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 Papier Mache Creations.
Over the last three weeks Mrs. O'Connor's class have been busy creating papier mache bowls.  Firstly we had to tear strips of newspaper and glue them onto our bowls with our homemade glue. Having allowed the bowls to dry completely we then decorated and varnished them. We think you will agree that they look amazing!

Na Trí Mhúicín

Ms Brosnan's 4th class performed the 3 little pigs as Gaeilge for the 3 junior infant classes on Monday. They have only been learning this for a few days and knew the book and their lines off by heart. What amazing work and dedication right up to the end of the year. Juniors learned some new words and were chanting "ni thusa mo chara" right back at the Mac tire. 

4th class school tour to Kinsale outdoor adventure centre 

Both fourth classes had the best day at Kinsale Outdoor Adventure centre. There were so many fantastic activties from Kayaking to climbing walls, archery and zip wiring. A fun day was had by all and the sun shone for us too! 

Junk Art 

Come on Ireland!!!  

Fitness Supremos!
Here in Mrs. O'Connor's class there is no limit to the lengths we will go to to improve our fitness levels in preparation for the summer holidays.  We reckon we are doing an excellent job!! 

Happy Birthday Ms. Tobin!
Ms. Tobin is our very special SNA in Mrs. O'Connor's class.  She is always giving us lovely surprises so today on her birthday we decided to give her a very special surprise.  We each made her a birthday card and then they were delivered to Ms. Tobin in a very unique envelope.  We hope you had a wonderful day Ms. Tobin...you're one in a million!!

GPO showing 3D video of the 1916 Easter Rising 

Recreating hedge schools!!

Celebrating 1916
Last Friday we had a special visitor to Mrs. O'Connor's class....it was Mr. O'Connor!!!. He was in class to talk to us about his two granduncles Dan and Joe Canny who both fought in the 1916 Rising.  He showed us an exciting Powerpoint complete with sound effects.  We also saw many interesting photographs of the Canny brothers in their Irish Volunteers uniforms, their 1916 medals and photos of the hurling teams which they were involved with in Dublin.  

We got an art attack in May!!!
Art and creativity have blossomed in Mrs. O'Connor's class during the month of May.  We created wonderful underwater collages to coincide with our recent visit to the Lifetime Lab.  We learnt about the famous Dutch painter Pieter Cornelis Mandriaan.  He is known the world over for his unique form of art - cubism.  We experimented with our own brand of cubism which we are quite proud of!  We also acknowledged and celebrated friendships which have developed in the class since September.  We know these friendships will last for many years to come.

Our once in a lifetime visit as VIPs to Dublin's GPO

A huge congratulations to Lucy Keohane who won this years An Post national handwriting competition. Lucy was presented with a certificate of excellence in handwriting on Monday 9th May 2016 by the GPO Manager along with the new president of the INTO. Lucy won the prize of a class visit to Dublin's splendid GPO. We had amazing day in Dublin receiving a guided tour of the GPO, a VIP lunch upstairs in staff headquarters for all the class, a 3D video of events of 1916 a walking tour around Dublin visiting Daniel O'Connell statue, viewing the spire, looking at John Gray and Jim Larkin statues, onto Trinity College and to finish off viewing bullet holes left behind from 1916 on St Stephan's green entrance. We found out so many interesting facts including how gun shot was stopped twice a day during 1916 so the ducks could be fed!! We finished off with a visit to McDonalds on our way home in Cashel. A wonderful once in a lifetime visit was had and memories that will be fondly cherished forever.

Here comes the Summer!!!
Here in Mrs. O'Connor's class we like to celebrate any rays of sunshine that come our way and took full advantage of the recent good weather to sow our rocket plants in the school garden and have a very enjoyable game of rounders on the pitch .

Science, history and fun! What more could you hope for on a sunny friday?
4th classes visited Cork's lifetime lab on Friday last to learn all about marine life and try out some water based science experiments. We walked from the lifetime lab down the mardyke walk into Fitzgerald's park and visited the Cork Public Museum with  wide ranging collections, items from abandoned Ogham standing stones to War of Independence memorabilia. The classes loved the underground bunker with sound effects. Afterwards the class had some time to enjoy the beautiful new playground in Fitzgerald's park finishing off the day nicely in the basking sunshine.

Budding Engineers in 4th Class
There is a building boom happening in Cloghroe school at the moment as Joe O'Driscoll and Liam Kelliher demonstrated this week.  They constructed this beautiful Stone Age fort over a two day period while on lunch break.  Well done boys! We are all very proud of you!
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Congratulations LUCY KEOHANE who won the An Post Handwriting Competition. Lucy is the overall national winner in category 3 (third and forth class) nationwide. We are so proud of you Lucy. 

The nationwide schools’ competition challenges school children of all ages to test their handwriting skills. Over 65,000 children from all over Ireland meet the challenge annually, making the handwriting competition a huge success.

Proclamation Day Celebrations

Today was a very exciting day in school.  We celebrated Proclamation Day by dressing up in clothes similar to those that would have been worn by children back in 1916. We raised our new Irish Flag and sang the national anthem Amhrán na bhFiann.  We also had great fun performing our Irish song "Tóg Amach Mé" at Assembly.  This is the Irish language version of Nathan Carter's song "Wagon Wheel"
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4th class girls performed the beautiful Ribbon Dance for the 1916 celebrations

Guinness book of Records

We were studying length in Maths class so what better way to bring maths to life than drawing the world's tallest and shortest person. We converted their heights from feet into meters and centimeters and drew their actual size. Other groups did things like dog's longest ears and even world's longest ear hair eewwww!!!
have a look at our photos we did a great job.

Chuc Mung Nam Moi

Happy Chinese/Vietnamese New year to everyone today February 8th 2016. This is the year of the Monkey. We have learned a lot about the Vietnamese new year and their traditional coin giving. Lucy and Tuan brought in traditional Vietnamese dress wear, along with a "Non La" the famous straw hat. It's lovely to learn about different cultures. Lune is the French word for Moon, therefore the lunar new year is the moon's new year where people rid houses of bad luck by cleaning for 3 days before "Tut" (new year). Families eat to excess and nobody works for the following 3 days of celebrations.

Who knew magnets were such fun

4th class have been learning about magnets. We studied how opposite poles attract and how like poles repel. We found out that there are magnets in compasses and how magnetic fields are invisible. You can, however, see a magnetic field when you use iron fillings on a page. Have a look at our photos of animals and people. We used iron fillings to create moustaches and beards and other fun things.
Did you know there is more iron in Branflakes than Cornflakes, science doesn't lie. Just have a look at the experiements to prove it. Enjoy, we sure did!

Australia project

We've been busy doing our projects on Australia. We have learned a lot of very interesting facts. Did you know the width of Australia is the same distance as London to Moscow!!!
Ms Brosnan's nephew Jaiden came into our class to tell us all about his life and schooling in Sydney Australia. He even picked up a few facts about Irish sport and culture.

The Cork Simon Community Visit.
We listened to a very interesting talk from the Cork Simon Community this week.  We learned a lot about the problems facing people who have lost their homes and the help that is available to people to turn their lives around.  We dressed up in our Christmas jumpers and raised over €100 for the Simon Community.  Well done to all!!

The Magnitude of Magnets
Science can be great fun! We discovered this last week when we explored many different activities with magnets from moving iron filings across a page to making a block move and designing cars and ramps.  We reckon the engineers of the future are in fourth class!

Christmas Play
Following many weeks of rehearsing lines, dance routines and songs, all our hard work paid off when we performed our class play for the whole school on 18 December last. We had great fun but think we might put our full time acting careers on hold now for a little while!   
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Christmas Cards and Christmas Jumper Day in aid of Cork Simon Community
We recently learnt about people less fortunate than ourselves and how some people will be homeless during Christmas.  We made Christmas cards for some of the residents of Cork Simon Community and raised €100 through our Christmas Jumper Day.
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ROBOTS

After weeks of work our robots are finally finished. They are made from recyclable materials found at home.

Credit Union Art Competition

Lucy Keohane entered the Credit Union Art Competition on Nov 13th. The title of the work was "Happiness is..." She came 2nd and won a One for All voucher. She is also through to the next round. Well done and best of luck.
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ATT Gymnastics Competition

On Sunday November 29th Elizabeth Cussen and Sophie Healy competed in a gymnastics competition in Limerick. Around 100 children competed for the much sought after prizes. Elizabeth came first in the Regionals and second in the Nationals. Sophie came first in both Regionals and Nationals. Well done girls. We are a very proud 4th class!!!

Collins Barracks Nov 2015

On Monday Nov 30th 4th class set out to visit Collins Barracks. We split into two groups with one group visiting the rehearsal hall first and the second group visiting the museum. We listened to the wonderful army band playing and singing. We also learned about the large variety of instruments. We explored the museum and learned about the history of The Barracks and all about Michael Collins. We completed a quiz in pairs so fingers crossed!!

Maths is fun!!
We went on a Maths Trail throughout the school grounds recently as part of Maths Week.  It was great to investigate Maths in the environment. We measured, counted and estimated...all in all it added up to great fun!!!

Electrifying Times!
As part of Science Week we were very happy to have a visit to our classroom by Mr. Kevin Kelliher.  Kevin is an Electrical Engineer and father of Liam.  Kevin spoke to us about micro-chips and the vital role they play in our world of today.  We were fascinated to look at the many components that go into creating a laptop.

Anti - Bullying Week
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We listened to a very interesting talk about bullying and how to take steps to protect ourselve from bullying when we are on-line

Outdoor Experiments

We had lots of outdoor fun recently when we examined the effects of preventing light from getting to part of a leaf.

Sweet Sweet Music

We have been composing our own pieces of music in fourth class. They all tell a story and have either 3 or 4 beats per bar. Its no Beethoven but we are proud of our achievements! 

Golden Hour

We enjoyed Golden Hour with some of 3rd class on Friday Nov 20th. We all made a small contribution to the Fire Damage Fund for a local family. A very worthy cause and a very small price to pay for an afternoon of fun and friendship!

Wedding Bells

Congratulations to Miss Eithne Ní Chonghaile who has headed away to get married on Sat Nov 21st. We wish her all the best and are looking forward to seeing some pictures when she comes back. We might even be lucky enough to get some cake!!!

Super Skippers on Display
There was no shortage of fancy moves on display during our skipathon.

Euro Qualifiers 2016
Well done to Michael Lehane who lent his support to the Irish team in the vital Euro qualifer at the Aviva stadium against Bosnia- Herzegovina.​

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Say No to Cyber Bullies!
In October we completed various activities which will help us to deal with the issue of bullying and especially cyber bullying. We learnt 4 rules to protect ourselves when we are surfing the internet or using social media.

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Sparks are flying during Science Week!
Some hair raising moments during Science Week as 4th class conducted many experiments involving balloons!
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Science Week
We did several experiments with balloons for Science Week.

Mixing baking soda with vinegar to inflate a balloon!

Self propelled cars

Static Electricity

Balloon Rocket

ROBOTS

We are busy making robots from recycled materials in 4th class. Its amazing what we throw away!!! One persons trash is another persons treasure!!

Spooky Stroll to School  

Here in 4th class we all made a huge effort to walk to school on Friday 23rd October in our Halloween costumes. Some were home made, some were bought but they all looked amazing. Well done everyone. Happy holidays!

Essay Competition

All of 4th class have entered the O' Brien Press Short Story Competition for Young Readers. We have high hopes for a prize. Fingers crossed!

Smashing Pumpkins!

Pumpkins......A work in progress!!

Happy Halloween

We are currently busy with our pumpkins. We have white washed them and we are now going to paint them as a variety of different animals and characters.

Water Filtration

Last week in Science we investigated how soil and mud sink to the bottom of water. We had great fun shaking bottles of dirty water as hard as we could and watching it clear slowly as the dirt sank to the bottom.

This week we took the same water and filtered it through layers of sand, gravel, stones, rice and pasta. Not good enough to drink but the results were pretty impressive!!!

Healthy Eating

We have been learning all about the food pyramid and healthy eating here in 4th class. Our lunch boxes are stuffed full of healthy carbohydrates, protein, fruit and veg every day. Fats, oils and sugar are banished from the classroom!