Junior Infants

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Junior Infants
2021/22

Happy St. Valentine's Day.

Santa's Workshop

Santa and the elves were very busy preparing for delivering toys on Christmas Eve. The elves were very occupied making, repairing and wrapping toys. They made lots of lists to make sure that all the jobs got done. The reindeer had to be fed and prepared too.

December Aistear ~ The Toy Shop

Happy Diwali!

As Diwali is a festival of lights we used our cutting and sticking skills to make some Diwali candles,

We also worked in groups to make Rangoli patterns at the entrance to our school and the entrance to our classroom.

Our Construction Site

In October we moved on from our Family/Homes theme in Aistear ( language through play framework) to building houses in our construction site. We had great fun being builders, plumbers, electricians, architects and project managers in our role play corner.

We also had a Junk Art station where we used recyclable materials to make houses and other buildings.

Autumn Walk

In Kilcolgan Educate Together we are incredibly lucky that our school is in amongst beautiful woods. On Friday we got some lovely weather so we headed into the woods for an Autumn walk. We stood under the falling leaves and had a lovely brain break. We also said our Autumn poems and sang an Autumn song.

Gaeilge ( Irish) Help Sheets

Aistear

During our Aistear sessions we learn through play. Our first theme was Family and Home and we had great fun in our home corner where we role played being in a family. There were lots of jobs to do around the house and some of us were even working from home in the home office!.

Construction

We've been busy with our construction toys.....they're a great way to mix with our new friends.

Junior Infants
2020 / 2021

Kelectric Picnic '21!!

Last Friday we set up a camp in school and had a great, fun day outdoors. It was like being at Electric Picnic!!. We had tents, picnic blankets, a colouring station and lots of games including giant Jenga, swing ball, badminton and football. 6th class helped us to set up our camp and stayed on for a little while to play with us and to read to us. It was great to get to spend a little time with them outdoors. Thanks to everyone who sent in tents, blankets and games and also to the parents who helped us to pitch some of our tents. The ice cream van also visited school on Friday and added to the festival feel of the day. Looks like we might have to make this an annual event!! :)

Happy Christmas

Each class in our school was invited to decorate a pallet Christmas tree which would be used to decorate Clarinbridge for Christmas. We used decoupage to recycle some plastic bottles into decorations and glued them to our tree. Watch out for our tree amongst all the gorgeous trees on the green hoarding opposite the entrance to Kilcornan.

We've been busy with our art and craft projects. We've made lots of Christmas decorations.

Spreading Kindness

We've been working on our 10 day Kindness Calendar where we've been showing kindness in lots of ways. We were kind to the birds by feeding them on one of the days, we've been doing chores at home without being asked and we picked one day to be kind to ourselves. Another kind act we've done is to make up a hamper of yummy treats to donate to Barnardos. Melinda who works there will make sure our treats make their way to those families who need this sharing of kindness. Thanks to our kind families for helping us with this.

Mind Up

Our latest lesson in our Mind Up programme is Mindful smelling where we concentrated on our sense of smell. We were blindfolded for a smell test.

We smelled lemon, toothpaste, curry powder, chilli sauce, cinnamon and strawberry yogurt...our noses were working really well !!!

Aistear

For December we've a toy shop as part of our Aistear activities and we're busy being shop keepers, managers and customers.

With click and collect and phone orders it's a very busy month in the toy shop.....and there can be long queues!!

In Junk Art we've been working in the toy workshop to make toys for the toy shop.

Planting Spring Bulbs

We've planted lots of daffodil bulbs on the patio outside our classroom. They're tucked up nice and cosy for the winter and we're looking forward to seeing them come up for the spring.....watch this space!!!!

Happy Diwali

We've been busy learning about and celebrating Diwali, the Hindu/Sikh festival of lights. We've had some outdoor time creating Rangolis at the door of our classroom, the door of our school and on our patio. Instead of coloured powder we used chalk.

We also made gorgeous candles as Diwali is a festival of lights.

Aistear

This month in Aistear we are looking at families, homes and houses. We have a home corner where we play as a family, we have dolls' houses for small world play and we've been making lots of houses with lego and other construction toys. We've also been making houses in our Junk Art station.

Yoga

As part of our Mind Up Programme we've been doing some yoga.....it's helped us to practice super listening.

Happy Halloween

We had great fun on Friday when we dressed up for Halloween. We had lots of fantastic characters in our classroom. We did a little show for some of the teachers who help out in our room and we sent home a video to everyone at home. Here are the links to see us singing and reciting our poems.

Jigsaw Experts

Jigsaws are important in Junior Infants so we've been getting lots of practice in.

Maths Trail

We went outdoors for our Maths Trail last week. We looked at sets, shape, number and did lots of counting.

Construction

We've been super busy building with lots of different construction toys. Sometimes we build from our imaginations and sometimes we follow instructions.

Autumn

We've been having lots of chat about Autumn. We learned how to identify the leaves and fruits of the Oak, Sycamore and Horse-chestnut tree. We've been singing Autumn songs and learning poems about leaves and scarecrows. We cut out shapes to make lovely scarecrows.

Maths Groups

We’ve been busy in our Maths groups.

We used shapes to make pictures.

We've been problem solving with Patrick.

We've been measuring weight..............

and length.

Junior Infants
2019/2020

Mindful Movement

As part of our Mind Up programme we’ve been looking at Mindful Movement. Yesterday we tried to suit our movements to different types of music. We danced to salsa, ballet, traditional Irish music and jazz. Today we had great fun with yoga🙂.

Our Spring Bulbs

Check out how our Spring bulbs which we planted in Autumn are doing!

Gung Hay Fat Choy! (Happy Chinese New Year)

We recycled egg cartons to make dragon puppets.

And we practiced eating with chopsticks.....the mandarin segments were easier to pick up than the raisins!

Aistear

Our new theme in Aistear is the Doctor’s Surgery. It seems a particularly good time to have our doctors, nurses and receptionists hard at work as there seems to be lots of sick people at the moment!. We have been busy learning the names of the doctor’s instruments and practicing how to greet our patients and put them at their ease.

We’ve also been busy building with our big construction squares and triangles. Sometimes we use the instruction sheet and sometimes we use our imaginations.

We’re also continuing to be very creative in Junk Art🙂.

In our fourth station this month, our Small World station we are looking at the doctor and other people who help us. We have a little town which we build for them.

Book Fair Time!

It was Book Character Parade time on Tuesday and we had fabulous characters in our class. Elsa was very popular on the day!!!

Autumn Walk

We went on an Autumn walk in the woods near our school. We practiced our Mindful Listening to hear the sounds around us and we collected lots of Autumn ‘bits and pieces’ to make our super Autumn pictures when we got back to school.

Puppet Show

Tommy from ‘Yer Man’s Puppets’ came to the hall near our school where he and his friend put on a super puppet show for us. It was great fun and we got to hear a didgeridoo and to dance too.

Circle Time

We’ve been learning about our new friends in Circle Time. We told each other about something which is special to us and then we put it in the middle of our circle. Look at all of our special things!.

European Language Day

We celebrated European Language Day on the 26th September.

Aline read The Hungry Caterpillar story in German for us.

Agnes shared her Polish language with us.

Esther sang Old McDonald Had A Farm and Incy Wincy Spider in Spanish for us.

Stephanie brought along her ukulele and sang in German for us.

Autumn Leaves

We've been having fun with leaves!. We learned how to identify oak, sycamore and horse-chestnut leaves and then we made leaf rubbings of them.

Patricia Johnston, an artist from Australia visited our class to show us her pictures. We showed her how to make a leaf rubbing.

These two artists got to meet each other and show each other their fabulous paintings.

Junior Infants 2018/2019

Easter Chicks

What Does A Baby Need?

We've been learning about what a baby needs and how a baby grows and we've been lucky enough to have Rayen's mammy, Medje and his baby brother, Idris visiting us.

For Idris' second visit Rayen's granny who was here on holiday also joined us in school. We got to observe and ask questions about what had changed since the baby's first visit.

Lifecycle of the Frog

We have been looking at the Lifecycle of the Frog and are closely monitoring the tadpoles we have on loan from Anna's pond. We will return them to their natural habitat of the pond as soon as their legs start to grow.

Ordering Numbers

Spring Bulbs

Look at our gorgeous spring flowers which have grown from the bulbs we planted back in Autumn. We have placed our 2 planters at the entrance to our school so that everyone can share our beautiful blooms.

Data

We were looking at Data in Maths and made this pictogram to show our favourite type of Pizza. Pepperoni just won out!. We got to eat a slice or two of our favourite kind in school....just to make our learning more concrete of course!!!!

Solar Walk

We are very lucky with our school's location. Not only are we in the middle of woods but we also have a solar walk right beside our school. Thanks to all our parents who worked hard to put up the signs and information. We went on the walk recently with Sorcha and Jikke, some friends from 5th class and a member of our Active Schools committee.

Co-operative Pictures

We practice our cutting each week and decided to make some big pictures in groups where we cut our own shapes and then glued them to our group page. Our room was like an art gallery!

Spring Bulbs

We would love some Spring colour on our patio in the new year so it was time to plant our bulbs. We planted some, tulips, daffodils and crocus. They are nicely tucked up for the Winter and we're looking forward to seeing the first shoots and then our lovely Spring flowers.....watch this space!!!.

Puppet Show

Tommy from Yer Man's Puppets brought his puppet show to the hall near our school. Junior and Senior Infants got to see his show and it was super fun!.

Election Time

As our country was going to the polls to choose our new president we decided to have an election of our own on the same day. We were voting on a name for our newly carved pumpkin. We took suggestions from everyone on a suitable name and then we voted on the two favourites....Charlie and Wilbur. We learned that in a democracy everyone gets to have a vote and that to keep it fair everyone got only 1 vote each. It was a close call but Wilbur won by 2 votes!.

Maths Time

We've been looking at lots of different Maths topics in our Tuesday Maths groups. Patrick, Sorcha,Jikke, Joanne and Claire join us so we get to work in small groups of six.

Sorting

Things Which Go Together

One to One Correspondence

Sets

Pattern

Singapore Maths

Autumn Walk

We went to the walled garden to look for signs of Autumn.

We made Autumn pictures with the things we collected.

Circle Time

This year everyone in our school is going to have circle time so that everyone gets to have their say. We had our first circle time on Friday and we used it as an opportunity to get to know our new friends better. We brought something which is special to us to school and we took turns to tell the others why our item was special to us. After we told everyone about our special item we placed it on a piece of fabric in the middle of our circle.

Mind Up

As part of our Mind Up programme we've been busy learning about our brains and how important they are. We've been finding out about the prefrontal cortex which helps us to learn new things and to solve problems, the hippocampus which helps us to remember things and stores our memories and the amygdala which controls our emotions. We've also been practicing our deep breathing which can help us to allow our brains to relax and to calm down if we're feeling frightened, angry or sad. Here we are trying to 'breathe' our soft toys off our chests. If we breathe very deeply we fill our chests with air and this makes our toy move up and down.

Cutting Skills

We have been practicing our cutting skills and getting used to using scissors. We're going to take lots of opportunities to get better and better at this over the next few months.

Super Jigsaw Makers

Our Writing Patterns

Our first writing pattern is our 'across straight, up straight, across straight, down straight' pattern. It's a great pattern for drawing castles!. We've been writing our patterns on paper but also making them on the floor with lollipop sticks and on our tables with matchsticks.

Junior Infants 2017/2018

Time For Planting

We've been busy filling in our class raised bed and preparing it for planting. Thank you to Eleanor ( Christian and Gabrielle's mammy), Edel ( Morgan's mammy) and Barbara ( Tony's mammy) and the other volunteer mammies from older classes who came and supervised events. They were all very impressed with the fantastic gardeners in Junior Infants. Thank you also to Eoin Dunford for all his hard work in making and setting up the raised beds. We're really looking forward to the next step of planting some flowers and some vegetables.

Happy Valentine's Day

Aistear Activities

We've been busy with our Café this month. We're taking turns to be chefs, waiters, cashiers and of course customers. We're also busy with our other activities during Aistear time. Have a look below.

Junk Art

Small World Play

Magnet Play

Oscar's Getting Big!!

We've been continuing to watch baby Oscar's development. Look how he can sit up on his own now! Thank you to his mammy Eleanor who brings him to engage with us each week and to Stephanie ( Jacob's mammy) who organised this activity and facilitates the session each week. Oscar is teaching us lots!

Santa Claus Is Coming To School!!!

We had a very special visitor to school on Friday 22nd December. There was great excitement as the children from Junior Infants to 2nd class were gathered in our room to sing some Christmas songs when Santa arrived. We had a chance to ask Santa some very interesting questions and we sang some songs for him including Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer which he particularly liked as he confided in us that Rudolf is his favourite of his reindeer. Since it's such a busy time of the year for Santa we invited him to join us in a brain break and we told him about our Mind Up programme. He became so relaxed he even fell asleep!.

Hampers For Barnardos

In December we spoke about Homeless people and people who don't have as much as we do. To make it more concrete for the children and to help some of these people we contributed to two hampers which we sent to Melinda in Barnardos. She was delighted to find good homes for our hampers and sent her thanks to the Junior Infants and their families. Melinda also distributed the fantastic shoe boxes of donated goods from our school and was really impressed by how thoughtful and generous people were. Thanks to all.

Shape In Maths

Baby Watching

On Friday we started a new activity. Eleanor brought her gorgeous baby, Oscar to visit us. For the next few weeks we're going to watch the two of them interacting and follow the changes in Oscar's development.

Our Sukkah

As part of the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot we've been taking the opportunity to eat our lunch outdoors in our Sukkah ( a tent like structure covered in branches). Anna's Daddy Eoghan did a super job on making it for us.....thanks Eoghan:)

National Tree Day

Thursday the 5th October was National Tree Day and we celebrated by going for our first walk in the woods of the year. We in Kilcolgan Educate Together are incredibly lucky to have our school situated in the middle of woodland so we didn't have to go far to reach the woods. We were very lucky to have 6 mammies with us so we were able to investigate in very small groups. Eleanor got us to close our eyes and listen and take notice of the sounds around us. We also gathered up some signs of Autumn to take back to school with us. Thanks to Eleanor, Edel, Stephanie, Cathy, Barbara and Virginie for accompanying us on our walk.

Hugh was delighted to meet this gorgeous robin during our walk.

Morgan and his Mammy, Edel brought a little Ash tree from their garden and we planted it in our school. It will be lovely to watch it grow and it will remind us of Tree Day 2017.

Our Autumn pictures

European Language Day

We celebrated European Language Day on Tuesday 26th September. We had three guests to read and sing to us in French, Polish and German. It was lovely to hear the sounds of the different languages. At the end of the session we sang some songs in our favourite European language....Gaeilge ( Irish) of course!!!!!

Celeste's Mammy, Virginie sang some action songs in French for us. Celeste helped out by showing us the pictures in the song book.

Jan's Mammy, Agneiszka read a poem in Polish for us.

Jacob's Mammy, Stephanie read two German picture books for us. One of the books was about an owl with a sore head.

The Magical Menagerie......A Puppet Show

On Friday (22nd September) we went to see a super puppet show in the halla near our school. It was a story about lots of animals from the rain forest and it was great fun. There were lots of instruments in the show too.

Scissors Practice

We're going to practice using scissors each Friday. The more we practice the better we'll get. It's really good for developing our fine motor skills and we can make super pictures with the pieces we cut out.

Construction Fun

We've been busy using our construction toys to make fantastic creations.

Writing Patterns

We've been practising our writing patterns....but not just on paper!. Here's some we made on our tables and on the floor. It's a great pattern for drawing castles.

A Turtle In Our Classroom!

Luke (1st class) and Kaelan (6th class) are helping to rescue a turtle which was found near their home. They visited us today to show us the turtle and to tell us some interesting things about him. They also told us some interesting facts about the differences between turtles and tortoises.

Getting To Know Our New Friends

We've been busy in Junior Infants getting to know all our new friends. We played 'Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?' to help us to learn all of our names and we made 'All About Me' boxes at home so we could tell each other about some of our favourite things

All About Me Boxes

Jan loved sharing this photo of his trip to India with his family.

Morgan had his favourite soft toy Wolfie in his box

Erin likes Frozen!

Erin's bunny is lovely and soft.

Junior Infants 2016/17

Happy Easter

Our Easter bonnet parade has by now become a tradition and this year didn't disappoint. It was very clear that a lot of imagination and effort went into the wonderful millinery on view at this year's event on Friday 7th April. Well done to everyone and their supporters!.

Student Led Conferences

On the 29th March we invited our families to our classroom so that we could share our learning with them while in our classroom environment. We showed them some of our work in our folders, read a book, and did a science experiment with magnets amongst other things. We also taught our families some Lámh signs and sang some songs for them. Everyone was really happy to join us on the day and Fionnuala was very proud of us all.

World Down Syndrome Day

We celebrated World Down Syndrome Day on 21st March. Maeve (Ruby's mammy) and Suzanne (Max's mammy) prepared a super presentation and went to every class in the school to tell us about Down Syndrome. It gave us all a fantastic opportunity to learn about Down Syndrome and to ask any questions we had. Thanks Maeve and Suzanne for sharing your time and expertise with us. Thanks also to Deirdre who made our gorgeous banner.

As socks are used by Down Syndrome International as a symbol of the extra chromosome which people with Down Syndrome have we all brought our odd socks in and made a line of them in our school yard. We couldn't believe that it actually snowed on the 21st March.....it makes for a more interesting photo though!!!

Seachtain na Gaeilge

In March we joined in with lots of other children around the country to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge ( Irish week). We took part in lots of activities such as 4th class coming to read to us as Gaeilge, a teacher swap when Fionnuala and Anna Mc swapped over to teach us more Irish and a fabulous fashion show on the 16th March which of course had an Irish theme.

Here's Noah ag léamh as Gaeilge (reading in Irish) to Max.

And here are our some of our amazing models at our fashion show....bhí siad go hiontach agus bhí an spraoi againn.

Science

In science we've been looking at magnets. We went around our class with magnets to see what was or wasn't attracted to them. We also talked about the materials which the magnets were or were not attracted to. We found that the magnets loved metal but not wood.

In the materials section of our science curriculum we looked at the characteristics of some materials which would be suitable or not suitable to make a raincoat from. Following our experiment using gloves made of rubber, plastic, cotton and wool we discovered that it would be best to use rubber or plastic as they were waterproof.

A Visit to the Nursing Home

In our school we think that community links are very important and we also love to go visiting so we went off to sing for the residents in a nearby nursing home. We hired a bus to go there which was great fun. We had a great time with all the people we met there and we think that the residents enjoyed our singing. We sang songs in Irish and English but we think our audience liked 'You Are My Sunshine' the best. Ellie( Ciara's mammy) and Fergus (Ruby's daddy) came along as our helpers. Nora from Germany who was helping out in our classroom for a couple of weeks also joined us. Thank you Ellie, Fergus and Nora.

Happy Valentine's Day

Look how busy we were with scissors, glue and of course LOTS of red paint!!!

Welcome to our Vet's Surgery

As part of our Aistear programme ( learning through play) we set up our own vet's surgery and had a great time looking after the animals of the area.

Here's Maggie making an appointment with Robyn who was our receptionist on the day. She had a lovely phone manner!

Election Day

While the American people were deciding on their new president we spoke about democracy and the concept of one person, one vote. We held our own election on the day of the election in the United States. We got to vote for jigsaw time or an episode of Rhubarb and Custard.

After all the votes were counted Rhubarb and Custard won out by 5 votes!.

Our Brains

Ciara's daddy David came to our class to talk to us about our brains and the amazing jobs it does. He showed us pictures and he let us look at slides with his microscope. David also brought some models of the brain which showed us the different parts of the brain. Thank you to David for sharing his time and knowledge with us and to Ciara for being a super assistant on the day.

Woodland Walk

Xavier's dad Paul brought us on a super walk in the woods near our school. We met up at the walled garden and then headed into the woods. Paul had collected some sample leaves and while in the woods he showed us where to find these common leaves but he also told us great stories and names of some less well known trees. We had a lovely time. Thanks to Paul for taking time out of his busy day to help us with our learning. Xavier was very proud to have his daddy as our guide.

Map Reading

6th class made super maps and brought us on a tour of the school so we could see where everything on their maps was to be found. We really enjoyed our map reading.

European Language Day

We invited our families to share different European languages with us on the 26th September. Thank you to all our guests.

Marisol read a story in Spanish and Ian did a great job of adding sounds to the story.

Irina and Conor shared two of Conor's favourite animal books with us in Catalan.

Iollan's mammy Jill read a leabhar mór as Gaeilge ( a big book in Irish ) for us. Iollan helped her. The book was called 'Ag Siopadóireacht' ( Shopping ).

Liliana's granny, Marian sang a song for us in German. It's a song that she and Liliana like to sing together.

'All About Me' Boxes

We have been busy learning all about our new friends in Junior Infants. We got some help at home to decorate a box and put in some photos and other items which we like and wanted to share. It's been a great way of seeing how big we've become since we were babies and also to show our friends our likes and interests.

Ciara really likes this photo of herself with her big sister Izzy when they were camping.

Scott loves dogs.

Robyn wore this hairband when she was a baby.

This is Julia's favourite soft toy, Fluffy.

Liam loves cars.

Max loves this photo of him with his family.

Here's Maggie with her puppy. Maggie likes animals and showed us a photo of her pet pigs.

Fun With Scissors!

We've been practicing our cutting and sticking skills. First of all we cut straight line strips of paper and glued them to a coloured background to make really cool pictures and the following week we cut out circles, triangles and rectangles to make scarecrows.

Painting Time

We talked about how we are all special and we decided to paint a picture of ourselves.

Junior Infants 2015/2016

Fun in the Walled Garden

We are incredibly lucky with the location of our great new school. Look what's on our doorstep!. Recently we went to visit the beautiful garden near our school. We met Brigid who works hard in and looks after the garden. She explained how we could help her to keep the garden looking lovely and she told us to go and enjoy the garden. This instruction was very easy to follow!. We had a super time there and have been back again on a beautiful day to have our lunch at the picnic benches there.

Time To Vote

In Learn Together we've been looking at voting in the context of our General Election. We voted for a story for home time and we had a choice between two stories, Goodnight Tiptoe and The Pirate Cruncher. We learned that each person could have one vote and while we got to decide which book was our favourite we had no guarantees that our choice would win out. We spoke about our country's general election and how we will pick our new government. Our polling station was in our 'Aistear' shop. A big thank you to Eleanor who made our ballot box and our voting equipment last year when we used it to learn about the importance of having our say during the same sex marriage referendum.

After the votes were cast it was time to count. Mairead set up the count centre on the Bord Buí ( yellow table). She had lots of willing helpers. The Pirate Cruncher came out on top. Some boys and girls were a little disappointed with the result but Gabriel's Pirate Cruncher book was a super story so it all worked out well in the end!. Good luck to all our new TDs on forming a government. We'll be watching them closely!.

Aistear

Our January theme in Aistear is the Doctor's Surgery and we've been busy learning all the language we need to run our surgery and treat our patients.

Lily, Carla and Tilli waiting patiently in our waiting room.

Dr. Lena being assisted by Nurse Amy looks after Finn who has come to our surgery for treatment.

Cathal's mammy, Naomi is a nurse and she kindly came to tell us all about her job. Naomi works with little babies and she showed us the instruments she needs to check the babies' weight and other measurements. Cathal was a fantastic assistant. Thanks Naomi for sharing your time and expertise with us. We really enjoyed your visit.

Gabriel's mammy Eilís is a doctor and she very kindly came to visit us on her day off to tell us all about how she helps people in her job. Eilís also works with babies. She told us all about the importance of not spreading germs by washing our hands and keeping them nice and clean. Eilís brought us all a hat and mask which doctors use when they are in operating theatres....we had great fun pretending to be doctors. Gabriel did a super job of being his mammy's assistant on the day. Well done Gabriel and thank you Eilís.

Freddy and Scruffy got a full work up!!!!

The Fish Tank

Joanne's 6th class has a fish tank on loan from the Galway Aquarium and they kindly allowed us to visit. The children in 6th class introduced us to all the native species fish in the tank. We met Hermie the hermit crab, a starfish, a butterfish, a goby fish and a flat fish. Thanks to Joanne and all in 6th class as we really enjoyed our visit. Those fish are going to be really clever after being with 6th class for a few weeks!

Special Visitors

On the 19th January we had two special visitors to our school. Two members of the Irish army came to present us with a national flag and a copy of the Proclamation. The army are presenting these to all schools to commemorate 1916. Cathal and Murragh (from 1st class) got to take the proclamation from the officers as their dad's cousin read out the proclamation outside the GPO 10 years ago for the 90th anniversary commemoration ceremony.

Carla and Kolja are the two youngest pupils in our school and they were presented with our new flag.

Learn Together

We looked at the Hanukkah and Christmas stories. We made Hanukkah candles and Christmas trees.

Gaeilge

6th class came to read Irish stories to us. We had a great time. Bhí siad go hiontach ag léamh agus bhaineamar an-taitneamh as.

Science

In Science we've been looking at forces. We looked at things which are moved by pushing, pulling or twisting them. We also brought some toys from home to see if we would push, pull or twist them to make them move.

Gabriel brought a crocodile to pull.

Kolja's car moves when he pushes it.

Luke pushed his Jack in the box down into it's box before he started to twist the handle. This made Jack jump up!.

We push our trolleys when we go shopping....but we can also pull them if we get stuck!!

Happy Hallowe'en!

We invited our families to come to our classroom so we could sing our Hallowe'en songs for them and scare them with some Hallowe'en poems. We had a huge audience and we gave them lots of frights!! Here we are before they all arrived.

Maths Week

On the 22nd October we met up with our buddies in 6th class to complete a Maths trail around our school. We did lots of counting and had a great time bringing Maths outside.

Did you notice that it was also dress up day for Hallowe'en?!.

Making Millie's Bread

The day after our visit to the theatre to see 'Bake' Millie's mammy Helena visited us to show us how to bake brown bread. We lined up all the ingredients and measured them out using a cup, a jug, a teaspoon and a dessertspoon. First we put all the dry ingredients in and then added 2 eggs, and buttermilk. We all got a turn to mix the dough with a wooden spoon. Helena brought the dough home to bake and came back at home time with a slice wrapped up for each of us. Millie was a fantastic assistant. Thanks to Helena for sharing her time and expertise with us. we really enjoyed ourselves.

'Bake' at Babaró

On Thursday 15th October we went to the theatre in Galway as part of the Babaró theatre festival. We saw a show called 'Bake' at the Nun's Island theatre and we had a great time. The show was all about a baker who made cakes in a castle bakery. We got a bus to take us to Galway and we also enjoyed the journey there. A big thank you to Gemma, Marisol and Esther who came along with us to help out on the day.

Signs of Autumn

We joined our buddies in 5th and 6th class to go on an Autumn Walk. We looked for and talked about signs of Autumn. It was lovely to meet up with 6th class again.

Getting To Know Our New School

Our friends in 6th class made fantastic maps of our school. They collected us on our second week in school and gave us a tour of the school. It was a super activity and as well as meeting our new friends in 6th class we got to read their maps and see where all the other classes in our school are and what the middle and top yards look like. They were really friendly and took great care of us as we explored our new school. Thanks to Joanne and all the boys and girls in 6th class.

We also went to check out where Anna and Noreen work on the top floor. They were delighted to see us!.

We're Very Arty!

We've been cutting and sticking.

.......and painting ourselves.

We classified leaves and then made some leaf rubbings. We looked at oak, sycamore and horse-chestnut leaves and we talked about the fruits of these trees too.

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Our new sound was 'd' so we invited Lochlan from 6th class to play his drum for us....what a super sound he made!.

'All About Me' Boxes

We put some of our favourite things in a box and covered our boxes in colourful paper and glittery bits. We took turns to open our boxes and show everyone the treasures we had chosen. We got to learn lots of new things about our friends from our 'All About Me' Boxes. Our boxes were full of history!.