Term 2 in Ms. Gaire's Class

​Ms. Gaire’s First Class have worked well and progressed excellently throughout Term 2 at school.

In January we got Term 2 off to a good start by taking part in “Mindfulness Week.” Each day for a week, we took time out of the busy school day to relax and centre ourselves and thoughts. We particularly enjoyed Guided Yoga & Mindful Colouring.

​We worked on many new Mathematical topics this term. We did station work with Ms. Gaire and Ms. Keogh at the end of some topics- The Hundred Square, Place Value and 3D Shapes.

​Term 2 was a very active term for our class. We had Hurling lessons as part of our PE programme. We were lucky to be taught by a GPO from Kildare GAA. These lessons were great fun and we acquired new skills. This week we will attend our first swimming lesson as a class and will continue with more lessons in Term 3. We took park in “The Daily Mile” initiative for 10 weeks. Every day we ran/ jogged/ walked for 15 mins. On rainy days we danced in the classroom to ensure we kept up the physical activity.

​We’ve been busy creating lovely Artwork to decorate our classroom and to display on the display boards outside our classroom. We learned about various modes of transport and transport long ago in comparison to transport today. We made some vehicles for our class display: hot air balloons, cars and boats. We focused on the season on Spring. We learned a lot about animals and nature during this season. We made colourful spring flowers. We also made baby chicks and lambs. We created beautiful cards to celebrate our loved ones on Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.

​As a class we like to celebrate various occasions. We celebrated Pancake Tuesday by decorating pancakes with toppings of our choice. They were yummy! We celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite characters from our favourite books. We took part in a Fashion Show in the Hall with the First & Second Classes. On March 21st, we celebrated the amazing children in our school who have Down Syndrome. We listened to a great story and wore odd socks to school to “Rock Our Socks” for World Down Syndrome Day. In March, we celebrated Seachtain na Gaeilge by playing Irish games & saying Irish poems. We danced at the Céilí in the Hall dressed in green to celebrate “Lá Glas.” We wore yellow to school on Daffodil Day and donated money to the Irish Cancer Society.

​Our Class Achievement Tree reflects our hard work this term as it has grown so much over the past few months. 10 leaves have been added to acknowledge all of our achievements. We will celebrate having 20 leaves by having a Pancake Party!

Some children in our class took part in the Easter Bonnet Competition. They created their own Easter Bonnets. The Students Council chose Callum Smullen as the winner in our class. Have a look at the creative Easter Bonnets!

​Happy Easter from First Class!