Pancake Fun!

 

Junior Infants celebrated Shrove Tuesday by eating some yummy pancakes. We even had some with chocolate spread as a special treat!

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!

 

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!

 

Electric Ireland Visit Junior Infants

Junior Infants are having a very lucky year.  Electric Ireland has donated high-visibility jackets to the school and Junior Infants were the lucky recipients.  All the children were given a jacket that they can wear when they are walking to school or walking home.  Wearing their bright jackets will keep them safe on the dark winter evenings.  All the cars will be able to see them clearly.


Electric Ireland

Here is a video of our fun morning with Electric Ireland.  There was a photographer there to take our photos and we might even appear in the news paper.  It was a great morning and we wore our jackets all day.

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.