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!

3-D Maths Stations

On Fridays we do Maths Stations! This week we finished up exploring 3-D shapes in Maths, and our stations were all about these shapes! 

Table 1. 3-D Shape Movement exploration and recording

Table 2. 3-D shapes in workbooks

Table 3. Building 3-D shapes with Magsnaps (revising 2-D shapes while we were at it!)

Table 4. Cylinder Construction 

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!

Astronaut Bootcamp

Last week we had a lot of fun at Astronaut Bootcamp, preparing ourselves Aistear this week. Here are some pictures of us exploring the force of gravity in the classroom. We made a HUGE mess doing the gravity painting, but messy learning is the best kind!

The astronauts-in-training also know an unbelievable amount about the planets in our solar system. We've been learning this song to help us: 

Our role play area is ready for blast off this week...who knows what space adventures we'll have???