P7 February News

Numeracy

Last month (February) in math, we learned about pie charts, line graphs, trend graphs, ratio, proportion and converting weights. We also recapped adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. My favourite lesson was learning about pie charts. 

By Senan McCreesh

Literacy

Last month in Literacy we were learning about masculine and feminine nouns, using to, too, two, prepositions and homophones.

When we were learning about masculine and feminine nouns we had to identify if a noun was masculine or feminine and then we wrote sentences to show the meanings of the words.

We learnt how to use to, two and too.

e.g. David is too ill to go to the pop concert.     She has two cats.      I am going to the shop.

Then we learnt about prepositions. Prepositions tell us where something is. For example: The gold was in an iron box under the floor.

After we learnt about prepositions we learnt about homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but they have different spellings and meanings. For example: The daring boy swam out to the buoy which was moored some distance from the shore.”

By Emma Connell

 World Around Us – History

We have been learning all about The Great Irish Famine.  We learned about life before the famine, how the potato was brought to Ireland and life during the famine.  Before the famine people would meet up at the crossroads to play sports such as long jumping, stone throwing and running races. Before the famine the Irish people were very happy and were very kind to people visiting their country.   The first potato was brought to Ireland by Sr. Walter Rayleigh in 1585. He found out that the potato suited gowing in the Irish climate.   One acre of land would grow enough potatoes to feed a family of five for a year.  During the famine the Irish people had a hard life. We have been reading the book ‘Under the Hawthorn tree’ and it tells us about what life was like during the famine.

By Holly Quinn