Susan’s Visit

Today a lady called Susan came to our school to talk about a bird called “The Twite.” It was very interesting.
First we put the chairs in a circle, and we decided who was going to be on team management. It was Liam, John, Seamus and Kian on the team. They picked Lisa and I take take pictures & notes of all the plants! Some others for the plot sheet and Amy wrote down the names of all the birds we saw, and April Ava and Orla had binoculars.
Then we set up the plot outside called a quadrat and we measured a metre and tied a knot at each corner. We counted all the flower heads and grasses.
After that we went inside and did some art, using different materials. Our art had to have the twite in it. I did the sea and cliffs with the twite on cliff. Everyone’s art was great.

I really enjoyed my day and can’t wait for Susan’s next twites!

FYI- Mayo is twite capital. 🙂 🙂

By Ailish

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Using leaves for Maths / Ag baint úsáid as duilleoga do Mhata

We are talking a lot about Autumn in the classroom these days so we decided to go for a walk on Wednesday and we picked lots of different types of leaves. As well as learning about the different trees each of the leaves comes from, the children also worked in groups and carried out different maths activities like counting the area surface of each leaf using squared paper, measuring the perimeter using string and measuring the length and width with rulers. They really enjoyed it!

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Na Loclannaigh – Vikings

Tháinig na Lochlannaigh go hÉireann i 795 AD. Bhí longa fada iontahcha acu agus ba mhairnéalaigh maithe iad. Mharaigh siad go leor daoine agus ghoid siad óir ó na mainistreacha. Thóg siad port ag Dubh Linn nó Baile Átha Cliath. Bhí faitíos an domhain ar gach duine rompu.

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Blackberry and Apple Crumble – Crumble sméir agus úll

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On Thursday myself and my class made a blackberry and apple crumble. It was mouth wateringly delicious.

First the teacher washed the berries. Than she told us to wash our hands. (Our teacher had washed her hand already).

After she told Seamus and Amy to sort out the berries because some of them were still a bit red and bitter. Than she asked myself, Ailish and Ava to cut off the skins and mash the apples. Than she told the other groups to make the crumble out of flour, butter and sugar.

Next some of the students sprinkled some of the crumble over the berries and we decorated the top of the pie with some apples and berries. They looked delicious.

We put them in the oven for over 20 minutes. Ava and I offered to clean the dishes. I spotted a bit of steam coming out of the little oven and you could smell the pie beginning to burn. The first pie was cooked and ready to eat! Yummm!

We let the other pie cook for another few mins to let it get a bit crispy. The pies were too nice. We all got 2 pices. Seamus got 3! Haha!! He loved it.

The pies were really nice. The recipe will be on our blog @Inver.org

I hope you liked reading my story.

The End.

By Orla

Inne rinneamar crumble smeir agus ull
Ar dtus nigh muid ár lamha agus na sméara.
Chuir muid úlla, siucra agus braon uisce sa mhicro-oigheann ar feadh cupla noiméad. Chuir muid i mias iad leis
na sméara.
Ansin, rinnemar an crumble le plúr, im agus siucra. Chuir muid an meascán ar bharr na hulla agus smeara. Chuir muid an mais san oigeann ar feadh fiche noinead.
Bhí an crumble go halainn.
le Amy

Uimhreacha priomha~ Prime numbers

Eratosthenses was a Greek mathematician who figured out that to find all the prime numbers between two and some large number, you need to remove all the multiples of each number between two and your large number. Start by pressing “2” (skip over “1”), and you’ll see all the multiples of two eliminated: 2,4,6,8, etc. Next, click on “3” and so on. At some point the program will stop, and all the prime numbers between 2 and 400 will be colored red. Can you guess the biggest number you will need to click?


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