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Jingle all the way with the Juniors!
Date posted: 20th December 2019
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, Drama, English, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
The children in the Junior Room have been very busy during the month of December. To begin with in Play we explored Santa’s Workshop.
In SESE we learned all about penguins. We were also busy discovering some facts about the season of Winter. We circled signs of Winter in pictures and listened to instructions to draw a snowman.
We also explored freezing and melting this month, we looked at ice and described how it looked and felt, then we placed ice in different parts of our classroom to see where it melted fastest and recorded what happened.
We made Christmas Robins and Rudolph in Art.
In RE we learned all about Advent and the story of the birth of Jesus.
In Maths we coloured Christmas pictures by numbers and Senior Infants drew Rudolph in lots of different places as they had been learning lots of positional words.
Senior Infants were also learning about 3D Shapes and made these graphs.
They are learning more Tricky Words each week.
In SPHE we have been exploring our sense of taste. We tasted different foods which were sweet, salty, sour and bitter and recorded if we liked them or not.
In our school play ‘The Inn Crowd’ the children performed in many different roles including sheep, wise men, shepherds and angels. They also sang lots of songs during the show.
Finally a very special visitor arrived before the holidays……..SANTA!!!!
We were delighted he popped in with some treats for us all before the Christmas break. 🙂
On the last day we had a chilled out morning watching a DVD.
Merry Christmas to everyone from all in the Junior Room, see you in 2020!
Date posted: 20th December 2019
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, Drama, English, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
A New Year Begins in the Junior Room
Date posted: 3rd October 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Drama, English, Junior Classroom, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
Welcome back to everyone in the Junior Room and a special welcome to our five new Junior Infants!
We have been busy in our first month of school, in English we have been learning new sounds with Juniors and revising last years ones with Seniors. We practiced writing them with pencils, on whiteboards and even in shaving foam!
We were delighted to welcome artist Orla Bates to do some printing with us. We made prints of lots of garden birds and Orla brought us outside where we made a nest just like birds do!
In Play we were learning all about houses and homes. We made houses from play doh and in the sand, we made household items in junk art, played with houses in small world and we constructed houses using magnets and polydrons.
We made patterns of houses and created different types of homes such as apartments, houses and terraces of houses in art.
In Science we also learned which items use electricity in our homes.
We have learned lots of different Nursery Rhymes this month and practiced our pencil control and scissors skills doing activities about the rhymes.
We learned about school in RE and coloured in school related items as well as saying a prayer thanking God for our school.
We were really excited to welcome M and M Productions back to perform The Wizard of Oz. It was a super show which we all really liked 🙂
Date posted: 3rd October 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Drama, English, Junior Classroom, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
All is Merry & Bright in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 21st December 2018
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, English, Funky Kids, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
December has been full of fun in the Junior Room. In Art and Religion we learned all about the story of The Nativity. We created these lovely scenes of Jesus who was born in a stable. We also made sparkly and bright Christmas Trees from paper plates.
Our play topic was The North Pole! We had fun making presents in junk art, building Santa’s Workshop in construction, making decorations from play dough and creating a small world scene of the North Pole.
In Maths Senior Infants have been learning all about spacial relations and drew Rudolph in lots of different places like between the clouds and on the roof.
In SPHE we were learning all about being a good friend, we read stories about being a good friend and drew pictures showing us being good friends to our classmates.
After learning all about electricity in November it was great to welcome Niamh from Anyone for Science to our school, she taught us lots of interesting information about static electricity.
In English we read a poem ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Christmas Lights’ and coloured in Christmas lights & Senior Infants wrote sentences all about night time.
In SESE this month we have been looking at the differences between day and night. We drew pictures to illustrate these after playing a sorting game.
We had a super night performing our show with the Funky Kids!
Finally we were very excited to welcome a special visitor to our class ……….SANTA!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
Date posted: 21st December 2018
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, English, Funky Kids, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
Call the Emergency Services to the Junior Room!
Date posted: 4th December 2018
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Drama, English, Funky Kids, Geography, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, Visual Arts
The Junior Room have been learning lots in November, look below and see what we’ve been up to!
Our play topics were the Garda Station and the Fire Station. We had fun learning all about these topics making things in junk art & play dough, creating a small world play area with them, finding items related to the topics in the sand & building Fire & Garda Stations in construction.
In Art we experimented with paint and created colourful fires, we also learned how to contact the Emergency Services by calling 999 and we made bright 999 signs. 
Also in Art we used clay to make out own magnets, we rolled it, cut it and when dry painted it. They look really colourful on our whiteboard!
Our topic in SESE was electricity. We discovered how it travels to our homes and school and some safety tips as well. In groups we cut out pictures of different electrical appliances for each room in our houses and stuck them in.
We also learned about people in our community who help us as well as the Gardaí and Firefighters we discussed in play.
We are having great fun singing, dancing and doing art in Funky Kids every week, here we are working on our costumes for the night.
Senior Infants are working on their writing skills and wrote up sentences about The Park.
They were also busy in Maths learning about 2D shapes and created these pictures containing lots of 2D shapes!
Finally we supported 6th class on their 2km run in the Community School, we ran half the track with them twice. It was great fun and good exercise with our friends. 🙂
Date posted: 4th December 2018
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Drama, English, Funky Kids, Geography, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, Visual Arts
Autumn has flown by in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 23rd October 2018
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Drama, Geography, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
We were excited to be back in the Junior room after the summer holidays. We welcomed 4 new pupils to Junior Infants this year. We have certainly been busy in September and October, here are some of the things we’ve done.
In Art we drew pictures of our summer holidays, made autumn squirrels and colourful autumn trees. We also cut out autumn leaves to make a collage.
In SPHE we learned all about ourselves and our families.
Self Portraits and family selfies.
As well as doing art for autumn we learned lots about this season, going on a nature walk to spot signs of autumn all around us.
We also learned all about foxes, Juniors coloured in fact cards about them while Senior Infants wrote up what they learned.
In maths Junior Infants have been working on matching activities as well as topics such as taller and shorter.
We enjoyed a production of The Railway Children in September as well as welcoming Heritage Expert Paul who taught us all about making things from willow.
Finally our play topic was The Supermarket. We had fun making groceries from play dough, building supermarkets and role playing in the supermarket.
Date posted: 23rd October 2018
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Drama, Geography, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts