Juniors & Seniors

Welcome to Juniors & Seniors/ Naíonáin

Class Teacher: Mrs Elliott

This fortnight we have been learning more about healthy food. We drew healthy lunchboxes and are recording the fruit and veg we bring into school for Food Dudes. We continued playing in the cafe and drew and painted cakes in art. In Maths we have been learning about it 2D shapes and 3D shapes. We have been doing lots of sorting, building and tracing. In Gaeilge we have been learning about Bréagáin, Caitheamh Aimsire agus na dathanna. We are looking forward to Christmas and have started practicing Carols for the Carol Service. We are very excited about the Christmas Fair.

Our theme for the past fortnight has been Food. We have had great fun taking part in Food Dudes: tasting fruit and vegetables, earning prizes and watching funny episodes. In Gaeilge we have been learning about ‘bia’ and are able to say ‘is maith liom…’ and ‘ní maith liom…’ We have been reading recipes and working together to write recipes for Jam Sandwiches and Funny Face Biscuits. In Art we made donuts. We have been playing ‘Cafe’ in the Imagination Station. We’ve also had great fun with the Skip Around the World challenge. We had a great time looking at the Book Fair with our partners from Fifth and Sixth Class.

Infants have been busy taking part in Food Dudes and the Skip Around the World Challenge.

🎃Halloween Fun🎃

Infants Maths Week activities:

* Teddy Tower Challenge

* Story & Art: 10 Dots

* Maths Equipment Free Play with 3rd and 4th Class

* Online Maths Quiz

* Board Game Play Session

Our theme for the past fortnight has been ‘Autumn’. We learned all about ‘an Fómhar’ as Gaeilge and sang a rhyme called ‘Duilleoga Deasa Deasa’.

We found lots of autumn objects in the playground and at our homes: leaves, chestnuts, acorns, helicopters and twigs. We used them for counting in maths and to make collages for art. Fifth and sixth class helped us to find leaves in the playground and we used them for printing.

In Maths we have been looking at number. We used tens frames, beads, teddies and counters to count with. We played games with dice and we used the number balance.

Our Imagination Station was ‘The Puppet Show’ and we had great fun coming up with shows using our class puppets. We sold tickets, showed people to their seats and were the audience.

In English we continued to learn our phonics songs and rhymes. We practiced Recounts by talking about our Imagination Station and recording our play using the headings when, who, where and what.

We talked lot about Kindness, practiced being kind to one another, designed kindness posters and a petal for the school Bí Cineálta display. We learned actions to The Kindness Song and helped to teach them to the rest of the school in assembly.

It was lovely to welcome some new faces into the Junior and Senior Infant classroom this month. Everyone has settled in really well and is working so hard!

Our theme for September was Our School. We learned all about the adults who help us in our school, we learned everyone’s names and we even interviewed Carol, our secretary. Our Imagination Station was ‘The School Office’ and we all took turns pretending to be the secretary. We went on a tour of the school and visited all of the other classes. We drew pictures of our school, designed our ideal school and built model schools out of LEGO bricks. We listed things that we can do to look after our classroom, our school, our playground and our friends.

Our nursery rhymes this month were ‘Jack and Jill’ and ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’. We enjoyed using lots of different voices to say our rhymes and used pictures and words to recount them.

In maths we leaned about measures. We used bricks, lollipop sticks and links to measure the length of objects in our classroom. We used balances to compare and order objects by weight. We examined a variety of containers and compared and ordered their capacity. We also practiced matching and sorting objects by colour, shape, size and pattern.

In Gaeilge we used our class puppets to practice saying ‘Dia duit’, ‘Cé tusa?’ ‘Conas atá tú?’ agus ‘slán’. We learned lots of new songs and rhymes and played games like ‘Deir ó Ghrádaigh’.

We have started music with Carrie from Music Generation. We are learning to play the xylophone this month.

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