Jan 27, 2016 | First Class - Mr Kinsella
Room 9 had some very special visitors to the classroom today! There were some parents of the boys and girls in first class – Mara, Allison, Adele and Monika. They played some fun maths games with us – Goldilocks Snakes and Ladders, Close the Box, Tell the Time, Score the Goal and Gone Shopping! It was such fun having these visitors to the classroom and we hope to have some more parents come into us over the next few weeks. Thank you! For more photos please click...
Jan 22, 2016 | News, Senior Infants - Ms Long
We have been learning all about the life cycle of a frog. We learned about frog spawn, tadpoles, froglets and adult frogs. Did you know frogs have ears behind their eyes? We learned that frogs hibernate during winter. We wrote our own book with frog facts inside. During art we have being making lighter and darker shades, so we painted a frog by mixing black with green for a dark green and white with green for a light green. Take a look at our pictures...
Jan 21, 2016 | Senior Infants - Ms Harney
We have been learning about Space and the Solar System. During our playtime we get the chance to be astronauts and fly a rocket to different planets. We can also play aliens and the astronauts who landed on our planet have been asking us lots of interesting questions about life on our planet. We also learnt about the first man who walked on the moon. Ask us to tell you about the moon and the names of the men who flew the Apollo 11 to the moon. We have had great fun exploring the Solar System in our rocket. Please click here to see some more...
Jan 21, 2016 | Senior Infants - Ms McMackin
Senior Infants have been studying the narrative genre in both our oral language lessons and in our writing. We have been focusing on characters and the setting of stories. Using the website mystorybook.com, we created our own online storybook! Our characters included Tom and Isabelle and they visited a number of different settings. Click here to see our first online storybook! Why not try it yourself? ...
Jan 15, 2016 | Junior Infants - Ms Larkin
Room 2 has been taken over by the smartest little giants who have been very busy practicing and writing their new numbers and sounds this week. They have been reading the brilliant story of ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’, learning all about the characters in it, and talking about how kind the giant was to his friends. They made masks to act out the story with, worked with their elbow buddies to build and find their way around the giant’s town, going backwards, forwards, over, under and around the bridges and rivers, and even made themselves into smart little giants using lovely materials Vinny left for them as a surprise- they may be short giants but they have very long legs! They have also been learning all about clothes and the weather this week, made their own weather wheels, and learnt a new ryhme about a little boy who was so tired he got all of his clothes mixed up before going to bed! Well done Room 2, what a smart little bunch of giants you are! For more photos of these smart little giants at work see...
Jan 9, 2016 | Junior Infants - Ms Larkin
Room 2 have been doing wonderful work over the Winter season! They made some fantastic charts recording their favourite community helpers, and figured out that most people in the class wanted to be a scientist or a doctor, and less people wanted to be vets, dentists, or a police man or lady. They have also been exploring length, worked together to order lots of objects from shortest to longest, and made a class height chart to see who was tallest and who was shortest. They practiced lots of songs and rhymes for their Winter Concert and really enjoyed learning their Snowflake song and penguin dance! Room 2 have been caring for their hyacinths this Winter by giving them all the things living things need to grow– air to breath, light, water to drink, and food and a home (soil) to grow in- their plants are getting very tall now! They had great fun exploring touch as one of their five senses, read “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”, and did a touch-test with their elbow buddy who blind-folded them and guided their hand into different pots of soft, dry grass, cool river water, squishy mud, cold, hard ice-cubes, and soft, warm fur! They had great words to describe what they felt! Which do you think would feel nicest? Well done Room 2, Ms. Larkin and Vinny think you are a Winter Wonder Class 🙂 For more photos of them at work this Winter see...
