First of all, a very warm welcome to our new Junior Infants; Liam, Eoin, Amy and Zoe. Of course not forgetting our new students in Seniors Infants and First class; Amelia and Alannah. Lots of new friends to play and work with this year!
We’ve been busy at both work and play for the past few weeks. At any given time you’ll find us playing ‘teachers’ to improve our adding or playing maths games on our interactive whiteboard. We LOVE our new Gaeilge programme ‘Bua na Cainte’. We’ve learned lots of rhymes as Gaeilge and are trying to use gaeilge more and more during the day at school. We’ve practised our letter formation using ‘magic fingers’ in the air, drawing sounds in our paint bags, using our playdough and even writing in shaving foam!
We’re starting to learn more about Autumn and added spice to our paint this week to create Autumn leaves that look AND smell really good!
We’ve started learning how to play tin whistle! We’re getting to know which hand goes on top and how to cover the holes on the whistle properly. Famous musicians in the making in our classroom!
We’ve also danced our socks off with GoNoodle; especially on a rainy day when we need to burn off some energy! We’ve played lots of games during PE. Our favourite is Sharks and Fish. You’ve to ‘swim’ very fast or you’ll get caught by one of the hungry sharks!
Our play stations are back in action this year too. So far we’ve been busy building amazing creations with our blocks, cooking up a storm in our kitchen, diving into the world of our imagination in the reading area, playing ‘families’ in the dolls house and making a big mess in the sandpit! We’re looking forward to the new stations coming up in October!
Our first class are very busy each evening when the Juniors and Seniors go home. We’ve made playdough, tested the best road surface to drive on, learned about the ‘Penney farthing bicycle’ and much more! Just this week we went on a nature walk to look for signs of Autumn! We collected lots of natural materials which we then used to make beautiful Autumn wreaths.
It’s been a busy few weeks but we’ve all had lots of fun and are looking forward to creating more exciting memories in the coming months!