Room 7 had a great day on Friday on our School Tour to Five Star Fun. We enjoyed the bus journey, all the fun activities, the lovely meal and the yummy ice cream! Have a look below at our photos.
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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
Senior Infants have been very busy across the month of September. We welcomed three new children from Ukraine to our class – we hope they are settling in well. Meet the new Senior Infants:
We have been focusing on the theme of myself & birthdays for the month of September in SESE and Aistear. The children have enjoyed all areas in our Aistear Rota. At the creative station, using playdoh and loose parts the children created birthday items, in the small world area the children played with the family home and members of a family. At the writing station the children were given the opportunity to write birthday cards and party invitations, party shopping lists and design birthday cakes, just in time for the birthday parties to play out in the role play area. Have a look at some photos of all our activities in action below.
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- Creating birthday items
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- Birthday cake
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- Chocolate Smartie Birthday Cake
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- More birthday items
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- Writing & designing birthday cards
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- Drawing a birthday cake
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- In the writing area
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- Playing in the family home
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- Camping outside
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- Celebrating birthdays
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- Blowing out the birthday candles
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- Eating birthday cake
A big warm welcome to our new Junior Infant children who started in our school last week. They are settling in well and have enjoyed their first week in Junior Infants. Have a look below at some of the activities they have done so far.
Hearing the sound of children’s voices throughout the school this week really gave us a lift. We welcomed back a group of 36 children to our summer camp on Monday morning. They have been amazing us every day with their hand washing and sanitising skills. The children have been demonstrating their knowledge of how to keep themselves and others safe while working separately in their small groups.It is obvious Parents & Families have been working hard at home for the past few months to ensure the children are familiar with the ways we can try our best to keep each other safe. Summer Camp looked a different to camps from other years but the levels of fun and happiness were just as high!
In the Junior Group we had such a brilliant week led by Ms.Marren. We were super at looking out for one another and washing our hands!Teacher wore her face mask whenever she could not social distance and we got very used to this after the first morning! We all did our very best to keep everybody safe.
Some of our favourite activities included;
Making our own lunches in the kitchen: This was such a great learning experience. Making choices about what we would like to eat, choosing our food, buttering our chosen bread and putting on our fillings. We even made our own rice krispie treats! We felt very independent .
Art and Crafts: This was another of our favourite activities. We did lots of different types of art, as you will see in our video. Painting, colour mixing, drawing, decorating, colouring and working with fabric and fibre. We were all so creative in our own ways.
Outdoor activities: We also loved getting outside and being active. We loved the running and throwing games. We worked on skills like balance, speed and coordination.
What a brilliant week – well done to the boys and girls.
Have a look at our video to see more examples of our wonderful fun!
Middle Group + Ms. Browne: Our week in Summer Camp was all about FUN,FUN & FUN! It was so lovely to be back in school and to see our friends and some of our Teachers too.
We had a busy week with plenty of Arts & Crafts activities, stories, outdoor games as well as Music, Dancing and even decorating our own cupcakes! We went on a Nature Walk and found some conkers by the pitch as well as listening outdoors for the many sounds around us.
Wayne O’Connor, the Storyteller came to visit on our last day of Camp and he was fantastic. He told us the story of mythical people a long time ago and he was really funny. We were so excited listening to him and watching him.
On Friday we had an ice-cream party and we really loved it. We even had yummy toppings to create our own ice creams- yummy, yummy in my tummy!
We sanitised our hands everytime we went into school and when we were leaving the school. We washed our hands throughout the day – before we ate and after we ate, whenever we sneezed or coughed and we all coughed into our elbows. Ms Browne could not believe how wonderful we were at following the guidelines about sneezing and coughing and she had her ‘proud Momm’ face’ on every day at Camp because we were so good at looking after one another!
Here are some photos of our fantastic week !
Watching ‘Chicken Licken’
Finding Conkers on our Nature Walk
Dragon Art
Senior Group + Ms.Kivlehan
We had a great time at Camp this week and we spent a lot of time outdoors – playing basketball, running through obstacle courses as well as doing our exercises with music. We really enjoyed making our own lunches with help from Ms. Grimes as well as baking our Fairy Cakes in the kitchen. Decorating them was a messy job but so much fun!!!The fairy cakes were delicious.
We did lovely art and craft activities – making our own window decorations for home as well as doing music and board games in our room.
We followed social distancing guidelines and are really ready for and excited about getting back to school next Thursday – we know when to sanitise our hands and washed our hands regularly throughout the day at summer camp.
Summer Camp 2020 was the best fun!!!!!
Obstacle Course
Basketball Fun
I hope that you are all safe and well. These are difficult times for all of us and a lot is being asked of us as Parents BUT we are able to do this and we can do it! The Teachers have lots of lovely ideas and activities prepared for your kids – take a look at them here on the Blog and see what would work well in your home.
Try to have some structure and have some time for school activities each week day so as to help your child to continue with their learning as well as passing some time! There are some lovely ideas for Apps on the kids devices that they can play while learning Maths and developing their Reading skills.
As Parents, we can often be very hard on ourselves! Remember we are all very limited in what we can do during these weeks and we must follow the guidelines and advice given to us from Government and the HSE. Be sure to remind the children to wash their hands and to stay away from meeting their friends etc – chat to them about this and the reasons why. The older children will understand this more and most definitely can be helping out at home with jobs and with younger brothers and sisters.
So try to relax, stay calm and know that we are all in the same boat! Once I get out for a walk (in a quiet place) with my 2 kids every day and our lovely dog Rupert, I feel it is a successful day! After that we do some school work and then we do things we have not had time to do in a very long – we play card games, we dance around the kitchen to ‘Mommy’s old music’ (Poor old Kenny Rogers!) , I’m learning all about Lewis Capaldi, Niall Horan, Charli XCX and the likes. We have pulled out the board games and the ring board set on the back of the door and are having competitions as to who can beat Mommy (I’m the Champ) I am chatting to them more about things they like and really getting to know my kids better – just having the time to sit and to listen. We love watching TV together in the evenings and just sitting together as a family. This is so important.
We are helping each other with jobs around the house and having ‘timed’ competitions about who can hang the clothes out the fastest on the clothes line or who can hoover downstairs the best! Simple fun while keeping the house going.
Reading is a great idea always and anywhere- my kiddies are reading books they read a long time ago and every now and then we down tools, sit on the step at the back door and one of them reads a few pages from a book to us. We chat about the stories and imagine what life would be like in Hogwart’s or as The Hungry Caterpillar. You can do all of these things- they cost nothing, are very simple and pass the time. The days can be very long but it is the simple, easy things that we are enjoying and you can too. Then when we all feel like we are annoying each other we scatter off to different rooms and chill for a while! We are all only human! Try keeping a good bedtime routine too – its very important.
As I said last week- in St Edward’s we are all a TEAM and we are here to support you, the Parents in these difficult times. You can ring my HSCL Mobile or text me Monday to Friday on 086 7769756 and please continue to check out St Edward’s Facebook Page. Like and Share too so others will get to see the information. I will help you in any way that I can or I can get Ms Grimes to call you back if necessary.
So grab the deck of cards, play for pasta pieces instead of money!
Make paper planes and run up and down the last 2 steps of the stairs a few times- see who can do this the fastest! Dads too!
Facetime Nannie & Granda and send them your love. Nannie & Granda Browne in Kerry are now ‘Skyping’ us every evening!!! Up to now they could hardly turn their phones on to silent!
Limit your time and the older kids time on Social Media and the constant ‘scary’ newsfeeds!
Know that you are doing your best and that your love and care is all the children need right now more than anything else.
Know that we can all do this and we are all in this together!
Up Kerry! Up Sligo! We’ve got this!!!
Take care and please stay in touch.
Aisling
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.
In November, our Aistear theme in Junior Infants was The Post Office. We completed many different activities linked to this theme.
We acted out being a postal worker, customer, cashier, post person in our Post Office Role Play area. We pretended to put cards and letters into envelopes, then we put a stamp on the envelope and an address on the outside of the envelope and posted it in our post box in our role play area. We made post boxes in our art area using cardboard boxes. We painted them green and used sponge letters to make the word post on the box. We designed our own stamps, coloured them in and we put different prices on them.
We used play dough to make letters, post boxes, postal workers and post vans. We used small figures in our small world area to deliver letters to different houses. We found letters in the sand and sorted them out into different letter names.
We have been having so much fun in school this week again. On Tuesday, we had a special visitor who danced an Irish dance with us while Ms Browne played the tin whistle. It was so much fun having Santa Claus in the classroom with us and he gave each one of us a goodie bag. We sang some songs for him too.
Milo the Therapy Dog came to visit St Edward’s on Thursday. Milo spends time in Nursing Homes and visiting children in schools helping adults and children to relax and to be happy. We loved having Milo visit us and he looked like he was enjoying his time with the boys and girls too. Thank you Mr Murphy for bringing Milo to visit us.
Assembly for Advent
We had our final Assembly of 2019 this morning. The 4 th Advent Wreath candle was lit and Ms Grimes told us all about the last candle being lit on Christmas Eve at mass.
Today we all wore Christmas clothes and jumpers and made donations to Focus Ireland who help those people who have no homes. We need to remember that Christmas is very difficult for people who have no homes but Santa knows where every child is and he will visit everyone of us on Christmas Eve night when we are fast asleep.
Wishing you all a safe and happy Christmas. We will see you all back in school on Monday January 6 th 2020. We can wish each other a Happy New Year when we see each other that morning – remember to be ‘ in the line at 10 to 9!’
Happy holidays !
On Monday 2 Nd & 3rd class went on a bus to Union Wood to take part in Orienteering with our Student Teachers. Working in groups of 3’s we explored the woods looking for clues. We took turns marking our Orienteering Cards and had great fun trying to locate each clue.
How lucky were we to find Advent Calendars hidden in the trees for us !!! The Students presented us all with beautiful Certificates as well as praising us for our hard work over the past 6 weeks.
Take a look at the photos of our great day in Union Wood.
