Spring fun in the School Garden

We did lots of work in our school garden in Spring. We had to tidy up our box and get it ready for planting! We pulled out the weeds and put in fresh soil. Then we planted our beans. We will have to check our plants to see how they are growing.

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!

 

Picnic in the Garden

Life Cycle of the Frog

Junior and Senior Infants are learning about the Life Cycle of the frog.  Here are some activities to practice this at home.

• Frog Life Cycle Game

Frog Life Cycle Colouring Pages

• Frog Life Cycle Colouring Page
• Frog Life Cycle Sequencing Cards
• My Itsy Bitsy Frog Book
• Frog Life Cycle: Cutting and Matching Activity
• Frog Life Cycle: Match the picture and information

We're learning all about the farm.

Junior Infants are learning all about life on the farm this month.  For the last two weeks we have been learning about all the animals that live on the farm.

We have made some farm animal crafts which we have displayed around our corridor and our classrooms.

We are learning to describe all the different farm animals, and their baby animals.

Why don't you talk to your child at home about life on the farm and the animals they will see there.  Maybe you could also bring your child to visit a real farm.  Glenroe Farm is just down the road.  You can visit their website here: http://www.glenroefarm.com/


Here are some videos you can watch at home:

• Farm Animal Sounds for Children
• Learn all about the Farm Animals (Turtle Diary)
• Fun Farm Animal Facts for Children
• A Visit to the Farm

Here are some Animal Songs to sing together:

• Old MacDonald had a Farm
• The Animal Sounds Song
• Mary had a Little Lamb

Have fun learning all about the farm!!

Spring Time Hunt

It's Spring Time again and Ms McHale's class went out to explore the school grounds and to hunt for signs of springtime appearing around the school.

The children were given partners and each pair had their own binoculars to help them to find things, and a clipboard with a special Spring time Checklist, so they could record everything they saw on their walk.


We had a great time looking for buds and leaves on the plants and trees.  Hunting for spring flowers like daffodils and crocuses.  And we were very quiet when we were listening to the birds singing their spring time songs. 

Here are some photos we took of our walk and some of the things we found on our walk.