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Ms Lisa's and Ms Laura's first classes
We had a fantastic day at Dublin Zoo today. All the boys and girls were so well-behaved and had lots of fun meetings the animals and visiting the playground. We even had a zoo keeper to tell us all about the animals in the African Plains.
During active week we had lots of fun with sports day, visits from daddys to talk about fitness and our Skipathon.
When learning about different shops in our community we took a stroll around the village, stopping at the playground on the way back.
Our fantastic writers created lovely stories with the help of their fifth and sixth class pals.
A bit of team work making shape collages.
Our First class heroes rescued a hedgehog who was caught in the school fence. Mouse came and took the hedgehog home to nurse it back to health. Max the hedgehog came back for a visit before he went home to the wild.
Monet's Japanese Bridges
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After our mini beast hunt we used bubble wrap and carrots to print bee hives.
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Our visit to Fingal Library.
We learnt all about swans; their life cycle, their habitat and listen to stories about them.
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We have been writing lots of stories lately.
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Our Sun flowers growing:
For Valentines Day we made Love Trees for our families.
In December learnt about signs of winter. We made snow meant from paper mache. We also learnt about robin redbreasts and winter festivals.
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November
As part of science week A Dublin zoo zoologist came to tell us about animals and how they adapt to where they live. We got to see and touch an elephant's tooth, an elephant's foot and foot parings, as well as a tiger skin.
In November We were very busy learning about inventors and Inventions. First class did a project based on Thomas Edison and his inventions, the phonograph and the kinograph. We also created our own INVENTIONSs. |
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In October we have been very busy learning about Diwali and getting ready for Halloween. We learnt about the history of Diwali and some of its traditions. We made Diwali lamps out of clay and painted them with rangoli patterns to celebrate the festival.
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While leaning about the traditions and history of Halloween Ms Lisa's class made Halloween masks.
The tradition of dressing up comes from when people wore masks and costumes to protect themselves against the spirits that would walk the earth on All Hallows Eve. We also made other Halloween decorations.
The tradition of dressing up comes from when people wore masks and costumes to protect themselves against the spirits that would walk the earth on All Hallows Eve. We also made other Halloween decorations.
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We have been very busy in september. We learned about 2-D shapes and used them to make pictures. We also LEARNED about Peace symbols for Peace Day.
At the beginning of the year we wrote about what we want to be when we grow up.
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Ms Teresa's and Ms Catriona's senior infants
We've been getting ready for the easter 1916 celebrations. We talked about the proclamation and wrote our own proclamations.
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WE made teapot cards for all the mothers
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we went searching for the signs of spring
We learned about the North and South poles. We made polar bears and penguins.
We have been focusing on how to save energy in our school. We made posters about the different things we discussed, such as keeping the doors closed and turning off the lights when we leave the room.
Science for Fun: painting our cow
christmas art: cards and decorations
Our Maths for fun
WE ARE REALLY BUSY WRITING AND DELIVERING CARDS AND LETTERS.....
TOMÁS TEIDÍ IS RUNNING OUT OF SPACE FOR ALL THE LOVELY CARDS AND LETTERS HE'S BEEN GETTING.
We love lego in senior infants....here's the sun, earth and mars!
The snowman- we are singing 'walking in the air in our play. We made our own snowmen.
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We're very busy learning about the post office in aistear. Tomás teidí and ms. paula are getting lots of letters and cards. we're getting good at putting the addresses and stamps in the right place on the envelopes!!!
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Rosie's hat
we're going on a bear hunt!
science week 2015
We had great fun during Science week. We learned all about where milk and butter come from and we made our own butter. We tasted it on cream crackers..
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We had Science for fun with different stations. We learned about minibeasts and magnetism.
building site aistear |
We did two experiments: we made rainbow milk and we got to test some objects to see if they would float or sink.
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We learned so much about building. We watched some videos of machinery working at the building site, we got to be architects and design our own buildings and we built all kinds of things.
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spooky spiders
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shape patterns
Fire station aistear
We learned all about the work of the fire fighters. We tried out some of the things we learned, like using the fire extinguisher and 'stop, drop and roll'.
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national tree day
On National Tree Day, the Tree Council of Ireland gave us a Hazel Tree so that we could plant it in out school. Fingers crossed it grows nice and tall!
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We are busy in Senior Infants.
Our class motto is 'Learning together, playing together, growing together'.
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We printed our handprints and drew our families.
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We painted self-portraits.
We have been learning about Autumn. We made Harry the hedgehog.
We have a friend called Tomás Teidí.
We went on an autumn nature walk. We found autumn leaves and berries.
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Autumn Aistear: We made leaf rubbings and warm nests for Harry the Hedgehog. We built a house with a path to the garden for the fox.
We learned the 'Dingle dangle scarecrow'. We made scarecrows using 2-D shapes.