The Stone Age

Halloween

Maths and Astronomy!!

Today we went to Blackrock Observatory. We learned about the Planets, Our Solar system and The Milky Way. Frances, our guide talked about, how far planets are away from eachother and other galaxies. The Solar system books are wrong! The space between the planets are different. Uranus is half-way between the Sun and the Kuiper belt. We made our mini Solar system, using a long a strip of paper. The Hubble deep field is the furthest galaxy we can see through a special telescope. It takes 13.7 billion light years to get there. Travelling at the speed of light, you can go around the Earth, 7 times in one second. WOW! that is along way away.

By, Odhrán Murphy

MOnSteRS In fOurTh ClaSS

Building Bridges

Check out these pics of the cool bridges we designed and built in science class.

Thunder in 4th Class!!!

Jessica and Katie showed us how to recreate a storm using body precussion. To get the full effect- turn up the sound and close your eyes!!! Mr. Walsh was very scared!

Romans in 4th Class!!!

Today Aisling's dad came in and told us about the Romans and how they fight. He also told us what weapons they had. It was very interesting. The Romans used daggers, javelins, swords and they had helmets too. A centurion had a red plume made of horse hair. A centurion was a man who owned a hundred soldiers. Aisling's dad, Joe and the other man, Noel were wearing the full Roman armour. Noel was wearing chainmail. Bernice dressed as a rich Roman noblewoman. She wore a white stola because white signifies wealth and nobility. "Salve" meant "hello" or "greetings". You raised your right hand while you said "salve". "Attente" meant "attention". The Romans told it really well. It was very good fun.

By Georgia Moore