Merry Christmas!!!

 

Handwriting Instagram Page

You will find a link under the title of this blog which says 'Handwriting Instagram Page'. This Instagram page will be updated with quick videos of each letter we learn for handwriting this year. Hopefully this will be helpful for homework and writing at home! 

Link: handwriting instagram page 

Festive Friday

Festive Fridays are back for the Toy Show today!!! 

During STEM Stations the children had to work together to design and build a sturdy Christmas tree out of paper cups. It also had to hold baubles. The children also made some snowmen with Ms. Mollison who is in our classroom for the next couple of weeks! There was a festive game on the laptops too. Later on in the day, we had great fun designing and creating Christmas jumpers for Ryan on the Toy Show tonight! 

Have a great weekend 🎅🎄🤶

 

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 :) 

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! 

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!! 

Fun this Week!

We are so lucky that Mr. Larke and Ms. Kilrane join us for STEM Stations on a Friday! Look at the fun we had today:  

We are learning about the doctor during playtime!

First Week Fun :)

Well done on a great first week back everyone! 

We did a lot of playtime this week! It is the best way for children to learn about and explore their new environment and classmates. 

Working on scissor skills.

We do STEM Stations on a Friday (STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). Junior Infants were brilliant on the laptops:

Mr. Larke visited us for STEM Stations! The Senior Infants built a tower the same height as him!

Our new water play area is fantastic! 

 

First Day!

 Welcome back! Well done to everyone, especially the new Junior Infants, on their amazing first day in school this year!

Pyjama Party!!!!

 

Outdoor Learning

We made the most of the great weather this week and brought our space playtime outdoors 🌞

STEM Stations

 

A huge thank you to Mr. Larke for our laptops! It is amazing having a laptop station in the classroom 🤩🥳

A Nuacht

 

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!! 🤩

 

Busy in the Junior Room!

Enjoy the show! Theatre is one of our drama options for Aistear.

Some Easter art: 

Have a lovely Easter break everyone!