Ms. Murphy

September

Sounds

We have started learning our sounds using Jolly Phonics. You can listen to the sounds here: www.jollylearning.co.uk/resource-bank/learn-the-letter-sounds/

You can find the actions for the sounds here:

You will find the song for each sound in Group 1 here. Please note each song is played twice.

GYMNASTICS

We really enjoyed our first week of gymnastics!

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

To get ready for learning to write we have been doing lots of activities to strengthen our fingers. It has been lots of fun!

ART

We have lots of budding artists in Junior Infants! This month we painted/printed our names, we painted bowls for the three bears from Goldilocks and filled them with porridge, we have drawn our self portraits (using mirrors to make sure we drew our features the correct way and used the correct colours for our eyes, hair, etc.) and we even created cave paintings after listening to the story Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson.

P.E.

In P.E. we have been working on our balancing, throwing and catching skills.

lego six bricks

In our class we are using a programme called Lego Six Bricks. Everybody in the class has a set of six Lego bricks and throughout the year we will be using Lego Six Bricks to develop our perceptual, numeracy, literacy, physical and social-emotional skills. Below you will find some photos of one of the Six Bricks activities we did in class this month. We divided into pairs and put a schoolbag between each pair to act as a barrier. One partner built a tower using their Lego and described to their partner how they were building the tower, e.g. red on the bottom, yellow on top, then green, etc. The other person in the pair tried to build the same tower by listening to their partner and following their directions! Once finished each pair compared their towers to see if they had built identical towers. We worked on so many skills while doing this activity (e.g. colour awareness, describing, listening, following instructions, sequencing, etc.) and best of all we had so much fun while doing it!

IRISH

This month in Irish our theme has been 'Ar Scoil' (At School). We have enjoyed playing Irish games and chatting with our partners in Irish too. Below you will find some of the new words we have been learning and also a sheet showing the pronunciation of the words.

maths

In Maths we have been learning to sort materials by colour, size and object.

HISTORY

As part of our work in History we created a time capsule. We each had an envelope and in it we put a photo of our first day at school, a piece of string measuring our height and a drawing of our favourite things (colour, food and toy). We then put our envelopes into a box, sealed the box and put it up high out of reach! We will open it again in June to see how we have grown and changed during our year in Junior Infants.