Plants

We have begun learning about plants this week! During Aistear, everyone got a chance to plant some lovely vegetables. We also have a Garden Centre in the role play area and the children all made some seed packets to sell with a list of what their seeds need to grow on the back! We're so excited to learn more about plants and other life cycles during the month!

We also had great fun during STEM Stations on Friday! We did some printing using different parts of flowers, playing engineering games online and set up shops in our pods to practice using money (our Maths topic at the moment): 

Finally, here are the children doing an AMAZING job during Gaeilge on Friday. They had to follow instructions as Gaeilge to draw and colour their teach, then they either labelled the parts of the house or wrote sentences about it. Dochreidte!! 🤩

 

2D Shapes

We have been learning about 2D shapes! We know all about squares (4 corners and 4 equal sides), rectangles (4 corners and 4 sides-2 short and 2 long), circles (0 corners and 1 side) and triangles (3 corners and 3 sides). We went for shape hunts around the school with our partners and found lots of examples of these shapes in the local environment! Today we made some 2D shape snowmen, as it is feeling very much like winter today!!! 

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!