Today we went to Emo Court in County Laois. We examined different types of seeds, leaves and trees that can be found there.

Term 3 has flown by and I can't believe it's the end of the year for the Sycamores in first class. Here's how we got on this term: We did the post office in Aistear, planted potatoes, watched our frog spawn hatch into tadpoles and almost to frogs, before we released them into the wild.We had Active Week and our sports day, Emily taught us all about Norway and we took part in African Drumming. We hunted for minibeasts with our pooters and tablets,took a walk to see our yarnbombing in the Linear park for Junefest and finally had the best tour ever in Wallaby Woods. It has been my pleasure getting to know you all this year and I wish you all the best in the future. Have a wonderful summer!

Dia dhaoibh go léir. Another busy term completed in the Sycamores. We were planting with Ms Carey, creating 3D shapes with spaghetti and marsh mallows, eating healthily with Food Dudes, experimenting with magnets, getting fit in Gymnastics, playing drums from around the world during Seachtain na Gaeilge, learning about the Restaurant, Supermarket and TV Studio in Aistear and practicing our computational math on our tablets. Wishing you all a restful and safe Easter break- Cáisc Shona Daoibh go léir!

So we have reached the end of term one and we have packed in so much. We did School and Santa's Grotto in Aistear, Light experiments and made Dioramas of our ideal class or playground. We celebrated the 10th birthday of SNU with a magician and a party and we were visited by Santa twice! It's because we're such a good class! Many thanks to all our parents and grandparents who have been knitting up a storm, you are all wonderful! Thank you all for your support this term. Nollaig shona daoibh go léir.

Our Aistear theme  was The Healthy Eating Cafe. We learned all about healthy eating, food groups, the importance of brushing our teeth and eating healthily to stay healthy, active and happy.
We wrote recipes for delicious healthy smoothies (thanks to parents for all the fruit contributions) and then really enjoyed drinking them!

We constructed amazing cafe’s and restaurants using blocks and lego. We designed healthy and unhealthy lunchboxes in our cutting and pasting station.

We had fun going in role as chefs, waiters and waitresses and customers in the cafe and we wrote some excellent healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes.

We did an experiment to find out the bad effect sugary drinks like orange juice and especially Coke can have on our teeth. We found out that milk and water were kindest to the shell of the egg which is like the enamel of our teeth.

The excitement of Christmas has definitely arrived in The Sycamores as we prepare for the holidays. We got a lovely gift all the way from the North Pole last week, a 'Santa Cam' to make sure all the boys and girls are behaving themselves in class. We worked really hard to create decorations for our Christmas tree. All the pupils enjoyed decorating the tree!

The pupils in The Sycamores have been learning all about the number 6 this week and exploring different ways they can make the number six through rhymes, classroom hunts, white board work and using different materials to make sets of 6.

We've been very busy in the Sycamores settling into a new school year in Senior Infants. We started off our Aistear with the theme of 'School'. Pupils constructed their own versions of our school, dressed up as their favourite teachers in the school and even took on the role of the teacher!

Dear Parents

Welcome back to a new school year and I hope everyone is settling in well at this stage. We are holding a Parents Information Night on Thursday next 10th September at 7.00pm.   Parents of Junior Infants to 1st Class go to the small hall in the school building at 7pm for general meeting with the Principal followed by classroom meetings.

Thank you, Noreen.