Gingerbread Men

We had a lot of fun last week baking and decorating some gingerbread men! We learned about recipes, ingredients, following a method, sieves, spoons and more! The best part was decorating our treats Friday morning and eating our delicious gingerbread men before hometime! 

THANK YOU

Junior and Senior Infants want to say a big THANK YOU to 6th Class who built our new kitchen and tool bench sets! They did a fantastic job and we're excited to use them for playtime! 

Food Theme

We have been learning about food this month in the classroom! Here are some pictures of what we have been doing for playtime.

Our Drama corner is a restaurant! Everyone takes it in turns to be the customers, the waiter or waitress and the chef! The children take orders, cook the food and get the bill. 

We have also been making playdough foods:

We played some bingo to practice our new Gaeilge words: 

Sorted pictures of food into their shapes to reinforce our Maths for this week:

We sorted foods onto healthy and unhealthy plates:

We read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and talked about the different foods he ate. What ones were healthy and unhealthy? What did he eat on Monday? How many plums did he eat? Here are our Very Hungry Handprint Caterpillars...on the ceiling!!!

We also did some still life drawing this week. There was a bowl of fruit in the middle of the table and the children had to draw what they could see in front of them! Here is our classroom art gallery:

We will be doing more fun food activities next week to continue our learning! 

World Nursery Rhyme Week

Congratulations to the children in Junior and Senior Infants for completing the World Nursery Rhyme Week rhyme a day challenge! Every day this week the children learned a new rhyme and completed a sequencing activity based on it. The rhymes we learned were:

Monday-Doctor Foster

Tuesday-Baa Baa Black Sheep

Wednesday-Two Little Dickie Birds 

Thursday-The Incy Wincy Spider 

Friday-Hey Diddle Diddle 

Nursery Rhymes are great for helping young children learn language and communication skills, as well as developing an ear for rhyming words and different vocabulary. 

Have a look at the World Nursery Rhyme Week website here.

Potion Lab

We are getting ready for Halloween in the Infant Classroom! For playtime, our classroom has become a spooky Potions Lab! The art table are creating spiderwebs with oil pastels and watercolour paint, there is a Halloween matching game at another table, the playdough table are creating different ingredients for the potion in the cauldron, and the messiest learning of all is taking part at the drama table where we are pretending to be witches and wizards creating potions! 

Last week was Maths Week, so we began learning about capacity using our potions lab. It's a fun way to develop vocabulary such as full, nearly full, empty, holds more, holds less, holds as much as...We are also doing some whole-class work on estimating how many jugfuls of potion will fill a certain container and ordering containers of potion in order of capacity! 

The Potion Lab is also great for oral language development, as the children dictate their potion ingredients and method for me to write down, sharing, motor skills, and literacy! It's also just fun to make a big mess! Have a look at our spooky room: 

Happy Halloween to the Juniors and Seniors! Well done on your fantastic costumes today! :) 

Well done especially to Poppy and David who won the Parent's Association Best Dressed prizes: