The Junior and Senior Infant children in Room 7 have settled well into their new classroom this month. We have enjoyed working together to make jigsaw puzzles, different objects using magnetic shapes and construction toys. We have enjoyed playing in our Kitchen Role Play area and making our self portraits, eye collage, hand prints and skeleton pictures. Here are a few photos of some of the activities in Room 7 so far. We hope you like them!
Just before Easter, Junior Infants had a lovely trip to Homeland. We were learning about pets and animals last month and this month we have been learning about The Garden Centre so we decided to take a visit to the Garden Centre and Pet Shop in Homeland. We had a lovely walk down, the sun was shining and we saw some lovely spring flowers. We also looked at the buildings and houses on our way down. We saw semi detached and terraced houses. We passed St Joseph’s church and said a prayer outside it. We remembered our safe cross code when crossing the road. We used the zebra crossing and waited for the green man to appear when using the pelican crossing. We saw many different types of vehicles on the road. We waved to the lorries and they blew their horns at us! There were some big tractors on the road also. We saw Knocknarea and Benbulben mountains and saw many boats at the Harbour.
When we reached Homeland, we went to the Pet Shop first, we saw a dog getting groomed. There were lots of fish and birds to see. We saw bunny rabbits and hamsters. There were loads of toys and beds for cats and dogs and we saw some big dog kennels.
Then we went to The Garden Centre, where we saw loads of colourful flowers, pots and soil for planting. There were different types of stones and ornaments for gardens. Then we had a lovely picnic outside Homeland before we walked to the playground. We had a lovely fun filled day. Have a look at our slideshow to see some photos and videos.
There were lots of Christmas activities going on in Junior Infants this month. Have a look at our slideshow of photos and videos and you will see all the activities we did in Aistear. We had our Santa’s Grotto, where we dressed up as Santa or the elves or reindeers and designed toys, made them and we really enjoyed wrapping them up and putting them into Santa’s sack or under the Christmas Tree.
We made lots of Christmas art, Christmas wreaths, stockings, trees, cards, jumpers, lights, candy canes, snowflakes, snowmen. We found lots of Christmas words in our snow area outside. We had a visit from Santa who brought us lovely treats.
In PE, we played Reindeer tag and lots of games using the parachute. We played lots of fun Christmas games on the iPads and on the board. We had our Christmas performance where we sang songs and dressed up in our Christmas jumpers.
We put the baby Jesus into our school crib and said our prayers. Fr Noel came into our classroom and gave us lovely Christmas cards. We had a visit from Milo the rescue dog.
We made snowmen out of marshmallows and decorated them using coloured icing. Ms Cormican came into our classroom and showed us real Reindeer antlers which got caught in a tree beside her house one Christmas eve. We made sets, patterns and learned all about the number 2 and 3 in maths.
Finally we got to go on a trip to the Hawkswell to see a Christmas performance, which we really enjoyed.
We hope you all have a lovely Christmas from everyone in Junior Infants.
We have been so busy in Senior Infants across November & December. Have a look at our video collage of us in action – we learned all about houses and homes, became architects & builders, played as different roles in the family home and designed homes for the three pigs.
We had so much fun as scientists during science week, predicting and experimenting with gummy bears, vegetables and salt density in water and coding with BeeBots. We also made rainbows too!
We were very busy in December preparing for, practising, recording and editing our Christmas concert – We had so much fun! We also got a surprise when Santa arrived in our classroom!!!! And we got to eat some smarties in Maths – we created a block graph to show the data of the smarties in our box – everyone’s block chart was different in the end.
Senior Infants have been very busy across the month of September. We welcomed three new children from Ukraine to our class – we hope they are settling in well. Meet the new Senior Infants:
We have been focusing on the theme of myself & birthdays for the month of September in SESE and Aistear. The children have enjoyed all areas in our Aistear Rota. At the creative station, using playdoh and loose parts the children created birthday items, in the small world area the children played with the family home and members of a family. At the writing station the children were given the opportunity to write birthday cards and party invitations, party shopping lists and design birthday cakes, just in time for the birthday parties to play out in the role play area. Have a look at some photos of all our activities in action below.
During the month of June in Junior Infants, we enjoyed learning about castles and different types of fairytale stories. We made different types of objects such as shields and crowns using playdough. We made up our own fairytale stories using different characters. We designed our own castles and then built our own using lego blocks. We had great fun acting out stories in our Castle Role Play area. We painted our own crowns in the creative area and we really enjoyed wearing them when acting out our fairytale stories. We wrote about our own fairytale wish and then wrote our own fairytale stories using good and bad characters. We sequenced the story of Rapunzel, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and acted out the stories in the small world area. We designed a new outfit to wear to a ball.
Then for Father’s Day we made our dads, grandads, uncles or brothers a lovely card and a shirt using paint. We hope you enjoy our video clip below. Have a lovely summer from everyone in Junior Infants!
Across the month of June, the boys and girls in Senior Infants have been busy bees. Our theme for the last month of school has been Animals which featured in many subjects.
In Aistear the children played with wild animals in the jungle at the small world area. They became vets treating poorly animals, receptionists booking in animal visits and animal owners bringing their pets to the vet. In the creative station the boys and girls constructed ladybirds using a variety of materials. They also created their own animals using playdoh and loose parts – choosing between farm animals, wild animals and mini beasts to create. Lastly in the construction area, they built homes for animals – kennels being the most popular home!
We learned a lot about mini beasts and chose to focus on one mini beast – a ladybird/ ladybug. Did you know that a ladybird is in fact a beetle? They also have no teeth and chew their food in an over and back manner unlike us humans who chew in an up and down manner!
We revised a lot of maths topics – sorting and identifying coins and amounts of money, we sorted pasta into sets and created our own addition sentences. We also got to watch our stories that we shared with our Drama teacher Kate Brown being performed by the children in first class.
Throughout June we also enjoyed lots of sporting activities: relay races, fun races, sports day activities and our family fun day. What a busy month to end our school year with! Have a look at some photos of these activities below:
Senior Infants have been very busy for the month of May. A lot of work has been completed and here we are sharing with you what we have been up to.
Our theme for this month was summer, and all things summer related. The children have played in role as travel agents arranging holidays and stay-cations for customers, and as customers looking to book their summer trip away. They created passports, packed suitcases and wrote checklists of items needed for a holiday to some place warm or some place cold. We discussed various types of trips you could go on: to the beach, ski-ing, camping and to water parks. We sure were dreaming of wonderful holidays in Senior Infants!
In small world the children played with the airport, checking in, walking to the plane and taking off as the pilot welcomed them on board. In maths we talked about weight – weighing items to see which was the lightest/heaviest, lighter and heavier. Airplanes were constructed using lego and we went to the seaside making sandcastles and finding shells in the sand area. We thought of summer flowers as we painted sunflowers being inspired by Van Gogh and created our own junk art summer flowers.
We linked water to the theme of summer also, learning about capacity and the volume of water certain containers could hold. We estimated, measured and compared various cups and beakers to see which could hold more/ less water. We also guessed and tested whether certain objects float or sink in water. Finally we experimented materials to check if they were waterproof, and designed some boots using chosen materials that would keep our feet dry in puddles.
Not only that, we began a new Drama programme with Kate Brown who comes to visit us every week and listen to our stories. We have recorded our stories using words, pictures, voice and video. We are excited to see what first class perform using our stories in the next few weeks!!
Click play below to see some photos captured by teacher of all the activities we have been enjoying…..
The children of Senior Infants have been very busy in school this Spring. Our classroom turned into a Doctor’s Surgery, a spring farm and a building site designing and constructing houses with various materials for the three pigs.
The children took part in Lego We Do – building lego machines as part of Engineers Week and completed various pieces of art throughout the weeks.
Have a look at some photos of the children in action below:
In Junior Infants we have enjoyed learning about different types of pets, how to care for them and where they live. We loved our Pet Shop Role Play area and Vets. We acted out being the vet, veterinary nurse, surgeon or customer. We bought different types of pets in the Pet Shop and used coins to pay for them.
In literacy we are enjoying learning new sounds and making the different letters using different materials like buttons and playdough. We enjoyed looking at animal books in the vets while we waited for our animals to be examined by the vet. We made dinosaur pictures and wrote words to describe what our dinosaur looked like.
In maths, we made patterns using Lego blocks and spools. We sorted different types of pasta and animals into different sets. We sorted different types of coins correctly. We ordered numbers to 10 using magnetic letters. We played an animal memory game where we matched the number and the animals correctly. We estimated and then weighed the same amount of sand, cubes, rice, buttons and pasta using the balancing scales. We discovered that the sand was the heaviest. We measured the length of dinosaurs using cubes and made dinosaurs using shapes.
We enjoyed making different types of animals and using different types of material in the art area. We made rabbits, fish and cats using paper plates and paint. We made jungle animals, monkeys and tigers using paper plates and paint and traced around our arms for giraffes and made patterns for the snakes. We made pets using toilet rolls and different types of fish using different coloured strips of paper. We enjoyed making skeleton dinosaurs using pasta. We made different types of pets and animals using playdough and animal habitats in the construction area.
This month we loved going to the hall and using the benches to balance and jump over. We also jumped over hurdles and learned how to skip using skipping ropes.
We really enjoy our outdoor area for fishing, sorting different types of animals in the sand, washing animals in the water area and making dinner in the Kitchen area.
In February we made cards for our family for Valentines Day and coloured a heart shape using patterns. We made St Brigid’s crosses and coloured St Brigid’s cloak using different colours. We hope you enjoy our slideshow of our activities below.
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