March 2023
Junior and Senior Infants joined Third and Fourth Class in the Siege of Ennis as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge.
January 2024
Patterns
During the first two weeks of the new term, Junior Infants were learning about shapes. we completed the two weeks by revisiting patterns. The children created patterns using a variety of resources, copying patterns and also creating their own.
January 2024
Aistear in Action
For January, our topic is Houses and Homes. During Aistear the children were creating various types of homes together.
Happy
Christmas!
December 2023
The children were rewarded with a movie and popcorn! 🙂
November 2023-
3d Shapes
In the final week of November we learnt about 3d shapes. We went on a 3d shape hunt looking out for cubes, cuboids, cylinders and spheres!
Science Week 2023
We carried out a number of experiments indoors and outdoors. Here are two recorded experiments. In pairs, the children explored classroom objects with magnets. Outside we observed an explosive experiment involving Mentos and diet coke!
November 2023:
Fine Motor Skills- The children worked together to create a ‘road’ that meandered around the classroom. Some decided to use the blocks to see how wide the classroom was!
Happy Halloween!!
October 2023-
Signs of Autumn
We took a walk around the school looking for signs of Autumn using our tick sheets.
October 2023
A Visiting Artist
The children experienced a creative workshop organised by Meath County Council. Children’s author and illustrator Tatyana Feeney guided the kids in a Monster Doodle Workshop. Tatyana started the workshop by reading one of her books and then led a creative activity.
October ’23: Maths
During October, the children focused on size, length, height, width and weight. This activity the senior infants were given challenge sheets to determine which sets of objects were heavier and lighter.
Our School Office!
Towards the end of September, our topic was ‘Our School’. Our role play area was a school office and part of this topic we interviewed our school secretary Bernie!
September 2023 Fine Motor Skill Activities Every morning, the children start the day with fine motor skill activities.
Early Literacy/ Music
The children took part in a listening walk outdoors around the school. They used mallets to listen to and imitate familiar sounds in the immediate environment from varying sources.
Senior Infants 2023/ 2024
Welcome back!
Ready to learn!!
Meet our Junior Infants Class of 2023/ 2024!
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!
Our School Year 2021/2022
Maths – 12th May 2022
Today in Maths, we were revising patterns.
The children created their own patterns using a variety of resources.
The Zoo
With the introduction of our new topic, The Zoo, the children busied themselves making animals masks for the role play area.
The Garden Centre – April 2022
During the topic of the Garden Centre, we went on a mini beast hunt around the school
Playtime Concert!
Garden Centre – March 2022
During the month of March, our topic was the Garden Centre. During this time the children planted seeds. In these pictures, the children planted grass seeds. First decorating the cups, placing the soil and seeds on top and finally watering them. They happily took them home before the Easter Holidays.
Aistear
During Aistear the children created Spring art.
World Book Day 2022
The pupils from Junior and Senior Infants dressed up as characters from their favourite books to celebrate World Book Day and the Scholastic Book Fair visiting our school.
Spring 2022
Spring has definitely sprung is our Junior and Senior Infants Classroom.
The children made lambs, chicks and daffodils to brighten up our corridor.
Well done everyone your Spring display looks fabulous!
SESE – Winter Theme
During the month of December 2021 the students in Junior and Senior infants created pieces of art based on the SESE topic of Winter.
- Evergreen trees using chalk on black paper;
- Designed and decorated mittens;
- Dressed a bear for Winter using fabric;
- Created their own advent wreaths.
Some examples of all their great works of Winter Art can be seen here.
Shape Hunt
This week (29/11/2021) we were learning about 3D shapes. We went on a shape hunt around the school, with our clip boards and tick sheets on the look out for cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders and cones.
We also investigated shapes and their properties, to discover shapes that roll and shapes that cannot roll!
Happy Face Biscuits
For the month of November we were learning about procedural writing in Literacy.
We listed the ingredients and followed the steps to make ‘Happy Face Biscuits!’ Yum!
Halloween 2021
Take a look at some of the scary outfits Junior and Senior Infants wore for Halloween before the mid term break!
Halloween 2021
We had great fun dressing up in our Halloween Costumes and taking part in the Halloween Parade.
Nature Walk
We all enjoyed a nature walk around the school today, looking for signs of autumn. Look at all the lovely leaves we found!
School Year 2020 – 2021
PE
Junior and Senior Infants enjoying using the parachute during PE.
STEM projects:
Here in Junior and Senior Infants we are so creative and love a challenge.
We were tasked with a number of stem projects such as designing robots, creating animal enclosures, writing our names in 3D and building bridges. We loved doing all of them!
Oíche Shamhna:
Maths Week October 2020:
We love to play and learn maths – so we decided to do both for Maths Week!
We played with jigsaws, explored counting books and played our favourite maths game ‘Reach for the Stars’
Science Week 2020/21:
Junior and Senior Infants were busy doing a Skittles Experiment for Science Week!
We learned that the shells of skittles are made of sugar.
When the sugar was put in warm water, it dissolved.
This caused the colours to mix and create new colours. We had lots of fun 🙂
Lollipop stick friendship puppets by Junior and Senior Infants
The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas