Hello October! Can you believe our little Junior Infants have completed their first month of school?!! And what a great job they have been doing, learning lots of new things, building friendships, and developing their skills of sharing and turn taking! ![]()
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This week, our girls enjoyed singing the nursery rhyme, 'Hey Diddle Diddle' and our Maths song, 'Five Little Monkeys'. They practised counting from 1 to 5, starting with 1 as a whisper and gradually getting louder as they counted to 5. Then they counted backwards from 5, starting at their loud voice and getting to a whisper by zero! 😁 They also did lots of classifying in Maths. We sorted animals into land animals and sea animals. We sorted teddies into big, medium, and small. We sorted buttons by shape. We sorted objects into hard and soft. And we sorted cubes by colour. We also did some fun counting activities during our morning play. 😊 ![]()
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In geography, we learned about night and day. In religion, we learned about creation and how God made day and night, land and sea, plants and animals. We will explore this more next week! We played lots of new fun games in our new P.E. hall! ![]()
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We had lots of free choice play this week and got to play with Teacher's puppets, barbies, musical instruments, magna doodle boards, stampers, stencils, and magnetic tiles! What a fun week! 😁🙌🏻
Congratulations /Comhghairdeachas to our super award winners for the month of September 🏆✨⭐️
Please come along to our Parents' Association AGM next Wednesday 9th October at 9am!
This week, Junior Infants had lots of fun exploring different play activities to help them learn their 2D shapes! ![]()
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We also had a lot of fun with a variety of autumn themed play activities, the highlight of which was when the girls got to go on a nature walk to collect fallen leaves and make their own 'pat mat' sensory bag with autumn treasures inside! 🍁🍂 ![]()
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Have a great weekend!
Cairde had a fun filled first month back at school. We welcomed a new pupil into our class and we are delighted to have a new friend to play with!
This week, Junior Infants explored making patterns! They did a great job on this topic! ![]()
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We had fun singing the 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' nursery rhyme, and we made our own sheep using cotton wool! Pulling the wool apart was a good workout for our finger muscles! 👍🏻🐑 ![]()
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We learned more about Autumn and enjoyed singing our new song, 'All the Leaves are Falling Down'. youtu.be/uu4ojfxOFXQ?feature=shared![]()
We used corks to paint and print autumn trees! 🍂 🍁![]()
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We also turned our home corner from a kitchen into a bedroom and had great fun taking care of our new babies and using the cot and bunk beds!![]()
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Please tag Junior Infant parents so that they can see our wonderful work! Thank you! 😁
Take a look at some of our beautiful Junior Infant artwork! We have drawn the cutest self portraits with beautifully painted colourful backgrounds. We have used spoons to splat cotton wool balls filled with paint to create colour explosions. We decorated our stars and made lovely homes for our corridor displays. We also painted and printed colourful handprints for a memory to take home soon. 😍 We hope you like them! 🎨
Week 2 round up! Another fun week in Junior Infants! ![]()
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This week, we continued sorting activities in Maths. We worked on sorting by colour but also sorting by shape and sorting by size. 👍🏻 ![]()
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We did lots of practice of our nursery rhyme, 'Humpty Dumpty', and worked collaboratively to sequence the rhyme in the correct order. We also worked together to build Humpty Dumpty's wall from plastic cups and attempted to balance an egg on top! We had lots of fun with this activity. ![]()
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In our play activities, we are exploring the theme of the home. We played with the dolls house for small world play, used home themed playdough mats for sensory play, made homes using lollipop sticks for arts & crafts, built homes using the giant polydrons for construction play and of course used our home corner for role-play! 🏠 ![]()
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We also did another colour experiment using Skittles to make a rainbow! Lots of prediction, observation, and discussion skills developing in our little Junior Infants! 🙌🏻😊
Weekly round up from Junior Infants! 😊 (Week 1 - delayed due to Facebook uploading glitches)![]()
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In Geography, we had fun exploring the seasons and dressing our friends up in appropriate clothing for summer & winter! ![]()
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In Maths, we explored sorting lots of collections with a focus on sorting by colour! ![]()
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We learned our first letter sound and, of course, did lots of playing to strengthen our fine motor skills and work on sharing and turn taking! ![]()
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We hope you like our photos! 🥰
St Brigids Pipe Band is a fantastic local group involving some past pupils. They have provided demonstrations for our pupils I the past and would love to see new members of any age. Contact information on the poster.
Today, our Junior Infants tried their very first experiment! We have been learning our colours and doing lots of colour sorting in our Maths lessons, so today we explored colour mixing. We made predictions about what would happen when the coloured kitchen roll was placed in water. We were amazed when we placed 2 pieces in the water and a brand new colour was created! (red + yellow = orange 🧡/ red + blue = purple 💜/ blue + yellow = green) 💚![]()
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To try this at home, check out this video from Sprinkle in Learning. 😊👍🏻![]()
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