Junior & Senior Infants
November News
Hello All! I'm Miss Wood, a b.ed student in her third year in DCU. I have had the absolute privilege of teaching Junior and Senior Infants for my teaching practice. The children were learning all about the early stages of Space Exploration and Space words! We explored the life of the first man on the moon Neil Armstrong and followed him on his journey of becoming an astronaut.They learned all about <oo> words and created beautiful Moons out of their plastisin. They also explored what it is like to sleep up in space on the space station!
The boys and girls in Junior and senior Infants learned all about space and engaged in a space themed Role play where they took on the role of astronauts exploring space.They brought our Alien teddy Zip on a tour of our classroom,flew rockets through the galaxy and explored where Ireland is on the Globe. We had read a story about Zips friend Zen in English class. They also practiced their balancing of Zip,s favourite ball on the moon and the sun.
The children learned about mapping in Geography while responding to the picture book ‘Rosie's walk’. They also explored spatial prepositions such as over,under,around and through. They each created their own map with a key and used a cut out of Rosie to follow along with her on her journey. They are fabulous and all the students thoroughly enjoyed this activity and worked together in pairs. The teamwork involved this task was amazing to see and the students were cooperative in their designing of the maps.
October News
October has been a very exciting month in the Infant classroom.
The pupils painted beautiful pictures that had been inspired by the hymn “All things bright and beautiful,” and they presented and discussed their paintings with the whole school at an assembly in our church. Well done to them!
During Maths Week they completed a Maths trail with their Big Buddies where they counted all sorts of things: how many times they could bounce a ball in a minute and how many star jumps too! They enjoyed completing lots of Six Bricks activities and using the equipment in their new Maths Boxes.
They learned all about Fire Safety in SPHE and how to stay safe around bonfires at Halloween.
For learning the letter ‘p,’ so well we had a POPCORN DAY in our room!
In Buddy Art they made spooky skeleton pictures using cotton buds and black paper.
The boys and girls are really enjoying their special iPad time where they are learning through games and working together in small groups.
The children are loving their music classes with Catherine on Fridays where they sing, dance, act and play musical instruments together.
To lead into half term we had a dress up day fundraiser for Temple Street Hospital and lots of fun at school and a parent morning in our classrooms where the boys and girls could show their work at school to them.
We hope you enjoy looking at photographs of our art completed this month!
September News
A big welcome back to all our pupils in BNS as well as our new Junior Infants.
It has been such an exciting and happy month in school and the new Junior Infants have settled in so well!
A big thank you to their “big buddies,” in 5th and 6th class for helping them to feel so welcome in their new school- they simply love “Buddy time,” with you.
We learned so much this month about ourselves, our families and our friends as we all got to know each other.
In English we are loving learning our letter sounds and Senior Infants continue to learn to read for themselves!
In Gaeilge every pupil is trying so hard to use our “Nath na seachtaine,” in school and to sing along and play the games in class.
In SESE we have been learning about how our world changes in autumn and we did some lovely art on the theme of autumn.
We have helped with assemblies and especially at the Harvest Assembly where we had a collection of food and toiletries for the homeless which was really successful.
We also had Toast Thursday as a treat and the whole school were loving the smell of toast in our room and wanting to join us!
Luna our Reading Dog also popped into visit us and get a rub!
We love our Trim Trail and are learning to climb and swing and have so much fun together.
It has been a truly super start to the school year.
