Citywest & Saggart

Community National School

Senior Infants Room 6: Fit4Skool

Room 6 are very lucky to be taking part in Fit4Skool and it is great to see everyone has registered on the website. This will hopefully improve our health and fitness and encourage the boys and girls to try a wider range of healthy foods. Every week a different sports coach is selected from the class. Today an unexpected lunch room inspection took place by our sports coach. This meant that children were awarded 1 point for bringing in a healthy lunch. Fit4Skool also picks one healthy vegetable and fruit every fortnight, allowing each child to gain extra points this week if they bring in lettuce and an apple as part of their lunch....

Junior Infants Room 2: How to Wash Your Hands

For the rest of the term, the children in room in will be learning about procedural writing. In oral language lessons, the children will also be practising how to give oral instructions to another. This week, the children have been practising procedural language by using words such as first, next, then, and last. The children had great fun describing how to wash their hands, and drawing some instructions that another person could use to wash their hands in the same way. Have a look at some of their...

Junior Infants Room 3: Spatial Awareness

The boys and girls of Room 3 are working on developing their spatial awareness at the moment.  They have been playing a game called Turtle Pond.  In this game they need to get the turtle to his pond by giving him directions: forwards, backwards, turn left, turn right.  They also need to count how many steps he should to take. To make it even more difficult, sometimes there are obstacles like trees and boulders that the turtle needs to walk around.  If you would like to practice at home you can click here....

Junior Infants Room 3: Making Toast

This term Junior Infants are learning how to give instructions to others and how to write instructions.  The boys and girls of Room 3 discovered recently that SuperTed and Smoulder the Dragon don’t know how to make toast! They love the smell and wanted to taste it so we decided to give them instructions.  First we broke it down into steps, making sure to tell them what to do first, then and finally.   When we finished giving instructions (and demonstrating and tasting!), the boys and girls wrote and drew the instructions in sequence so that SuperTed and Smoulder would not forget and...