A big welcome back to all the students and staff of Drimnagh Castle. We hope that you all had a really enjoyable summer and have come back refreshed and ready for action! We are already in full flight here with many of our extra curricular activities back in action including Gaelic Football and Boxing. We…
In room 3 we are learning about birds. They get really hungry in winter because there is less food. They eat berries, little insects and worms and because the weather is cold it is hard to find them. We made bird feeders to put in our gardens. We reused the bottles that our water came…
13 story tree-house and the 104 story tree-house are about two boys (Terry and Andy). They’re best friends. They like going on crazy adventures around their tree-house. The books are written by Andy Griffiths THE 13-STOREY TREE-HOUSE. The magnificent tree house was hand made by these two boys. They have a friend (Jill) loves animals…
In Winter there is not much food for the birds. We thought about bringing out bread but that is not good for them so we wanted to feed them something healthy instead. We made bird feeders out of string and cheerios. Some people used pipe cleaners instead of string because it was hard to get…
In room 4 we have been very busy getting into the Christmas Spirit! We put up our tree! Dexter put the star to the tree. We made snow globes from recycled materials. There were a lot of steps to make our snow globes. Firstly we drew some Christmas decorations to put into the globe. We…
In room 2 we won the Golden Boot. It is an award for winning the Walk on Wednesday competition. Every week the Green schools boys go to the top of the class and check how everybody got to school. Some boys walk, cycle, park and stride, take the bus or the luas, carpool or just…
In room 2 we made lava lamps for science. We used water oil food dye and alka-seltzer tablets and a two litre bottle . First we put the water into the bottles, then added the oil. Then we put in food dye and an alka-seltzer tablet. Then we put cap on and swished it up.…
September is the beginning of a new school year, and along with a new school year comes new second class boys. We went to Ms. O’Brien’s room to interview some 2nd class boys (Ryan A., Daniel M. and Zak B.)When we asked them what their favourite thing about Drimnagh Castle was, their answers were that…
In second class we are doing Power Hour. Power hour is an hour everyday where we work really hard on reading. It is really good fun and we really enjoy doing it. In power hour the first rotation is iPads. On the iPads we do comprehension. Our 2nd rotation is comprehension cards and Ms O…
In room 3 we love art, but we especially love Christmas art. We have painted reindeer portraits, made stained glass windows and even fashioned our own antlers and sparkly noses for ourselves. Don’t we look cute? We’re the room three Rocking Reindeer, and we’re looking forward to the holiday festivities!