Aistear
During January, we have been very busy with Aistear. This
month, we were learning about food and the planting of vegetables. We planted
our own seeds in little pots in the classroom and we watered them daily. After
a couple of weeks they started to grow. We even made our own clay pots. We
integrated some famous childhood stories for this month’s theme “Jack in the
Beanstalk” and “The Little Red Hen”. The children thoroughly enjoyed acting out
these stories in their home corner over the weeks. Then we went on to design
and set up our own class Restaurant which we named “The Polka Dot Restaurant”.
This was such an enjoyable & educational experience for the children. They
designed place mats, made healthy food plates, composed menus and learned how
to set a table. Then we brought all this knowledge together and the children
acted out a trip to the Restaurant. Each child got the opportunity to serve and
receive the food. It was most definitely the highlight of last week!
Martial Arts
We are very excited in the junior room to have started our
martial arts class with Paul Healy. All of the children are enjoying the
experience and trying their best in the classes. We have 2 classes left in
February.
Heineken Cup
We had a special visitor to our classroom last week. The
children were given the opportunity to hold and take a picture with the
Heineken Cup.
Book Fair
The book fair is currently in our school. The junior room
were very lucky as they got a sneak preview of some of the fantastic books.
There were lots of giggles this week as the children listened to the stories
from the Book Fair. We did some follow up activities in the classroom where the
children designed their own caterpillar book marks and designed their own book
covers.
