Junior Infants Blog
🌸Spring🌸
We are learning all about Spring which links with our Aistear theme- Animals. We have been learning how to care for sick animals in the Vets and also creating animals and their homes in our construction, creative and playdough areas.
We are preparing for Valentine’s Day by painting Wassily Kandinsky inspired hearts. We made different shades of pink by mixing white with red. We made lovely lilac shades by mixing white with purple.
Our classroom crocuses have bloomed and we painted beautiful flowers for spring.
We have been learning about static electricity and magnets in science. The static electricity really did make our hair stand on end!!
🏃The 10 at 10!🏃
Exercising our bodies as well as our minds is important. We are taking part in the 10 at 10, whereby we do 10 minutes of exercise around 10 o’clock. You can take part too on https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
❄️Arctic Explorers❄️
We are Arctic Explorers in Junior Infants! We have learned all about the Inuits, polar bears, arctic hares, arctic foxes and walruses.
Polar Bears
Printing Walruses using bubble wrap.
The Inuits
🛒The Supermarket Aistear🛒
The Junior Infants have been busy shopping in Aistear this month!🛒 We are learning all about the supermarket and the different types of shops.
Group 1 sets up a supermarket, sorting items into the different aisles. The girls took it in turns to work at the cash register, as shopping assistants and customers. We had to remember to check our receipts and whether to pay by cash or card.
Group 2 were making breakfast and putting it on trays for their mams and dads. We put different toppings on our pancakes. We discussed how we would like to cook the eggs.
Group 3 played a shopping list memory game.
Group 4 were designed a new winter clothes collection…it will be featuring in Vogue soon.
Group 5 built a train track between Waterford Plunkett station and Dublin Heuston station. The girls pretended to build shops in the city centre.
Group 6 constructed a shopping centre which contained various shops e.g. furniture, pet, food, clothes, electrical etc.
We have read many stories about shopping. One of our favourites was ‘The Shopping Basket‘ by John Burningham. We wrote a sentence and drew a picture to show what part of the story we enjoyed the most!
18th December 2017⛄
There is a lot of hustle and bustle down in the Junior Infants, as we are very busy preparing for the school play ‘Hey Ewe’ and our own short nativity play. We will be performing on Friday the 22nd for our mams and dads. We are so excited!
Last Monday, we had Christmas Gymboree with Mrs Hardiman. It was so much fun! We went ice-skating, sang Christmas songs, played with a parachute. We even had a ride on a sleigh. We must say a big Thank you to Mrs Hardiman for that exciting Monday morning. 🙂
Christmas Aistear 🎅
We have begun our Christmas Aistear!☃️
We designed and built Santa’s workshop from blocks.
We dressed up as Santa, his elves and characters from The Nativity to put on little plays.
Letters to Santa were written.🎁
We pretended to make toys in our Small World Area.
Scrumptious Christmas dinners were made from play dough.
The walls of our Santa’s Grotto were painted and we were shocked the next morning to find that our Elf on the shelf had assembled Santa’s house.
Festive Spirit🎅
We are getting into the festive spirit this week! We made Christmas Stockings, that hang in the hallway. We made Santa’s out of our hand-prints. We are going to bring them home and hang them on our Christmas trees. There has been lovely singing from our room, as we are practicing for the school play. We had the last week of our Estate Agent Aistear. We have been learning all about time, number and capacity in maths.
