Mar 30, 2017 | Junior Infants – Ms Larkin
Room 2 set up their very own Garden Centre last month in the classroom! They became gardeners, shop keepers and customers, bought and sold lots of plants, and even planted their own Irises! They are taking great care of them in school, and hope that they will grow if they give them all the things that living things need to grow, including water, food (soil), light and clean air. They learnt all about the different parts of the plant, including the seeds, petals, stem, roots and made their own flowers using lots of different materials. Room 2 really enjoyed reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and talking about all the food he ate on each of the seven days of the week, before he turned into a beautiful butterfly! Ask them to sing you their song about the life cycle of the butterfly! Room 2 also painted tonal caterpillars – making light and darker tones of colour by adding black and white to their paint. They printed beautiful colourful butterflies too and wrote their names on them- they are becoming so independent! Room 2 also read and acted out the story of The Enormous Turnip, and took part in a taste test in school, where they tried turnip chips, crisps, and mash. They decided that they liked turnip mash most of all! The room 2 mathematicians have also been learning about capacity – how much a container can hold. They have been using lots of new special maths words- like ‘estimate’, ‘pour’, ‘full’ and ‘empty’, ‘most’ and ‘least’. They have been doing lots of experimenting with water, soil, sand, and...
Mar 30, 2017 | Senior Infants – Ms Holohan
Senior Infants have been learning all about the farm. We can tell you some of the places farm animals live (like a stable, pig sty or chicken coop) and the names of baby farm animals (calf, lamb, foal, chick, piglet). We have been learning about what farming was like many years ago …and we have discovered it was very difficult! The farmers had to milk the cows by hand and plough the fields themselves. They even made their own milk and butter. To see what this would be like we decided to make our own butter. After tasting it on crackers we decided that it tasted……YUM! Check out the pictures to see what we...
Mar 24, 2017 | Senior Infants – Ms Long
Have a look at us singing our new song and playing the percussion instruments!...
Mar 10, 2017 | Junior Infants – Ms Larkin
Junior Infants have had a very exciting week this week. On Tuesday we had a visit from a baby lamb! We had to be super quiet and gentle, as he was only one week old. Then, yesterday we had a visit from Garda Frank! We have been learning about people who help to keep us safe in SPHE, so we had lots of interesting questions for Frank. He even let us try and break his handcuffs – they were very strong! Click here to check out some of the pictures from our...
Mar 10, 2017 | Junior Infants – Ms Mahon
As you know, we celebrated World Book Day last week. World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. Did you know that it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world. We love books in Room 5, with our favourites being the Gruffalo and our new book, The Smartest Giant in Town! Check out all of our different costumes here. Can you spot any familiar...
Mar 10, 2017 | First Class – Mr Kinsella
First Class Room 9 had a fantastic time during Literacy Week 2017! Here are some of the things we did! 1. We had a book quiz. 2. John, Niamh and Laura came into read stories to us. 3. We all exchanged an old book from our home for a new book that used to belong to someone else. We had great fun reading these. 4. Everyone in Room 9 got a €1.50 book token to spend towards a book of our choice in a book shop. 5. On Thursday it was World Book dress up day! There were lots of interesting characters in our class from Tin Men to Tinkerbells, and Snowhites to Stickmen! Can you spot any of these characters in the gallery here! Enjoy the...
