The Restaurant

For November, we have been learning all about food. We have set up a restaurant in our classroom called An Bhialann, and spent last week making lots of different things for it, like menus, signs, ovens, flowers...we have been very busy!

Today we went to Java Juice on Haggard Street to learn about how their restaurant works! We got a great surprise when we saw they had sausages and juice and doughnuts for us too! They answered our questions and we got lots of information that we can bring to An Bhialann. They were very helpful and kind and made such an effort with us, so a massive thank you!!!

Have a look at these pictures of An Bhialann! We have waiters, customers, chefs and everyone gets involved!

                                      

Senior Infant Chefs!

                                                   

Open for business! 

Everyone is getting involved and working on oral language skills, writing orders, reading menus, and learning about people who work in our local community! 

Here you can see the plates of food we made last week in art! 

We have learnt two new Irish songs: 

1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Is maith liom báinne is cupán tae!

Is maith liom úlla is ceaparie, 

Brioscaí, criospaí is banana buí! 

An  maith liom cáis?

An maith liom práta?

An maith liom arán?

An maith liom tráta?

Is maith liom cáis.

Is maith liom práta.

Is maith liom arán.

Is maith liom tráta.

Ní maith liom cáis.

Ní maith liom práta.

Ní maith liom arán.

Ní maith liom tráta.

Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

This week we made some scary monsters for Halloween. We used straws to blow watered down paint all over our pages. When they were dry we stuck on eyes and drew arms and legs and whatever else we wanted! 

We have been learning a dán for Halloween too: 

And here is everyone dressed up! Well done on the fantastic costumes :) 

Have a great week off everyone!

Our Spooky Work!

Things are getting scary in the Junior and Senior Infant classroom! 

We have made some spooky, foggy, haunted houses:

Then we made hand print spiders. We gave them 8 eyes, and made webs for them by lacing white wool over the paper plates.

We have a new visitor too! Try and think of a name for our ghost!  

Library Trip

Trim Library very kindly invited us down today to take part in Yo-Yo Yoga Storytelling! The children were read three books. Each book had lots of different yoga poses to go with it, and the children in Junior and Senior Infants were very good at these! Then the children got under blankets for the final story and practised their breathing. It was a great way to mix exercise with reading, and made the stories so exciting for the children!

Autumn Leaves

We have been doing lots of work all about Autumn! Last week we talked about the leaves on trees and what happens them in Autumn. We looked at the colours leaves changed to, and we made trees using a cut out of our arms for the trunk and branches, and then we sponged Autumn colours all over our page. When the cut out was lifted, we had our colourful trees!







This week we went on a nature walk to the new playground in Trim to look at the leaves there (and to have some fun!). Everyone collected a leaf, and we looked closely at them to decide what made each leaf unique. We found out that the leaves didn't just have one colour on them, they were lots of different colours!

In the classroom we made our own crispy, crumpled Autumn leaves by painting a page lots of Autumn colours and crumpling it up into a ball! When Ms. Keane or Bernie unfolded the page, the colours were all mixed together. Then they were cut out and stuck up on our classroom tree. Lots of leaves have fallen down! 

We also made hand print leaves in the Autumn colours! 

Here we are in the park before we collected our leaves! 

Bird Watching

Today we looked at the different parts of a bird. We talked about the beak, wings, feathers, tails, breast and crown of a bird. Senior Infants labelled the parts of a bird and Junior Infants did a great job drawing birds in their copies.

Then we went outside to go bird watching! We had to be very quiet so we didn't scare the birds away! We saw some crows and magpies.