm and figure out what we already knew about the famine.

We were working with clay in art today to make cottages similar to the cottages people lived in during the famine:
 




In other news, Kilcoskan NS are taking part in the Peace Proms Orchestra Concert this February. Children from 4th, 5th and 6th class will be heading to the RDS on the 6th of February to perform. We have been practicing a lot. We attended a workshop this week in Swords, and we performed with 2500 other students!
Here we are practicing: