School tour to Farnadolly and Killykeen

 We had a fabulous day on our school tour. 

First we went to Farnadolly Milk Barn where we saw the calves. the milking parlour and the milk storage facility. Caroline and Andrew couldn't have been nicer. They gave us each a bottle of flavoured milk and an icecream- all made with the milk on the farm.

Farnadolly Milk Barn is open to the public every day and is near Killykeen Park. They would welcome any visitors.

Next we went to Killykeen where we had a teddy bears' picnic. Guess who came running out of the forest? An Actual Bear!!

We went to see the new bridge in Killykeen which was designed by Alice and Anna's dad Ronan. 

We went on a bear hunt in the forest.

Finally we stopped in at Killygarry Church to look at the stained glass windows. Fr Jordan met us there and told us a little about the church.

Sa Siopa Milseáin

 We did a drama about the Siopa Milseáin (sweet shop). These two boys were  ery good at it.

Caterpillars and Chrysalises!

 There is great excitement in Junior Infants each day as we check on how our caterpillars are progressing.

First they ate lots of food and got really fat!

Next they went into their chrysalises and hung upsidedown off the top of the box. 3 of them fell down onto the ground, so we reattached them with cotton buds. 

Here are the 2 chrysalises that attached to the top of the cup:

Keep an eye on this post and we will add more photos to it when the butterflies emerge 🤞

PLAYTIME FUN

 Here are some of the activities we have been doing during playtime. The water was a big favourite (lots of splashing!)

water fun

Mobilo is always popular

Aisling gave us some new puzzles

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Our play corner is a supermarket

PATTERN PLAY

 Check out some of the patterns and designs Junior Infants have been making during playtime.

FTD BROTHERS

The FTD Brothers, Jordan and Cian Adams, ran past our school as part of their journey of completing 32 marathons in 32 days in the 32 counties of Ireland. All the pupils came out to cheer them on with their flags, posters, bunting and balloons. Jordan and Cian Adams are completing this challenge to raise funds to find a cure for and support people with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD).

SPRING ART

 We have been full of the joys of spring in Junior Infants! We made a big Spring Frieze together and each person made their own Cherry Blossom Tree.

We learned about school in the olden days

 Thanks to Croía's mam Caoimhe who came in to tell us about school in the "olden days" (the 1990's!)

Patterns

 In maths this week we have been looking at patterns. We made 2 colour patterns, 3 colour patterns and growing patterns.

Cardboard box week

 We had fun during cardboard box week. With the large boxes we made forts, rockets and castles. 

With the medium boxes we made the tallest towers we could.

And with the small boxes we made junk art.