Methods of Transport and STEM boats

The boys were learning about transport. They learnt about different methods of transport and how transport has changed over time.

In English, they looked at transitive verbs giving them alternatives to overused verbs such as “walk”, “run” and “fly”. Now they can use “stroll”, “sprint” and “soar” in their writing.

They had to choose one (or more!) creative writing topics out of three. There was a choice of “A Friendly Alien that Came to Earth”, “Travelling Back in Time to See Dinosaurs” and “Travelling in a Time Machine 300 Years From Now”.

They read a comprehension about the Cutty Sark and learnt about summer safety, especially near water.

They even got to learn Báidín Fheilimí (Phelim’s Little Boat) on their tin-whistles.

Their STEM challenge was to make a boat out of recyclable materials. They e-mailed us to say that they had lots of fun and their siblings even made boats too!

These are some of the pictures the boys sent to Miss. Lavelle after they made their boat at home. Well done boys!

This is Louis’ boat.

 

This is Adam’s boat. He e- mailed us to say that he used a milk carton, skewer sticks, paper, masking tape and cardboard and then painted it!

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This is Luke’s boat complete with a sailor’s parrot!

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Rían made this beautiful boat his brother. He used a plastic egg tray, tin-foil, straws and decorated some paper sails. He worked very hard making the boat and best of all, it sails!

James had so much fun making his boat and got to float it in his bath!

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The Coyle family had loads of fun making boats. They happily spent over two hours drawing, making and playing with their boats!

This is Daniel Coyle’s boat.

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This is Ryan’s boat.

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This is Colton’s boat. He e-mailed us to say that he really enjoyed making it and might even make another!

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Ruairi’s boat was made out of Lego and tin-foil.

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Oisín made a dino-pirate ship! It floated for a little while but the pirate made it too heavy and it sank!

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This is Daniel Cush’s boat. He e-mailed us to say he really enjoyed making it.

This is Aaron’s boat.

 

Kaleb e-mailed us with his beautiful boat.

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