PE in Junior Infants

We have started PE lessons! This month we are learning lots of new skills like balancing and throwing and catching. We are using beanbags to practise these skills.

Caterpillar Update in Junior Infants

Junior Infants have been very busy learning all about minibeasts.

We had a very special delivery from the postman. It was a brown box that said 'Urgent: Open Immediately!'. In the box we found.... caterpillars!

     






The caterpillars were very small when we first got them. They had to eat the special food in their jar. They ate lots of food every day until they were big and fat!
        


Every morning we would look at our caterpillars and see how big they were growing. We wrote sentences about our observations in our writing copy.



We noticed that the caterpillars were crawling to the top of the jar. They were hanging down. One morning we came in to our classroom and saw that one had made a cocoon!

Over the next few days all of the five caterpillars made cocoons. They are now hiding in their cocoons until they are ready to change into beautiful butterflies!

Maths in Junior Infants

Since starting school in September, Junior Infants have been working very hard in Maths!

We do lots of fun activities, sometimes we don't even know we're learning we're having so much fun!

In Maths this term we have been learning about:

-sorting

-matching

-shapes

-numbers 1,2, 3

-number rhymes

-patterns

That's a lot of work for our first few months in school!

To show our mums and dads, grannies, granddads and everyone else all our hard work we've made a video to show some of the activities we do during Maths every day.

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!

 

Halloween in Junior Infants!

We had a spooky Halloween week in Junior Infants.

We carved a pumpkin.

We made spooky Halloween patterns.

We learnt Halloween rhymes such as '10 Little Monsters, 5 Little Pumpkins and 'Pumpkins, Witches and Ghosts'.

We read 'Room on the Broom', a story all about a witch!

We did lots of Halloween activities in our play time: we made scary monster masks, we made monsters out of play dough, and we turned our play area in to a spooky monster shop!

On the last day we had a Halloween party, and it was also Jay Jay's birthday so we had some chocolate cake!

We also did some other spooky Halloween activities, check them out in our video!

 

Pumpkin Fun in Junior Infants!

 

We had lots of fun carving our pumpkin for Halloween!

Autumn in Junior Infants

In October we learnt all about Autumn.

We went on an Autumn scavenger hunt to see if we could find some signs of Autumn.

We saw conkers on the ground, helicopter seeds, acorns, leaves on the ground and we even saw a squirrel!

We collected signs of Autumn and put them on our Autumn table in our classroom.

We learnt Autumn songs like 'Falling Leaves' and read Autumn stories like 'Leafy the Leaf that wouldn't leave'.

We did lots of play activities based on Autumn. Have a look at our video to see what we did.



The Little Red Hen

In October Ms Murray's class read the story of the Little Red Hen. We then did lots of play activities based on the story of the Little Red Hen and her friends on the farm.

We used lots of materials such as feathers and wool to make masks of the characters.

We used our sensory boxes and farm animals to make the farm.

We used play dough to make lots of different types of breads and cakes for the bakery.

We then turned our role play corner in to a bakery!

Teacher got us special aprons and hats from the bakers in Superquinn.

Have a look at our video to see us in action!