May 2016 – Page 2 – St. Joseph's Primary School, Cardowan

May 23, 2016

Eco home team challenge.

Children have been working hard to design and create an environmentally friendly home for the future.

Floor plan

Early stages of a model.

Research into eco building materials.

Measure twice but cut once.

May 23, 2016

Digital Learning Challenge

Hello boys and girls and teachers.

Following our successful participation in Digital Learning Week 2016, I have been talking to P6 today about how we can ensure that everyone’s efforts are continued.

P6 volunteered to monitor how often each class uses the school blog/website. I will visit P6 again in the second week of June and we will look at the blogs from each class….. we will hope to see homework being set, comments from parents/families and photographs of learning etc

The class who we decide are using the blog/website most effectively will be awarded a special prize….this will remain a mystery until the panel’s decision is announced.

Happy blogging and researching ideas on how to make our curriculum even better focussed on Digital Learning.

Mr McCloskey

May 23, 2016

P1 Homework Week Beg. 23rd May 2016

For your homework, please type a sentence into the the comments box. The sentence must have a common word or a phoneme word or both! Don’t forget your core targets. Happy typing (with 2 hands please!) 🙂

May 18, 2016May 18, 2016

Primary 1 Literacy

Here are some photos of us learning our phoneme and common words. We made our common words using plasticine, made sentences and spelled ‘oy’ words with our magnetic letters. We are working with our shoulder partner, who checks and helps fix any mistakes. We also typed sentences using both hands. They had our common words and phonemes in them. We had fun through play!

May 15, 2016

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

We have been learning about how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly through the process of metamorphosis. Can you write about this process in your own words please ? I will be awarding a bonus of 20 group points for the most detailed description shared, so try your best!

Thank you,

Mrs. Curran

May 11, 2016May 15, 2016

Centipedes

We have been looking at centipedes in class as part of our Minibeasts topic. Can you type four facts that you have learned please ?

Thank you,

Mrs Curran

May 9, 2016

Primary 2 Outdoor learning

measuring using our feet. — **Measuring using our feet.**

May 9, 2016

First Holy Communion – May 2016

Well done to our First Communicants. Saturday’s masses were just perfect as were all of the boys and girls – I was very proud of everyone. Thank you to Ms Hutchison, Mrs McAlinden and Mrs Houston for preparing our children so well and to Father Kenny for making the day so special for everyone.