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Spooktacular goings on in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 28th October 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Science, Soccer, Visual Arts
October has been another busy month in our room. We visited Castlecomer Library and heard authors Sinéad Dore and Claire Keating reading from their book Bea’s Ocean Commotion. We did some fun activities with them to help us if we feel worried too.
In English Junior Infants are busy learning lots of letter sounds and Senior Infants are learning new Tricky Words all the time. Juniors had fun playing games to revise their sounds.
Our Art this month included painting and cutting Autumn leaves as well as sponge painting to make bat silhouettes.
We were delighted to welcome Heritage in Schools Artist Orla Bates to Wandesforde. Orla discussed the topic of Autumn with us, going outside to look at all the colourful Autumn leaves before we created Autumn Leaf Clay Pots!
In SESE we learned all about the season of Autumn. We discovered the farmer is really busy at this time of year harvesting corn, ploughing fields and picking appples and pumpkins. We sequenced the story of The Little Red Hen and learned all about bats in the run up to Halloween!
We learned all about colours, we mixed primary colours to find out what secondary colours we can make and recorded our results on these colour wheels.
Our Play topic this month was Autumn and Halloween. We made items in Junk Art and Play Doh, we created woodlands in Small World, we built spooky houses and castles in Construction and we had fun finding things related to the topic in the sand.
In PE we were practicing skills in playing different games, focusing on running and ball skills.
Before the Halloween holidays we made some tasty Halloween rice krispie pumpkin treats and dressed up in our Halloween costumes! Happy Halloween to all, have a lovely break 🙂
Date posted: 28th October 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Science, Soccer, Visual Arts
A New Year in the Junior Room
Date posted: 5th October 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, History, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, SPHE, Visual Arts
September has been a fun and busy month in the Junior Room, we worked on various skills like cutting and drawing, going outside to practice some of these.
We discussed our Class Rules and coloured pictures of them.
We were learning all about ourselves and how we are growing up in SESE.
We discussed the many different people who make up our families and drew family portraits.
Senior Infants are continuing to learn Tricky Words, we went out to practice some of them with chalk. They were also busy working on matching skills in Maths and went on a hunt around the classroom for objects that go together such as paper & crayons, teapot & cup, doll & pram etc.
In art we drew pictures of our summer holidays and painted bright backgrounds to go with self portraits we created.
Finally in RE we learned our School Prayer and made pictures thanking God for school.
Date posted: 5th October 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, History, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, SPHE, Visual Arts
Summer Fun in the Junior Room
Date posted: 27th June 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Music, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Sport, Visual Arts
The last few weeks in school have been full of learning and activities in the Junior room. We learned all about the Garden Centre in Play.
In SESE we learned all about the country of Italy, we discussed landmarks, food and where Italy is located. We also learned about fish, things we do at the seaside, the season of Summer and starfish.
We also made butter from cream. We shook the bottle for a few minutes and slowly but surely it turned into butter!
In Art we made sunflowers using tea leaves to create the centre of them and ice cream cones for Summer from puffy paint.
To tie in with the Garden Centre we also sowed some sunflowers for our own gardens.
To celebrate the season of Summer we had a Teddy Bears Picnic with ice-cream and strawberries and played some outdoor water activities and games.
In SPHE we learned all about road safety and practiced crossing the road safely at the Pelican Crossing in town and outside our school.
In English we continued to learn our Tricky Words and in Music listened to the song “Under the Sea” and drew pictures in response to it.
Wishing everyone a fun and happy Summer and see you at the end of August!
Date posted: 27th June 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Music, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Sport, Visual Arts
May Merriment & off on Tour with Junior & Senior Infants!
Date posted: 28th May 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, History, Hockey, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, School Outings, SPHE, Visual Arts
May has been another month full of activity in the Junior Room. Our main theme was transport. We learned all about The Airport in Play. We role played going on holidays going through the airport, made items in Junk Art and Play Doh, created items and built airports in Construction, Sand and Small World.
We learned about transport in the past and Amelia Earhart in SESE and made planes in Art with handprints.
Also in Art we made beautiful blossom trees for Summer from tissue paper.
In SPHE we discussed healthy food and drew Healthy Lunchboxes, containing yoghurt, fruit and sandwiches.
In PE we were delighted to welcome a coach from Hockey Ireland to Wandesforde and learned lots of new skills.
Finally we were off on tour to The Chocolate Garden and Rathwood. We learned all about making chocolate and sampled 4 types of it, milk, dark, white and gold! We then made our own chocolate chicks and frogs. After lunch we went on a trip on a train and spotted lots of wildlife and before leaving for home had fun in the playground!
Date posted: 28th May 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, History, Hockey, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, School Outings, SPHE, Visual Arts
Spring in the Senior Room!
Date posted: 15th April 2022
Category Blog, Book Week, Class Work, Easter, English, Funky Kids, Geography, History, Irish, Local Visits, Mathematics, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts
During Spring, the Senior Classroom were busy with many seasonal and school activities. They learned how to weave and made some lovely “Woven Hearts” for Valentine’s Day!
As well as this, they made some God’s Eyes using craft sticks and wool.
Ireland was a topic explored in preparation for St. Patrick’s Day in SESE, Religion & Art.
The children enjoyed learning about Coordinate Geometry in Maths. They created their own Spring pictures by following the coordinates given.
The school had a Dress Up in Green Day for the people of Ukraine and in preparation for this, the children learned about their country and their culture in SESE.
They also learned about the Water Cycle and how important water is in our lives.
Funky Kids has been a great experience for the whole school this term. The children have been making their costumes, singing & performing their songs and taking part in some fun drama activities with Denis & Olivia each week.
Well done to all the children on a great performance at the Funky Kids Show. You were all stars on the stage and you did a fantastic show!
Mothering Sunday was also celebrated during Spring. We made some beautiful flower bouquets to thank all the people who mother us in our lives.
In Gaeilge, the children made some very creative posters of adjectives (aidiachtaí)
They also enjoyed playing Biongó to help them learn their numbers in Irish.
Book Week was also another successful event in our school this term. The children designed their own book covers for our We Are Writers Book. Didn’t they do a great job!
In Art, the children engaged in a Still Life Drawing activity and drew some beautiful daffodils in a jug. They worked on the elements of tone and texture in creating their drawings.
The children participated in the Bishop’s Easter Poster Competition in Religion. This year’s theme is HOPE and the children brought their ideas to life in their work below 🙂
In the lead up to the Easter Holidays, the children did a Spring Eggbox Scavenger Hunt in the Discovery Park.
Walking across the new footbridge in Castlecomer!
Easter Eggsperiments were also carried out in Science. We did experiments to find out if an egg is fresh or stale. Did you know that a stale egg will float in water whereas a fresh egg will sink in water.
We also found out how to work out if an egg is raw or hard boiled by spinning it. A hard boiled egg will move in a smooth spinning motion whereas a raw egg will tend to wobble!!
We also explored how to make a fresh egg float. We did this by adding some salt to the water which increases the density of the water resulting in a floating egg!!
One eggsperiment we all really enjoyed was the egg in the bottle! Believe if or not the egg does go into the bottle once a small piece of lit paper is put into the bottle!! This happens because when the match goes out and cools down it causes lower pressure inside the bottle. The air pressure outside the bottle is higher resulting in the egg being pushed down into the bottle!!
Finally, we worked with clay in Art and made our own egg shaped bowls some of which we turned into chicks!
Well done to the Senior Classroom on all their achievements this term. Enjoy your well deserved break and have a very Happy Easter!
Date posted: 15th April 2022
Category Blog, Book Week, Class Work, Easter, English, Funky Kids, Geography, History, Irish, Local Visits, Mathematics, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts