Junior Infant January News
Junior Infants have been very busy since coming back to school for the new year. This month, we are learning all about keeping healthy! We spent two weeks learning all about sports and exercise and now, we are learning about healthy foods.
We discussed different sports and games that we like to play. We learned about new sports also. Billy the Bear told us a story about his favourite sports and places that he plays them. We all picked our favourite place to play and drew a picture of it. Here is a picture of our beautiful drawings!
During Aistear, we completed lots of activity stations based on sports and exercise. Here is some of our class at the language station. Here, we explored lots of different sports. We played matching games and guessing games. It was alot of fun!
For this fortnight, our Aistear activities are based on Healthy Eating. We have been exploring foods that are good for us and that help to keep us strong and healthy.
We made jigsaws that showed pictures of different food stands
We painted pictures of fruit bowls filled will all different kinds of fruit.
We used playdough to make all kinds of food shapes.
We completed cutting and sticking activities based on healthy foods.
Gaeilge
D'éisteamar don scéal 'An Tornapa Mór'. Chuireamar na pictiúirí san ord ceart agus ansin, bhí dráma againn leis na puipéidí.
S.E.S.E
As we learned all about food, we also looked at how people cooked food in the past. We looked at pictures of kitchens long ago and talked about how our kitchens today are very different. We looked at how butter was churned long ago. Then, we carried out our own experiment to see if we could make our own butter!
Maths tasks
We learned all about the number 4. We sang songs about the number four, practiced writing the number 4 in lots of different ways and played lots of counting games. Here are some pictures of us making groups of 4 using cubes, lollipop sticks and counters. We were very good at counting out groups of 4.
We learned all about 3D shapes. We played lots of sorting games, learned a song about 3D shapes and had a shape hunt. We even made our own cylinders and cubes!
Jolly Phonics
This month, we have started to learn our Jolly Phonics Tricky Words. We play lots of games to help us learn our new words. Every week, we learn two new words. We love practicing writing them on our smart pal boards.
Special Events
Visit from the Defence Forces
We received our Irish flag from the defence forces this month. It was a very exciting day. We each made our own Irish flags in preparation for the day. We gathered with the rest of the school in the hall to welcome our special visitors and our national flag.
History Story Telling
We had a special visitor in the school last week who told us lots of interesting history stories. We had lots of fun listening to stories with the Senior Infants. It was very funny and we loved the stories about Cú Chulainn.
Journey in the Jungle
This month, Junior infants have started an exciting programme to help develop gross motor and fine motor skills. We complete new activities every week for this programme. The programme is based on a Jnugle adventure story and children complete lots of activities and movements as part of the story. It is lots of fun and we are developing lotss of skills.
Here we are reaching up high to get our suitcases which we need for our adventure!
Here we are curled up for our rest before we begin our Journey to the Jungle.
We made our own jungle maps.
We pretended to be animals playing in the jungle. We practiced rolling the ball and throwing and catching. It was lots of fun!
