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Gaelic Football, Hurling, Soccer Skills & Bouncy Egg Videos

20/6/2020

The 3rd - 6th Class pupils have been busy taking part in some virtual hurling, gaelic football and soccer challenges as well as a bouncy egg science experiment over the past week. Click on the link below to see some of the gaelic football, hurling and soccer skills videos from the Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four Skills Challenges and the bouncy egg science experiment videos on YouTube. Switch your web browser to Google Chrome if you are having any difficulty watching the videos.

www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRDIiq0hBnttS9jGJefPDQ?view_as=subscriber

Wildlife Log Piles And Crazy Caterpillars

20/6/2020

1st and 2nd Class were busy this week creating their own wildlife log piles and Crazy Caterpillars using rocks at home. Super work by everyone!

Brilliant Work Lucia & Jake!

19/6/2020

Lucia and Jake made a fabulous log pile lodge for the wildlife in their garden. Brilliant work!!

Day Four Virtual Challenges (Continued)

18/6/2020

The Virtual Challenges for Day Four included writing a piece entitled "My Hero", a bouncy egg science experiment, Gaelic football and soccer skills and a Bake Off Challenge. The "My Hero" pieces included family members, soccer players, hurlers, computer programmers, authors, suffragettes and Gaelic footballers.

The bouncy egg experiment involved placing an egg in a glass, filling the glass with white vinegar and waiting for between 48 and 72 hours to see if the egg would become a bouncy egg. The shell of an egg is made of calcium carbonate. When you place the egg into the vinegar, you see bubbles, which is the chemical reaction of the acid in the vinegar reacting with the calcium carbonate to produce carbon dioxide. The egg gets larger as it sits in the vinegar. That is because some of the vinegar is absorbed by the egg through its semi-permeable membrane. Like with all science experiments, we had some positive and negative results!

The Bake Off Challenge showed that there are some very talented chefs in the school. We received lots of different examples of the pupils' baking skills such as Victoria sponge cake, biscuit cake, brownies, cookies, rice krispie buns, cup cakes and carrot cake - all of which looked delicious. We even had pupils making elderflower cordial!

Uploaded below are some examples of the "My Hero" written pieces, the bouncy egg science experiment and the Bake Off Challenge (click on the images to enlarge them). Amazing work once again from everyone!

Day Four Virtual Challenges (Continued)

18/6/2020

The Virtual Challenges for Day Four included writing a piece entitled "My Hero", a bouncy egg science experiment, Gaelic football and soccer skills and a Bake Off Challenge. The "My Hero" pieces included family members, soccer players, hurlers, computer programmers, authors, suffragettes and Gaelic footballers.

The bouncy egg experiment involved placing an egg in a glass, filling the glass with white vinegar and waiting for between 48 and 72 hours to see if the egg would become a bouncy egg. The shell of an egg is made of calcium carbonate. When you place the egg into the vinegar, you see bubbles, which is the chemical reaction of the acid in the vinegar reacting with the calcium carbonate to produce carbon dioxide. The egg gets larger as it sits in the vinegar. That is because some of the vinegar is absorbed by the egg through its semi-permeable membrane. Like with all science experiments, we had some positive and negative results!

The Bake Off Challenge showed that there are some very talented chefs in the school. We received lots of different examples of the pupils' baking skills such as Victoria sponge cake, biscuit cake, cookies, rice krispie buns, cup cakes and carrot cake - all of which looked delicious. We even had pupils making elderflower cordial!

Uploaded below are some examples of the "My Hero" written pieces, the bouncy egg science experiment and the Bake Off Challenge (click on the images to enlarge them). Amazing work once again from everyone!

Day Four Virtual Challenges

18/6/2020

The Virtual Challenges for Day Four included writing a piece entitled "My Hero", a bouncy egg science experiment, Gaelic football and soccer skills and a Bake Off Challenge. The "My Hero" pieces included family members, soccer players, hurlers, computer programmers, authors, suffragettes and Gaelic footballers.

The bouncy egg experiment involved placing an egg in a glass, filling the glass with white vinegar and waiting for between 48 and 72 hours to see if the egg would become a bouncy egg. The shell of an egg is made of calcium carbonate. When you place the egg into the vinegar, you see bubbles, which is the chemical reaction of the acid in the vinegar reacting with the calcium carbonate to produce carbon dioxide. The egg gets larger as it sits in the vinegar. That is because some of the vinegar is absorbed by the egg through its semi-permeable membrane. Like with all science experiments, we had some positive and negative results!

The Bake Off Challenge showed that there are some very talented chefs in the school. We received lots of different examples of the pupils' baking skills such as Victoria sponge cake, biscuit cake, cookies, rice krispie buns, cup cakes and carrot cake - all of which looked delicious. We even had pupils making elderflower cordial!

Uploaded below are some examples of the "My Hero" written pieces, the bouncy egg science experiment and the Bake Off Challenge (click on the images to enlarge them). Amazing work once again from everyone!

Great Work Tomás!

18/6/2020

Tomás has been working hard this week creating his own log pile. He is going to keep a regular check on it as well to see if he can spot any centipedes, woodlice, beetles, birds and maybe even a frog or a hedgehog. Great work Tomás!

Super Work Bella!

18/6/2020

Bella has built a Crazy Caterpillar this week using rocks, a very impressive piece of construction. Well done Bella!

Gaelic Football, Hurling & Soccer Skills Videos

15/6/2020

The 3rd - 6th Class pupils have been busy taking part in some virtual hurling, gaelic football and soccer challenges over the past week. Click on the link below to see some of the gaelic football, hurling and soccer skills videos from the Day One and Day Two Skills Challenges on YouTube. Switch your web browser to Google Chrome if you are having any difficulty watching the videos.

www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRDIiq0hBnttS9jGJefPDQ?view_as=subscriber

Day Three Virtual Challenges (Continued)

15/6/2020

Challenges for Day Three were a Notice Nature photography challenge, a Yoga Poses challenge and some more hurling, football and soccer skills. Uploaded below are some examples of the Notice Nature photographs and the Yoga Poses (click on the images to enlarge them). Excellent work by everyone again, some potential yoga instructors and photographers in the making!