A few playtime pics

 Here are a few photos from playtime. 

Pumpkin Soup

 We read the story Pumpkin Soup and then we made our own soup. The children decided what to put in it and brought in the ingredients. There was broccoli, potato, onion, pepper, tomato, squash, carrot, stock cubes and cream. It turned out very nice....mmmm

All about Autumn

 The past couple of weeks we have been learning all about Autumn. We learned about squirrels, autumn leaves, conkers, oak trees, acorns, berries and nuts. 

We went on an Autumn walk and we saw a horse chestnut tree, lots of crunchy autumn leaves and lots of haws and rosehips.

We collected lots of Autumn things and made a lovely Autumn mandala.

Jolly Phonics letter sounds

 Here is a video with all of the 42 Jolly Phonics sounds that we will be learning this year.

Learning about babies

 We have been learning all about babies for the last couple of weeks. We had a creche in the play corner where we took care of the babies. 

We had a slide show of baby photos from the whole class (and the teachers) and we had to guess who was who.

We made a timeline of our lives from 2020-2025 showing our growth from newborns to babies to toddlers to pre-schoolers to junior infants.

Finn's baby sister Isla came into school for a visit. We asked her mam Sorcha lots of questions about baby Isla.

Baby Isla is five months old

Taking care of the babies in the Creche.

Long and Short, Heavy and Light

 In maths this week we are learning about measures: Long and Short, Heavy and Light.

We learned that to compare the length of two things you must start at the same baseline.

We learned that big things can sometimes be light and small things can sometimes be heavy.

                                                       Light things

                                                           Heavy things

Using a balance to compare the weight of objects

                                       Making tall buildings

                                     Making playdough sausages the same length

                                      Long and short

Arts and Drama

 We have been painting and making Owl collages from torn-paper. Here are some photos:

In drama we acted out the story of A Squash and A Squeeze by Julia Donaldson

Playtime activities

 We have been doing various activites during playtime. Here are a few of the things we have been doing:

Fun activities

 There are lots of opportunities to learn through play in Junior Infants. Here are a few. 

We enjoy painting and learning to mix up our own colours. 

During playtime, each table has a chance to play with a different thing each day: sand, creative art box, playroom, play corner, lego, blocks, doll's house.

Maths activities

 Before we start learning about number, we are focusing on matching and sorting activities. We sorted clothes first by colour and then by item.

We sorted random boxes of toys into different sets like: red things, blue things, dinosaurs, teddies, squares, circles etc