Grandparents Day

We recently celebrated Grandparents Day by inviting our Grannies and Granddad's to visit our school. We had lots of different activities in all of the classes. 

Junior and Senior Infants

We were delighted to have our Grandparents visit us at school. we played puzzles and games. we made beautiful cards for our grandparents and sang a song for them.

1st Class 

In 1st class we played card games and puzzles and we also showed our Grandparents how to use an ipad app!

2nd Class

2nd Class enjoyed entertaining our visitors with board games. We had a brilliant day!

 3rd & 4th Class

Our Grandparents taught us how to play card games. We really enjoyed learning to play a variety of games with cards! We also wrote acrostic poems for Granny and Grandad

 5th & 6th Class

We had a great time showing our Grandparents our projects on the ipads, playing chess and draughts and interviewing them about school long ago!

March and April Acvities in Junior and Senior Infants

March and April Activities in Junior and Senior Infants

Junior and Senior Infants learned all about occasions such as St. Patrick's day and Easter over the month of March and the beginning of April.

Ireland and St. Patrick

 We completed lots of fun activities based around our learning theme of 'Ireland'. We learned all about the St. Patrick as part of our Religion and History. In geography, we looked at the map of Ireland and found Meath and Cavan on the map. In Irish, we were busy learning St. Patrick's day songs and words and in PE we even learned 'An damhsa mór' and 'an Dreolín', aswell as participating in GAA activities every Thursday morning.  We explored how people celebrate St. Patrick's day in Ireland and our Aistear stations were also based around St. Patrick's day. As part of this, we made St. Patrick's day hats which turned out really well.

In our science, we learned about the parts of a plant and what plants need to grow. We planted our very own sunflower seeds and watched them begin to grow. Just before Easter, they were growing so tall that we each brought our own pot home.

Easter

As part of getting ready for Easter, we learned all about the life cycle of a chick. We red the story of the Little Red hen and sequenced it as part of our history. We designed maps of the little red hen's farm as part of our geography and sequenced the stages in the life cycle of a chick for our science. We learned a song about a Spring Chicken as part of our Music. Just before Easter, a special visitor arrived in our school when she hatched out of her shell just before the Easter break. There was great excitement when the chick hatched.

Our Aistear activities were all based around the Easter theme as well. We made lovely Easter baskets made from clay and on the last day of school before the holidays, they were filled with Easter treats!



February News from Junior and Senior Infants

February News from Junior and Senior Infants

We learned all about Spring this month, participated in Operation Transformation 10@10, celebrated Valentines day and marked Pancake Tuesday, the last day of the month by having a pancake party. We had a really great time!

We learned all about............ Spring!

This month, we learned all about the Signs of Spring in geography and we learned about the life cycle of the frog in science. We read the big book of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' as part of our English and we sequenced the different parts of the story in history. Our Aistear was based all around the topic of Spring and we completed many different Spring time play activities.

Physical play - play dough station

Creative play - Spring flowers and rainbows

Language play - Spring bingo

Jigsaws

Socio - dramatic play - The Garden Centre

Maths - We learned all about Time

In our maths this month, we were learning all about the seasons and days of the week. We talked about daily routines and sequenced daily routines in groups.

Gaeilge - Éadaí

We learned the Irish for various clothes, as well as some songs and poems in Irish. We made our own clothes line and played various games and activities based on 'Éadaí'.

English - The Very Hungry Caterpillar

As part of our English this month, we focused on the big book of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. We sequenced the story, explored our favourite parts and created a character profile of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Science - The Life Cycle of a frog

In groups, we sequenced pictures to tell the story of The Life Cycle of a Frog.

Religion

In religion, we learned about the signs of Spring and thanked God for all of the signs of Spring and new life at Spring time.

Operation Transformation 10 @ 10

We participated in Operation transformations 10@10.  We followed the video on Operation Transformation and really enjoyed getting active.

Valentines Day Art activities

To celebrate Valentines day, we made some Valentines Bears and Valentines Day cards. They turned out great!

Pancake Tuesday

On Pancake Tuesday, we had a pancake party to mark the last day before lent. We all gathered in a circle and ate some pancakes while listening to a story about the Big Pancake.