5th and 6th Classes Blog

Ingredients for a successful bake off written by 6th Class  Ingredients for a successful bake off 1 dash to the shop (maybe two) A long Sunday afternoon Strong mixing muscles A lot of Patience Enthusiasm A hassled parent Mix it altogether After all that hard work, here are the results! Thank you to Sheena McDonagh our enthusiastic judge!

Space Boxes Astronauts/cosmonauts can take some personal belongings on their missions e.g. Chris Hadfield took his guitar, Karen Nyberg did her quilting. So we asked ourselves what we would bring on our missions......

Dear Parents/Guardians,  As you may know, last week was Space Week and this week is Maths week. We have decided to do our annual bake off with a space theme in mind.  Cakes will be judged based on- Appearance and Taste.  A recipe needs to accompany the cake (Maths Week).  Bring in a cupcake sample if you do not want us to cut your cake. Bake off to be held next Monday and our judge is ready to come in! Thanking you,  Máire Goggin (5th and 6th)

Homework is a Waste of Time??? Our class is participating in the Concern Primary School Debates Competition. Today members of our class, Matilda (captain), Eva and Sam were opposing the motion, "Homework is a waste of time." They travelled to Liscarroll National School where the debate took place. Our students faced tough opponents but overpowered them with their strong arguments and intelligent rebuttals. It was a class effort as behind each debater today was a team of researchers and advisers. Everyone really ought to be proud of themselves. I'm glad to say that homework is in fact, not a waste of time. Looking forward to Round Two. Comhghairdeas libh go léir!

Space Week Whoever would have thought that we would have somebody working in the European Space Agency engage with us here in St. Luke's. Here are some photos of Eóin Tuohy in our classroom. He visited us via Skype as part of Space Week 2019. We were given the opportunity to ask him so many questions. He spoke to us for about 40 minutes! We learned so much- if he can do it, so can we. Reach for the Stars!!!! A big thank you to BCO for helping us to coordinate this.

Debate Training Today we had a visitor from Concern to our classroom. We learned about pressing global issues and how we can address them through debating. Here is a link to the Concern Primary School Debate Resources

Inference The comprehension strategy that we are learning about at the moment Inferring is “reading between the lines” We use our schema and our understanding to infer things that the author has not written – The invisible ink of the story. We use our knowledge of body language, faces, expression and the author’s tone to help us. We are like detectives searching for clues to understand the story. We ask ourselves, “What does the author mean by....?” Above is a photograph of the class doing the inference CPM. See post on "prediction" for further information.

Designing Our Mission Patches Written by 5th and 6th Classes The brief: This year is the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11.Children in St. Luke's are going to commemorate this by going to the moon. Together they worked as graphic designers- designing mission patches before they embark on their expedition. Here is a list of considerations: The students are pictured below, working in their teams, designing their mission patches. The students presenting their prototypes to the class and opening the floor up for questions