The Sam Maguire comes to St Catherine's!!!

Monday was such an exciting day for us all in St. Catherines, a day that the children will always remember I'm sure! We are huge supporters of the Dublin team and we were delighted that Eamonn Fennell and Michael Daragh McCauley called out to us to show us the Sam Maguire cup. We were able to ask the two players questions and we made sure they realised how delighted we are to have Sam back where he belongs! :)

Maths Stations

Every morning, we now have maths stations. Our theme for this week was 2-D shapes. Four children from Mr McGrath's class are helping us to learn more about 2- D shapes. At one station, we have a feely bag and we are blindfolded. We pick out a shape and have to describe it and then draw it on the chart. We are really quick at doing this so then we play shape bingo!

The second station involves us looking at 2-D shapes and learning about the larger shapes we can make from 2- D shapes. We then arrange the shapes to make a picture and when we have our shapes positioned the way we want them, we trace around them. You would be amazed at the pictures we have created!

At our third station, we use elastic bands to create 2- D shapes on geoboards. The children start off by making basic 2- D shapes and then they go on to make more difficult pictures. We have had some great boats, houses and robots so far!

The final station is the maths trail. There are a number of clues on classroom doors around the school which the children have been trying to guess the answers too. Nobody has gotten every answer right but there is still one day to go and then we will do the trail together on Friday to find the right answers together.

This has been a great way of revisiting a topic we have already learned about. We will be revisiting a different topic every week!

Symmetry

Second class have been learning about symmetry in maths. The children had great fun trying to draw mirror images of the pictures shown. Some of these pictures were quite tricky to complete but we took our time and the end results were fantastic! These photographs show our practice run but you can see the finished products on the door of Room 2.