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<![CDATA[St Joseph's Co-Ed - Third Class Blog]]>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:56:56 +0000Weebly<![CDATA[The Solar Eclipse]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:30:17 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/the-solar-eclipseOn Friday morning, our class witnessed something very special. We saw a solar eclipse in our playground! This rare event will not happen again until 2090, some of us will be very old by then. Ella says she will be 85!

An eclipse is very dangerous to look at because the sun could damage our eyes but we had a brilliant solution. We went out to the school yard just before it got dark. Our teacher wouldn't let us look up at the sun so we had our backs to it. We noticed it getting very dark and very quiet - even the birds stopped singing!

It was very cloudy and we thought we would see nothing but a break in the clouds came and our teacher told us to look up at the top windows of our school. We saw the solar eclipse reflected in the top windows.
It was amazing to see the moon passing between the earth and the sun and blocking the sunlight!

We took photos and wrote about the eclipse. We will add these to this post later.

]]><![CDATA[Build A Bridge and Get Over It!]]>Sat, 10 Jan 2015 02:09:17 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/build-a-bridge-and-get-over-itOur teacher gave us sheets of paper and box files and set us a challenge to see which group could stack the most cubes on a paper bridge. Most of our bridges fell down after one or two cubes were put on them. The bridges were too weak to hold the weight.

Our teacher asked us to experiment with different ways of using the paper to make the bridges stronger. It took a lot of thinking and good teamwork to come up with new ways. Immediately, most of the groups folded the paper and that helped hold more cubes because the paper was stronger. But that wasn't good enough, she wanted us to make the bridges even stronger so we thought about the design of bridges we had seen and tried some other ways. Some of these were really successful.

We created sides for our bridges, we made arches to go under our bridges and we even made accordian folds to strengthen our bridges. They could now hold lots of cubes!

]]><![CDATA[A Special Message to Third Class]]>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:14:34 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/a-special-message-to-third-classHappy Christmas Third Class - be good, you know why!
Love Sam - Ruff Ruff!

]]><![CDATA[POt Lunch]]>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:05:26 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/pot-lunchFor the last few months our class have spent a long time exploring the theme of friendship. We have all worked so hard on this and to wrap it all up we had a "Pot Lunch" where everybody brought in something to share with the whole class. We had a brilliant time as you can see and it could become a regular feature in our classroom!

]]><![CDATA[Our World]]>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:28:50 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/our-worldOur teacher asked us to draw "my world" and here are some of the illustrations we created.

]]><![CDATA[Let it snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!]]>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:43:11 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/let-it-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snowOh the weather outside is frightful,
but in our class it's so delightful,
We made snowmen out of clay
Please let it snow today!

]]><![CDATA[Science Week]]>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:13:55 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/science-week

Science Week Ireland ran from the 9th to the 16th of November this year. During Science Week we started on our "Build A Bridge (and get over it!) Project. We also went to see the wonderful Michael Moylan's Science Show in Charleville Library. It was really brilliant and funny too!

]]><![CDATA[Movember]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:56:42 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/movemberMovember is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, We couldn't grow our own so we made them. For more information on Movember see http://ie.movember.com/

]]><![CDATA[Mask Making]]>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:40:12 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/mask-making

We had great fun this week planning and making masks for Halloween. We used paint, markers, feathers and glue to make them.

]]><![CDATA[Creepy Silhouettes]]>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:29:01 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/creepy-silhouettes

]]><![CDATA[Typing Camp]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:47:12 GMThttp://www.stjosephscoed.ie/third-class-blog/typing-camp

We've been using Dance Mat to practice our typing skills. Dance Mat is great fun but it can be VERY LOUD so our teacher makes us turn down the volume on the laptops when we are in the Computer Room but we love Gary the Goat's Liverpudlian accent! We timed ourselves typing a sentence at the start and we will time ourselves again when we finish all the lessons.

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