As part of our Active School’s Week, we had Beat the Teacher Challenge! This was very competitive and exciting for us all to watch. Well done to all the teachers, SNA’s and the 5th and 6th class pupils who took part in the different activities. There was Tug-a-War, Sack Race, 3 Legged Race and the Hula Hoop Challenge. It was great fun! Well done to everyone who took part!
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Active school’s week is in full swing in our Junior Infant classroom this week. We enjoyed using the different gym equipment in the hall. We played one of our favourite playground games outside on the pitch – Duck Duck Goose . We had great fun learning how to play tennis outside with a tennis coach and we have been completing our 25 lap challenge each day this week. We run or jog half a lap or a full lap to reach our 25 laps each day. We have 3 golden tickets now for completing the 25 lap challenge and we hope on Friday to get our final golden ticket! Have a look below at our slideshow.
This week Junior Infants had great fun making puzzles. They worked together to make different size piece puzzles. Some were 18 pieces, some 20 pieces, some 30, some were 42 pieces, 48 pieces and even 60 piece puzzles. Some were long puzzles and others were shorter. Have a look below at a few of our photos.
Senior Infants enjoyed two sessions of fun, games and movement skills with students in the ATU, which were enjoyed with great excitement and joy. Have a look at some activities the children enjoyed below in action shots:
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- Walking to ATU
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- Jumping jacks warm up
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- Fruit bowl game
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- Gathering objects races
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- Yellow teams objects
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- Throwing & catching with beanbags
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- Balancing with beanbags
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- Bean bag toss
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- Cool down
Even though Halloween was last month, we are still talking about the great day we had in the Ark. We finished our spooky work and got ready to party with the rest of the school! We had so much fun, dancing, meeting family in the school and playing spooky games. Cant wait for next year!
We had great fun today in Junior Infants dressed up in our Halloween costumes. We enjoyed dancing in our classroom and bobbing for apples. We had great fun at our Halloween party in the hall. We played games and danced with our friends. We made witches hats using black paint, glitter, sequins and feathers. We made witches potions in the water area. Happy Halloween from everyone in Junior Infants!
In Junior Infants for maths week, we had fun making 2d shape pictures. We used 2d shapes to make pumpkins. We made patterns using bears, lolly sticks, counters. We played maths puzzle games. We played counting games on Seesaw. We learned about capacity when making our witches potions and we sorted out the different Autumn objects in the sand area. Have a look below at some of our activities.
On the 7th of June we had our Active School Week. We really enjoyed the week in Junior Infants. We took part in so many fun activities. First, we went outside and practiced some novelty races. We loved the relay races using the batons. We also completed races using hurdles, we enjoyed jumping over the hurdles. We also had the egg and spoon race. Then the next day, we went over to Sligo IT and had great fun using the big foam shapes, hoppers, hula hoops. We also played Hockey. The next day we had great fun learning GAA skills with the GAA instructor. We played a fun game of Ship, Sea, Shore. We were very good at listening to the instructions. On the next day we used the gymnastic equipment in the hall. We had great fun jumping off the high beam, walking across the bench, jumping across hoops and crawling through the tunnel. Then we had to pull ourselves up the bench and up onto the climbing frame and across the climbing frame. This was great fun! Some of our friends from 4th class helped us. On our last day of active school week we went to the track at Sligo IT and had great fun competing in races. We ended our Active Schools Week with the Sponsorship Walk.
Last Thursday we had a great day on our School Tour to Castle Adventure Farm in Ballyshannon. We enjoyed the bus trip to the farm. Senior Infants and children from the Ark also joined us for our tour. We loved the spin on the barrel train. We had great fun in the outdoor playground. We saw many different types of farm animals: pigs, goats, birds, ducks, chicks. We fed the goat some grass. Then we got to pet some of the animals on the farm, the guinea pig was only 5 days old. We got to pet a baby eagle and a very young baby duckling. We finished off our tour with some lovely hot food in the Cafe. We had a great day out! Have a look at the photos and videos below.
Last week the Ark finished Music Generation with Julia and we had so much fun! The boys and girls enjoyed the sounds and feel of the Violin, Cello and the Flute. They also played the drums and lots of percussion instruments. Every lesson had a different instrument and we also played lots of musical games. Music Generation is so much fun and we cant wait to see Julia again. Thank you so much Julia!
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- Group Session
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- Violin Practice
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- Flute
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- Cello
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- Drum Practice
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.
