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!
We had an exciting day today in 2nd class – we baked cookies!
We weighed out the ingredients, mixed them all up and baked them in the oven. Everyone had a chance to join in and roll out their own cookie.
We enjoyed our cookies during Golden Time.
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!
In Junior Infants we have been learning about healthy food. We have enjoyed learning about the 5 food groups. The biggest and most important groups are fruit and vegetables and carbohydrates. It is important to have healthy meals each day with plenty of fruit and vegetables in our diet. We get energy and a strong healthy body when we eat healthy food. We made a healthy food plate by cutting up food and sticking to a plate. We sorted fruit and vegetables in the picnic area with our cuddly teddies and we made fruit Kebabs. We really enjoyed eating our fruit Kebabs!
Today Junior Infants enjoyed making pancakes. First, we made the batter. We mixed the ingredients of egg, milk, flour and salt in a bowl, then we went to the kitchen and cooked our pancakes on a frying pan. When they were cooked we put our favourite toppings on them, marshmallows, strawberries, chocolate spread, golden syrup and cream. We really enjoyed eating our pancakes. Thanks to Caroline, Ms Marron and Martina for all their help.
To top off all our hard work while learning about fractions, we went to the kitchen to make pizzas to put that learning into practice.
We had a vote and pepperoni and cheese were the most popular toppings. However, some people only like a little bit of cheese, some like a lot, others didn’t like pepperoni and some like extra. So we had to get our thinking caps on and in our groups we decided what fraction of the pizza needed what toppings.
When they were cooked we had to divide the pizzas evenly, making sure that nobody was left disappointed. Some groups decided that they wanted two smaller slices where others agreed on having just the one big slice. Of course we knew that this was the same thing because we learned about equivalent fractions.
So not only did we understand fractions more, we got to eat delicious pizza on a wet and dreary Friday morning! Oh and of course we saved a slice for Ms Kelly and Mr Slevin.
Christmas was a very exciting time in Junior Infants. We had a lot of fun activities in our classroom and we also went on a few exciting outings. We went to the Hawkswell at the beginning of December along with children from Senior Infants, 1st and 2nd class and the Ark. We watched a Christmas pantomime called Santa’s Fairytale Christmas and it was very enjoyable. It was a great way to get into the Christmas spirit!
In our classroom, we dressed up as Santa Clause, the Elves and the Reindeers and got into role in our Santa’s Grotto Role Play area. We made a list of presents we wanted, the Elves made the toys in their workshop and wrapped the presents. Santa and the Reindeers delivered the toys. We found Christmas words in our snow area outside. We made letters to Santa by cutting out pictures from catalogues and sticking them down on letters. We decorated Christmas trees, Christmas stockings and painted Santa hats. We made Santa beards and shark fins for our Christmas concert.
We made Christmas cards for our own families, we put a real stamp and address on the envelope and then we walked down to the post office in town and posted them. We thank Ms Marron for joining us in our walk to the Post Office. We met a postman in his post van delivering parcels. On our way back we stopped off at the playground and played on the swings and slides. This was a great day!
We enjoyed making Christmas Rice Krispie Trees in the Kitchen. We each got a turn to mix the ingredients into the bowl and put sprinkles on the mixture when it was placed in a baking tray. We enjoyed eating our Christmas Tree. It was yummy!
In our last week, Destiny put the baby Jesus into our crib in school. We thank Johnny for making this lovely crib for us. We also said prayers at our own crib in our classroom and in the crib in the church. We had a visit from Santa. We got lovely treats from him and enjoyed singing Christmas songs. We had a visit from Milo, a therapy dog. We enjoyed giving Milo a rub, he was very soft and fluffy. We thank Mr. Murphy for letting us meet Milo. We had a party in our classroom and we got to eat nice treats and dance to our favourite tunes.
We hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year.
We had great fun making chocolate cake in the parents room to eat at golden time.
With Summer just around the corner, not that the weather is anything to go by, we have started learning about the different types of fruit that are in season. Today we learned a little bit about rhubarb. We made a delicious apple and rhubarb crumble from scratch and it went down an absolute treat with a little scoop of ice-cream…clean plates all round!!! 🙂
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