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Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts

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, 17 October 2013

Play time in Ms Murray's Junior Infants

The Doctor's Surgery

Playtime is so important in our class and it is our favourite time of the day!
During the year we will be having lots of exciting role play themes, and pretending to be lots of different people. Keep an eye on the blog to see what we have been doing during our play.

When we were learning about different parts of our bodies such as our arms and legs
we had a doctor's surgery set up in our classroom. We learnt rhymes such as 'Miss Polly had a Dolly', watched videos on Youtube about trips to the doctor, and read books such as 'Next Please'.
When we were playing in the doctor's surgery we had to take turns being the doctor and being the patients.
Check out our video to see us hard at work!
 

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Seachtain na Gaeilge Concert

This year, for Seachtain na Gaeilge, we had a school concert in the PE hall.  Everyone spent a few weeks preparing their Irish performance.  There was singing, poetry, dancing and drama.  Some classes had put lots of work into lovely costumes as well.

It was great to see everyone putting on their best show.   Here are some of the photos from our concert:

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Junior Infant Nativity Play

We had great fun this year doing our first school Nativity play.  Our play was called the Sleepless Night.  It was about a poor innkeeper who was woken up by all the different visitors who came to visit the baby Jesus when he was born in Bethelehem.
Here are some photos of us on the stage.