Friday, 31 January 2014

Houses and Homes in Junior Infants

It has been another busy month in Junior Infants!
We were delighted to come back to school after the Christmas holidays and we got straight back to work!
In January we have been learning all about houses and homes.
We read stories like 'A Squash and a Squeeze' and 'The Three Little Pigs'.
 



We are getting very good at sequencing, and we were able to sequence the story of 'The Three Little Pigs'.
 
 






In Art we painted beautiful pictures of our houses and we decorated the houses of the three pigs. In Music we learned new songs like 'Gotta Build a House'.
 
Our play time was all about houses and homes too! In Ms Murray's class our role play area was transformed from the jungle  in to an Estate Agent's office. Teacher went to a real estate agent's office in Bray and got lots of magazines and pictures of houses for us. We took turns pretending to be the customer looking to buy a house, and being the estate agent helping the customers.
 
We did a lot of construction play this month. We had a sand box that we pretended was a construction site with tools and trucks. We had to wear hard hats! We used Lego, Stikle Brick, blocks and Mobilo to plan and build our houses.
 
A big thank you to everyone for a FANTASTIC 'Art at Home Project' this month! The theme was 'Box Town' and look at the amazing houses and buildings that the children made at home. Well done everyone!
 
Thank you also to the parents for attending our Parent Workshops this month, which were based on 'Play'. We wanted to show the parents all the work we do in Junior Infants, even if the children think they've just been 'playing all day'!
 
  Have a look at our video to see what we have been up to this month!
 

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Animals, Animals, Animals!

In November Junior Infants were learning all about ANIMALS!
 
First we learnt about animals from HOT places like the jungle.
We read stories like 'Dear Zoo' and 'Monkey Puzzle'.
We learnt new rhymes about jungle animals like 'Walking in the Jungle' and 'We're going to the zoo'.
We learnt lots of facts about jungle animals and made books about animals.
Our playtime was all about animals!
Our roleplay area was transformed in to a jungle vet.
We used blocks and Lego to make special houses for our animals.
We painted pictures of animals in the jungle.
Have a look at our video to see all the nice things we did!