This term we did a lot of Aistear. We did ‘Home’ and ‘School’ as play topics. We love playing!! We made pancakes as part of the topic and constructed lots of schools including ‘haunted schools’ for Halloween. Our mini school in role play was very popular. We love singing songs and dancing. In particular we …
Senior Infants have worked hard over the last few months participating in the ‘Fun Friends’ programme. The children explored all of the following. F eelings R elax I can do it E ncourage N urture D o it every day S tay happy They learned so much about how to manage their emotions and challenge …
Senior Infants have been learning all about water for the whole of January. We have done lots of investigating, writing and reading. We learned poems about water and listened to stories. We learned all about the water cycle and about sinking and floating. Recently we were learning all about oral hygiene and how we use …
What fun we had on ‘Rainbow day’! All the children came dressed in their brightly coloured clothes, all the colours of the rainbow of course! We began the day with a story called ‘The Rainbow fish’ and completed some rainbow art, making rainbow hand print fish and a giant class collage of a rainbow. Then …
Whether it was participating in Maths games, or becoming scientists making stink bombs, holding hedgehogs or decorating our Christmas tree, Senior Infants love to be active during the day,and getting stuck in and taking part is what it’s all about!!! Have a look at some pictures from over the last few months and see for …
Senior Infants are back in the swing of things this week after the Halloween Mid-Term break. They certainly deserved a rest as they have worked so hard since entering Senior Infants in September! They learned all about the body and our skeletons and how we change and grow! They investigated how we are all similar …
Recently we had so much fun dressing up for ‘Superhero day’. We had been reading a story called ‘Danny to the rescue’. Danny transforms into a superhero and tries to help out his family members by using his powers to help out at home. We practiced being superheros at home for the week and we …
We have had a ball over the last month or so! We enjoyed science week so much! We were busy with lots of experiments discovering if it is possible to see sound and feel sound. We used balloons, elastic bands, butter tubs, rice, cling film, straws and lots of other bits and bobs. We also …
Senior Infants have been working super hard in the last few weeks. They have been learning all about their senses, Autumn time, toys old and new and they have been having great fun exploring 2D Shapes. They have produced some excellent art work which has made our classroom lovely and bright! Ms. Doyle has been …
Yvonne from Hedgehog Rescue Dublin came to visit Senior Infants today. She brought in a very special visitor, Simon! The children had no idea they were going to meet a real live hedgehog and the excitement when they saw him was super! Yvonne was fantastic with the children and allowed the children to feel Simon’s …