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.
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