A QuadBlog is a collaboration between a group of schools. Read more about it at http://quadblogging.net/
or watch the video here:
As we visit each school’s blog, we leave a comment. Our comments are always positive and encouraging and we remember to spell words correctly, using full stops and capital letters. See Mrs. Yollis’ children’s suggestions here:
This is the current time and date in Broadlands School, Reporoa, New Zealand:
This is the current time and date both in the Joseph Turner Primary in the UK and Inver National School in Ireland
The students in Inver National School have just completed a Learning Circles project.
Our partner schools were in New Brunswick in Canada, New Jersey and Washington in the USA, in Tartarstan in Russia and in Katmandu, Nepal. We did a project about places and perspectives with them.
Our project was called ‘Outside the school gates’ and we wanted to compare what we see outside our school with what our partners see when they go outside their schools.
This is what we found and you may follow the links to compare the areas:
Rugadh Francis Beaufort i gContae na Mí i 1774. Mairnéalach ab ea é. Chum sé an Scála Beaufort. Féach thíos:
(NB Ní bhaineann muidne úsáid as troiche ná órlaigh ná Fahrenheit sa tír seo, úsáideann muid meadair (m) agus cilimeadair (km) agus Celsius (C))
In this project, which is part of our Learning Circles Project, we are developing an understanding of the level of engagement, and the types of engagement, that our schools and students have with technology.
This is the submission from the students in Inver National School to their Learning Circles Project.
(Developing an understanding that news headlines vary with location and national interests)
What’s in the news?
The flu outbreak at Nazareth House nursing home in Buncrana Co. Donegal has been declared over by the health service.
Seven elderly residents at the Co. Donegal home died, as a result of the outbreak. I feel sad that so many elderly died from the same nursing home.
A new survey outlines the financial hardships householders are facing on a daily basis.
The study by the Irish League of Credit Unions shows the disposable income of thousands householders remains under severe pressure.
Almost half of the people that were served said they are left with €100 or less at the end of the month after paying essential bills. I feel that people are just working to pay bills and to feed themselves.
Mayo were playing Kerry on Sunday in our Gaelic Football League semi final. Mayo won the score was 1:17 to 2:15. It was an outstanding game. Mayo played class, Connor Mortimer scored 5 points in a row and they were the first points that Mayo got. I hope that Mayo win the cup. I think that Mayo played outstanding and that they deserve to win the League (by Eoin)
News
A us coastguard has called off a search for two Irish when a wave sweped them off the boat they were travelling on.
On Sunday afternoon Mayo played agginst Kerry the match was very intresting and it went into overtime. In the end mayo won and I was very pleased.
Two women diedin co. Tyron when there kitchen burst into flames. I feel very sorry for their family.
By Erin
Mayo beat Kerry in the alliance semi- final the score was 2-15 1-17 it went in to extra-time. Bryan Sheehan almost put in to a replay.
By Seamus
News
The space shuttle Discovery made its final voyage today.The United States retired its space shuttle last year after finishing construction of the $100 billion International Space Station to begin work on a new generation of spaceships that can carry astronauts to destinations beyond the stations 384km high orbit.
As part of our Learning Circles project, We have been looking at our favourite popular and traditional foods.We hope to share these recipes and traditions with our Learning Circle partner schools around the world so that we can compare and contrast our cooking traditions. These are some of our favourites:
We are going to be writing to children in Dublin.
We will be writing to them on Monday.
We are learning all about what happens to a letter when you post it.
Our teacher told us who we were going to be writing to.
The other children will be writing back to us when we write to them.
We can’t wait till they write to us. We are very excited.
Pictiúrí ón lá a chuaigh na páistí ó Scoil Náisiúnta an Inbhir go dtí an trá. Photographs from the the day the pupils from Inver National School went to the beach.
On Wednesday 21st March 2012
My classroom went to the beach with a Marine Biologist called Conor Ryan and our teacher Ms Connolly.
My favourite finds were
1. Mermaids purse: Dogfish lay these eggs. They are rectangular in shape with a string coming out of each side. They use these strings to wrap themselves around the seaweed (wrack). After a few weeks, baby dogfish pop out of the purse.
2. Limpet: When they are born, the are all male. After some months some turn into females. You will find them stuck to the rocks. If you kick them more than once, you will damage them and they won’t be able to stick back to their own rock. You must put them back on the same spot from where you took them off.
3.Bladder wrack is seaweed with small bubbles that you can burst. It must not be mistaken with serrated wrack which has large bubbles that you can not burst. The bladder wrack has slimy stuff at the top which people use to have seaweed baths.
This are just some of the things which we saw on our trip to the beach.I enjoyed this trip and found it very interesting. I am looking forward to tomorow because it is our next trip .
Our trip to the beach
In the morning Conor showed us photographs of creatures .He brought us to the beach. We looked under seaweed. We looked on the rocks and we saw limpets.
Conor found three crabs. We saw spaghetti marks on the sand. Lugworms made the marks. We fed the mussels to a sea enemy. We saw bladder weed, egg weed and gut weed. We found limpets shells and whelk shells. We heard a starlet and seagull. When we came back Conor told us about whales and dolphins. We looked at whales bones and dolphins bones. We looked at whales bones and dolphins bones. He showed us a sperm whales tooth, a dolphins skull and a piranha. I liked the piranha. It was really fun. We had a good time.
By Kian & Róisín
Our trip to the beach
In the morning Conor came into our classroom. He showed us some sea creatures on the board. When he was finished, we went down to the shore and we collected some shells. We found barnacle shells, mussels, limpets and two scallops. Conor found a crab and when he gave it to John it climbed up his hand. After that we fed the sea enemy. Then we went back to the school. When we got back to the school everybody was really hungry. After we ate something and went outside we came in and Conor came in to talk to us. He told us about all the whales and dolphins in Ireland. He showed us a real piece of a whale’s spine, a dolphin’s skull, a real sperm whales tooth and a special shell from Australia. It was really fun.
As we prepare for our trip to the seashore, we remember to keep ourselves safe at all times: to watch out for sharp rocks and broken glass and to keep our múinteoir in view at all times.
The booklets on the left are from The Marine Institute at www.marine.ie who is the national agency responsible for Marine Research, Technology Development and Innovation (RTDI)in Ireland.
When we go for a walk outside our school gates, we have two golden rules:
Take nothing only photographs
Over the last few weeks we have begun a project called Learning Circles project. The project is about sending packages to schools about our country. The schools we are sending the packages to are: New Brunswick in Canada, Seattle in Washington, Katmandu in Nepal, Teaneck in New Jersey, Tartastan in Russia. The first package we sent was a survey about our school and we sent it to each school we are doing are Learning Circles with.The second package we sent included Irish things that the other schools dont have in their country. There was a clod of turf,Irish sweets,an Irish traditional music CD,a page explainging what turf is and leaflets about our area. We are really enjoying our Learning Circles project and I hope we learn a lot from it.
We would like to welcome our new QuadBlogging friends to our blog and we hope that everyone has a wonderful time over the next few weeks. 
