5th Class had lots of fun trying out our golf skills. It turns out we have some budding golfers among us. We are really looking forward to developing these skills further later in the year with Golf Ireland.
Tag: PE (Page 1 of 3)
There were a lot of activities to do during Active School’s week. We had Gymnastics, Gaelic Football, Sport’s Day and Family Fun Day. Have a look below at some photos and video clips of the week.
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!
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.
Our GAA coach Aran and a member of the under 21 Sligo GAA team came to visit us last week with a very special trophy!
There was great excitement around the school and everyone loved having a go at raising the cup.
Go Sligo!
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
We were so busy in the Ark in November that I forgot to add my blog post! We were super busy during Science week. We worked with Beebots (see previous Beebots post) and also made our own Lava lamps in class using water, food coloring, oil and an Alka Seltzer tablet. It was fun to watch the oil and bubbles turn into a Lava Lamp like the one I have on my table.
Our theme this month was Owls and we learned lots of interesting Owl facts and read the story Owl Babies. We made some lovely Art and finished off the theme with some procedural writing and making Owl Toast. Once we finished up in the kitchen, we tidied up and made sure the kitchen was ready for the next class to use.
The children in the Ark were also busy intergrating back into their mainstream class this month and they also managed to get some down time on the swings and outside in the sun for a spot of tennis!
All in all, a very busy and fun month!
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.
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.
We had a great first week back in Senior Infants this week! We are all so happy to be back in school again and to see all our friends. We completed loads of fun activities. Have a look at the video clip below and you will see us working in groups playing board games, playing with sand and play dough. We were learning about Spring and how Rainbows are formed. We made Rainbows using paint and paper plates, we were learning about time in Maths and made our own clock using paper plates. We planted beans and cress seeds. We made flowers using various materials such as cupcake cases, sequins, pompoms, straws, lolly sticks, buttons.
We made a sweet car for engineering day, we used polo mints, straws, paper clips and paper and used wind to make the car move. We enjoyed going for walks and runs around the track. We went for a Spring walk beside Sligo IT and looked for signs of Spring.
We completed a Skittles Rainbow Experiment. We arranged the skittles in a single row coloured pattern around the edge of the plate. Then we poured over enough warm water to cover all the skittles and the plate itself. We watched and waited as a rainbow appeared on the plate, the colours moved towards the middle and created a whirl of colours like a Rainbow. We hope you enjoy our video clip.
