Forces: Slinky

Crows nests

We have lots of ash trees near our school. This past week the crows have been very busy and noisy getting their nests built. We went for a walk to have a closer look and saw them gathering the sticks. We can see them from our window. We will be following their progress.

Greenwave 2011

We are taking part in the Greenwave project this year.  We are looking at buds, frogs and swallows.  We are taking photos of each of these as they first appear this Spring.  Here are some of the photos taken so far:

Primrose:

Horse Chestnut:

Hawthorn:

We are still keeping out for sightings of frogspawn, swallows and ash buds.  More photos when we get these.

Check out all the Galway photos submitted on

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Horse Chestnut buds and bug hotel

Growing carrots and lettuce

Planting cress seeds

Growing Amaryllis

In spite of a fall, our Amaryllis is flowering and looks great.

Gardening with Kay in Senior Infants

Green fingers in Junior infants

Seeing how flowers drink in Junior Infants

We went for a walk and we pick 4 lovely daffodils in the park.
We put these daffodils in 4 different jars with water in them. In the first one we put in two drops of green food dye, in the second one we put in two drops of red food dye, in the third we put in two drops of blue food dye and in the last we left it clear.

                            

                       

We left them a few days and observed what happened.....

The red and blue food dye were more obvious than the green dye, they drank the water and turned the petals on the daffodils red and a greeny blue colour. The clear water didn't change the colour of the daffodil.

Spring in Senior infants

We planted beans and flowerbulbs a few weeks ago and they are just starting to show now.Also we have three bird nests outside our prefab.We saw a bird making it's nest one day on the way back from the yard- picking up twigs and grass.
Mrs Mc Loughlin has frogspawn in her classroom and we are keeping an eye on how it is changing week by week.
We had a vote to see which season people preferred and Spring won - the longer days and new growth and colour everywhere are things we love!

Planting root veg in 1st class

Growing shamrock in Junior infants

I bought shamrock seeds in town .They were very easy to germinate. I will put them outside when we go back.  

Bigger, fatter tadpoles in Senior infants

Growing seeds in Senior infants

Yesterday we planted some cress seeds in class as we have been learning about plants and the conditions necessary for growth. We know that plants need water, light and soil to grow. However, we didn't need soil to grow our cress seeds as they will grow perfectly fine on damp cotton wool. Teacher gave each of us a plastic cup with our name on it. Then we put some paper in it purely to add height. Next we wet some cotton wool and placed it on top of the paper in the cup. We then spread our seeds on top of the cotton wool. Cress seeds usually don't take very long to grow so we expect to have some lovely cress to bring home very soon!!!

Planting seeds: Senior infants