Citywest & Saggart

Community National School

Junior Infants Room 2: Pricing Items

          Over the last few weeks, we have been learning about money. We have been pricing all the things that people can buy in the pet shop and in the garage. Here is one child’s price list for the garage. Through this activity, the children are practising independent writing, maths skills, and improving their oral language. See if you can figure out how much everything...

Senior Infants Room 5: History

Today we were talking about our baby photographs. We talked about the different things we could not do when we were babies. We have learnt so much since those photographs were taken. We had to talk to our elbow buddy about the baby in the photograph and then we had to guess who the baby was! We loved comparing the baby photographs and trying to guess who the baby was. Look out for the baby photographs outside our classroom – coming soon! Please click here  to see some more photographs of our history lesson....

First Class Room 7: RUDE in Maths!

In first class we have started to learn how to solve maths storys and worded problems. Sometimes we can’t see the maths in the maths story! To help us make a number sentence from a number story we have to be RUDE! Below is our very first maths story that we successfully solved and a brief description of our RUDE problem solving strategy! There are three black rabbits.There are four white rabbits. How many rabbits are there...

Senior Infants Room 4: Paintings of our local area

This week room 4 have been learning about the local areas of Citywest & Saggart CNS. The children enjoyed telling me about all the facilities near their homes and we learned that there is so much to do in this area. We looked at photographs of the area and had fun recognising all the familiar places. The children then painted a picture of something in the local area. Below we can see some of our class hard at...