Our School Year 2022/ 2023
Looking into the Summer!
Junior and Senior Infants created art work depicting their summer adventures.
Wellbeing Week:
During Wellbeing Week, the children engaged in some relaxation and breathing outdoors with the lovely Dearbhla Grall, Recharge Yoga.
Topic- Airport
During the month of June, the topic in Junior and Senior Infants was the Airport. To complete the topic, the children ‘took a flight’. They went to the check in desk, went through security, got on their flight, watched some inflight entertainment while enjoying some light refreshments!
Maths- Capacity
With Ms Mulvaney the children investigated the concept of capacity. They compared and ordered containers according to capacity.
Signs of Summer!
At the beginning of June, Junior and Senior Infants went on a walk around the school grounds, looking for signs of summer using their tick sheet, drawing their own signs of summer also.
Pride of Place: May 2023
Junior and Senior Infants went on a wild flower hunt. We counted how many daises, dandelions and clovers were in small areas in the grass. After that we helped out the dandelions by blowing the seeds
As part of our topic, The Emergency Services, we received a visit from Garda Gerry. Garda Gerry let us try on the Garda hat. He passed around the handcuffs to everyone. We gave us colouring pages to colour. He kindly gifted us Garda bags. We waved him off with the sirens blaring!!
When we returned in April after the Easter Holidays we began learning about a new topic, The Emergency Services. In our art lesson, the children mixed red and yellow to create a fiery background. They created a fire engine and glued it to the page.
April showers bring May flowers!
Happy Easter 2023!
Maths– We are learning directional language- left and right, forward and backwords. We used the beebots to help us learn about directions!
March 2023
We had an impromptu St Patrick’s Day Parade during Aistear. The children created flags and hats, singing ‘Lá le Pádraig atá ann.’
Pancake Tuesday/ Shrove Tuesday
In the morning, the children completed a cutting and sticking activity, pasting various toppings on their pancake pictures. In the afternoon, the children decorated their pancakes with toppings (honey, marshmallows, sprinkles) and ate them before home time. We chatted a little about what happens in other countries on Pancake Tuesday.
Happy Valentines Day!!
February 2023
During this month we focused on the storybook Handa’s Surprise and Kenya, Africa. To complete the topic, the children tasted some fruit. After that we made smoothies and tasted those also. Yum!
February 2023
Morning Activities on St Brigid’s Day!
Happy New Year!
Chinese New Year 2023
December 2022: 3D shapes
This month we were learning about 3d shapes: cuboids, cubes, cylinders and spheres. We went on shape hunts in school and at home. We discovered that shapes are everywhere!! We also made our own 3d shapes using plasticine and sticks.
November 2022:
Fine Motor Skills
Every morning, upon arriving to school, Junior and Senior Infants engage in ‘funky fingers’ activities. It gives them an opportunity to revisit a concept previously covered, practise their writing and/or scissor cutting skills while focusing on the current topic!
November 2022- Maths
During November, we focused on patterns. We made patterns using a variety of maths resources.
November 2022: Science Week
During Science Week, Junior and Senior Infants completed a number of science experiments, with some explosive results!!
Halloween 2022
For Halloween, we dressed up in superheroes, fairies, ninja’s and clowns! We celebrated Halloween with a parade outside.
September 2022:
International Dot Day!
After reading the storybook, The Dot, the class created their own ‘dot’ painting. ‘You can beautiful art with just DOTS!
September 2022:
During September, Junior Infants engaged in early mathematical activities, while Senior Infants revisited numbers 0- 5.
September 2022:
Aistear in Action!
September 2022:
The Colour Monster
by Anna Llenas
In September, Senior Infants read the story, The Colour Monster. One day, Colour Monster wakes up with his emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through colour. After reading the story, Senior Infants created their own colour monsters.
Senior Infants 2022/2023
Welcome back!
Ready to learn!!
Meet our Junior Infants Class of 2022/2023!
