February 2015

Aistear

During February our theme for Aistear was food.

Week 1

Theme: Garden Center / Our Spring Gardens

Small World: Create a garden center and a spring garden using small world materials

Home Corner: Act out the story of Jack and the Beanstalk

Reading/Writing: Plan and design your own garden

Art: Using potatoes to print a daffodil/ crepe paper to create a bluebell & snowdrop

Week 2

Theme: Spring and the Farm

Small World : Build a spring farm with spring animals & their young

Home Corner: Acting the story of farmer duck / working on the big book – inferring/summarising

Reading/Writing: Sequenced the story of Farmer Duck

Art: Constructed a split pin farm animal/ constructing the hen life cycle/ learning to draw a sheep/ cow

Week 4

Theme: The Fisherman

Home Corner : Acting out the story of the loaves and the fish. / Role playing being different types of fish and guessing which fish it is/Discussing the names of the seas/oceans around the world/learning how to draw a  fish/ role playing the life as a fisherman

Small World: Creating the sea and all the different types of fish that we can get from it / and the life of a fisherman  - tools that a fisherman uses

Art: Creating a montage of the loaves and the fish/ construct a fish in a bowl

Reading/Writing: Sequencing the story of the loaves and fish. Drawing & Labeling different types of fish.

Doodle for Google

We are very proud of Isabel Riedle and Lucy Mullally who have succeeded on being selected for the semi-final in the top 300 entrants at the junior & senior infant level. A huge congratulations

Bokwa

We have now finished our Bokwa class- we would like to say a big thank to you Lianne for a wonderful class – the children have loved the class.

January 2015

January 2015

Aistear

During January our theme for Aistear was food.

Week 1

Theme: Vegetable Garden

Small World: Built a vegetable garden using small world materials

Home Corner: Acted out the story of the enormous turnip

Reading/Writing: Sequenced the growing process of a carrot and a potato

Art: Using crepe paper – constructed our own vegetables for our class veg garden

Week 2

Theme: Farmer & Food

Small World : Built a dairy farm and a tillage farm using small world materials

Home Corner: Acted out the story of the little red hen

Reading/Writing: Sequenced the story of milk and bread

Art: Constructed masks and split pin characters of the story of the little red hen

Week 3

Theme: The Restaurant

Small World : Built a restaurant and kitchen using small world materials

Home Corner: Role play of a restaurant

Reading/Writing: Sequenced going to a restaurant / writing our own menus

Art: Baked scones, cookies and constructed a health plate of food

Week 4

Theme: The Supermarket

Small World : Built a supermarket and kitchen using small world materials

Home Corner: Role play of a supermarket

Reading/Writing: Wrote the poem pat a cake/ Wrote a shopping list

Art: Constructed a shopping basket, coin rubbings, pasta necklace

Doodle for Google

We had great fun making our doodle for googles where the theme was “my perfect day”- everyone did a great job.

Liam McCarthy Cup

We were delighted to welcome the Liam McCarthy Cup to our classroom. The children got to hold the cup (although it was very heavy!) and have their photograph taken with it.

Write a Book

The senior infants are busy writing their “write a books” to enter the competition in February. Our theme is “When I grow up…”

Bokwa

We started our bokwa movement class – everyone is  having great fun learning the formations of different letters.

GAA

The children have had great fun learning all about GAA football. A big thank you James for teaching us.