Nature Walk

The Junior Room went on their first nature walk of the year to collect autumn leaves today! The children were so careful when walking outside of the school, what superstars! 

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!! 🤩

 

The Best Thing So Far...

Last week we practiced breaking sentences into words. Have a look at everyone's favourite part of school so far this year!

1st Class made brilliant projects this week about the different body parts for Science.

The Innocent Big Grow

The children in Juniors and Seniors are taking part in The Innocent Big Grow ( see https://innocentbiggrow.com/ for information and resources!) This aims to encourage children to grow and eat vegetables. We had plant-themed stations this afternoon. 

Table 1: The children made posters showing the parts of a plant

Table 2: Planting seeds. Each child had two pots with compost disks and got to pick two plants to grow. There were tomato, cress and pea seeds!

Table 3: Plant life cycle cut and paste activity.

Table 4: Plants mindfulness colouring

Each week, two children will be our Veg Detectives. They will be in charge of watering the seeds and monitoring growth! 

Weather Station

The children in Juniors and Seniors were meteorologists and weather forecasters this week! There was a weather playdough station and an art station. The role-play station was busy. The meteorologist had to go outside and use instruments to measure the weather. We used wind socks, weather vanes, thermometers and a rain gauge. Then the children had to write reports and present the weather on the television. The construction station was fun because there were different weather scenario cards and the children worked together or by themselves to construct the story! 

Farm Camp

We have been doing Farm Camp this week to prepare us for our new Aistear theme next week. Today we took a trip to SuperValu in Trim to find food for sale that comes from the farm! Josie in SuperValu and all of the staff took great care of us! We got to taste some chicken, turkey, fish, brown bread and butter and pizza! We saw duck eggs and eggs from hens. They brought us upstairs to the bakery and we saw the huge oven where the bread is made every day by the bakers who come in at 3a.m.! The bakers had made buns for everyone-yummy! We saw loads of things that came from the farm in the shop! Thanks again to Josie and the staff in SuperValu, and well done on winning Store of the Year again this year!

Aistear-The Space Station

Have a look at some of the learning done over the past two weeks, all about space! The children amazed me with the language they used and the creative thinking was out of this world...! We will be sorry to say goodbye to the rocket, but excited for starting a new theme next week!