Ms. Flaherty's butterflies

We released three of our butterflies (Bingo, Buttercups and Jumping Bean) from our butterfly garden last week as they had hatched successfully out of the original five.

How the peas have grown

We planted our peas on the 27th May. See how they have grown in less than a month. We also noticed that they grow towards the light. We know that this is called phototropism.

Planting peas in senior infants

On Friday we planted some garden peas. Teacher gave each of us a pot and we placed some soil in it. Then we made a few holes in the soil with our fingers and dropped the peas into them. Next, we covered the peas with more soil. We watered them well and we will take good care of them until it is time to bring them home and then we can plant them in our gardens at home - we will never be short of peas again!!!

Mini-beast hunt and vegetable harvest

Floating and sinking in senior infants

We did an experiment to see what things float and what things sank this week.Some things ,like lollipops ,did different things depending on what shapes the lollipops were.

Summer Nature Walk in Senior Infants

We went on a summer nature walk this week.It was great to see all the trees in full bloom and hear birds singing!

Ms.McLoughlin's butterflies fly away

Mrs. Browne's vegetables

The lettuce ,radishes , potatoes and runner beans are growing well now that the weather has improved. We had 1 ripe strawberry on Friday. They like the bit of heat and sun.

Releasing Ms. Crotty's butterflies

Today we came into school and we had a great surprise. We now have 4 butterflies. The butterflies came out of their cocoons and they were no longer caterpillars but beautiful Monarch Butterflies. We brought them outside into the sunshine and let them fly away. Although they did want to stay around with us as you can see from the photographs. They had some fun with us and then they flew off to begin their journey and their new life as a butterfly.

Releasing Mrs. Browne's butterflies

We released our 4 butterflies on Friday . We did it at the trees near the school. It was great fun and the kids loved holding them.

Ms. McLaughlin's butterflies

Ms. Tierney's Butterflies

When we came back from our bank holiday break,we found all our butterflies had come out.

Some were reluctant to leave us, but we coaxed them out.Luana even managed to get the most reluctant one to fly off eventually!

Mixing and dissolving in Second class

We tested different substances to see if they would dissolve in water or not.We tested salt, sugar, sand, seeds etc.

Soak it up in Second class

We tested various materials in water to see if they were absorbent or waterproof.

We tested cotton wool, cardboard, plastic, tin foil, kitchen roll, newspaper and a sponge.

Planting in Second class

We planted nastertians and runner beans.