Weather Station

The children in Juniors and Seniors were meteorologists and weather forecasters this week! There was a weather playdough station and an art station. The role-play station was busy. The meteorologist had to go outside and use instruments to measure the weather. We used wind socks, weather vanes, thermometers and a rain gauge. Then the children had to write reports and present the weather on the television. The construction station was fun because there were different weather scenario cards and the children worked together or by themselves to construct the story! 

Hurricane Mystery...

Welcome back to school after our two days off for Hurricane Ophelia! After learning a little bit about hurricanes and looking at some of the effects of Hurricane Ophelia in Ireland, Ms. Keane showed the children something very mysterious that ended up in her garden after the storm...

Who could own this? How did it get into the garden?

We had a look inside to figure out who might own the suitcase. We found lots of clues. There was a magic hat, a cloak, a hairbrush with green hair stuck in it, dark purple lipstick, magic pink powder, a candle, a sewing kit, a toothbrush and sunglasses. We discussed all of the items a decided that a witch must own the bag! We created pictures of what we thought Gilly the witch might look like. Later on the Juniors told and illustrated stories about how the suitcase ended up in the garden, and Seniors did some creative writing with Mr. Murphy about Gilly too! 

Weather

Our theme for January was Weather!

We learned lots about different types of weather, weather forecasting and meteorologists. 

We even became meteorologists and made some instruments to help us understand the weather better. 

We made:

a rain gauge 

a thermometer 

a wind vane 

and an anemometer! 

The meteorologists recorded the weather data each day last week using our new instruments and compared each day's weather.

We also looked at the water cycle using this poem: 

and this video:

 

The children in Juniors and Seniors are ar fheabhas at An Aimsir in Gaeilge and know LOADS of phrases for talking about the weather if you just ask...

"Conas atá an aimsir inniu?" 

"Cén sort aimsir atá ann?" 

Cén saghas lae é?