Cee Cee

The boys in our class are very caring and kind and love animals. Have a look at how gently they are looking after Cee Cee, our school rabbit. She was so cosy and comfy with the boys!

Releasing the butterflies

We have been busy learning all about the life cycle of the butterfly and the boys and girls have waited patiently for the caterpillars to form their chrysalis and then waited patiently for them to emerge from their cocoons as butterflies! 

We were so excited when they came out of their cocoons and once all five butterflies had come out, we released them!

We sang goodbye to them and we will be looking carefully in the sky to see if we can see them again soon!

Growing plants!

We have been busy in our class planting some cress seeds and watching them grow! We added soil to our plant pots, before sprinkling seeds on top and lightly watering them! We are excited to see how they will grow over the next couple of weeks and we will enjoy eating the cress for our lunches!!

Spring Walk

Spring is here! Múinteoir Ailish's First class and Múinteoir Denise's Clever Acorns spent a lovely afternoon enjoying the spring sunshine in Merlin Woods and the surrounding area. The children discovered many signs of spring, including spring flowers such as daffodils, dandelions and daisies, as well as finding several buds on the trees! On their trip, the children also found many animal habitats. Spring is a very exciting time in nature, with signs of new life all around us!

Forest walk

Last week we were the first class in the whole school to get enough stars for best líne, to earn a special reward! We chose to go on a forest walk to Merlin Woods!

We left the school in pairs, following Múinteoir Carol...

We walked along the pathway, using our senses of sight, smell and hearing to explore the local environment. 

We entered the forest with our bags to gather some leaves from all of the different trees we could find...

We discovered some very tall evergreen trees in the forest and we learnt that these trees stay green all year round, even now in autumn!

We then found other trees, that change over the seasons. We gathered lots of leaves from different trees and even found some seeds from some trees on the forest floor...

After we collected the leaves in the forest, we returned to our classroom...

We are going to have lots of fun examining the different leaves and seeds we found! 

Later in the week, we will show you some leaves from the trees that are all around us! 

Maybe then you can explore your  own area and discover some of these trees too!