Welcome to the webpage for Junior Infants. Here we will keep you up to date on class news and post some work from the children.
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June
School Tour
We went on our tour to Mollie Moo’s Pet Farm. The farmer showed us all the animals and we got to feed them. The rabbits were a big hit! We enjoyed time in the playground, where we got to roll down the big hill. We also had fun on the go karts and in the make believe village. It was a wonderful day out!
Mini Beast Hunt
PJ Day and Teddy Disco
Under the Sea Art
Outdoor Classroom
Reading Buddies
May
May has been a really busy month in the Junior and Senior Infant room! We painted a giant snake with Ms Lawlor using lots of bright colours and stones we found out the front.
We have been talking about Friendship during the programme Zippy’s Friends, which we do with Ms Parle and Ms McNerney. We made a big piece of Art together, where we wrote down the things that a good friend should have.
April
Easter Art
Educational Trip
We went to Mullingar library on our Educational Trip. The librarian read us stories and we got to look at some books ourselves and play with Lego. We ate our lunch in the park and played in the playground. It was a fantastic day.
Toy Profiles
We created toy profiles on our favourite toys.
March
Toy Profiles
Cookie Jar Prize
Mother’s Day and Spring Art
Seacthain na Gaeilge
March Art
Tadpoles
World Book Day
Engineering Week
Show and Tell
February
Well-being Week
There were so many activities this week for Wellbeing Week. On Monday we wore activewear to school. We made fruit sculptures, did some yoga and played scoops. On Tuesday we wore green for our colourful day. We made slime and had an obstacle course. We finished up the week with ‘Wacky Wednesday’, we all came to school as the wackiest version of ourselves.
Planting
We planted some cucumber seeds with Ms. Parle. We’re excited to see them grow.
Tower building
We learned about different towers in SESE. We decided to design and make our own towers from materials in the classroom. We investigated to see which materials were best for building a strong tower.
Grandparents Day
We were counting down the days to our rescheduled Grandparents Day and it didn’t disappoint. We loved having some grandparents visit our class to play with us. We got to show them round our school and show them some of the wonderful work we have been doing.
Valentine’s Day Art
We really enjoyed working on our Valentine’s Day art.
Spring Walk
We went on a ‘Spring Walk’ this month to look for signs of Spring. We found snowdrops and we also tasted some spring onion that growing in the garden.
Emotions work
We read the story The Colour Happy and discussed the different feelings described in the book. We drew pictures of times we felt these various emotions and shared them with our friends.
Safer Internet Day
The children in Junior and Senior infants chatted today about the internet, when we use it and how to use it safely. We also drew pictures of all the wonderful things we can do when we are not using technology / online – swimming, walking on the beach with our families, spending time with our pets, gardening, art and spending time in Nature.
January
Our school has been successful in getting the education for sustainability development (ESD) grant from the government. This means that we are going to be given some money to improve our garden and outdoor area, making it an even nicer place to go outside and relax and learn about the natural world. Harry and Ms Parle are making plans, but the children must be asked too!
The children worked as as individuals, in partners and in groups to design their dream outdoor space.
Tag rugby
We learned about tag rugby while we were learned about different sports. As no one in the class had played it before we decided to use the tag rugby tags during a game of tag in pe.
Orienteering
We worked on orienteering during SESE. We created our own maps using symbols. We then worked with a partner and gave directions. We had to listen very carefully to the instructions. We are looking forward to doing some orienteering outside when the weather improves.
Maths
Junior Infants have been working hard on writing their numbers.
Grandparents Day
We had great fun telling stories about our grandparents and talking about why they are special to us. We created some lovely art and certificates for them.
Phonics
We have been practicing our phonics sounds that we have covered so far and worked in groups to make words with our sounds.
December
Christmas Disco
We worked so hard over the past two months and successfully filled another cookie jar. We came up with the idea of having a Christmas disco for our reward. We got Christmas face paints done to get ready for the disco and had great fun dancing to Christmas songs. We danced so hard we needed some juice to cool down. It was a great afternoon!
We have been busy practicing for our Christmas play ‘Shine Star Shine’ and we can’t wait to perform it for everyone.
Advent Calendar
Collaborative Art Display
December Art
November
Science Week took place from the 11th-15th in school. Ms Kelly and the 5th&6th class organised loads of fun activities for us. Ms Kelly’s dad even came to talk to us about bee keeping. Check out the STEM page to see what we got up to.
We are learning all about sound in SESE this month. We have looked at loud and soft sounds and we have looked at musical instruments from around the world.
October
Halloween Dress up
Maths Week
Check out our STEM page to see what we got up to for Maths Week. https://sstkilshanroe.ie/?page_id=4954
Halloween Sleepover
October Art
Isabelle and Penny brought in a pumpkin they got at a Pumpkin farm over the weekend.
Gaeilge
We were learning all about ‘Bia’ with Seán agus Síofra.
The Feast of Saint Therese
We celebrated the Feast of Saint Therese by created our own garden of beautiful flowers because Saint Therese was also known as The Little Flower.
Tasty Tuesday
We continued Tasty Tuesday this month. We tasted mango, red apples, pineapple and red peppers.
September
We took a close look at two caterpillars who have been eating cabbagee in our garden all summer long! They are the white cabbage caterpillar and will turn into the white cabbage butterfly after they fall asleep in their cocoons for a few months. Our caterpillars kept trying to escape, so we decided to free them into the garden.
We love writing our new sounds and tricky words on Writing Wizard and on our whiteboards.
We have been working on sorting and matching in maths.
Tuesdays are Tasty Tuesdays in Infants. We get to try new fruits and vegetables. So far we’ve had grapefruit, mango and red apples straight from the garden.
Cooper has started going on his adventures at the weekend. Each weekend he goes to stay in one of our houses. We enjoy doing everyday things with Cooper at home and telling everyone about what we got up to when we return to school on Monday.
The PA kindly surprised us all with a visit from the ice cream truck on Friday. We were so excited to get our ice creams.
We watched the Cannonball pass our school. We loved seeing all the different cars and the best thing we saw was the helicopter that flew over our heads.
We have been working hard on our fine motor skills
Welcome to our school!
We want to give a BIG welcome to all the boys and girls in Junior Infants, our newest pupils in Scoil San Treasa! They are settling in so well and Ms McNerney is delighted with how well they are doing.
The Juniors are so lucky, because they have great company with the Senior Infants this year. The seniors are very grown up and welcoming. They are very able to help the Juniors with getting used to being in Primary school.