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.