Handprint Tulips

We made handprint tulips for Art class this week. We made a video on the visualiser of the instructions we followed. There is a similar idea on DLTK Spring Crafts website. 

Where is Jessie?

Jessie went to Calry AstroTurf pitch some weeks ago. He was sad because the sign said "No Dogs Allowed".

Best of luck to the children on their match tomorrow!

What is Spring?

We are learning about Spring in School. The Senior Room read their Spring Poems for us. We really liked them. We liked them because everybody had their own story to tell about spring. 

In the Junior Room we are learning about the life cycle of the frog and the butterfly. In our Daily News we hear about the lambs and calves being born. 

Junior Room information about spring click here. 

Senior Room information about spring click here.

It is a busy time on the farm but it nice work too especially when the weather is dry and mild.

We are reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Jessie likes books written by Eric Carle. We like the illustrations too.

We will be doing some spring planting in school soon. Senior Infants had 'sow' as one of their spellings this week. The sunflower seeds packet says 'Sow March - May' which means to plant them in either March, April or May.

• We will sow the sunflower seeds in March.
• Teacher will sew up the rip in the the Bee puppet's wing.
• We can sing 'doh, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, doh'.
• I was sick so I didn't go to school.

Spring Poetry on the Vernal Equinox

Happy Mother's Day

We made lovely cards for Mother's Day. The template for the card can be found if you click here.

Mums make children blossom.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh

Today we celebrated St. Patrick's Day, the Patron Saint of Ireland.

We made snakes at school but we learned that in fact there never were snakes in Ireland, so there were in fact no snakes for St. Patrick to banish. This information was obtained from naturalist Nigel Monaghan, keeper of natural history at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, who has searched extensively through Irish fossil collections and records.

  

For more information on St. Patrick and the banishing of snakes click here. 

INTO EBS Handwriting Competition Winner

We have great news to report that one of the students of Leckaun N.S. has won a prize in the INTO / EBS Handwriting Competition 2012.

Well done to all who took part. We look forward to the prize-giving in Carrick-on-Shannon next week.

Conn Coinín

At school today we had a special visit from a new member of the Leckaun Community. The photos were taken from our classroom windows.

We have named him Conn Coinín because this is the name of the rabbit in our Gaeilge book. We have to be very quiet or we will scare him away.

GAA training

We have Football training every Thursday. We like playing games and practising our skills. Brian MacDonald is our trainer.

Happy Leap Day! 29th February 2012

We celebrated Leap Day today in Leckaun National School. We know the rhyme;

Thirty days has September

April, June and November,

All the rest have thirty one,

Except February twenty eight alone,

In a leap year once in four, 

February has one day more.

Leap days happen every four years when we have an extra day in February. When a baby is born on the Leap Day it is very special. They usually have something in the evening news where the parents of the leap babies are interviewed. 

The Junior Room made "Leckaun Leap Day Headbands". It was really fun and we got to wear them home.
We do not have an extra day of school because of the Leap Day. The next Leap Day is in 2016. We talked about what class we will be in for the next Leap Day.