Snowdrops and Crocuses.

Today we planted Snowdrops and Crocuses in a round pot. Thanks to Galway city council for the bulbs. We put the pot outside with the other pots.We checked the roots of the hyacinth we sowed in the compost.

Rain gauge

It was a wet and miserable day today. We put out our rain gauge at 9.30 and took it in at 1.10. There were 2 millilitres of water in the container. We hope we won't be putting it out too often.

Daffodil bulbs

We planted 20 bulbs this week, 1 for each child. We planted them in a window box and left them outside the classroom, no need to water them as we had lots of rain. We said they had gone to bed for the winter`!

Halloween and our Witches Walk.

We love Halloween in our class and we had lovely decorations in our room. We made pumpkins, cards, spiders and our spiders book and bat masks. Today friday we went on our annual witches walk. Thank you to the parents for all the costumes, witches, vampires, ben ten, pumpkins, princesses, a cat, spiderman and skeletons.Thanks for all the sponsorship. It is much appreciated. We had a lovely walk and a lollipop hunt when we got back. We played snap apple. HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

Dancing raisins.

We did an experiment on Thursday using raisins, sparkling and still water. It was great fun. We put the raisins in the still water first and they sank to the bottom Then each child put one raisin in the sparkling water and they all started to move to the top and looked liked they were dancing. We had a long discussion on why this happened and I encouraged them to try it out at home. We left the raisins in the glass overnight and had another chat the following morning . on why they were all at the bottom of the glass.

School grounds tidy up.

We decided to do do a clean up around the school on Wednesday. The kids were very excited putting on the aprons and getting the grabbers. It was a lovely sunny day and they found lots of rubbbish. They shared the litter grrabbers. We put the litter. in a big bag and put it in the big grey bin. The whlole place looked much tidier.

Hyacinth bulb roots.

We have been checking our bulb in water every day and the vase is now full of roots and the shoot is just visible. We will leave it outside on the press when the shoot is a little bigger.