Happy Halloween from Juniors and Seniors!

Spooktactular Playtime

This week our four playtime stations were very busy...

Bord a hAon: Leaf Hedgehogs

Bord a Dó: Bubbling Magic Potion Experiment

Bord a Trí: Baking with Bernie

Bord a Ceathair: Constructing Haunted Houses 

Hurricane Mystery...

Welcome back to school after our two days off for Hurricane Ophelia! After learning a little bit about hurricanes and looking at some of the effects of Hurricane Ophelia in Ireland, Ms. Keane showed the children something very mysterious that ended up in her garden after the storm...

Who could own this? How did it get into the garden?

We had a look inside to figure out who might own the suitcase. We found lots of clues. There was a magic hat, a cloak, a hairbrush with green hair stuck in it, dark purple lipstick, magic pink powder, a candle, a sewing kit, a toothbrush and sunglasses. We discussed all of the items a decided that a witch must own the bag! We created pictures of what we thought Gilly the witch might look like. Later on the Juniors told and illustrated stories about how the suitcase ended up in the garden, and Seniors did some creative writing with Mr. Murphy about Gilly too! 

October Aistear

This month we have been learning about Autumn and School. These are our themes for Aistear (playtime). Last week the boys and girls did a collaborative artwork where they worked together to paint a branch. This was great for oral language, teamwork and colour recognition (English and Irish!). 

The next table were cutting and gluing autumn colours onto tree templates to build up fine motor skills.

The next two tables were based on school. On the whiteboard the children were working collaboratively to draw pictures of the school, things and people we see at school and our classroom. 

The socio-dramatic play area had one child in role as the teacher and the others were the pupils! 

This week we are furthering our learning in multi-sensory ways. The children are using different materials to cover pages in Autumn colours. This is very fun and very messy!!!

The next table have different playdough challenges, such as making a hat for a scarecrow or spines for a hedgehog or Autumn leaves. This encourages creative thinking, motor skills and is a tactile way to explore the season. 

We have some Bingo as Gaeilge to practice our vocabulary so far...

And today we had Mr. Jones running the drama station! 

Here are our beautiful branches from last week with Autumn leaves made from this week's art!