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Peer Tutoring in 3rd Class

10/03/2026 /

Peer tutoring is up and running in 3rd class and the children and enjoying the activities involved.

Peer tutoring involves the children being paired together – one working as a tutor and the other a tutee. Both tutor and tutee take turns in reading a book to each other – mainly fact / non fiction books. The tutee listens to the tutor read with good fluency. As the tutee reads, the tutor helps the tutee with any words they may be unsure of with the three Ps: Pause, Prompt and Praise.

Have a look at the children below as they read and work together.

World Book Day in Junior Infants

13/03/2023 /

In Junior Infants, we loved dressing up for World Book Day. We dressed up as our favourite characters from our favourite story books. We drew pictures of our favourite books and went to the Book Fair in the library in our school. We bought some new books from the Book Fair and we had a chance to look at some of the new books. We listened to fairytale stories read by one of our favourite authors Julia Donaldson. This was read, live on our screen in the classroom. On World Book Day, some of the 5th class children came down to our class and some of the us went up to the 5th class room and they read stories to us. We really enjoyed this. A big thank you to all the 5th class children and Mr Slevin. Have a look at some of our photos below.

Fairytales and Castles in Junior Infants

24/06/2022 /

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!

 

 

Animals & The Vets in Senior Infants

22/06/2022 /

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:

May in Senior Infants

01/06/2022 /

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…..

 

Pets and Animals in Junior Infants

28/02/2022 /

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.

Space Adventures in Junior Infants

30/04/2021 /

For the month of April, the children in Junior Infants have been learning all about Space and The Solar System. There has been aspects of Space throughout many subjects in our classroom and the children thoroughly enjoyed experiencing space for themselves in our role play area during Aistear time.

Here are some facts that we learned about Space and The Solar System:

  1. There are eight planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupitar, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
  2. Venus is the hottest planet.
  3. Earth is the third planet from the sun.
  4. It takes Mercury 88 days(fastest)  and  Neptune(slowest) 164 years to travel around the sun.
  5. Mars is known as the red planet because a material like rust in its soil gives it a red colour.
  6. You can see five planets from Earth using only your eyes: Mercury,  Venus, Mars, Jupitar and Saturn.
  7. Earth’s nickname is ‘The Goldilock’s Planet’,  it’s temperature is not too hot and not too cold, it’s just right!
  8. Jupitar is the largest planet in the solar system. It is a gas planet. You cannot land on Jupitar as it is made of gas.
  9. Saturn is known for its rings. They are made from ice particles and dust.
  10. Uranus & Neptune are covered in clouds of methane which give them their blue colour. Neptune is a darker blue than Uranus.

Have a look at some photos of the children enjoying Space related activities:

We also learned a new rhyme about Humpty Dumpty…… have you heard it before?

 

Here are our completed 2D Rocket Ships:

 

4th Class – Room 4 March 25th

25/03/2020 /

Hello to all the children in Room  4 and their parents,

I hope you are all keeping safe and well since last week. It’s a very difficult time and we are all beginning to miss school and our friends but we must stay positive and all pull together to keep everyone safe so we can get back there very soon.  So remember, continue to get plenty of fresh air just outside your house and keep washing your hands.

I have sent some suggestions for work through Gmail so I hope you found that okay. Your parent should receive a text today with the email address to contact if you cannot get access.

Here are some suggestions for work this week:

English

https://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html?login=

This will help you revise the reading strategies that we were using during Guided Reading. This week we will focus on summarising something that we have read.

Instructions:

1. Click the link above

2. Log in – enter your name under the First Time? tab and click “get your key”

3. It will give you your own key – take a note of this and enter it each time you login so it can track what you have done.

4. On the page “Choose a reading strategy” select the picture of the torch, it’s called Summarising. Click on it.

5. 2 activities will come up – Monsters to the Rescue and A Pirate’s Life. There are options to watch a video and try it yourself so give all of it a try and let me know how you get on.

  • Continue reading your library book and remember you can do quizzes on Renaissance place for your own books at home and also there are quizzes on all the books which were free with the token for World Book Day https://ukhosted12.renlearn.co.uk/2255694/
  • Keep a written diary of this time. Talk about what you and your family are doing, the events that are cancelled, the shops and businesses that have closed down.

Maths

Well done to all of you who have tried the activities on Mangahigh – keep it up! If you haven’t logged in yet, give it a go this week. Mr Slevin has set some fun activities for you to complete.

SumDog

https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in

Everyone should have login details for this in your homework journal so try logging in and play some Maths games.

**If some people cannot find their login details, please let myself or Mr Slevin know and we can get them for you **

Mental Maths – Keep going with your Mental Maths and try do a day when you can.

Tables – https://www.transum.org/Tables/Times_Tables.asp  We’ve used this before in class, it’s a great way for learning and revising our times tables!

 
Webwise
The HTML Heroes focuses on safe and responsible uses of the Internet. Now that we have more time at home and access to the internet, it is important to be safe when online. The first part of the lessons focuses on the skills needed for browsing the web such as effective and safe searching, determining what online content can be trusted and managing screen time. It is particularly helpful for using the internet for schoolwork or for generally finding information for learning at home.
 
 
Mindfulness Online Colouring
 
When you click into these, hit the colour online button!
 
I hope you all have a good week and please stay in touch through email, I would love to hear from you all.
 
Stay Safe
 
Ms Kelly & Mr Slevin

World Book Day!

10/03/2020 /

On Friday, we celebrated World Book Day. Some classes dressed up as their favourite character from their favourite book. We had a World Book Day Assembly in the hall where each class talked about activities they were doing in their own classes for World Book Day. Each class performed something different, Junior and Senior Infants retold their favourite story, 1st class acted out their favourite story, 2nd class performed choral speaking of letters they wrote, 3rd class gave us clues and we had to guess what character they were talking about, 4th class recited poems, 5th class talked about their favourite books they have read and 6th class talked about the characters they dressed up as. It was great fun!

In Junior Infants, we dressed up as our favourite character from our favourite books. Some of us brought in our favourite books from home. We shared our favourite books from our class library with the 5th and 6th class children who came down to our classroom and read stories to us. We enjoyed going to our school library and choosing books. Ms Marren and Ms Cornyn read stories to us. We really enjoyed World Book Day!

 

Visit to Sligo Co. Library

16/10/2019 /

2nd & 3rd Class walked to the Library this morning to meet with Oisín Mc Gann, a famous Irish author. We love listening to his stories about Mad Granda and all that he gets up to! We had a wonderful time, listening to Oisín talk about his books and the pictures he loves to draw for his books. He read a really funny story about “Mad Granda and the Clepto’s “. We never knew what happens when things go missing at the back of the couch!

Oisín drew us a fabulous picture of Mad Granda and presented it to St. Edward’s NS – what a super present to get for our school!

We love books and we promised our Teachers we would make a real effort to visit the Library and borrow books.

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