Logainm Competition
Logainm is an Irish website containing a database of the placenames of Ireland. The site comes in an English version or a Gaeilge version and you can switch between both quite easily. The purpose of the site is to make available to the public Irish place names that have been officially approved by the Placenames Branch, and these names can be searched either through Irish or through English. If you simply want the correct translation for a particular placename, you can do a search on the homepage. read more…
St. Patrick’s Day Schools’ Pack
Somebody recently sent me the link to these classroom resources for St. Patrick’s Day from the World Irish website. It’s got history of St. Patrick, worksheets and exercises that may be suitable for the classroom on this St. Patrick’s weekend. …
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Your Song as Gaeilge
Seo na focail agus an fís-scannán don amhrán “Seo É D’Amhrán” (Your Song). B’fhéidir go bhfuil an fonn ar eolas ag na daltaí sna hardranganna. (beidh sé ar eolas ag an múinteoir, cinnte!) Mar sin, b’fhéidir go dtaitneoidh sé leis na daltaí agus beidh suim acu chun é a fhoghlaim. Bheadh sé an-oiriúnach do Sheachtain na Gaeilge freisin. Is féidir na focail a híoslódáil thíos.
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Seomra Ranga is Scoilnet Site of the Week
Seomra Ranga has been selected as the Site of the Week on Scoilnet for this week. This is a great honour for the Seomra Ranga website to be highlighted again on Ireland’s largest portal site for education. Scoilnet referred to Seomra Ranga as the “multi award winning site [which] is a Scoilnet favourite for seasonal resources, teacher-made powerpoints, articles and insights”. read more…
Book Review: SOS Lusitania
I just couldn’t put it down!
The standard of writing is brilliant!
I would absolutely recommend this book to my friends.
Thirteen year old Finbar is from Queenstown, Co.Cork. His father is the staff captain of a huge liner called the Lusitania. Finbar’s father has to work all over the world and Finbar misses him greatly whenever he has to go. He decided to sneak onto the Lusitania and follow his father to America. read more…
Tráth na gCeist 2013
Ocht babhta le sé cheist i ngach babhta, babhta réitigh chomh maith le freagraí go léir ar 127 sleamhnán Powerpoint. Tá an tráth na gceist seo an-oiriúnach don CBI (IWB) sa seomra ranga nó i halla na scoile. Tá sé oiriúnach do pháistí sna meán ranganna agus sna hardranganna. I mo scoil fhéin eagraítear é go bhfuil dalta amháin ó rang 3,4,5 agus 6 ar gach foireann. Rinne mé iarracht go mbeadh ceisteanna éasca agus deacair i ngach babhta. (Tá súil agam nach bhfuil botúin ag baint leis na freagraí, ach má tá botúin ann, bígí cúramach agus tá brón orm!)
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SMS Generator
I just came across this great new tool for the classroom on Russell Tarr’s Class Tools website. It is called an SMS Generator. This tool allows you to create a mock text message conversation within this free online tool. It is a really easy tool to use and so effective. To begin the conversation, you click on the speech bubble in the bottom left hand corner. A dialogue box opens up for you to type in the text. When you are finished, you click OK. To get the next person to reply, you click on the speech bubble on the bottom right hand corner this time and enter the reply. You can repeat this process as many times as you wish and there is no limit to the length of the text conversation. read more…
Walker Éireann Book Competition
To celebrate the second week of Seachtain na Gaeilge, Walker Éireann have kindly sponsored three book packs as Gaeilge as prizes for a competition on the site. Walker Éireann, an imprint of Walker Books, has recently teamed up with Foras na Gaeilge and translated four of their most popular picture books by Irish authors into Gaeilge. Walker Éireann chose books by four bright and brilliant Irish authors and illustrators – Martin Waddell, Sam McBratney, Chris Haughton and Niamh Sharkey – to be translated into Gaeilge. read more…
Ireland’s Call
Use this video to help teach your pupils the anthem “Ireland’s Call”. The lyrics can be downloaded below.
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Amhrán na bhFiann
Use this video to help your pupils learn “Amhrán na bhFiann”, our National Anthem. The lyrics can be downloaded below.
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