Senior Infants Blog
Library Aistear
The girls are finishing learning about the library this week through Aistear.
At the construction station, they built beautiful libraries.
At the role play station, they pretended to be librarians and patrons at the library.
At the creative station, they were illustrators, designing covers for a story we are writing as a class.
At the reading and writing station, the girls will become authors, writing their own book. They have really enjoyed learning about the library.
The Library
The girls have had great fun this week, learning about the library, in Aistear. We paid a special visit to the library today and got to read some lovely books together, and hopefully become members.
We read the story of Elmer this week, an elephant who couldn’t hide who he was and always showed his true colours. We decided to give it a go and make our own 3D colourful elephants. They turned out so beautiful.
Lastly, we got a special arrival in our class this week, our long awaited caterpillars have arrived and have already started going into their cocoons. We can’t wait to see the beautiful butterflies they turn into.
Out of this World
Over the past few weeks, Senior Infants have been learning about the sun, the moon and the stars.
We have made sun and moon mobiles and followed a video online to draw some awesome astronauts. The girls really enjoyed doing splatter painting to create their galaxies.
Friendship and Wellbeing Week
The girls had great fun last week doing wonderful activities for Friendship and Wellbeing week. Each day they did a new activity like mindfulness colouring, making Friendship bracelets and dressing up in bright colours.
In Aistear, the girls were working on the theme of shopping. They were building shops, role playing at the shop, taking a trip to the jewellery shop for those lovely friendship bracelets and best of all, taking a trip to the bakery to make bread and cakes. We enjoyed this day best of all.
April Showers bring May Flowers
We’ve had a lovely return to school after the Easter holidays and have returned to our first shoots showing.
Each girl planted a different type of flower before the holidays and will now have to water and mind their plants to help them to grow.
Lá Fhéile Padráig
The girls had a great time learning all about St. Patrick and St. Patrick’s Day. Senior Infants led a special assembly for the school on it and did a wonderful job. They really enjoyed engineering their floats to move for our own milk bottle float parade. They enjoyed making flags and wearing badges, especially on our Colours Day.
Food Glorious Food
Since returning after the holidays, Senior Infants have been learning all about food. This week the girls got to prepare some food in the school kitchen.
They made a healthy fruit salad using apples, grapes, oranges, melon, strawberries and bananas. They had great fun washing, peeling and cutting the fruit and enjoyed eating it even more.
