Aistear
Fionn and the Dragon
Christmas Nativity 2023
Fox and Son Tailers:
First and second class loved predicting while reading the story Fox and Son Tailers about Rory and his Dad and their tail shop!
After reading we designed tails of our own for Mr. Fox!
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Skeleton Art!:
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Early Mathematical Activities:
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Getting Settled in September:
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May Flowers!
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Some Easter Chicks!
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Maths Work:
We’ve been busy learning about measures. Seeing how long things are, how heavy they are and how much liquid is in containers. We found some containers measured in litres and brought them to school.
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Festive Art:
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Shape Hunting – 2D and 3D Shapes:
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Garda Aistear:
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Halloween Activites:
Fine Motor Activities:
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Finger Painting Trees:
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Number Work:
Junior and Senior infants, busy learning their numbers.
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Rice Krispie Buns:
First and second class made some Rice Krispie Buns using some measurements and instructions that came up in maths problems this week. Yummy maths work!
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Autumn Art – Leafy Hedgehogs:
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Seaside Paintings:
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Fabulous Fish:
We spotted some fabulous fish at the seaside! Beautiful art work by the Junior Room.
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Aistear – Seaside Cafe – Art:
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STEM Project:
Making paper hats!
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Combining Sets:
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Bank/Money Themed Art:
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Easter Chicks!:
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St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock People:
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Some Festive Art:
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Mini-beasts Everywhere!:
Some of our November art work on our Aistear theme for the month.
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Halloween Art:
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Farm Shop Paintings:
Prediction Work:
We have been learning about the skill of prediction and have been reading When Jessie Came Across the Sea. We looked into our Crystal Balls and predicted what life might be like for Jessie after the story ended.
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Making Sets of 2 and 7:
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Autumn Paintings:
Some lovely Autumn paintings by the Junior Room.
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Spring Art:
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Science Work:
Have a look at the gallery of some of our Friday Science experiments over the last few weeks.
Fun Friends Work-1st and 2nd Class:
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Some Festive Art:
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Arctic Aistear for December:
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Space Art:
Rainbow Fish-Building Bridges Making Connections work:
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Halloween Art:
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Tree Art:
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Junior Infants Settling in!
Fine motor work
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June Aistear – The Airport:
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Outdoor Aistear -While the Sun Shone!:
Positivity Week Seed Planting – Making Progress!:
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Aistear – Garden Centre:
Easter Art:
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Easter Nest Bun Making:
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Showstopper Cake Creations!
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Aistear Inspired Art:
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Aistear Visit:
Seamus is a vet.
He came to visit.
He showed us some of his tools and equipment.
He told us about surgery.
He told us the smallest animal he helps are birds and the biggest are horses.
He wear special overalls to keep the bugs and germs out during surgery. He was very good.
by Chloe and Killian
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Comparing Lengths:
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Famous Women Mini Projects:
Mini projects and presentations by 1st and 2nd class about some famous ladies they learned about in history.
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World Book Day Activities:
Book mark making, library book scavenger hunts and dress up character profiles!
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Spring Art!:
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Money work:
The children have been busy learning about money and shopping at the School Shop!
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STEM Projects:
Work in Progress – Sponge Grass Houses!
Bulbs in Bottles!
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Zoo Animals- Art Work:
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Shape Work:
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Selection of Christmas Art:
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December Aistear- The Cinema:
The Junior room are busy learning about the Cinema. They have been handing out tickets to films, especially The Grinch, we will see in the Cinema on Friday 14th of December and reviewing movies and our favourite characters.
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Christmas Shop:
Killian and Chloe are busy shopping at the Christmas Shop, finding the items on their Christmas shopping list. .
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November Aistear – The Garda Station:
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Some Penguin Winter Art!
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Building Bridges:
First and Second Class have been reading Tatty Ratty. We predicted the title after reading the story and came up with some very good alternatives. We also made a story map of Tatty Ratty’s journey.
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Garda Station Aistear-Art:
A collaborative Art project with Garda officers, cars and prisons!
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Number Work:
We are working on counting groups of one and six and learning how to form our numbers.
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Chestnuts:
Lots of Chestnuts arrived in school after the weekend. We decided to plant them to see what will happen.
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Early Mathematical Activities:
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Our Town:
We constructed and painted a town during art over a few weeks and were able use it as part of our Aistear work and playtime! Have a look!
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Showing the New Infants the Ropes!:
We welcomed our September 2018 Infants to school on Thursday 14th. The pupils in the Junior room showed them how things are done!
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Enjoying the Sunshine with Outdoor Aistear!:
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Our flowers are blooming!:
Our Outside Learning Day planting has starting to bloom and sprout! Have a look.
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April Showers bring May flowers….
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Sinking and Floating:
After reading Samson’s Titanic Journey we discovered what types of materials sink or float and then designed boats using a selection of materials, and successfully made most of them float and sometimes carry passengers!
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Partitioning and Combining:
St. Patrick’s Day Shamrocks:
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Polar Bear Booklets-Determining Importance:
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Comparing Heavy and Light:
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Visit from Nurse Irene:
This week Irene came into the school to explain about the doctor\hospital\nurse and what they do. The Junior Room pupils listened to their heart and they put a cream on their hands so they could see their veins. They all learned the proper way to put on a bandage and they tried it out on each other. They were all very good and the future of doctors and nurses is looking bright!
Róisín (9th.March.2018)
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Penguin VIPs:
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Length:
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Money:
The Infants have been learning about money and shopping to practice!
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Have a look at our X-ray Art!
Fabric and Fibre Grandparents:
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February Aistear:
The Junior Room have being learning about doctors, nurses and other people that work in the hospital for their Aistear activities this month. They have been studying Florence Nightingale. She was a famous nurse and she also came from Florence in Italy. The Junior Room have been doing a little play about her. There were six narrators and the rest were the actors in it.
Camaran (9.February. 2018)
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Preparing for Grandparents’ Day:
We are looking forward to our Catholic Schools Week Grandparents Day prayer service next week and have been working on art and some other nice things for our grandparents to see when they visit us!
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Building Bridges:
First and Second class considering some of the things Silly Billy might be worried about…
And made some of their own worry dolls to help with their own worries.
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Making Patterns:
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3-D Shapes:
The Infants found lots of 3-D shapes around the school.
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Paper Plate Christmas Characters:
Crib Art:
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Chritsmas Tree Art and Decorations:
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December Aistear-The Estate Agents:
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November Aistear- MiniBeast Investigations:
This month the Junior room are doing minibeasts as part of their Aistear work. They made a wormry with leaves, sand, clay, rainwater and worms. It looks really cool. They were also did some arts and crafts about minibeasts- paintings and made lots of different types of creatures from paper plates.
by Niamh (17.November.2017)
Halloween Art Activities:
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Maths Trail:
For Maths Week, the little ones did a maths trail and were working in pairs. They did activities like -counting how many footsteps there are from their room door to the senior room, how many cars are out side the school and how many blue numbers were on Ms Grogan’s mat. They said it was very fun!
Ailish (20.October.17)
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Our Leafman Art!:
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September Aistear – The Hairdressers:
The junior room have been doing the hairdressers this month and been doing each others hair. They have been making things out of sand and clay and they have practiced on styling heads. They also have been doing art with wool and been doing some free art. The junior infants are settling in well.
By Ailish (29.October.2017)
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Early Mathematical activities:
Sorting fun and more by the infants!
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A New Year- Circle of Friends:
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Olympics Junk Art:
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Animals you might see on your holidays -Painting Work:
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Junior Room Romero Britto Work:
Just as good as the Senior Room! Have a look.
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Symmetrical Pictures:
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Beautiful Mother’s Day Work:
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Pet Paintings:
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Wonderful Poetry by Emily:
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March Aistear – The Pet Shop:
Have a look at some of our great work, including a hamster in it’s cage made during Junk Art and some great writing!
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Length:
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Money:
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Polar Bear and Penguin masks:
Polar Art:
Have a look at some polar animals and the Northern Lights, completed in chalk by the Junior Room.
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School Shape Search:
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Beautiful Christmas Art!
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Salt Dough Christmas Decorations:
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Space-November Aistear:
We’ve be working hard and learning all about space! Have a look.
See the finishing touches to our rockets and planets!
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Fire Station Aistear Update:
The Junior room have been working away on their Fire station work for October. They completed their fire engine constructions in art this week and will be paying a visit to Elphin Fire Station in the next fortnight. Have a look at our constructions!
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Learning about Numbers:
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Early Mathematical Activities:
The infants have been working on sorting, comparing, matching all sorts of items. On Thursday last they worked in pairs on the Planet Maths games online. Have a look!
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Aistear:
We’re back at back at school And the junior room have been working on theme of school for Aistear. Take a look at our art and some of our writing.
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Art for Father’s Day:
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Celtic Art:
The Junior Room completed some beautiful, colourful Celtic art designs this week. Have a look!
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Maths Trail:
The infants had great fun exploring the school grounds for maths when completing a maths trail on Wednesday 25th of May! The infants counted the steps from certain placed, looked for shapes, checked how many boys and girls there are in the classroom and examined the teachers’ cars! Have a look at our fun!
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First and second class were exploring area in maths this week!
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The Great Blue Whale:
The children in First and Second class had been working on Determining Importance in Building Bridges work. They read a fact book about the Blue Whale and after reading they chose some interesting VIPs (Very Important Points!) about the Blue Whale and typed up the information they learned. Have a look at their work in the file below!
The Blue Whale by first and second class
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Partitioning and Combining:
The infants have been working hard at partitioning and combining totals in set. Have a look at their work!
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Spring Frieze:
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Work on our March Aistear gardening theme is underway !
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February Aistear-Building Site:
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Picasso Inspired Paintings:
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January Aistear:
During January we have been doing the airport for Aistear. The infants, first and second class worked together to make an airport frieze.
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A Bad Case of the Stripes Visualising:
First class recorded their changing visualisations of Camilla Cream while we read the very enjoyable story A Bad Case of the Stripes. Take a look!
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Counting:
The infants have continued to practice counting and numbers. We read How Big is a Million recently when talking about big numbers. A million is a very big number! We thought about some of the things we’d like a million of and some of the things we wouldn’t want a million of!
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Numbers:
The Infants have been practicing numbers and counting and used the computers in groups of three to play some maths games.
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Free Writing:
The children in the Junior Room have been doing The Vet as their theme for Aistear during October. The children in First and Second class worked on some free writing, inspired by the vets. Then they typed up their stories and decorated them in Microsoft Word. Click on the links below to view the stories.
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Making Connections:
First class are learning about Making Connections. They read the books Can’t you Sleep Little Bear? and Peace at Last and made these connections between the books:
* Mr Bear (P.A.L.) couldn’t sleep and Little Bear (C.Y.S.L.B.) couldn’t sleep.
* There are bears in both stories.
* The moonlight is in both books.
* The two books happen at night time.
* Mr Bear and Little Bear get to sleep in the end.
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Art Work:
Take a look at some of our art (9.10.2015)
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Second Class Book Reviews:
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Infant Maths:
The Junior and Senior Infants are starting work on numbers and are learning some number rhymes and songs.
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Early Mathematical Activities:
14.09.2015
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The Rainbow Fish:
The Junior room pupils did some work on the story The Rainbow Fish recently. Before they read the story they coloured some predictions of what they thought a rainbow fish might look like.
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Number Sentences-Counting On and Back:
The Infants have been combining sets over the last few weeks to write plus number sentences, while the Senior Infants have started to take away items from their sets. We worked on the floor mat, took turns starting at a number and counting on or back. Then the Senior Infants recorded the number sentences on the white board. Here are some pictures of us at our work.
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Capacity:
The Infants have been learning about capacity. We were estimating and measuring how many containers of liquid would be needed to fill other containers. We used lots of different sized containers. Have a look.
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St. Patrick’s Day Art:
Take a look at our St. Patrick’s Day art!
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Weight:
First and Second class have been working on weight in Maths for the last week. They have been estimating, measuring and using the balance and today they put their skills to the test and baked some muesli bars. They carefully measured out the ingredients using a scales and they baked them in the staffroom. There was a lovely smell around the school and they tasted yummy!
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Second class have been responding to the story Camille and the Sunflowers during their Building Bridges work. Here is a video of their oil pastel drawings of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece Sunflowers!
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The infants have been learning about Money – sorting coins, counting out amounts and going to the shop. Here they are hard at work!
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Penguin VIPs:
Second class have been learning about Determining Importance when reading. This week we were reading The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins with Ms. Grogan. After reading we worked in pairs to choose four Very Important Points (VIPs) about the Emperor Penguin. Here’s a picture of our work on display.
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Free Writing
Once upon a time there was a mermaid that lived under the water. She lived in the underwater castle. She was a princess. One day she lost her necklace on the surface. She went to find it. She was her human self. She met a prince Kaito. He found her necklace. He gave it back. Prince Katio thought she was very beautiful. Very soon they were married and they lived happily ever after.
The End. By Aoife 15.01.2015.
Once upon a time there lived a bee and a snake. They were friends. One day bee found out her honey was gone! She asked snake if she took the honey but she didn’t. Then she thought about the grumpy bear. Then she went to get her honey. After two days bee came back with the honey in her hands. Snake was very happy to see her. The two friends hugged each other. They lived happily ever after.
The End By Kate 15/01/2015
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Dandelions:
The children in second class were asking questions about the story Dandelions. The title was covered while they were reading the book and once it was finished they made predictions about possible titles to match the story. Here are their ideas.
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Christmas Art:
Here are some angels made by pupils in the Junior Room.
(11.12.2014)
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Making Cards:
On Friday the Fifth of December 1st and 2nd class made Christmas Cards on their laptops. They each made two. The sixth class girls did a demonstration and then went around and helped them. They used the templates in Microsoft word. They then Brought them home and gave them to whom they wished .
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Animal Projects:
First and second class have been working on projects about animals in small groups. Here are some pictures of our work.
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In the Junior room we designed and painted some masks for Hallowe’en. Take a look!
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Second class have also been asking questions about Silly Billy by Anthony Browne. After we saw the first page we drew some of things we predicted Billy might be worried about…
(16.10.2014)
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Trees
1. Trees take In air that we breathe.
2. We make paper out of trees so don’t waste it because you are wasting trees.
3. There are two types of trees. The evergreen and the deciduous.
4. With the shorter days of autumn there is less sunlight.
Fact file by Kate
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Chestnuts.
Chestnuts are poisonous to us.
Chestnuts grow on trees and they are prickly on the outside.
In autumn they fall off.
Some of them are soft.
Fact file by Aoife
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The children in the Junior Room read a poem about Autumn. The poem was called Autumn is Here. We put actions to the poem and then first and second class drew their visualisations inspired by the poem. Read the poem and see some of our visualisations!
