Jun 12, 2015 | Junior Infants – Ms Whyte
The children in room 2 have been using The Little Red Hen as a focus for their learning in lots of different areas. In history the children have been developing their understanding of time and chronology by sequencing pictures from the story. More recently, the children acted out the story for each other. One child narrated the story, whilst others took on roles as characters such as the hen, the cat, and a duck. This is supporting their learning in areas such as oral language, reading, and...
Jun 12, 2015 | Junior Infants – Ms Whyte
Room 2 had a marvellous time walking from school to the Conference Centre in Citywest on Monday. This was just one way the children were given the opportunity to be active this...
Jun 3, 2015 | Junior Infants – Ms Whyte
Story takes up a large portion of the history curriculum for junior infants. The children are provided with opportunities to improve their understanding of time and chronology by reading, retelling and ordering parts of stories. Over the last month, the children in room 2 have been reading The Little Red Hen. They have engaged with the book so many times, that they are now able to sequence parts of the story. This week, they will be doing this as one of their play stations during aistear. Each child is given a page of mixed up pictures from the story. The children must colour, cut, and stick the pictures back down in the correct order on long strips of purple paper. Have a look at this in action...
May 28, 2015 | Junior Infants – Ms Whyte
The children in room 2 continue to develop their writing skills through explicit handwriting and writing lessons, as well as through play. They are beginning to spell words by themselves to the best of their ability. This is happening a lot as the children record orders in the CAFÉ. Today, somebody ordered pizza and a...
May 28, 2015 | Junior Infants – Ms Whyte
This month, the children in room 2 have been making marvellous constructions using the jaggo blocks. Houses, hotels, schools, and even entire cities are being built in our classroom. Building activities such as these really help the children develop their spatial awareness, as well as positive attitudes towards team work. Have a look at some of their...
May 18, 2015 | Junior Infants – Ms Whyte
This week, the children in room 2 have started writing in copy books. On the first page, they practised writing their own names and drew detailed pictures of themselves! Over the next few weeks, the children will continue writing short sentences and drawing pictures. It’s just amazing to see them writing so independently now, when at the beginning of the year they were just learning how to channel and trace each of the...
