A Special Visitor!

On Thursday we welcomed a special visitor to the school - Ms McHale's beautiful baby girl, Amelie! All the teachers were very excited to meet Amelie and it was great to see Ms McHale again, too. Amelie is now 3 and a half weeks old and is a happy and content little baby. We can't wait to meet her again. Congratulations Ms McHale! 

A visit from Dogs Trust

We had a lovely visit to school from the gorgeous boxer Jake and his owner Fiona. They taught us all about dogs and now we are dog experts. 'Dogs Trust us'. What a brilliant day we had!

Easter in Junior Infants

We have been working so hard in Junior Infants so to celebrate Easter we did lots of lovely things.

First, we  made special Easter baskets.

Then we went to the garden to have an Easter Egg hunt! Someone had hidden lots of eggs and Easter treats all around the school garden. We had to search in the flowerbeds and under pots to find them!

 

We also did some baking! We made chocolate nests for our fluffy yellow chicks to sit in.

 

We had so much fun!

The Farm

The three Junior Infants were busy learning all about the farm.

We read stories about the farm such as Farmer Duck and The Pig in the Pond.

We learnt about the different animals that live on a farm, like pigs, cows, chickens and sheep!

We even learnt that these animals give us food we eat, like sausages, eggs, and milk!

We had exciting play time with all different farm activities: we painted farm animals, we used animals and sensory boxes to make the farm, we used márla to make farm animals and vegetables and our role play areas turned in to 'Farm Shops!'.

 

We also did lots of writing about the farm. Have a look at our lovely 'farm  books' hanging up outside our classrooms.

Another busy month in Junior Infants!

 

World Book Day in Junior Infants

A late post to celebrate World Book Day!

 

We had a fantastic week in Junior Infants celebrating books and our favourite characters. We read lots of new stories such as Dr. Seuss 'The Cat in the Hat'!

The 5th and 6th class girls came down to read us lovely stories. It was very exciting listening to the big girls reading.

On Friday something strange happened in Ravenswell. There were no children in school, but we had lots of book characters! We had princesses, Pippi Longstocking, Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio!

Have a look at the video to see all the fun things we got up to! 

 

Exciting news in Junior Infants!

The three Junior Infant classes got a special delivery in the post yesterday.

 

 

 

We had a package with three brown boxes inside that said 'Urgent! Open Immediately!'.

 

Inside the boxes we found........ CATERPILLARS!

 

We're going to keep the caterpillars and watch as they make their cocoons and then hatch into beautiful butterflies!

 

 

 

 

Keep an eye on the blog to see how they're growing and come in and see them in our classrooms!