by Little Island National School | Apr 24, 2012 | Fifth Class, Fourth Class
For a number of weeks, fourth and fifth classes were involved in a lunchtime Chess Club. Many talented chess players have emerged from these classes, and a team of four went on to represent Little Island N.S. at Cork ChessZ Tournament in Scoil Mhuire Lourdes,...
by Little Island National School | Mar 28, 2012 | Archive, Latest News
Look at our Easter eggs and...
by Little Island National School | Mar 25, 2012 | Fourth Class, Latest News
Some alternative sunshine rays displayed in imaginative ways!...
by Little Island National School | Mar 9, 2012 | Latest News
I have been telling Junior Infants about a very friendly (and very vain!) chaffinch who lives in my garden. He comes and sits on the wing mirror of my car every day. He likes to look at himself in the mirror, and he loves talking to his reflection. I took some...
by Little Island National School | Feb 15, 2012 | Latest News
Before mid term break, Junior Infants read the book “I will never ever not eat a Tomato”. In the story, a little girl called Lola decides she does not like carrots, or peas, or potatoes or broccoli or cauliflower, or bananas – and she especially dislikes tomatoes. We...
by Little Island National School | Feb 13, 2012 | Latest News, Third Class
Australia Day is celebrated every year on January 26th so we, in Third Class, decided to celebrate it too!! We first read all about the Land Down Under as a class and then split up into 4 groups to move in stations around the classroom. At Station 1 we had to...
by Little Island National School | Feb 11, 2012 | Latest News
We have turned into food scientists in Junior Infants, for as part of our February theme of Food, we have used some scientific experiments to make different types of food. In science we examined the concept of liquids and solids. We examined different types of both...
by Little Island National School | Feb 11, 2012 | Latest News
In Junior Infants we just love Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We have had such fun reading the book, and we have learned so many different things with some help from this story. We learned to sequence and order the days of the week, and even did this...
by Little Island National School | Feb 4, 2012 | Latest News
Over the month of January, we in Junior Infants enjoyed reading Oliver Jeffers’s book Lost and Found. It is a story of a boy and a penguin. We LOVED it! We wrote about the book in our own copies, we made our own sequencing cards, we learned about penguins and looked...
