Junior Room Fun

 The children have been learning about life cycles and butterflies recently! Last week we had so much fun at our STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths) Stations, have a look at the video below: 

Rang 1 are ar fheabhas at their Gaeilge!

STEM Stations and 1st Class Nuacht

 Some recent fun in the Junior Classroom :) 

Halloween Fun!

 Happy Halloween!! 

The children all looked amazing today in their costumes. We had so much fun doing spooky STEM stations and Bingo in Irish...As always, we are so grateful that Ms. Kilrane, Mr. Larke and Bernie come in for STEM stations and help us with the best and messiest learning of the week!!

Have a brilliant week off everyone and see you after the midterm :) 

STEM Stations

We made the most of the sunshine last Friday and took our STEM Stations outside! 

The children made 2D shapes from sticks and stones for Maths. 

They drew around their bodies with chalk and labelled/named different body parts for Science. 

The children had previously begun making boats with our Creation Station materials and on Friday they tested their boats to see if they would float and how many stones they could carry! This was a fun way to do engineering, science, maths and develop problem solving skills, creative thinking, motor skills and much more!!!

 We are so lucky to have Mr. Larke, Ms. Kilrane and Bernie for STEM Stations!! 

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!! 🤩

 

Melting Snowmen

 Last week during our festive STEM stations, each pod had to create a coat to prevent their snowmen from melting. The children had a variety of different fabrics to choose from and worked together to create these special coats to keep their snowmen cold! Great job everyone! 

STEM Stations

We had very busy STEM stations today!

Science: Walking Water Experiment-the food dye traveled from one cup to the other thanks to capillary action

Technology: Typing Club

Engineering: Construction different rooms of the house using our junk art supplies

Maths: Playdough boards to revise telling the time

Senior Room Games

Many thanks to the Senior Classroom who designed and created brilliant magnetic games for the Juniors and Seniors! It was great for us to see STEM in action in a fun way! The games were really brilliant!

STEM STATIONS

We had so much fun last week at STEM stations. 

1. Science: Growing sugar crystals experiment

2. Technology: Coding

3. Engineering: Creating a parachute to protect an egg (we had even more fun later on when we dropped the eggs off the balcony to test the parachutes!!!)

4. Maths: 2D Shape dinosaurs cut and paste activity 

Check out the brilliant parachutes before testing!

We also had a Teddy Bear Picnic on Friday because the children had been so well behaved while I was out! 

STEM Stations

We began STEM stations today in the Junior Room. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. We had the following stations:

1. Science: Using magnets to make the witch from Room on the Broom fly across the night sky

2. Technology: Coding. The children completed challenges on the app 'Daisy the Dinosaur' to introduce them to coding

3. Engineering: The truck carrying Ms. Keane's new shoes is stuck at a river! Using only pasta and playdough, the children had to construct a bridge to get truck across.

4. Maths: the children made numbers from connecting blocks. Seniors had to write the number words and 1st Class explored place value too. 

The stations were loads of fun, and a great hands-on way for pupils to explore these important subjects!