On Friday we celebrated Oisín Owl's 5th Birthday. We had a great time getting ready for the party. We each made Oisín a birthday card and learned how to sing "Happy Birthday" in Irish. We blew up 5 birthday balloons on the day and got a party hat and some party favours. We had a great time at ths party and Oisín even shared his present of playdough with us! Take a look at our lovely photos below! 

We have had great fun learning all about 3D shapes. We learned the names of 5 new shapes, the cone, cylinder, cube,cuboid and sphere. We had great fun building lots of different towers with 3D shapes. Then we went on a 3D shape hunt around the school and the yard. After our shape hunt we drew the 3D shapes we found with chalk outside. We had so much fun learning in a fun and different way! 

We were recently learning all about how to recycle correctly. We spoke about the different bins we use and what goes in each of them. We then enjoyed taking part in the school's Spring Clean Day. We were assigned to clean up the small yard and the areas around it. We made sure to wear gloves and used litter pickers to pick up any rubbish we found. It is so important to pick up rubbish to take care of our school environment and we had lots of fun doing it too. Have a look through our photos of the day.

We were learning all about printing in art. We had great fun using lots of blocks from our classroom to create some lovely prints. Some of us even turned our prints into pictures of cars and houses. It was so much fun painting in a different way. Take a look at some more photos of us creating our prints below.

As part of our Maths we were learning all about capacity. We had great fun figuring out which cup Múinteoir Sinéad should use to have a drink. We learned that the tallest cup didn't hold the most water it was actually the green cup which looked smaller but held more water because it was fat. 

Over the last four weeks we have been taking part in the Skip Around Europe challenge. We have had so much fun going out everyday practicing our skipping. We have improved so much!! At the beginning of the challenge we were using hula hoops and now we are all skipping with ropes. We love skipping! 

This year we marked World Water Day with a whole school walk to the lakes. We had a great time on our walk and really enjoyed spotting all the different types of nature at the lakes. We saw ducks, swans, water hens, daffodils, a cherry blossom and much more. It was a long walk but everyone did a great job and enjoyed relaxing and colouring in a lake picture when we got back to school. Take a look at our photos from our lake walk. 

World Down Syndrome Day is celebrated on the 21st of March every year. People celebrate by wearing mismatched and colourful socks. We created our own colourful socks in Art to celebrate this important day. We cut out a sock and then splat the paint on our socks using cotton balls and paintrbushes. This was so much fun to do and we all created unique and colourful socks. We displayed the socks in the corridor along with Múinteoir Grace's class. Take a look at the photos of us creating our fabulous socks.

The boys and girls looked amazing all dressed up for Lá Glas today! We also created some Irish themed art using a new painting method called "scrape painting". Take a look at the pictures below to see how we created our St.Patricks Day art. 

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh go léir!☘️

We had great fun celebrating World Book Day this year. We really enjoyed dressing up as our favourite book characters and sharing our favourite books with the class. We had great fun all day making our bookmarks, listening to teacher reading books and taking part in our book quiz and scavenger hunt. We especially loved when teacher put all the books on the tables for us to hunt for different words and pictures. Múinteoir Cathal came to our class for the teacher swap and shared his favourite books with us! We loved listening to Múinteoir Cathal reading "Giraffes Can't Dance" and "Superworm" and he even read some of the books we brought in. Take a look at our photos to see the fun we had! 

We had great fun celebrating Engineers Week in our school recently. First we talked about what an engineer was and found out there were lots of different types. We then listened to the story "Rosie Revere Engineer". We loved all of Rosie's inventions however our favourite was the snake repelling hat. We decided to make our own hats. First we designed the hats on paper and then created the hats using lots of the arts and craft supplies in our room. We came up with great ideas to keep the snakes away including having tickly feathers on our hats or lollipop sticks to poke the snakes away some of the hats even had tails or fake snakes on them to act as a decoy to frighten the snakes away. We had great fun making these hats and took them home with us just in case a snake should try and frighten us there!

This month we have been learning all about winter. We learned about winter weather, winter clothes and today we were talking about winter food. We brainstormed all the foods and treats we might eat during winter. The children spoke about gingerbread men as one of the treats we see during winter. We learned that ginger is a winter food because it has a nice warm feeling when you eat it. We also learned that gingerbread men began a long time ago when the Queen of England was having a party and shaped her ginger cookies like her guests. We then imagined we were bakers designing our gingerbread men with a drawing activity. We all thought that was the end of the lesson however Múinteoir Sinéad and Múinteoir Blanka suprised us with REAL gingerbread men and treats to decorate them just like our pictures. We had so much fun making our tasty treats. A big special thank you to Múinteoir Blanka for baking the gingerbread for us, we loved it! Take a look at our pictures below. 

Well done to Zeiya and Gabriel who both recieved an Ethos award at this months assembly. Both Zeiya and Gabriel have worked really hard in class and always include others in their games and activities. Keep up the great work! 

We had so much fun doing our experiments during Science Week this year. We created rainbows using skittles, made raisins dance in 7-Up and had great fun watching the Diet Coke explode when we put Mentos in the bottle. Take a look at our photos from the week below.

Today we had our Fancy Dress Friday. Everyone wore fabulous costumes as you can see in the picture and thanks to all the mammies and daddies who helped. The boys and girls had a great day wearing our costumes and doing some arts and crafts. 

As today marks the beginning of our October mid-term I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a lovely break. For those who may be celebrating Halloween and/or Diwali over the break I hope you enjoy these celebrations. I am looking forward to more fun and learning when we return in November. Happy Mid-Term!

I was delighted to welcome all the boys and girls to Junior Infants at the end of August. They all settled into school so well and we have been so busy learning all about our school and ourselves for the month of September. On the very first day of school we took our photos and coloured in our very special names. We spoke about all the things we liked about school at the end of our first week and made our "Welcome to Junior Infants" display.