We had a fabulous first term in 5th class at South Lee Educate Together, as we worked our way through plenty of big concepts in the classroom, got off campus for a trip to Bishopstown Community School, and built some excitement around school culture!
In maths we built conceptual knowledge around fractions and worked on strategies for division–especially long division. We also practiced working with money, interpreting data and finding averages, and most recently studied various angles and 2-dimensional shapes. We have been busy in literacy with practicing our comprehension and building vocabulary as we read stories and articles across a wide range of genres, styles, and sources. We learned about boglands, Greek culture, the Renaissance period of history, and Celtic villages. We also had some great fun learning about the world around us as we discussed facts about the solar system and the wider universe, with our most recent experiment being to build our own “shadow clocks” or homemade sundials.
The other big highlights of our term included some very fun and memorable events. We took a trip to Bishopstown Community School for a coding and robotics workshop that was hosted by some of the science teachers there and led by some super friendly fifth years. We had a STEM workshop with some fascinating experiments demonstrated by visiting director Phil as a result of our students’ first prize in the AbbVie STEM competition last year.
We benefited greatly from regular yoga sessions with Karen, CSN sports mornings, and GAA skills with Sophie from St, Finbarr’s. Finally, our last couple weeks were full of joyful celebrations and milestones with our “(w)intercultural” day and another special day to wish our dear friend Lia well as she moves to Spain at the close of this term. We will miss her greatly!
Term 1 in 5th class
We had a fabulous first term in 5th class at South Lee Educate Together, as we worked our way through plenty of big concepts in the classroom, got off campus for a trip to Bishopstown Community School, and built some excitement around school culture!
In maths we built conceptual knowledge around fractions and worked on strategies for division–especially long division. We also practiced working with money, interpreting data and finding averages, and most recently studied various angles and 2-dimensional shapes. We have been busy in literacy with practicing our comprehension and building vocabulary as we read stories and articles across a wide range of genres, styles, and sources. We learned about boglands, Greek culture, the Renaissance period of history, and Celtic villages. We also had some great fun learning about the world around us as we discussed facts about the solar system and the wider universe, with our most recent experiment being to build our own “shadow clocks” or homemade sundials.
The other big highlights of our term included some very fun and memorable events. We took a trip to Bishopstown Community School for a coding and robotics workshop that was hosted by some of the science teachers there and led by some super friendly fifth years. We had a STEM workshop with some fascinating experiments demonstrated by visiting director Phil as a result of our students’ first prize in the AbbVie STEM competition last year.
We benefited greatly from regular yoga sessions with Karen, CSN sports mornings, and GAA skills with Sophie from St, Finbarr’s. Finally, our last couple weeks were full of joyful celebrations and milestones with our “(w)intercultural” day and another special day to wish our dear friend Lia well as she moves to Spain at the close of this term. We will miss her greatly!