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A big welcome to Junior Infants!
We have all settled in so well and are enjoying looking around at the many signs of Autumn! Please feel free to bring in whatever signs you can find for our Nature Table!
P.E. days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday so please remember to wear tracksuits on these days.
We have all settled in so well and are enjoying looking around at the many signs of Autumn! Please feel free to bring in whatever signs you can find for our Nature Table!
P.E. days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday so please remember to wear tracksuits on these days.
Signs, colours and tastes of Autumn
We have had so much fun looking at many signs and colours of Autumn all around us - we made our own falling autumn leaves from Playdough, paint and felt. And also made some delicious blackberry jam! Yum!!
Aistear! Learning through play!
Our Australian visitor!
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We were delighted to have Amy's Gran visit us recently and read us a story about William's adventures on Australia Day which is January 25. We also learned lots about what it's like to go to school in Australia and even about Australian animals! Thank you, Mavis! |
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Enjoying learning how to create whole towns with our beautiful new train set! Thank you Heidi! |
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We made a happy apple crumble with apples from our gardens!
We made a happy apple crumble with apples from our gardens!
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Jolly Phonics
Having learned the sounds some of our letters make, we are now having so much fun blending the sounds to make words! We are starting to read and spell! Here we are spelling the word p a t :-)
PIP
Sinead's guinea pig PIP has been having a week's sleepover in our classroom! We have been learning what she likes to eat, how to clean out her cage and to generally take care of her. We have loved having her spend some time with us and hope that she has had as much fun as we have. We'll miss you Pip!
Fun with Fiona!
We had so much fun when Fiona visited our class on Friday. She brought along her little lamb, Cóilín, who loves to eat lots of bread and jam! We even learned a song called 'Cóilín' to help him to sleep!
We also played lots of unusual musical instruments and learned another fun song called 'Bualadh Bos'. Thank you so much, Fiona! Please come visit us again!
Biodiversity walk!
We had a lot of fun on our nature walk around our school with Calvin from Wildlife Ireland. Every time we found a mini beast, plant, bird, fruit or other things living there, we ticked a box and sometimes even managed to put it into a little jat with a magnifying glass to see it more clearly. We found worms, spiders, slugs, snails, crab apples and even a big black beetle!
We know that we must take care of the little things around us to make sure that we have a lovely clean environment for us all to live in. :-)
Look who Fiona sent photos of!! Coilin!! He wanted to say hi to everyone! Here he is practising piano . . and eating his favourite jam!! Hi Coilin!! :-)
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*WEAVING* We have begun weaving! First, we looked at the different colours and textures to find ones we liked. We then practised weaving over and under, over and under . . and finally wove a beautiful, warm quilt for winter! |
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HALLOWEEN WITCH'S FINGERS!!!
We made some scary witch's fingers for Halloween! It was lots of fun (and a little scary)! We also made some slippery spidery jelly and dancing spiders! Happy Halloween!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
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**Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!**
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Our lovely friend, Fiona, just sent us this beautiful song she wrote for Sinead's guinea pig Pip!! We are practising it every day and can't wait to sing it to Pip when she comes back to visit us again. Thanks Fiona!
***Santa's Helpers!***
Santa sent some big elves to our Christmas workshop this morning to help us make lots of decorations for our Christmas trees! Thank you big and small elves!**
Lots of fun in LEGO LAND!! Fergal and Shelly helped us make a little Lego hockey player and goalpost today. We had so much fun taking shots with the puck to see how far it could go and scoring lots of goals!
- ***** STATION WORK *****
Here we are working at our Literacy stations - having fun with threading boards and Playdough to make our fingers nice and strong to read, spell and write words with our sounds! :-)
*** Santa's elves get hungry too! ***
*** Happy Christmas everyone! ***
*** it's snowing!!!*** (for 10 seconds! :-))
^~^~ Our funny Martians!!! ~^~^
We looked at the planets which travel around our sun.
Then we tried to imagine what creatures from Mars might look like - we first drew them with chalk on sugar paper and then made them real with clay. We called them lots of funny names and had lots of fun imagining what they would look like, talk like and play like!
(-: 3 little wordsmiths :-)
Grandparents Day!
We were so, so delighted to welcome our grannies and grandads (in person and in spirit) to visit our classroom today! We had so much fun listening to their stories about when they were at school - they often had to walk as there were no buses or cars to take them to school and instead of radiators the older boys in the school had to light a fire to keep warm every day in winter! Instead of Frubes or crackers they ate bread and butter and drank milk, tea or cocoa. Megan O'Regan's granny, Carmel, showed us a little book that Megan's dad had made when he was in Junior Infants with lots of numbers and letters! She also taught us a song she had learned at school called The Lollipop Tree! We all said we wanted to plant one of those! :-) Rory's and Kate's grandparents, Nuala and Michael, showed us photos of when they were in school! Sinead's gran, Mary, read us a story about a unicorn and Eve's and Elle's nana, Tess, and lots of other nanas and grandads told us more about when they were in school. Sophie's Grandad told us about the brent geese who have come all the way from the Arctic to Blind Strand and Megan Whelton's nana told us a funny riddle. We all told jokes and had so much fun! Welcome back again Grannies and Grandads! X
(-: learning to skip with Skip n Rope! :-)
MAGNETISM
finding out which things in our classroom magnets 'push' and which things magnets 'pull'
Mix a pancake,
Stir a pancake,
Pop it in the pan;
Fry the pancake,
Toss the pancake
Catch it if you can!
by Christina Rossetti
(-: Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig! :-)
agus féach cé a tháinig chuig an paráid! Ollie!! Go raibh maith agat, Kate! :-)
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Welcome Tyson!
Sophie's puppy, Tyson, came to visit us. He is the cutest puppy ever. We all got to hold and pet him and he stayed very calm. Sophie and her mum, Eimear, answered all our questions about his habits. We loved meeting him! See you again soon, Tyson!
Some high jinks and stretching at Barryroe pitch!
0000000 *E*A*S*T*E*R*!! 000000
We decided to build our nests and lay some eggs just like the mother birds all around us!
We decided to build our nests and lay some eggs just like the mother birds all around us!
FARMING!
We recently took a little trip over to Johnny O'Brien's farm to see his new born calves. We decided to bake him and his family a little Easter cake to say thank you and put lots of little Easter eggs on top. Johnny took us first to see the milk tank and then to milking parlour to show us where the cows are milked each day. He then showed us some calves - some one month old, others one week and then a little calf only one day old with her mum! They were all so cute! He told us to never go near a cow with her young calf as she will do everything to protect it. He also showed us the milk powder he uses to feed the growing calves and we then watched him pour the milk into a feeder as they sucked hard on the little rubber teats as they were very hungry.
We then went on an hunt for Easter eggs the Easter bunny had left us while we were watching the calves! We had such fun! Thank you, Johnny . . and thank you, Easter bunny!
. . . . . . . . . . PLANTING PEAS! . . . . . . . . .
Picnic among the bluebells!
We brought our teddy bears on picnic today to Courtmacsherry Woods where the bluebells are in full bloom. They were so very pretty! We even saw a fairy house by the well. Afterwards, our mums and dads came to help us pick up litter from the beach and drove us back to school - thank you! We had a lot of fun! :-)
(-: NO KIDDING!! :-)
We recently had some visitors to our classroom - Eleanor and Colette brought two kid goats for us to pet! They were only two weeks old and very, very cute! They were also so very gentle. We could feel the little bumps where their horns will be and we even heard a little baaa every now and then! Thanks Eleanor!
Winky comes to visit!
Our School Tour to Rumley's!!!
(-: ElDeRfLoWeR LiMoNaDe :-)
We made some yummy elderflower limonade today which we drank with Aibhlin's cookies!!!
We made sure that our magic spells of bibbity bobboty boo worked their magic!!
We made some yummy elderflower limonade today which we drank with Aibhlin's cookies!!!
We made sure that our magic spells of bibbity bobboty boo worked their magic!!
HOMEMADE YOGURT and OAT BREAD!
Aibhlin's mom, Deirdre, very kindly came to show us how to make yogurt which we left in a flask overnight well wrapped in a towel to make sure it stayed at the right temperature for our magic spell to work . . . and when she came next day to check, it had turned into delicious yogurt!!!
She used half to make oatbread which we all gobbled up with butter and a slice of strawberry and then ate the rest of the yogurt with some strawberries from her garden and honey for yummy dessert! What a treat!!! Thank you Aibhlin and Deirdre! (-::-)
Aibhlin's mom, Deirdre, very kindly came to show us how to make yogurt which we left in a flask overnight well wrapped in a towel to make sure it stayed at the right temperature for our magic spell to work . . . and when she came next day to check, it had turned into delicious yogurt!!!
She used half to make oatbread which we all gobbled up with butter and a slice of strawberry and then ate the rest of the yogurt with some strawberries from her garden and honey for yummy dessert! What a treat!!! Thank you Aibhlin and Deirdre! (-::-)
