What is up with room 16?

Room 16 has been somewhat magical around Christmas time; with elves spotted around the place over the last few years! This December has seen our friends return.........

We have been seeing clues over the last few days that there might be elves in our classroom; however we had no proof of this. So we decided to set up a secret camera to see what was going on!

The camera was set up on Tuesday afternoon and when we checked it Wednesday morning we were amazed. To our delight we captured elves leaving us a note.

We re-positioned the camera in a new spot in the classroom to see if we could capture the elves again. Thursday morning we found more elves when we examined the camera footage.

Below is a picture of the note the elves left us; and the two videos that we captured.

We shall report again if any other elves are found.

Mr Owens' Elf-Busters ™ 

                                        

Italian Day in Mr. Owens' class

Last Friday 25th November in Mr Owens' class we celebrated Italy.
After learning about Italy for the past 2 weeks it was great to have loads of yummy Italian food for our lunch!

Kandinsky Circles

"Kandinsky Circles" art display by Ms.Galvin's class.

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal in Mr Owens' 2nd class

Here in Mr Owens' 2nd class we completed the Christmas Shoe Box Appeal whereby we gave lovely gifts to children in poorer countries that wouldn't otherwise receive any Christmas presents.

It is an initiative that has touched the hearts of many and one I feel is very special.

There are many videos online of children receiving their shoe box presents and to say that these videos are moving and overwhelming is an understatement.

Once we wrapped the shoe boxes with Christmas wrapping paper we brought in items to fill our shoe boxes.

Examples of things that we put into our boxes included: toys, pencils, pens, colouring books, a small doll, a picture of ourselves, sweets, and sanitation items.

Thank you to all the parents/guardians that helped with this appeal.

The videos of children receiving their presents and more information can be found at:

 https://www.teamhope.ie/christmas-shoebox-appeal/

Below is some pictures before our boxes were collected.

We need a hair cut!

In Mr Owens' 2nd class we were learning about how plants grow.
We learnt that plants need 3 main things to grow - water, sunlight and air.

We then made grass heads out of an old pair of tights, stuffed with cotton wool and grass seeds. We had great fun making the faces of the grass heads.
We made the body out of old yogurt containers and the school milk containers.

Below is some photos of our grass heads.
Notice the change in some of them from being as bald as an egg to needing a hair cut! :)