Senior Infants Blog
Christmas Aistear
News update
In school this week we started our Christmas Aistear. In the socio dramatic area we had great fun dressing up as Santa and the elves and visiting Santa’s grotto. In the small world area we made our Christmas shopping list and went shopping in Ferrybank.
In the creative area we are recycling old shoe boxes and making and decorating our sitting room for Christmas. In the writing area we are writing our letters to Santa and we made a special post box. In the playdough area we are making Christmas dinner with delicious turkey, roast potatoes and sprouts. We also looked at recycled magazines and cut out Christmas dinner…yum, yum.
Our local library in Ferrybank very kindly sent down lots of Christmas books for us to read. We are having so much getting ready for Christmas in Senior Infants. A big congratulations to Anna who was the winner of our Christmas Crib Competition and Sara who was runner up. Well done girls.
Weekly Update From Senior Infants
Senior infants made ‘The Advent Wreath’ this week. We made four candles, three purple and one pink, some green leaves and red berries. It will help us count down the days until we celebrate the birth of Jesus. We also lit our first candle in assembly today. When all four candles are lighting it means that Christmas Day is very near.
Lots of girls entered the Christmas Crib competition and the girls designed beautiful backdrops for our school crib. We also practiced lots of exercises like: Jumping Jacks, Burpees, Star jumps, Skipping, Jogging on the spot and Running for our Active Flag. We even have active homework next week! We are also really enjoying dancing to music in the yard at lunch time.
We had a busy week in school but we are all looking forward to relaxing tonight watching ‘The Late Late Toy Show’. We even get to stay up late!!
Our News
Senior Infants were busy doing lots of work this week. We really enjoyed making the Tooth Fairy in Art & Craft.
Isobelle told us lots of interesting facts about bees and Sophie told us all about butterflies. We can’t wait to hear interesting facts about other topics next week.
We got to listen to all the lovely song lyrics for this years school Christmas play “Hey Ewe!” We are preparing already and really looking forward to putting on a great performance.
Senior Infants Aistear – People who help us.
News from Senior Infants
Our Aistear theme ‘People who help us’ got into full swing this week.We decided to call our groups after the names of our teeth. We had the : Molars, Canines, Incisors, Wisdom Teeth and Milk Teeth groups. This was so much fun and helped us learn lots of new words.
In the construction area we designed and constructed the dental surgery with a large waiting room, reception area, dental surgery and bathroom. The waiting room even had a play area!
In the small world area we used a large floor mat, mini figurines and blocks to explore our theme and we made the doctor’ surgery, the optician and the dental surgery. We also made the car park and made signs for the reserved parking spaces.
We learned to play a new board game called ‘ The Magic Tooth Fairy’. We had so much fun especially when we found a lovely shiny coin under our pillow!!
In the creative area we made the Tooth Fairy. We used lots of bright colours and gave her magic wings. We also cut out healthy food and unhealthy food for our happy tooth and sad tooth.
We made a special visit to the library on Thursday and as November is the month we remember those who have died we prayed for all the people who have died in our community at the graveyard en route to the library. We had a very busy, enjoyable week.
News from a busy Senior Infants
It was great to be back to school on Monday to meet our friends and see our teachers. We changed places in our classroom and got to make new friends. We were all very excited about starting our new Aistear theme ‘People who help us’. At the dental surgery the children got into role and acted out various scenarios. We had a very kind dentist who took great care of her patients.
In Maths we are learning about the story of 6 with Miss Kelly and Mrs Foley. We also enjoyed doing our Maths Stations and working together to solve problems. We really enjoyed making patterns and counting on the number line. We are already looking forward to our Maths station activities for next week.
