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!
Karen Webster has worked with 2nd class over 4 sessions to do Art and Environmental workshop. We used natural materials such as leaves, branches and charcoal to create artworks!
We made letters with branches, leaf and material prints. We also used water colours to paint with and outlined our work with charcoal and black markers.
Our final session consisted of us making bird nests from clay and adding natural materials. We took them outside to photograph them in our beautiful school garden.
We really enjoyed our sessions with Karen. Thank you!
Happy Easter everyone from Junior Infants! We had a nice day today looking for eggs on our Easter Egg hunt! We also made Easter cards, Easter cones in art, sorting Easter objects and making Easter nests out of corn flakes and chocolate. Have a look at our photos below. Have a lovely Easter break everyone!
The children in Junior Infants enjoyed making Valentine’s cards for their families. They also made hearts by using their fingerprints and different colours of paint.
Last week for Pancake Day the Junior Infants went to the kitchen and they each got to choose toppings for their own pancake. They could choose strawberries, blueberries, lemon juice, chocolate spread, golden syrup, strawberry sauce and chocolate sauce. The chocolate sauce was a big hit in Junior Infants!
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.
On Thursday we had a lovely visit from Staff of Sligo County Library. The pupils were told all about how easy it is for everyone to join the Library and reminded us all that it is FREE to join. We heard about all of the fabulous books that are available to ‘borrow’ and the Staff also told us that we can go into the Library anytime and just sit and read quietly.
There are always lovely activities taking place in Sligo County Library and we always share these on our St Edward’s NS Facebook Page. Why not take a trip to the Library with the kids and see for yourself all that the Library offers, to read and to enjoy.
Sligo County Library are always very kind to our boys and girls and are always so supportive of everything we do in our school and indeed in all schools in County Sligo. We are grateful for the time you dedicate to sharing a love of books and the love of Reading with us all.
Some of our wonderful pupils with Ms. Kivlehan and Sligo County Library Staff.
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!
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…..
What a busy month October has been. We started the month celebrating First Holy Communion in St. Josephs church. Two children from the Ark made their Communion and we had a wonderful day. Congratulations to all the children from 3rd Class.
Communion Art
We celebrated First Holy Communion in class the following Monday with a pizza party. We also two birthdays this month and enjoyed lots of chocolate cake!
We needed to get up and active after all those treats so we set up some circuits for P.E and went for some lovely Autumn nature walks and lovely colorful Autumn leaves.
Coillte in partnership with the Tree Council of Ireland and Spar gifted a Wild White Cherry Tree sapling to the school in honor of National Tree Week. The children from the Ark planted it in courtyard 3 and will transfer it to the green area in the school when it is big enough. We will take great care of it.
We were also quite busy with our school work this month and enjoyed new reading activities, visits to the Library and Math’s Week! We got busy with interactive whiteboard math activities and enjoyed the Math’s Trail organised by Ms Kelly.
The best part of the month was preparing for Halloween! We made lots of beautiful decorations, Tea light candle holders, carved pumpkins, enjoyed Halloween sensory activities and dressed up! So many scary Ghosts and Zombies and Werewolves!
That’s it for this month, looking forward to seeing what November brings!
In October, the children in Junior Infants have enjoyed acting out the story We are Going on a Bear Hunt. We learned about Autumn, we collected leaves and made hedgehogs using the leaves, we sorted the leaves, conkers and pine cones in the sand area. We made autumn animals using playdough and autumn trees using cotton buds and paint.
We also made a bear’s cave using lego blocks, we went on a bear hunt in our role play area and acted out the story. We made bear masks using paint and shapes.
For Halloween we enjoyed making potions in the water area, making witches hats and painting pumpkins.
This week we have enjoyed maths week, playing games like snakes and ladders, counting cubes and going on a trail around the school. We have enjoyed learning about patterns, sorting objects into sets, putting ourselves in order from the tallest to the shortest.
We have also enjoyed choosing our favourite library book and talking about it in front of the class. Have a look at our video showing some of the activities we completed in October.
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