St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

This week, Ms Kane has been visiting 5th class. The theme we’re following  in 5th class in November is ‘South America’.

Oisín interviewed the rest of the class about what they’ve learned so far this week.

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• We talked about the statues on Easter Island and watched this video about how the statues might have been moved on the island.
• We used what we know about forces to draw our own conclusions about the Easter Island statues.
• We learned about cities in South America and we summarised the information.
• We learned about the Incas and the Aztecs and all about the tribes.
• We listened to Irish music and South American music and we compared the two. Here’s Davy’s work on responding to the music:

• We learned all about Pope Francis, who comes from South America, and why he chose his name.
• We also created artwork using paint, using South America as an inspiration.
• In Drama we created freeze frames about trekking in the Amazon jungle.
• For International Tongue Twister day, we made up our own tongue twisters with a South American theme, you can listen to them on the podcast.
• We interacted with other schools and with parents on Twitter and shared our tongue twisters:

Ms Kane will be with us for another 4 weeks, so we will be sharing more of what we’ve learned about South America next week! Where would you like to visit in South America?