Senior Infants investigate sound

Senior Infants investigate sound

We made three musical shakers using plastic bottles. We put lentils, coins and sugar into individual bottles.  After shaking each we discovered that the coin shaker was the loudest and the sugar shaker was the softest sound. We decided to sing some songs and test our...
Science Week Space Rockets

Science Week Space Rockets

The girls in 5th and 6th class designed and tested their paper space rockets to see how far they would fly. After the first test flight the girls then assessed their space rockets and made some adjustments to increase the distance they could fly. It was brilliant to...
Acrobatic Clown

Acrobatic Clown

The Junior Infants learnt all about the centre of gravity. They made their own cardboard temple of a clown and they tried to balance it first on its nose. This was very difficult. Then we decided to lower its centre of gravity by attaching pegs or coins or play dough...
Science Week fun in Junior Infants

Science Week fun in Junior Infants

We are really enjoying Science Week in Junior Infants. We watched ‘This is Science Week’ live show on Monday hosted by John Sharpson ( Múinteoir John from RTÉ’s Home School Hub) It was a 45-minute live show that celebrated all things Science! We...
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