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 28, 2015 | Senior Infants – Ms O’Sullivan
We have been celebrating Intercultural Week in Citywest & Saggart CNS this week. Each student researched a country of their choice and presented this to the whole class. We have been learning about different languages, currency and types of food....
May 20, 2015 | Senior Infants – Mr Kilkenny
We have started learning how to subtract in Room 4 in the last few weeks. The children are using pegs to help them take away. We are really enjoying this activity. In Room 4 we can now add numbers up to 10 and take away numbers within...
May 19, 2015 | First Class – Mr Kinsella
First Class were so lucky to have Ms Doyle visit us last week and tell us all about India. We used a KWL chart to find out about India. We interviewed a parent from our school community, a pupil from Junior Infants and Ms. Doyle. Ms Doyle is Dylan’s aunt! Ms Doyle went all around the world in 80 days and she spent a lot of her time in India. India was her favourite country! Ms Doyle helped us to find out the answers to our questions we had about India and she also brought it lots of interesting artefacts from India. She helped us break any stereotypes we may have had about India and even showed us all how to wear a sari. Ms Doyle told us that both women and men wear saris. Men wear saris in the dessert to help protect their eyes from the sand. Ms Doyle had the most interesting photos from her travels. We learned about some charities that Ms Doyle worked tirelessly with. We thank Ms Doyle for her community efforts at home and spending time with us. First class really enjoyed having Ms Doyle as their teacher for the visit. Ms Doyle used to work as a teacher in England! For photos of Ms Doyle’s visit please click...
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...
