Maths in Junior Infants - Term 2

We have been learning loads of new Maths this year.  In Junior Infants we try to keep our Maths as fun as active as possible.  We are counting all the time, and we count everything.  We sing loads of number rhymes and songs to help us learn our numbers.

We are always learning new maths games and have lots of interesting and colourful equipment to help us learn new things.

Here we are doing a shape experiment.  We wanted to learn which 3-D objects will roll and with will not roll down the hill.  We found out that the shapes with the curved sides will roll down the hill, but the shapes with the flat sides will not.  We also know that toys with wheels will roll down the hill, because the wheels have curved sides.

JI Maths, rolling

We also invited the parents in to a Presentation about how maths and number are taught in Junior Infants, and how they can help their children to learn at home.  A copy of the presentation can be downloaded by clicking on the picture.

Chinese New Year

In Ravenswell we are working towards our Yellow Diversity Flag, and as part of this, we are celebrating the wide variety of cultures in our school and our local community.

In February we all celebrated Chinese New Year.  It was a very exciting two weeks around the school.  All our pupils learned lots of information about the country of China, the Chinese people and the Chinese culture.  In particular, we learned about the history and the traditions surrounding the Chinese New Year festival.

Our school was filled with displays of Chinese arts and crafts and our writing about China.  We were delighted with how it turned out.  Every class contributed some of their art work to make a wonderful Chinese New Year display in the reception area.  We hope you have enjoyed looking at our work. Here are some pictures of the displays that were up around the school.

Chinese New Year 2015

We were also very lucky to have a visit from Master Yang Dong.  He came to the school to give us a display of T'ai Chi and Kung Fu.  All the children from Junior Infants to Second Class went down to the hall for the demonstration.  We had such fun.  His demonstration was amazing, but the best part was when he invited everyone to join in.  He showed us some kung fu positions and we all tried to copy him.  It was brilliant.  Here are some of the photos of us doing our kung fu moves.

Kung Fu Display, 2015

Reading in Junior Infants

We are always learning new words in Junior Infants.  We play word games, we practice our word walls and we read our books every day.  

Here we are going on a word hunt around the classroom with our student teacher Ms Lawless.   

Sometimes we go around the school looking for words.  
Maybe when we go out with our mummies and daddies we could start looking for words around the town. 

Every morning we are in our literacy groups.  We are very lucky to have some mummies in to help us with our reading and writing.  They play games with us, they help us to write in our books, and they read our books with us. It makes our groups so much fun to have parents in to help us. 

Here are some pictures of us working in our Literacy groups.  It would be great to have lots more parents in to help us. 

JI Parent's reading, 2015

Gymnastics in Junior Infants

Ms McHale's Class have been learning how to do Gymnastics in PE.

We are learning tumbles, balancing, crawling, travelling using our hands and our feet.   It's tough going but we're getting better and better. 

JI Gymnastics 2015

New Teacher for a New Term

Such a busy time in Junior Infants this term.  

In Room 6 we said goodbye to our old teacher Ms Piggott:

And welcome to our new teacher Ms McHale.  We hope we're going to have a very fun year in Junior Infants. 

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!