APRIL
Irish dancing
March
LÁ GLAS
World Book Day
The boys and girls in Junior Infants were very excited to dress up as their favourite character for World Book Day. They brought in their favourite books to read with their buddies in 5th Class.
planting
February
Crazy hair day
Pancake Tuesday
We had lots of excitement in the Junior Infant classes with the arrival of Pancake Tuesday. We made some batter together and chose our favourite toppings for our pancakes. They were delicious.
January
Jolly phonics - Group 3
High frequency words |
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Science
Ms Crowley's Junior Infants were exploring the Strand Unit 'Heat' in the Strand, 'Energy and Forces'. We had explored a lot of sources of heat and identified things that are hot/cold in our homes and in our classroom. We wanted to investigate which part of the classroom was the hottest so we did an ice-cube experiment. We looked at lots of different areas in the classroom where it was likely that an ice-cube would melt and these are the three places we said we would experiment with: radiator, inside a coat, under the hot tap. Everybody made predictions and placed their own bag of ice-cubes in the location they thought would be the hottest. The hot tap had the best results as it melted the ice-cubes the fastest. We filled out our predictions and results on our SESE booklet.
decEMBER
Posting our Christmas Cards
The boys and girls spent a long time making and writing Christmas cards for their parents. They practised all the cursive letters they know. We took a trip to the local Post Office to buy some stamps and post them in time for Christmas!
Preparing for Christmas
Junior Infants exchanged Christmas cars with their 5th Class buddies.
NOVEMBER
The Three Little Pigs
The children loved their group roleplays to retell the story of 'The Three Little Pigs' in History and Drama.
Our Homes
Junior Infants have been learning all about homes in Geography this month. They designed their own homes, they sorted furniture into the correct rooms and they described their own homes to their classmates.
Nursery Rhymes
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Blending- gROUP 1
Blending - Group 1 and 2
Group 2 Sounds
OCTOBER
Getting ready for Hallowe'en
Planting Daffodils
meeting our buddies
A special visitor
Gymnastics
Autumn Walk
September
First days in junior infants
Jolly Phonics
Group 1 (s,a,t,i,p,n)
Phonological awareness Games
Counting words in a sentence
Counting Syllables
Rhyme
Nursery Rhymes
Here are the nursery rhymes we have started to learn in class. We have been busy picking out some of the rhyming words in the sentences. We are also sequencing the rhymes. We discuss what happened first, next, then and last.
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No-Uniform day
The children in Scoil Bhríde held a no-uniform day to collect money for those affected by the flooding and destruction of homes in Libya. Here are a few of our Junior Infants in their normal clothes!
When i was a baby!
The boys and girls brought in some baby photos and compared them to what they look like now. We had fun guessing who was who!
Tall and short
We have been learning words to describe the size of something - tall, short, narrow and wide.
Sorting by colour and sorting by size
The Junior Infants have been learning how to sort objects into categories. We have looked at size and colour so far.