Autumn and Halloween Fun in the Middle Room!
Date posted: 1st November 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Irish, Mathematics, Middle Classroom, Music, Science, Visual Arts
We have had a really busy start to the new school year and have been learning lots in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class! Have a look at what we have been up to!
In English, we wrote all out ourselves and the things we enjoy doing…
We wrote about our Summer holidays and all the fun things we did!
We painted pictures of our happy memories from the Summer holidays…
In Gaeilge, we learned and wrote about “Mé Féin” or Myself…
We drew our self-portraits in Art…
We designed very cool family crests depicting things that are important in our lives…
We designed Hot-Air Balloons with us inside them!
In Science and Geography, we looked at various buildings around the world, the materials they were made from and then designed our own “Dream Houses”!
In Music we listened and responded to “Carnival of the Animals” by Camille Saint-Saens…
We were delighted to welcome local Historian Michael Moylan to the school in October to teach the children about “The Vikings” and other parts of History. The children had so much fun dressing up in various costumes, trying on armour and holding weapons from years ago!
We then learned about the season of Autumn, the changes that occur and did lots of art and writing about it…
We went on a Nature walk to the Discovery Park…
We learned about the traditions of Halloween and created some spooky art!
We tasted some delicious báirín breac and one lucky pupil found the “fáinne”!!
We read a poem called “The Pumpkin” by Oliver Brennan and identified nouns, verbs and adjectives in the poem…
The children in 2nd class learned about symmetry in Maths and completed great work and pictures in this subject area…
On the last day of school, we dressed up as some spooky creatures! We hope you all enjoy the mid-term break!
Well done on all your hard work boys and girls!
Date posted: 1st November 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Irish, Mathematics, Middle Classroom, Music, Science, Visual Arts
Happy Halloween from 4th, 5th & 6th Class!
Date posted: 30th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Hallowe'en, Our Work on Display, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
As always, the children engaged in lots of Halloween activities in the lead up to our Halloween Holidays!
We made some spooky spider web patterns in Art
In Gaeilge, the children learned some new vocabulary relating to Oíche Shamhna.
The children made their own Positivity Potions in SPHE by drawing and writing in activities and aspects of their lives that help make them feel good!
We all dressed up “spooktacularly” in costume on the day of the Halloween Holidays!
In English, the children played Spelling Battleship with a partner using some Halloween words. They had great fun taking turns and trying to find & sink each other’s spelling battleships!
We ate some Halloween Barmbrack and the ring was found too!
Finally, the children made their own Haunted House Silhouette using crayons and paint. Didn’t they do amazing work?!
Happy Halloween Everybody! Enjoy your well deserved Mid-Term Break 🙂
Date posted: 30th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Hallowe'en, Our Work on Display, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
Exciting October in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 27th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
We have been really busy throughout October in the Junior Room. We started learning through Play using the Aistear Framework. Our topic was ‘The Vet.’
In English Junior Infants are busy learning their sounds and Seniors are learning reading words.
We learned all about length in Maths.
In Visual Art we created colourful Autumn trees, after learning about squirrels in SESE we made Red Squirrels and painted pumpkins for Hallowe’en.
During the month we learned lots about the season of Autumn in SESE. We learned about leaves changing colour and falling from the trees, all about squirrels, hedgehogs and our journey to school each day. We also learned about some traditions of Hallowe’en like dressing up, bobbing for apples and going Trick or Treating!
We went on a Nature Walk to the Discovery Park where we spotted lots of signs of Autumn! Afterwards we had lots of fun playing with our friends in the playground.
We were busy in SPHE discussing different feelings and how to recognise them.
We were excited to welcome Michael Moylan from Heritage in Schools, he told us all about Setanta and Cú Chulaínn. We had great fun dressing up as different characters with him! We also visited Castlecomer Library for Bookville, to hear story telling and make creatures using things from nature like clay, twigs and feathers.
Finally we had fun on the last day before our HallowE’en holidays dressing up in costumes coming to school!
Date posted: 27th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
Spooktacular Activities in the Senior Classroom!
Date posted: 2nd November 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, Our Work on Display, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts
In preparation for Halloween, the Senior Classroom engaged in lots of seasonal activities!
Heritage Expert, Orla Bates, visited in October and engaged the children in a Monoprint Workshop on Moths!
Didn’t they do a magnificent job making their monoprint moths!
In English, the children created their own Halloween Wordsearch for a member of their class to complete.
They also read the poem, The Marrog, by R.C. Scriven and drew a picture of what they imagined this creature would look like!
In Art, the children created some very creative pumpkin drawing entries for the Folens Halloween Competition!
Some Spooky Skeletons were also created to decorate our classroom for Halloween!
In S.E.S.E. we did a scavenger hunt in the Discovery Park and had great fun using Ipads to take photographs of the aspects of nature we found!
Finally, we all dressed up “Spooktacularly” on the day of our holidays and …
to end a busy day, we enjoyed creating our own Haunting Halloween Cupcakes!
Happy Halloween everybody! Stay safe and enjoy your Mid Term Break!
Date posted: 2nd November 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, Our Work on Display, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts
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