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Bedroom in Arles - Van Gogh

29th Mar 2022

Interview with an Astronaut!

29th Mar 2022

6th Class had the great opportunity to join Inspiring Ireland’s live interview...

Cé Acu is Fearr Leat?

24th Mar 2022

St Patrick’s Day

16th Mar 2022

All About Greece!

14th Mar 2022

Do our advertisements about Greece make you want to take a holiday!?

Biodiversity Projects

3rd Feb 2022

In 6th Class we have been recently learning about problem solving and so we decided...

Planting Trees for An Choill Beag

1st Feb 2022

Romero Britto Inspired Art

28th Jan 2022

Titanic Projects

24th Jan 2022

Mondrian Hearts

24th Jan 2022

Perspective Aquariums

13th Jan 2022

Winter Art

14th Dec 2021

Coding as Gaeilge

26th Nov 2021

We have been learn to code recently using the Pyonkee app on the iPads. Pyonkee is...

World War 1 Projects

8th Nov 2021

We have been learning all about World War 1. We worked in groups and used iMovie...

Maths Week Online Quiz

21st Oct 2021

We have been enjoying giving maths extra focus this week for Maths Week 2021! We...

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Useful Websites

Useful websites:

https://www.getepic.com/students - Enter our class code: vyx3879 to read e-books between 6am and 4pm, Monday to Friday.

www.mangahigh.com – Maths Games - students have their own login details and I have assigned activities (School ID: 415061 - email me if you need your login sent on again)

https://code.org/learn - Learn to code activities

https://ie.ixl.com/ - Maths and English activities

https://www.mathplayground.com/ - Maths and logic games

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/ - Maths, English, History, Geography and Science content

https://www.khanacademy.org/math - Maths activities

https://www.cula4.com/en/games/ - Irish games

https://www.ducksters.com/ - History/Science/Geography content and quizzes

Pupils should be supervised by an adult when using any internet links or websites

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Virtual Museum Tours

Museums

∙ The Louvre: You don't have to book a ticket to Paris to check out some of the famous pieces in the world's largest art museum. The Louvre has free online tours of three famous exhibits, including Egyptian Antiquities.

∙ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: The works of Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Jeff Koons, and Franz Marc are just some of the 625 artists whose work are a part of the Guggenheim's Collection Online.

∙ Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Move at your own pace through the 360- degree room-by-room tour of every exhibit in the museum.

∙ Van Gogh Museum: You can get up close and personal with the impressionist painter's most famous work thanks to Google Arts & Culture.

∙ The Vatican Museum: The Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, and Raphael's Room, are just some of the sites you can see on the Vatican's virtual tour.

∙ Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum: Madrid's must-see art museum has the works of some of the continent's most celebrated artists like Rembrandt and Dali available online.

∙ National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City: Dive into the pre-Hispanic history of Mexico with 23 exhibit rooms full of Mayan artifacts.

∙ British Museum, London: The Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies are just a couple of things that you're able to see on a virtual tour of the museum.

∙ NASA: Both Virginia's Langley Research Center and Ohio's Glenn Research Center offer online tours for free. Also, you can try some "augmented reality experiences" via The Space Center Houston's app.

∙ National Women's History Museum: Have a late International Women's Day celebration with online exhibits and oral histories from the Virginia museum.

∙ Metropolitan Museum of Art: Though the Met Gala was cancelled this year, you can still have a peak at the The Costume Institute Conversation Lab, which is one of the institution's 26 online exhibits.

∙ High Museum of Art, Atlanta: This museum's popular online exhibits include "Civil Rights Photography" — photos that capture moments of social protest like the Freedom Rides and Rosa Park's arrest.

∙ National Museum of the United States Air Force: You can't take a ride in Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential airplane, but you can check it out, in addition to other military weapons and aircraft, online in the Air Force's official museum.

∙ MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art): New York's extensive collection is available for view online.

Zoos and Aquariums

∙ The Cincinnati Zoo: Check in around 3 p.m., because that's the time the Zoo holds a daily Home Safari on its Facebook Live Feed.

∙ Atlanta Zoo: The Georgia zoo keeps a "Panda Cam" livestream on its website.

∙ Georgia Aquarium: Sea-dwellers like African penguins and Beluga Whales are the stars of this aquarium's live cam.

∙ Houston Zoo: There are plenty of different animals you can check in on with this zoo's live cam, but we highly recommend watching the playful elephants.

∙ San Diego Zoo: With what may be the most live cam options, this zoo lets you switch between koalas, polar bears, and tigers in one sitting.

∙ Monterey Bay Aquarium: It can be Shark Week every week thanks to live online footage of Monterey Bay's Habitat exhibit.

∙ National Aquarium: Walk through tropical waters to the icy tundra in this floor-by-floor tour of the famous, Baltimore-based aquarium.

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