February was such a busy month, between our GAA lessons, Grandparents Day, Valentine's Day, Friendship Week with special collaborative art pieces with the Junior Infants in Room 15, our China Projects and a visit from Farmer Tom with all his amazing animals. We have had a ball this month, there were so many fun moments, laughter and smiles throughout the month.

We all came back with lots of news after Christmas and New Year and we loved getting to catch up with all our friends in Room 10. We particularly enjoyed getting back into the routine of our Library time on Wednesdays along with starting back our GAA Lessons with Coach Aisling in the hall every Thursday. We were working a lot on the theme of Winter and it certainly did feel like winter with the weather this month.

We had a great month in December between our Christmas art, Santa visit, PJ Day, Christmas concert and show day, a surprise hot chocolate and movie day along with our Christmas Carol Service in the hall - it was jam packed! We really enjoyed getting the festive spirit and run up to our Christmas break. We hope all our grown-ups enjoyed coming to our school concert and hearing our two songs; I think we will be singing about Hippopotamuses for a very long time!!!

November saw Room 10 enjoying Wellbeing Week, a visit from Graffiti Classics for a special school performance which we thoroughly enjoyed, an anti-bullying workshop, and learning all about compliments, cups of kindness and all about the artist James Rizzi and his cityscape characters. 

This month we have been doing Athletics with Louise, GAA with Aisling and also preparing for some Spook-tacular events. We had our annual fundraiser 'The Witches Walk' where we wore costumes and walked around our local area. We collected lots of funds and lots of beeps too! 
We also performed our poem 'Mystic Magination Night in the hall for all our friends on this day too. We had great fun doing our costume parade in the halla. Thank you to our lovely Parents Association who arranged a lovely surprise for us all in the morning. 
We also prepared some Haunted Houses and had to create a 'Haunted House for Sale' and Ms. Gilligan was the buyer of our houses - she was pretty spooked by some of the added extras some of the houses had - skeleton maids, ghost butlers and 'batrooms'!!!! 
Happy Halloween!!!!

We have settled back into school very well, we have changed classroom this year and are in Room 10 with Ms. Gilligan. We have been very lucky to have Louise from Athletics Ireland with us every Tuesday - we have spent each week focusing on a new Athletics Skill such as hurdles, relay, long jump, sprinting and javelin. We have had great fun learning about different athletes who race each of these disciplines and have been enjoying getting to practice the skills ourselves. 
We have been using our Wild Explorers reader to inspire us with making 'Paper People' while also doing self-portraits in art!

We worked together to design our own bridges with items in the classroom! Teamwork makes the dreamwork!

We visited Croke Park on a school tour! We saw the pitch, the different stands, the dressing rooms, the VIP lounge and most importantly...THE TROPHY ROOM!!

For Active Schools, we ran laps of our kilometre Active Walkway every day for 4 weeks! We counted up our class laps and we ran all the way past London! On the last day of the challenge, we completed our run around the O Toole's Astro Pitch! We had lots of fun!