Senior Infants Blog
Summer at last!
May is the month to remember Mary in a special way. This week Senior Infants were busy building our May Altar. We used a blue and white cloth, a bible, a candle and a statue of Mary and the girls very kindly brought in flowers from home. We honour Mary every morning by saying our prayer ‘Hail Mary’ and singing ‘When Creation Was Begun’. We look forward to welcoming Sr. Maria to our class next Friday.
We enjoyed learning about ‘Time’ this week in Maths and really enjoyed sequencing daily and weekly events. Our Aistear theme ‘The Spring Garden’ is a big hit and we were very excited to see our seeds growing and our collage is brightening up the corridor outside our classroom.
Enjoy the bank holiday weekend!
Active School Week
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What a busy week in our school! We had great fun taking part in the many activities organised by the Active School Committee. The good news is that on Friday afternoon we reached our target and made it all the way to the Czech Republic. The whole school community joined us in the mornings and it was great to see a smile on everyone’s face and everybody having fun and getting fit together.
We went to Ferrybank GAA grounds on Monday afternoon to use the facilities and we had so much fun. Members of Ferrybank soccer and Camogie clubs came to speak to us about taking part and trying out new sports. It was lovely to meet Aoife Slattery who plays for Ireland and she inspired us to get active and try out different sports.
On Thursday 26th April we celebrated the feast day of Our Lady of Good Counsel. We enjoyed the story of the picture of Our Lady of Good Counsel. We say our special prayer every day “Our Lady of Good Counsel pray for us”.
We also enjoyed our new Aistear theme “The Spring Garden”. We enjoyed setting up the garden centre, planting our vegetable garden, writing our shopping lists and learning about how to plant a seed. We also made 3 -D flowers for our spring garden collage. We enjoyed the books from Ferrybank Library especially the book “Grow it! ”
Keep active over the weekend and remember our slogan:
Run, skip, jump and play,
Let’s be active every day.
The sun is shining at last!
We have all settled back into school and busy enjoying lots of activities. We really enjoyed our special visit to the chapel in Madonna House with Sr. Catherine. We saw the altar, the holy water font, the paschal candle, the crucifix, the stained-glass window and the bible. We said a special prayer for everyone in our local community.
Active School Week is approaching. It will start on Monday and the girls are very excited about the variety of activities planned and being able to wear their tracksuits all week.We will begin every morning with the Walkway Challenge at 9.10am and we would encourage as many parents as possible to take part. What a fun way to start our day! We will be visiting the GAA pitch on Monday for lots of fun activities and break time will be extended for an extra ten minutes to allow for extra active activities. Active homework also replaces written homework all week. A big thank you to Miss Anderson and the Active School Committee for all their organisation and hard work.
Log in next week for lots of updates and pictures from our special week at Our Lady Of Good Counsel.
Welcome back!
Welcome back to all our Senior Infants for their final term of this school year. We have a busy last term ahead so keep up to date every week by checking out our class blog. We are going to make a special effort to come to school on time and remember to put into practice our slogan: “20 Past Nine—–In Your Line”.
This week we welcomed Sr. Julia from Mexico to our classroom. She really enjoyed observing our Maths Activities and listening to some filíocht as Gaeilge. We wish her a safe trip back.
We are also busy preparing for our new Aistear theme “The Spring Garden”. We have lots of exciting activities planned in each area so log in next week for further updates. We are also learning about “Our Parish” this month and Sr Catherine has invited Senior Infants to visit the church beside Madonna House next Tuesday morning. We are very excited!
Well done to Senior Infants, Mums and Dads who always make a fantastic effort in helping our school receive our 7th Green Flag. This is a wonderful achievement and well done especially to the Green Schools Committe and Ms. Finucane for all their hard work. We are also working towards our first Active Flag and looking forward to our Active Schools Week activities. Keep up the good work and remember our Active School slogan:
Run, skip, jump and play, let’s be active every day.
It’s the Easter holiday’s
It’s hard to believe that we are getting our Easter holiday’s today.We had a surprise visitor last night ‘The Easter Bunny’. When we came into our classroom this morning the Easter Bunny had left lots of yummy treats in our Easter baskets Yum Yum!
On Wednesday Ms. Bambury, our Department of Education Inspector, came to visit our school. She received a great welcome from Senior Infants. She enjoyed observing our Aistear theme ‘The Library’ and she was so impressed with the girl’s behaviour and the lovely atmosphere in our classroom. Well done girl’s!
Well done to all the girls who took part in the Easter Colouring competitions in school and with the local Ferrybank Development group. We have also been busy speaking lots of Gaeilge for ‘Seachtain na Gaeilge’ and learning all about ‘An Cháisc’ as gaeilge. We also enjoyed Gymboree with Mrs Hardiman where we showed off our creativity and dance moves.
We have also been reflecting on the true meaning of Easter. In the Church’s celebration of Easter each year we remember The Last Supper, Good Friday and the Resurrection of Jesus. We learned a special prayer for Easter:
Thank you , God, for Jesus,
Is the prayer we say.
Thank you, God, for Jesus,
We pray on Easter Day.
Cáisc shona duit!
National Colours and Costumes Day
>We had great fun celebrating National Colours and Costumes Day. We really enjoyed walking in our very own St. Patrick’s Day parade. Look at our lovely costumes.
Busy week in Senior Infants!
We had a busy week in Senior Infants. Karyn from the library came to help us with our Aistear theme ‘The Library’.In the Socio-dramatic area we set up the library. We made the front desk, sorted out the books into different categories, made library cards, renewed our membership, borrowed and returned books and made rules for the library. In the creative area we designed and made bookmarks. In the small world area we made our school and Ferrybank library and and we discussed our immediate surroundings and our journey to and from the library. In the construction area we built the library and all the different areas in the library. In the writing area we made non-fiction books called ‘The Farm’. We are really having so much fun and a big thank you to Karyn for getting involved with our theme this month.
Friendship week is proving to be a great success in our school and we have discussed and examined the different aspects of friendship like talking and spending time together, helping and trusting each other and sharing with each other. Senior Infants have really enjoyed playing with new friends this week. Well done girls!
As part of our Intercultural week two girls from sixth class came into our class and read us the story ‘Pilotija ,The Pilot and Me’ in English and Polish. This was a very special treat and we all really enjoyed the story. Tomorrow we are looking forward to dressing up for National Colours and Costumes Day and we will have our own school St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig–Happy St. Patrick’s Day
