Rang a Trí

Fáilte go dtí Rang a Trí 2018/2019

Student Council Elections
Toghchán do Chomhairle na nDaltaí

3rd Class held their Student Council Elections last week. This was a great opportunity to learn about the importance of voting, especially with the upcoming Presidential Election.

On Polling Day, students had to present their 'identification cards' to the Presiding Officer in order to receive their ballot papers. They then took their papers to a 'polling booth' so they could vote in private, numbering their candidates in order of preference.

After a hard-fought campaign with carefully-designed posters and thoughtful speeches, the successful candidates were Erica and Ruairí. Well done all!

Fáilte go dtí Rang a Trí 2017/2018

Welcome to our third class website.

We have been up to lots of fun activities since we came back after our Summer Holidays.

Eoin O'Connor Art

We looked at the art work of Eoin O'Connor and took inspiration from his work and re created our own versions of his famous cow paintings.

We had great fun drawing the cows as we had to pretend the cows were looking down the lens of the camera.

Take a look at our wonderful creations.

Fighting Words Writer's Workshop

On Friday the 29th of September third class got involved in the Fighting Words Writing Workshop. We had great fun as a class taking part in this workshop. We worked together as a class to think of characters, a setting and a plot for our story. Then we worked in groups or individually to create an ending for our story. It was so much fun. This week we received copies of our book and it even had our pictures at the back.
Thank you so much to parents of the school Anna, Fergus and Cathy and to Patsy for organising it.
We loved it!

Mind UP!

As part of the Mind Up Programme that is being implemented in our school this year we started one of our lessons on learning about the brain. We learned about three important parts of the brain - the prefrontal cortex, the amygdala and the hippocampus. We learned the functions and the locations of these parts of the brain. We worked together to write about these parts of the brain and to describe what they do. We have them displayed at the back of our classroom.

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Engineering Week

For Engineers week Dara's dad in fourth class came into our class to talk to us about engineering with two of his colleagues. It was really interesting and we also had to make towers out of marshmallows and matchsticks. We worked in groups and had to use our engineering skills. It was really fun!

Science - The Bending of Light!

We conducted some experiments in class as we were learning about light and the 'bending of light'

Tessellation Fun!

SPHE - How my classmates describe me

We did a lovely activity in class where everybody in third class wrote a nice adjective about everybody. They are on display on our SPHE wall in the classroom!

Down Syndrome Day

Ruby and Max's Mom, Maeve and Susan came into talk to all the classes about Down Syndrome for Down Syndrome Day. It was really interesting and we really enjoyed it. Thank you very much Maeve, Suzanne, Max and Ruby.

Seachtain na Gaeilge

We got up to a lot of activities for Seachtain na Gaeilge. We had an art competition where we had to draw pictures and design poster based on different seanfhocail. It was really fun! Bhain muid an taitneamh as!

We also dressed up and had a fashion show. Children wore traditional Irish clothes! It was great fun! Well done to Oisin who won!

We also had a Tráth na gCeist with Rang a Dó! Bhí sé go hiontach!

We also did a performance for first and second class where we sang the song Báidín Fhéilimí and Ruairí accompanied us on the guitar! Ruairí was great on the guitar and the children sang beautifully.

Maths Week Fun!

For Maths Week Third Class got involved in a number of maths activities. We played maths games in the classroom and we also had a maths challenge. The children had to estimate how many jelly beans were in a jar, the person who came closest to guessing the correct amount won the jar of sweets! It was a lot of fun estimating how many sweets were in the jar.

Walking in the Woods

We decided to take a winter walk through the woods near our school. We had a lovely time and we were looking out for all the signs of winter in the woods.

Hallowe'en Fun!

Some of the boys and girls dressed up for Hallowe'en! We had a great day in the class with everyone dressed up in different costumes!.

A Good Egg!

In science we conducted an experiment with fresh water and salty water.
We used eggs and we predicted in which water would the egg float in, salty water or freshwater.
We worked in groups and put water into a glass jar and put water and salt into another glass jar and stirred it.

Lyndsay Hughes from Galway Bay FM interviewed the children about their experience taking part in the Write a Book competition. We were broadcast on Monday at 5pm on Galway Bay Fm!

Practicing G.A.A skills with Darren a local coach.

We had a visit from Tony, a dental technician. He showed us dentures and we used plaque tablets to see plaque on our teeth!

We celebrated Burns Night on the 26th January. We acted out a Robert Burns poem, sang a Scottish song and made our own tartan patterns. Thank you to Avatal for sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with the class.

The children engages in map work and then drew aerial view maps of our school!

Testing our reaction speed to a falling weighted scale.

The children play soccer with a twist!

Rinne na páistí pictúirí a thaispeáint na héadaí is fearr leo.

Bhí na paistí ag foghlaim faoi éadaí- Féach ar na héadaí sin!

Firefighters from Gort fire station talked to the class about fire safety.

Planting spring bulbs.

Taking part in a maths trail with senior infants.

Practising our balance in Science!