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A Busy May in the Middle Room!
Date posted: 6th June 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, School Outings, Visual Arts
The month of May has been filled with lots of fun and games in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! After our Easter break, we wrote about all the fun things that we got up to…
In Irish, we learned all about “An Teilifís” and the children drew their favourite programmes…
In Geography, we looked at Ireland as a country and the many geographical features it has. We discussed the beautiful places to visit throughout the country and the children depicted their favourite places…
In Visual Arts, we looked at the life and works of Claude Monet and the children recreated their own Monet inspired paintings…
We also created “Lighthouse Scenes” in Art…
Can you see who’s looking through the window?!
On Thursday, 23rd May, 1st and 2nd Class went on their school tour to Rathwood and The Chocolate Garden. We had a great time learning about how chocolate is made and got to taste 4 different types of chocolate. We then made our own bears or dinosaurs and decorated them. It was great fun!
We wrote about all the fun things we did back at school…
While we were away, the 3rd Class were having fun and doing lots of Art with Mrs. Kenny….
After their school tour on the 30th May to Dunmore East Adventure Centre, they wrote up reports about all they got up to!
Well done on all your hard work this month boys and girls!
Date posted: 6th June 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, School Outings, Visual Arts
May Fun in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 4th June 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, School Outings, Science, Visual Arts
May has been another busy month in the Junior Room. In SESE we learned all about fish & butterflies. We labelled parts of a fish and learned all about the life cycle of a butterfly. We even got our own caterpillars which we’ve watched grow bigger and bigger and turn into chrysalides!
In Art, after reading the book, we made Rainbow Fish using celery to print their scales. We also made bright and colourful butterflies to fly around on our walls.
We enjoyed getting outdoors to do some practical maths activities like finding certain amounts of daisies or leaves in the grounds as well as spotting patterns in nature.
We continue to work hard learning our sounds and tricky words.
We were thrilled to head off to Rathwood on our School Tour in May as well. We went on a train through the woods, made our own teddy bears, met Goldilocks and the Three Bears and had a picnic, finally we headed to the playground for some fun with our friends.
Junior Infants did a great job drawing their favourite activity on the tour!
Date posted: 4th June 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, School Outings, Science, Visual Arts
Our School Tour at Dunmore East Adventure Centre!
Date posted: 3rd June 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, School Outings, Senior Classroom
Below are photographs of all the activities 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Class enjoyed on their school tour to Dunmore East Adventure Centre.
The children enjoyed land activities for the first 2 hours. These activities included Wall Climbing, Archery & Caving!!
After lunch, the children took to the water and had lots of fun on the Wibit Wipeout and the Giant Stand Up Paddle Boards as well as kayaking!
Well done to all the children for such great participation in all the activities. You demonstrated great behaviour and teamwork throughout the day 🙂
Date posted: 3rd June 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, School Outings, Senior Classroom
April fun in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 13th April 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Easter, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Our Work on Display, Science, Visual Arts
It has been a busy few weeks in the run up to Easter with Junior and Senior Infants. We learned all about the hairdressers in play. Here we are role playing in the Wandesforde Hair Salon, making items from play doh and junk art and building our own mini salons in small world.
Ms Power and Ms Byrne got their hair styled by the hairdressers at the Wandesforde Hair Salon!
We were up bright and early on April 4th to make an appearance on Ireland AM! We had a lovely morning in the Discovery Park.
In Art we made colourful Easter Eggs using paper doilies and coloured card.
Finally this month we learned all about the weather, we monitored the weather and drew different weather we learned about.
Date posted: 13th April 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Easter, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Our Work on Display, Science, Visual Arts
Spring has sprung in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 2nd April 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
Junior & Senior Infants learned lots about the season of Spring this month. In play we discovered all about Spring weather, baby animals which are born and plants and flowers that grow.
We also created our own Spring Garden in our classroom with daffodils, snowdrops, primroses and hyacinths.
In Art we made St Patrick’s Day crocks of gold and used clay to make daffodil candle holders for Mother’s Day.
Continuing with our Spring theme we made colourful rainbows which we often see at this time of year from the sunshine and showers. We also created fluffy baby lambs, born at the moment as well.
We wrote sentences about Spring and drew pictures to illustrate them in English.
We learned all about water in our world in SESE, looking at places we find water like the sea, rivers, canals, lakes etc. We also experimented to see if materials were waterproof and recorded our results.
Senior Infants learned all about measuring length this month and we measured pencils but used sharpeners instead of a ruler!
In SPHE we discussed and explored feelings we have through reading various Mr Men and Little Miss books. We drew some of the feelings we’d discussed.
We enjoyed two nature walks this month, first of all we went to the river and explored around the river bank and woods with Eileen Canny, although it was raining we had fun!! At the end of the month we went to the Discovery Park and tried to spot as many signs of Spring as we could. Thankfully the sun shone and we had time to visit the playground at the end!
Date posted: 2nd April 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts