Wishing you a happy and peaceful Christmas!

We were very excited on Thursday when Santa came to visit us. Check out our photos!

Christmas

We love Christmas! Here is one of our favourite Christmas songs 

We also love Little Snowflake. Hope you like it too!

Birthday Girls

Happy Birthday to two wonderful little girls!

                                                     Natalie

Rihanna

Aistear

We have just finished our Aistear topic Jack and the Beanstalk. Check our our photos and see what we have been up to!

Bedtime Story Night

I hope you all enjoyed our Bedtime Story Night.
Thank you very much for coming back to school on such a cold and windy evening.
It was lovely to meet so many mums and dads.

Aistear

  Our Aistear topic is Jack and the Beanstalk.

   

We like singing this song about Jack. We hope you enjoy it too!

Shared Reading

 We had a fun and enjoyable time on Thursday with the wonderful girls from fifth class who have very kindly agreed to work with us on a Shared Reading project.
We all worked very hard at becoming more aware of the concepts about print.

We begin reading here and go in this direction

Concepts About Print are the things a child needs to know about books,letters,words, directionality, punctuation and other pre-reading skills in order to be a successful reader. 

  

 The print carries the message and the pictures give us clues

We point to each word as we read.

Name a few letters on the page that you recognise

Identify the front/back cover of the book.  

Point to the first and last words on the page

Thank you 5th class girls for being such wonderful little teachers! See you all again next week!

Goodbye Dylan!

We are all feeling sad today because Dylan has left us and moved to America.

Every time we sing our 

goodbye song we will think of you Dylan!

                         

   Goodbye Dylan! We will miss you!

More Birthday Girls!

Happy Birthday Veronika and Thanylla!

Hi!

Looking forward to seeing all my little friends tomorrow.
Hope you all enjoyed the Halloween Break!

Happy Halloween

Room 1 was a very scary classroom on Friday!

Check out our photos if you are brave enough!

Room on the Broom

     We enjoyed reading Room on the Broom!     

                                      
                       Click on the picture below and listen to this wonderful story

                    

Aistear

We started Aistear this week!  Aistear recognises the importance of play

in supporting children’s early learning and development.  Play is special for children.  It is their “work” and their way of learning about the world.

Through play, children try out new skills,explore their imagination and creativity, develop language skills and develop relationships with other people.

Our topic is Hallowe'en.                                               

                                                                                                  

In the witches' cavern we made up spells, wrote them on our whiteboards,added the ingredients to our cauldron and stirred up some trouble! 

In the construction area our builders made houses for the poor teachers who had been turned into little teddy bears by a wicked witch!

We were very busy making broomsticks and cats out of playdoh for the witches!

In the creative area we made witches'wands!

There were lots of spiders in the sand area so we counted them and made up sets of 5 spiders. We also made some yummy cakes with 5 spiders hiding inside them!

I wonder what we will be up to next week!!

Rotational Group Work

Mrs Lewis,Miss Meehan and Miss O Reilly love coming into Room 1 and working with all our wonderful little children! They visit us EVERYDAY for Rotational Maths and English Group Work Sessions.

 In Maths we are working on sorting based on one attribute,copying and extending patterns in colour and shape,classifying and learning to identify the compliment of a set. In English we are concentrating on phonics,vocabulary building, listening skills and predicting at storytime and pre writing patterns!

Mr Walsh doesn't like to miss out on the fun so he visits us whenever he gets the chance!
Everyone is working very hard. Well done to all my little stars!

Letter of the week

This week's letter is n.
Check out the letter n and all the letters of the alphabet at  http://www.starfall.com
Room 1 friends love this website!

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star!

This week's rhyme is one of our favourites!
Sing along everyone!

Rhyme of the Week

This week's rhyme of the week is Hickory, Dickory, Dock!

Click on the picture below and enjoy!

Birthday Girls!

We have celebrated four birthdays so far this term. Happy Birthday Ava,Diana, Sinéad and Valerija!

Letter of the week

Thank you very much for bringing in so many items that begin with the letter s!

First week at school

A BIG well done to all my new  friends who have completed their first week at school. Everyone settled in quickly and we had a busy week doing matching activities, prewriting patterns, colouring in,learning new songs and poems and learning to walk in a line!  I am looking forward to seeing all my little friends on Monday!

Hours for infants

Junior Infants'school hours this week are 10.00 - 12.00.