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Welcome to Ms. Wheeler's Junior and Senior Infants!
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Aistear: China
We have been learning about Chinese New Year. We had great fun in the Chinese Restaurant. We made lanterns in art. The children used images of Beijing and Hong Kong to build cities using 3D blocks. They made chinese food using playdough and everyone loved doing show and tell of their 3D block cities.
Messy fun making Clay Penguins!
As part of our Aistear Theme, The Polar Regions, we made clay Penguins. We had great messy fun! We enjoyed playing with the clay and maaking our own creations afterwards. We patiently waited for thw clay to dry fully before we painted them a week later. There were a few penguins who needed repair but they all looked lovely after some glue was used to put them back together! We took our time and used small brushes to paint them white, orange and black.
Literacy Stations in Infants
Aistear: The Arctic and Antartica
We are learning all about The Polar Regions. We painted Polar Bears using white and black paint and learned one colour is dark and the other colour is light. We learned all about how Polar Bears keep warm when swimming in the cold water. We put butter and cotton wool into a ziplock bag to create blubber and fur. We took turns and placed our hand inside the bag and then into some icy water and our other hand straight into the icy water. We could feel which hand felt colder!
We enjoyed playing with the animals in the Arctic and Antartica small world that we made. We built some igloos using sugar cubes which tied in nicely with learning 3D shapes in Maths. We learned about the lifecycle of Penguins. We had lots of fun with clay! It got a bit messy but we loved it! We made clay penguins and then we had time to make anything we liked.
We enjoyed some books about Polar regions with our toast and juice in the mornings. And used these books during literacy stations to search for tricky words.
We enjoyed playing with the animals in the Arctic and Antartica small world that we made. We built some igloos using sugar cubes which tied in nicely with learning 3D shapes in Maths. We learned about the lifecycle of Penguins. We had lots of fun with clay! It got a bit messy but we loved it! We made clay penguins and then we had time to make anything we liked.
We enjoyed some books about Polar regions with our toast and juice in the mornings. And used these books during literacy stations to search for tricky words.
We are learning about 3D shapes:
Cube🎲🧊 Cuboid📦 🧱 Sphere🌎⚽and Cylinder
We sorted 3D shapes on the yard into the correct hoops.
We had fun with some marshmallows and cocktail sticks when we tried to make some 3D cubes
…marshmallows were mysteriously disappearing 😊🤣
We also tried our best to make a sphere, cylinder and a cube using our playdough. It was tricky but we did a great job!
🧩🧩Jigsaw time!🧩🧩
We love jigsaws in Infants. They help us with our concentration and thinking skills!
We are getting so quick at 4, 6 ,8,and 12 piece jigsaws our teacher will have to go and find some new ones with more pieces!
We are getting so quick at 4, 6 ,8,and 12 piece jigsaws our teacher will have to go and find some new ones with more pieces!
Working hard learning and revising some Jolly Phonics sounds.
Matching upper and lower case letters Aa Bb Cc
We love our new courtyard!
It was cold! but we wrapped up and had some playtime out in the courtyard. We played in the new house and on the bridge. We brought out a few toys to play with our friends. We cannot wait for the good weather when we can be out in the courtyard much much more!
Christmas time in Junior and Senior Infants
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The children decorated the Christmas tree in our classroom and made some lovely cards for their families. We made the nativity scene during art and listened to the nativity story. We had Christmas jumper day and watched the Pantomime on the big screen with some treats.
Yard Time! 😊
Yard time just got even better!
We love our yard time with our friends and now we have some lovely new games we can play with when we are outside!
We love our yard time with our friends and now we have some lovely new games we can play with when we are outside!
Skipping Workshop with Mark from skipnrope
Thanks to Mark from skipnrope for coming into our school to teach us how to use our skipping ropes.
It was a lovely morning and the children had great fun!
It was a lovely morning and the children had great fun!
🟩🟣🔺🟠Outdoor Fun with 2D Shapes 🟥🟡🔺⚫
We have been learning about 2D shapes. We went outside on a cold but dry day and sorted circles, squares, triangles and rectangles into hoops!
Science Week in Infants
We enjoyed science week in Infants!
Halloween Fun! 🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻
We had a lovely time in Tymon Park on our witches walk!
Welcome to our wonderful new Junior Infants! 😊
We welcomed our wonderful new Junior Infants to Scoil Íosa in September and they have been having lots of fun and working very hard!
Active Week! Sports Day!
What a great sunny 🌞🌞🌞🌞day we had for sports day! The children had a wonderful time and a lot of fun! They played parachute games, completed an obstacle course, played field games, bench ball and a water race! We had nice cold drinks and jellies to cool down!
🐖🐑🐇Mobile Pet Farm Visit🐖🐑🐇
We couldn't go on a school tour again this year but we had a lovely mobile pet farm come to us! We held rabbits and fed a lamb some milk and Winston the piglet was a firm favourite!
Active Week! Dance Class with Nadia!
The Junior and Senior Infants had great fun learning some new dance skills with Nadia. They had so much fun!
Active Week Athletics🥇🥈🥉🏃♀️🏃♂️
We started off our Active week with some races for the boys and girls. Well done to everyone for taking part!
Show and Tell!
Junior and Senior Infants always love to bring in their favourite toys to school for show and tell but this year we had to do it differently! The children emailed a picture and then used the picture for show and tell on the big screen instead! They loved telling their friends about their toys and pets! They also loved answering questions from their class!
Tymon Park
It was a lovely sunny day so we took a trip to Tymon Park and had ice-pops!
Aistear: The Birthday Party!🎈
We had great fun setting up our theme of The Birthday Party! We made cupcakes at the art group.We built playzones,bowling alleys and jumpzones with 3D Blocks. We really loved playing with the birthday cake and decorating the cupcakes and cookies!
🍀Watercress Planting🍀
Aistear: The Vet
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We are enjoying our theme The Vet! We love animals in our classroom and we have enjoyed playing in role as the vet and bringing our sick animals to the vet for treatment. We built animal homes such as kennels, bunny hutches and we also built the vets surgery with X-Ray machines, beds and waiting rooms. We took phone call messages before the animals arrived at the surgery and gave the animals very special care when they arrived.
Saint Patrick's Day celebrations in Junior and Senior Infants
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Junior and Senior Infants wore their eadaí glasa to school to celebrate St.Patrick's Day.
They had great fun making green, white and orange link chains and green shamrocks.
They had great fun making green, white and orange link chains and green shamrocks.
Junior Infants have been forming their letters in playdough
and practicing writing them on their whiteboards.
Aistear : The Farm
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We have been learning all about the farm in Aistear. We played in the farm shop, built farms with 3D Blocks for the animals. We listened to lots of farm stories and one of our favourite stories was The Pig in the Pond. The children used blue card for water and all the animals went for a swim in Nelligan's Pond!
Our Aistear Theme : Bears! 🐻🐼🐻🐼
We learned all about different types of Bears! We looked at and listened to lots of different stories about bears. Our favourite books were Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? and We're Going on Bear Hunt! We looked at Panda Bears, Brown Bears and Black Bears. We learned about what they ate and where they lived. We found out which Cartoon Bear was the most popular in our class. We played in role as Doctors and Nurses in the Teddy Bears Hospital, we set up a Teddys Bear Picnic and we made a Bears Cave to play in! We also made story maps of We're going on a Bear Hunt for Art! We had great fun and we loved it!
Halloween Fun!
There was lots of fun and excitement when we came into school dressed up for Halloween! There were lots of great costumes, some lovely party bags full of treats 🍬🍭🍫🧁 and we had some free play time with our friends. We watched a Halloween cartoon at the end of the day and had a great time. We even went on a walk outside around all the classroom windows to show off our costumes! 👻☠👹🕸🕷👀🎃
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Time for some Voting in Infants!
We had a vote to see which Halloween Movie we should watch! We discussed what we knew about voting and decided it was a fair way to choose which movie we should watch. Next, we all took a vehicle from the tub and then we placed our vehicle on the picture of the movie we would like to see. Finally, we counted the vehicles to see which Movie got the most votes. We said: Better Luck Next Time! to the group with the least votes and we said Well Done That's Great! to the group who got the most votes. |
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Junk Art!
We love junk art in the infant classroom! We love to cut, tape and stick and design our own creations. We also love a Junk Art station during Aistear and we try to make items related to our theme of the week. To help us gain our Green School Flag we took all our Junk art collection and emptied it onto the floor and began to create anything we wanted! It was messy but we are great at cleaning up as a team! We got stickers for sharing and helping our friends too.
Morning Activities!
Most mornings you will find us working on our fine motor skills which help build strength in our little hands! We love some of the activities and find some of them can be tricky! We use water droppers and coloured paint, threading (not a favourite!) pegboards and pictures, Pom Pom Pinching, nuts and bolts and lots more!
Maths is Fun!
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Junior and Senior Infants have been busy ! They have been having fun with Maths activities! They have been learning about two and three colour patterns, colour sorting and matching and making 2D shape pictures. Of course we always have a few minutes to just play with the concrete materials after we have our work completed!
Engineers Week
Build a Bridge Challenge!
As part of Engineers week we used some of our Aistear time for some engineering challenges! The Infants first challenge was to draw, design and build a bridge. Some worked alone and some worked in groups or pairs. They used 3D Blocks, Lego and pieces of card. They did a great job!
As part of Engineers week we used some of our Aistear time for some engineering challenges! The Infants first challenge was to draw, design and build a bridge. Some worked alone and some worked in groups or pairs. They used 3D Blocks, Lego and pieces of card. They did a great job!
Engineers Week: Rapunzel Challenge!
Another challenge set for for Engineers Week was connected to the story Rapunzel. We read the story and then the children were set a challenge. How can you help Rapunzel down from her tower? She no longer has her long hair and is not waiting on the Prince. How will she escape?
We had some great ideas! Jump out onto a trampoline or bouncing castle, build a slide, a zipline or a ladder and we even had an axe made to chop down the door and walk down the stairs of the tower!
Another challenge set for for Engineers Week was connected to the story Rapunzel. We read the story and then the children were set a challenge. How can you help Rapunzel down from her tower? She no longer has her long hair and is not waiting on the Prince. How will she escape?
We had some great ideas! Jump out onto a trampoline or bouncing castle, build a slide, a zipline or a ladder and we even had an axe made to chop down the door and walk down the stairs of the tower!
Science!
Floating and Sinking and Magic Milk!
We chose some items from the classroom and predicted if they would sink or float!
We all had a turn at the rainbow milk experiment!
We used milk, food colouring and some washing up liquid. Magic milk!
We all had a turn at the rainbow milk experiment!
We used milk, food colouring and some washing up liquid. Magic milk!
World Book Day!
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We were all very excited for World Book Day here in Junior and Senior Infants! We could not wait to go to the Book Fair and look at the books! We dressed up as some of our favourite characters from some of our favourite stories !
Happy Halloween!
Aistear
We have Aistear time everyday and we play in our groups at different stations. All the junior and senior infants play together. There is sand, make believe, playdough, junk art and construction. We have set up a doctors surgery in our class this month. Every day we play and everyone has a different job. It's so much fun!
Our Autumn Art
Us junior infants have been very busy having lots of fun, going on nature walks and making art. We made dingle dangle scarecrows, an autumn tree, hedgehogs, self portraits and scary Halloween bats.
Castles
Junior and Senior Infants designed and made castles using recycled materials.
Volcanic Eruptions
Maths Trail
Imaginosity-
Engineers Week
Junior and Senior Infants visited Imaginosity to take part in a workshop during Engineers' week.
The Teddy Bears Hospital
Senior Infants brought their favourite teddy to school to take part in our Teddy Bear Hospital. We had a visit from a nurse called Mark who chatted to us about the importance of healthy eating, looking after our bodies and visiting the doctor. Everyone had great fun looking after their sick and injured teddy bears. We would like to thank Mark for taking time to visit Scoil Íosa.
Rainbow Rice
Maths Trail
Eggstravaganza - April 2015
Senior Infants had great fun decorating their eggs as part of our Easter Competition.
Houses and Homes
Senior Infants designed and built their dream home, using recycled materials, as part of the 'Houses and Homes' theme.
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Hedgehogs
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