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So Long Junior Infants!

25/06/2021 /

WOW! What a year in Junior Infants. It has been a year we will not forget, but with all the challenges in our path – we made it! You, the parents made it through, and your children powered through their first year in school no matter what got in their way!! Well done junior infants – Ms. Walsh & Ms. Devaney are so proud of you!!!

June was a very productive month – We have been learning all about summer. We learned lots of new vocabulary in Irish for objects you use in the summer at the beach – spád, buicéad, flip fleapanna, speclaí gréine(sunglasses), hata gréine (sun hat) and we integrated this theme to the rest of our learning too, not least in Aistear.

Our Ice-Cream Shop was a big hit, as the children enjoyed becoming both a shop assistant making up ice-creams for their customers and customers getting to order and enjoy ice-creams and coffee. The children designed and created ice-creams and pops in art and designed sandcastles they would build at the beach.

We ended our school year with a couple of well deserved treats – a trip to the playground, an ice-cream party and lots of fun and games!

Wishing Junior Infants and their families a wonderful and safe summer together. You have been a pleasure to teach!

Have a look at a selection of photos from the very start of the year to our last group photo together 🙂 The boys and girls have grown so much!

An Tornapa Mór – Junior Infants

23/10/2020 /

The boys & girls in Junior Infants have been working very hard in learning a new language in school – Our native language, Irish. We read a story in English about an enormous turnip that a farmer tried to pull up but he needed a lot of help before that could happen. We also read this story in Irish, and the children were so good at telling the story that we created a digital audiobook with our own pictures.

We hope you enjoy our story: An Tornapa Mór

Energy & Forces – Science Week in Room 4

12/01/2020 /

The children in Room 4 were busy during Science week as they showed off their excellent construction and engineering skills. 

Experiment Name: An investigation of speed factors (Lego WeDo Speed Car Test).

Strand: Energy & Forces

Strand Unit: Forces

Equipment needed: 

  • Lego WeDo kits
  • iPads, pencils
  • Lego WeDo Speed car project booklet
  • masking tape
  • timer

Method: First, we built the cars and then programmed them to move. We made our predictions and then put it to the test. We fitted the car with small wheels first and timed how long it took to travel 2 metres. Then we did the exact same test but fitted the car with big wheels this time.

Conclusion: We found that  bigger wheels made the car go faster. We also discovered that the use of a pulley and where it was placed on the wheel also had an effect on the speed of the car.

Ms. Kelly was so impressed with us after she received such positive feedback from other staff who said that we explained our project so well and that we were kind and patient when showing other children how to control the cars.

 

Growing Broad Beans from Seeds

01/05/2017 /

We were learning about growing seeds in Senior Infants. We planted some broad bean seeds in some compost with a little water and left them in a sunny window. Using a time-lapse app on our iPad called OSnap, we recorded the seeds growing over 2 weeks. They were very slow to start but our patience paid off and we were very excited to see the roots, shoots and leaves appear!

Growing Broad Beans from St. Edward’s NS on Vimeo.

Green School Day of Action

10/03/2016 /

Recently we had our ‘Day of Action’ for the new Green School Flag we are working towards – Global Citizenship Litter and Waste.
Different classes worked on a different aspect of the theme and did a presentation to the whole school on that particular topic. Children got to use our school microphone for the presentation.
See pictures of our wall-boards and presentations here.

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Literacy Games for Junior Infants

28/01/2016 /

Since returning to school after the Christmas holidays Junior Infants have been working very hard on both their letter sounds and their sight words.

Here are some fantastic games I found online which perhaps the children could spend some time playing and learning during their computer or ipad time?

 

Word Blend Game – Beginning and end sounds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/index.shtml

 

The Quiet Machine – A game which asks children to identify the sound at the beginning of a word

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/

 

Rhyming Rockets – a game where children have to shoot the rockets which rhyme with their target word.

http://www.ictgames.com/rhymingRockets.html

 

Mole Rhyming Game – The children have to help Mole to dig his tunnel by helping him identify the rhyming words

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dg3.shtml

 

Reggie Rhyming – The children have to help Reggie find the rhyming words. This is also a fantastic vocabulary building game for different settings.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/game.htm?scene=home

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