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.

Junior Infants are busy learning about all the animals in the zoo.





We're reading a book called 'Dear Zoo'.
We really like this story and have been thinking about the kind of pets we would like the zoo to send us.







Did you know that Dublin Zoo has webcams? We've been going on to their website to look at the different animals. We really want to see the elephants but so far they've stayed hidden from us.





Yesterday we made binoculars and today we used them when we went on our safari. We all got on the make believe bus and we drove around searching for animals. We found loads - giraffes, zebras, lions, elephants, wildebeests!

Let's get the Yellow Flag for Ravenswell!

We are delighted to announce that Ravenswell is one of 15 schools in Ireland taking part in the Yellow Flag Programme 2014-2015.

 

What is the Yellow Flag Programme?

The Yellow Flag is a year long programme that celebrates diversity and different cultures.

Over the year we will be working through the 8 Steps of the programme to further develop our welcoming and diverse school. 

 

The 8 Steps of the programme are:

 

 

1. Intercultural and Anti-Racism Training for Staff and Management
   2. Going beyond the School’s Walls: Engaging with the Community
   3. Establishing a Diversity Committee
   4. Conducting an Intercultural Review
   5. Formulating an Action Plan for a Diverse School
   6. Monitoring and Evaluation and Information Dissemination-
   7. Curriculum work-
   8. Production of a Diversity Code and Anti Racist Policy for the school

We are currently on Step 4-The Intercultural Review. Children from 2nd-6th as well as every parent in the school received a questionnaire- thank you for completing these! :)

Keep an eye on the class blogs as well as the Yellow Flag Noticeboard (outside Room 5) for the results of the questionnaires. These will help us in our next step- creating an action plan for a diverse school.

It is sure to be an exciting year as we work towards achieving our Yellow Flag- there will fun events and opportunities for parents to get involved as we celebrate our multicultural school.

 

 

 

Fun Club Monster Art

We have been making scary monsters in Fun Club on Tuesday afternoons.

Danse Macabre

We just listened to a creepy piece of music. It is called Danse Macabre. We drew creepy pictures as we listened to it!

Autumn Nature Walk in Junior Infants

We went on an Autumn Nature Walk on Friday. We were looking for signs of autumn around the school grounds and we found loads! We saw leaves of all different colours (red, yellow, brown...), blackberries  (although some weren't ripe and were still red) and conkers that had fallen on the ground from a big horse chestnut tree. Some of the conkers were still in their prickly shells. We also walked through the fallen leaves on the ground and listened carefully to the crunchy sound they made when we stood on them.

 

 

 

 

 

The Bakery

Our theme in Junior Infants for the start of October is the Bakery. Our home corner has been turned into a bakery and we've been busy buying and selling baked goods.

 

We've also been using salt dough to make pretend cakes, cupcakes and other baked goods. We really enjoy mixing all the ingredients together in the bowl and getting our hands all sticky and dirty when we play with the dough.