All the infants have been working really hard on learning their nursery rhymes over the last few months both at school and at home. They impressed us all as they chanted their 8 rhymes from the start of the year and so successfully passed their very first 8 rhyme challenge in their new classes!
Art has been very exciting over the last few weeks especially when the boys and girls experimented with clay! What masterpieces they moulded when the most amazing prickly hedgehogs emerged from their creative work.
Junior and Senior Infants have been very busy since settling into school. Senior infants enjoyed making lots of different patterns. Junior infants loved making their new numbers with playdough.
This year we were ‘SPOOKTACULARLY’ busy in Mrs Mc Guirk’s classroom. We created many pieces of art which can be seen below in our gallery. We played Irish games and sang Irish Songs for ‘Oíche Shamhna’. We created some lovely ‘Cat agus Frámaí Oíche Shamnha’. Our maths lesson included Halloween addition and roll the dice to make the pumpkin. We looked at Acrostic Poems and Mrs. Mc Guirk was delighted with the creativity shown by her pupils when they wrote some of their own. We learned about Halloween Safety in S.P.H.E. and also learned about the History of Halloween in History! In music, we practised our moves to some Halloween Songs. We enjoyed playing lots of Halloween games like ‘Bob the apple’ and ‘Snatch the Apple’. We also kept active by getting involved in an active Halloween themed event as part of our Active School and Health Promoting School campaign!!
Pictures of our active event can be seen on our Active Flag Page.
At the end of the day, we also got to make ourselves a little Halloween Treat to take home!
As part of Maths Week (12th -20th October), Mrs McGuirk’s room participated in various events associated with the theme ‘Keeping Active’ both physically and mentally. Children participated in active number rhymes with actions. We continued with our Malin to Mizen head walking challenge. We participated in number orienteering and we also completed a maths trail. We played lots of games in class too, using our interactive whiteboard and concrete materials. Thanks boys and girls for your ACTIVE participation.
In our History Lessons (Myself and My Family and Change and Continuity), we have been learning bout the changes we go through during different time in our lives. The children put in lots of effort gathering information and writing about the important milestones in their lives. They then told the class about them in the ‘This is My Life Chair’.
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