Citywest & Saggart

Community National School

Junior Infants Room 3: The Seaside

Room 3 have set up The seaside role play area in their classroom today.  Over the next month they will learn about many things that people can see and do at the seaside.  They will also be learning about water safety and how to keep themselves and others safe while at the...

Junior Infants Room 3: Spatial Awareness

The boys and girls of Room 3 are working on developing their spatial awareness at the moment.  They have been playing a game called Turtle Pond.  In this game they need to get the turtle to his pond by giving him directions: forwards, backwards, turn left, turn right.  They also need to count how many steps he should to take. To make it even more difficult, sometimes there are obstacles like trees and boulders that the turtle needs to walk around.  If you would like to practice at home you can click here....

Junior Infants Room 3: Making Toast

This term Junior Infants are learning how to give instructions to others and how to write instructions.  The boys and girls of Room 3 discovered recently that SuperTed and Smoulder the Dragon don’t know how to make toast! They love the smell and wanted to taste it so we decided to give them instructions.  First we broke it down into steps, making sure to tell them what to do first, then and finally.   When we finished giving instructions (and demonstrating and tasting!), the boys and girls wrote and drew the instructions in sequence so that SuperTed and Smoulder would not forget and...

Junior Infants Room 3: Read Aloud by Lorraine

The boys and girls in Room 3 are having a wonderful time this week!  Grace’s Mom, Lorraine, called in yesterday morning to read them a story for Literacy Week.  They were very excited to hear ‘Room on the Broom’  being read aloud, especially those who had heard it before.  They enjoyed seeing all of the animals join the witch on the broom and were delighted when they saved her at the end of the story.  Thank you...

Junior Infants Room 3: Reading Aloud by Bronagh

We had a great start to Literacy Week with Bronagh, Alannah Cheetham’s Mom, reading us a story this morning.  She read ‘The Highway Rat’ by Julia Donaldson.  The boys and girls really enjoyed listening to the book and couldn’t believe how evil the rat was, stealing from all of the other animals.  We also enjoyed predicting what would happen to the rat after the story finished.  Thank you...