Welcome to 4th class.

​There are 20 enthusiastic and hard working girls in 4th class this year.  We are looking forward to working together and making the most of our many talents and abilities. 

We used plasticine to model a summer scene based on the poem 'Welcoming Summer'.

We really enjoyed our school tour to Airfield Farm.  We had a great day out looking at the animals and plants on the farm and playing in the playground.

We took part in an art competition for the Cabra Schools Get Reading Literacy Initiative, based on the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  Congratulations to the winning entries; Amy, Kerry and Ava-Lynn.

We celebrated World Book Day.  We enjoyed 'Buddy Reading' with Senior Infants and some girls came to school dressed as their favourite book character.  

We took part in Junior Achievement workshops.  Liz, our facilitator, talked to us about building a business, types of ownership and the different costs involved in running a business.  As part of our final workshop we played a game which involved all the information we had learned and  we earned a certificate for our participation. 

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We investigated gravity in science.  First we tested the effect of a parachute on a Lego man's fall to earth.  Then we designed and made a landing craft for an egg.

Lauren Magee from the Dublin Senior football panel visited the school with the Brendan Martin cup. 

We made snowmen for Christmas decorations using socks and cotton balls.  We had some very creative design ideas to help dress the snowmen.

We enjoyed writing, illustrating and publishing Christmas storybooks.  We read them aloud to each other and shared them with 2nd and 3rd class.

In November we enjoyed another crisp, winter day in the garden with Tina.  We prepared beds for planting next year and gathered leaves to add to our compost heap.  

Our second STEM challenge this year was to make the longest paper chain possible from a sheet of paper.  It took positive team work to complete this challenge!

We worked really hard on our projects for this year's Intel Mini-Scientist competition.  In groups we researched out topics, conducted experiments and surveys and published all our work to show to the judges.  We presented our projects on the day to the judges, school children and parents.  We were very proud of what we achieved.  Congratulations to our classmates Ruby, Aleesha and Tori, on their winning class project, 'Our Lungs and Asthma'.   

Our Halloween art was based on witches and pumpkins.  We used collage and mosaic styles to create our pictures.

In October we practised procedural writing.  We drafted a procedure for 'How to make a desk tidy', then we tested our steps to see if they made sense.    

We took part in our annual Crazy Hat Walk on Friday 5th October.  There were many interesting and creative design ideas on display.  We also wrote a recount detailing the events of our special day.

We are reading 'The Butterfly Lion' by Michael Morpurgo for our first class novel this year.  We painted scenes based on the African animals gathering at the waterhole to drink. 

We were set a task of designing and making a pencil case.  Our design had to solve two problems; it needed to be able to stand by itself and we needed to be able to open and close the pencil case.  We worked together in groups and came up with solutions as part of our designs.