Road Safey

   Garda Seamus Comes to Visit

Garda Seamus reminded us how to be safe when we are crossing the road. We talked about the importance of wearing our seat belts and encouraging members of our families to wear their seat belts too.

Garda Seamus let us listen to The Safe Cross Code song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIluoGcCKNg.

He encouraged us to learn the words at school and at home.

We even got to go out and look inside the Garda Van.

Garden Centre Open for Business

Our Garden Centre has opened in Room 11. For the next three weeks we will be 

• Buying flowers and gardening tools.
• Selling flowers and gardening tools.
• Growing Flowers and plants.
• Naming parts of plants and flowers.
• Discussing what plants and flowers need to grow.
• Watering our flowers. 
• Making flowers and gardens through arts and crafts and construction with the blocks and Lego.

Here are some pictures of some of the fun things we did so far.

We built some gardens using blocks and Lego.

We pretended to plant flowers in the sandpit during role play.

We planted seeds of cress, tomatoes and peas in the soil.

We placed our pots on the windowsill so that they would be exposed to the sunlight which helps them grow.

Teddy Bear's Picnic

Due to excellent behaviour and being so good in our lines we were rewarded with a Teddy Bears Picnic. The teddy bears really behaved themselves in room 11 and waited patiently to have a picnic with us. We had lots of fun sharing stories about our teddies and introducing our teddies to other teddy bears.

The Estate Agents

We have been very busy in The Estate Agents for the last three weeks. We have been buying and selling all kinds of houses and learning lots of new vocabulary along the way.

In our art lessons we designed some of our own houses.

Fun with Numeracy

The children have been enjoying playing educational Numeracy games on Topmarks. There are some useful games to help with number recognition, ordering and sequencing numbers and addtion.
Why not try some of the games out at home? :) 
years/countinghttps://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

Our Christmas Play

On Thursday December 14^th Ms. Gorby’s and Ms Lynch’s class went to the stage to do their Christmas Play for the parents.

First the class changed into their costumes in the classroom and then had their faces painted.

Next they sang the songs and said their lines to different characters on the stage.

Lastly the children got sweets and changed out of their costumes.

The children were happy , excited and tired after their play. 

Our Science Experiment on Light

Last week Ms. Lynch’s class wanted to see if things were transparent or opaque in our classroom.

First we traced a sun on the tissue paper. We found out that tissue is good for tracing because it is transparent.

Next we traced a sun on the paper. We found out that the paper isn’t transparent.

Then we traced the sun on tinfoil. Tin foil is bad for tracing because it is not transparent.

Lastly we used greaseproof for tracing the sun. We found out that greaseproof is good for tracing because it is transparent. 

The Maths Trail

Last week Ms. Lynch’s class went to the yard to do Maths outside.

First they went to the senior infant yard. We held hands to see how many people it took to fill the mural.

Next we took steps to see how long the basketball court was.

Lastly we wrote numbers of the cars and the colours of the cars. 

We enjoyed the maths trail. 

First Class Pasta Frames

We were busy on Friday attaching pasta to our page before spraying them with sliver glitter. Our names are inscribed on the inside. We will hang them up outside our classroom this week.

Thursday's Terrific Theatre

Our class really enjoyed the puppet show this week. There were plenty of jokes but our favourite one was about Ms. Leonard. We liked the big bad wolf the best.

100% attendance

Congratulations to Clare and Emma on their attendance this term!

Walk for water

Today we took part in a walk for water. All of the boys and girls took turns carrying a basket of water bottles around the yard. They were heavy and it was tiring but it reminds us all of the people in the world who have to do this every day. We learned how some people do a 6km walk twice a day. We are very lucky to have access to water in Ireland.

Let's go fly a kite!

Today we finished our last stem challenge, to make a kite. We decorated them with our own designs. Our teacher made the frames and helped us to assemble them. It wasnt as windy as we would have liked but we had lots of fun anyway!!

Procedural writing

Want to know how to make your own bucket towers? The boys and girls wrote their own procedures today and included a helpful diagram too! Here is an example of their work..

The reviews are in....

Today we finished our class novel 'James and the Giant Peach'. We wrote book reviews on it and picked our favourite part. But there were so many to choose from. Why not ask us about them?

Happy Mothers Day!!

We celebrate mothers day on Sunday. We are thankful for our mums (and dads) for everything they do for us. Today we made flowers and cards for our mums, grandmothers or godmothers. It was lots of fun!

Bucket towers continued...

Here we see some of the children during the design process. They came across some problems during their work and discussed ways to fix the problem. Didn't they do well!!!

Bucket towers

Today we  made bucket towers using straws, tape, string and plastic cups. We LOVE being engineers in our class. We did ALL of this without any help from teacher. We are getting really good at engineering!!