Back

Senior Infants Blog

Christmas Aistear 🎅

December 14, 2020

We wrote lovely letters to Santa.
We created Elfie Selfies. The girls loved seeing themselves being transformed into elves.
In our roleplay area, the girls pretended to be in Santa’s grotto! We had to write who was on the good list. Design wrapping paper, wrap presents and write name tags. The elves designed presents to be created.
In the small world area, we acted out Christmas stories with the puppets.

Christmas Dinner 🍽️

We created Christmas dinner menus. We cut out and sorted food by starter, main course and dessert. We labeled the food on our menus.
This activity got the girls thinking of what are the different meals over the course of a day. Do we eat starters and desserts every day? Why is this meal special? Why are we celebrating? Who’s birthday are we celebrating?

Snow woman Insulation Experiment ☃️

We have been learning all about winter and discussing the changes in weather. We discussed why we need to wear our winter clothes, to keep us warm.

The girls were shown two blocks of ice (snowwomen). We discussed whether a coat would keep one colder for longer or would it speed up the melting process.

  • Experiment: A snow woman with a coat
    Fair test: Snow woman without a coat
We predicted which snow woman would melt first….and unsurprisingly a lot of the girls thought a coat would keep the snow woman warm, hence she should melt first, right?
However, the snowwoman without a coat, actually melted first and filled the bowl with water. Why is this? The coat acted as an insulator. Insulators do not allow the passage heat.
The children are excited and hoping for snow so they can build a snowman and put a jacket on it so it will last longer and not melt in the sun!

Houses and Homes with Ms Whelan🏠

November 25, 2020

We have been very lucky to have Ms Whelan with us for the last three weeks. We have had so many fun and interactive lessons.
In history, we have been learning about homes in the past. We explored real evidence, looking at video tapes, vinyl disks, cassette tapes, telephones etc. It was exciting, as some of the girls had never seen a vinyl or a video tape before!
We compared these household items from the past with what we use today.
The girls sorted items in groups by old and new.
In aistear, we have been busy creating our own house dioramas. Thank you to all the parents for the shoeboxes. We have learned language based on the different rooms and furniture in the house.
The girls coloured, cut and sorted furniture into different rooms in their houses. Their creations have turned out great!

👻🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇

October 23, 2020

The Senior Infant classroom was Super Spooky today and all the girls looked fantastic in their costumes! Well done to all the mams and dads for helping the girls dress up this morning. We had great fun.

Wishing all the girls a safe and happy mid-term break. 😃

🧹Room on the Broom🧹

We read Julia Donaldson’s book ‘Room on a Broom‘ and completed a guided drawing of the witch on the broom. We tried to remember all the details in Axel Scheffler’s illustration such as the plait in her hair, a brooch, cape etc. Did we remember all the details in our pictures?

Morning Literacy Stations

Station 1: Create words from play dough based on the story ‘Room on a broom’.

Station 2: Practice our writing skills, writing sentences about Halloween.

Station 3: Search for sounds amongst the witches green, gooey hair and form CVC words.

Halloween 🎃

October 21, 2020

Exploring our five senses in Science.

Sight: We discussed what pumpkins look like, their colour and shape.

Hearing: We dropped the pumpkin to hear what sound it would make.

Touch: We felt the hard outer layer and wet, gooey inside texture of the pumpkin.

Smell: Some of the girls said the pumpkin smelled fresh and sweet.

Taste: We discussed meals we could taste pumpkins in such as pumpkin soup.

Making Spells and Potions in English 🧪⚗️🧹

Griselda the Witch came to visit us and she encouraged us to write some spooktacular spells. We brainstormed some ingredients in our copies.

Griselda came back with the ingredients ready for a bubbling potion: vinegar, washing up liquid, baking soda, food colouring.

We mixed the ingredients together whilst saying: “Double, double boil and trouble. Make our potion boil and bubble”.

You can recreate the potion at home, by following this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLY72a3nSgc

Translate Here!


Flag Counter

Green Flags

Click here to find out more.