Seniors and 1st Class

Welcome

A little about ourselves

We are Senior Infants and First Class we will share a little of what takes place in our classroom on this page. We hope you will visit often!

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Here are some websites that we love to visit!
Numeracy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeXTDYS3E-4 (Numberjacks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmdII5E7wj0 (Numberblocks)
www.crackingmaths.ie/gamezone-senior-infants
www.crackingmaths.ie/gamezone-first-class
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm
Literacy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu5fzbxOG4U (Alphablocks)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug (Jolly Phonics' Songs)
www.dolchword.net/dolch-primer-games.html (Sight Word Games)
www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
www.starfall.com
www.kizphonics.com (Phonics)
http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html (Spellings -Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check)
Parents' information
www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Parents/Early_Childhood/AFL.pdf
www.ncca.ie/uploadedfiles/publications/Literacy.pdf
www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Parents/Primary/Infant_classes_Maths_resources/Helping_your_young_child_with_maths.pdf
www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Parents/Primary/1st_and_2st_Classes_Maths_resources/1_print.pdf
www.helpmykidlearn.ie

September 2018

Play Time: The School

Literacy stations

SESE: autumn Leaves Hunt
The children learned the Poem 'Autumn Leaves' and went outside in search for the different coloured autumn leaves which had fallen on the ground.

Letter Hunt - The boys and girls were in search of items in the classroom that begin with their chosen letter. Take a look at what they discovered....

Counting Game 'Ten'

Kahlan and Rachel presented their project on fish.

June 2018

Well done to Juliet who won this year's award for upholding the school ethos of 'doing your best, showing respect and doing your homework.'

Welcome Alice Horan to senior infants! Juniors join our class for some game time. Lots of fun to be had in the sun!

Fingerprint Seascapes

Science & Art - Light and Dark. Shadow drawings - Making great use of the summer sunshine!

"One dot can be......"

Look at our toilet roll holder creations...we love using our imagination!

Congratulations to our Write-a-Book winners!

May

Maths- Addition Wheels - Children did simple and quick addition exercises outside using chalk.

The boys and girls used their imagination to create summer flowers using recyclable items such as bottle tops, toilet roll holders and by using other materials such as pipe cleaners and beads. Take a look at the children's amazing creations!

The class learned how to sew cress seeds and kept a Cress Seed Diary to observe and record the growing process.

Parachute fun in the sun! ☀️

Medal Winners!
The boys and girls were very active over the May break with participating in Darkness into Light, The Great Limerick Run and Athletics and Community Games! Well done everyone!

Circle Time!

Story Time: The Tiger Who Came To Tea
The boys and girls completed activities responding to the story. They wrote invitations to invite the tiger over to their house for tea. They also drew what they would make the Tiger for tea.

Sewing Cress Seeds....Let's watch them grow!

April

Science & Art --> The boys and girls were learning about the life cycle of the butterfly.

The boys and girls were learning the poem 'Pitter Patter Raindrops' and then painted colour wheel umbrellas! Take a peek!

Niamh spoke to us about a torch that she got from the doctor.

The boys achieved medals and certificates for soccer and hurling. Keep up the good active work!

Maths Stations - addition and subtraction - Thanks to Ms. Ryan for helping us!

March

Happy Easter!

Look at our 'Crosses on the Hill' Artwork

Take a look at our shamrock prints!

Children were learning to mix primary colours and paint circles like the Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky.

The class were learning about 3D shapes. They had lots of fun playing with the polydrons!

properties of 3D shapes

We enjoy Play time! A big thank you to Kahlan’s mum for donating the dolls house and kitchen for us to play with! Kahlan tells us about her experience in hospital recently. She shows us some equipment that she used in the hospital and some work that she did. Well done kahlan for being so scholarly and brave!

February

The class we’re learning about 2D shapes and had fun making their very own 2D shaped Robots! They even got to name their robots with some very creative names! Thanks to Aisling McNamara for helping us create our robots!

Valentines Day Art

Pancake Tuesday - the boys and girls read the story of The Runaway Pancake. We learned all about shrove Tuesday and had a table quiz based on the information we had encountered.

Maths stations- we loved playing maths games and learning maths skills! Children played four in a row and used dice to compose addition and subtraction problems.Thanks to Ms. O’Shea for helping us with problem-solving during our station work.

January

Story-telling Fun! The boys and girls were each given a tricky word in which they would have to include in their sentence which would add to the creation of a funny story.

Science Experiment- Investigating changes. The class carried out an experiment that tested whether or not different materials dissolved in water.

Project Time!
The First class were learning about the seven continents in their Feena's First Book of Facts Book and decided amongst their group to select a continent to do project work on. The boys and girls enthusiastically did research on laptops in school and at home and brought in photos, pictures, books, maps and even a globe to help them complete their projects. The children cannot wait to present their projects as a group to the other classes in the school!
In between group work, children thoroughly enjoyed singing 'The 7 Continents' Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE )

We really enjoyed having Ms. Fawl's 3rd and 4th Class with us to present their interesting projects on Myths and Legends. They sure had us all engaged with their stories and pictures and even some leprechaun dancing!

History-Children created their very own Family Tree

Children were learning about the journey of bread. Then, the class listened to the story of 'The Little Red Hen' and retold the story in the sequence establishing the beginning, middle and end.

Gaeilge - An Aimsir -tarraingt fear sneachta agus meaitseáil.
Is maith linn a bheith ag imirt cluiche biongó chomh maith!

Thanks to Ms. Woulfe for her help with our maths stations. The class participated in various station work activities which involved exploring money, dice addition games and maths games on the Interactive White Board.

Welcome to our classroom ‘siopa’ ! We are learning how to add up the cost of items that we want to buy in the shop.
As shopkeepers, we are learning how to give back the correct change to the customer after they have bought their chosen item. We love to shop!

December

Seniors and First have been busy preparing for Christmas!
The boys and girls learned about Advent and Christmas around the world.
They learned how to decorate our class Christmas tree and write the steps of how to do that.
The boys and girls learned how to 'Elf themselves'.
The class made mono prints of Christmas decorations, painted the school windows making them festive and wrote Christmas cards.
We did Christmas yoga with Jamie from Cosmic kids online which was so much fun!
They were also very busy singing and dancing and practicing for their Christmas plays!

A big thanks to Ms. Fawl and 3rd and 4th Class for inviting us to their Science Exhibition! We had lots of fun learning about the different science experiments on display inside and outside Ms. Fawl's classroom.

November

The class enjoyed playing their new board games.

procedural writing: children had the pleasure of learning step by step how to make teacher a nice hot cup of tea! 😁👍🏼☕️

Maths stations-Thanks to Ms. Fitzgerald and Ms. Shaloo for their help during station work. Children were learning about number and measures.

The children enjoyed science week exploring the different forces. Kahlan also performed her very own lava lamp experiment for us! We also explored the forces push and pull in great detail and did some art which links to the push force. Children first drew Wellingtons. Then, they blew blue paint across the page using a straw. Their puddles came to life with this splashing effect. “When life gives you rain, jump in the puddles!”

We read the story ‘Elmer in the Snow’ and did some fabric and fiber art making mosaic-style Elmer’s and used paint and color to make the background to portray Elmer in the Snow.

October

Happy Halloween!
The children dressed up for the Halloween Parade at School. They also got to carve out a pumpkin!

Maths-Capacity

Recount Writing- Children tell their news in order using the words; First, Next, Then and Finally. The class wrote about their school day during aistear using these recount 'buzz' word starters.

Aistear: The Doctor's Surgery

Children created x-rays for Junk art during aistear and The class made a project All about themselves for SPHE/ART/History.

Self Portraits using chalk pastels

Olivia, Clódagh and Megan made headlines when they were photographed participating in a charity run! Well done girls! True representatives of our Active School.

Literacy Stations

Hurling with John

Handwriting Stations: Children practice letter formation by back-tracing, air tracing, palm tracing, desk tracing before practising their letters and words by tracing their fingers in the salt trays, writing using chalk and mini chalk boards, writing using mini whiteboards and markers and by using markers to write on lined laminated sheets.

September 2017

Back to School Show and Tell

Letter Hunt Fun and Games

Measures - Length

The children raced each other running long and short distances!

Sharing recount writing about 'My Summer Holidays'.

Maths Game - Counting

Aistear - Back to School

Religion - Grow in Love- My Baptism

PE-Gaelic football

We celebrated Roald Dahl Day!

June 2017

Play Time at 'The Travel Agents'

PE- orienteering

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!!
The boys and girls enjoyed making ice-creams using paint and sprinkles!!

May

Play time at 'The Estate Agents'

Mental Maths- Children from seniors and first class were competing in the Maths Wheel race! There was great excitement! The children enjoyed this mental maths game and their addition and subtraction skills are certainly improving with great speed!

P.E. - Outdoor and Adventure

Science: Investigating Static Electricity

Science Experiment - Heating and Cooling - The children were involved in the investigation of heating and cooling. By pouring boiling water in a bowl, the children put in chocolate pieces into a bigger bowl and put that on top of the bioling water and observed the chocolate melting. Then the boys and girls began to spread the melted chocolate over a plain biscuit, decorated it with smarties and marshmallows and waited for the chocolate to cool down before they finally got the chance to eat their own creation! YUM!

The children were studying the artist Claude Monet and created their very own 'Bridge over Water Lilies' using a stencil and painting using their fingers.

Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine

Write-a-Book competition winners from Seniors/1st

Religion-The class were learning about Baptism and they got the chance to share their Baptism photos and stories.

We love Gonoodle! We especially love Zumba!

April

Easter Art- The cross on the Hill using chalk pastels

Spring is in the air! The class were examining the plant for science and drawing and labelling the plant. The children were also sowing their very own tomato seeds which they brought home to take care of over the Easter holidays and to watch them grow! In art class, the children were drawing tulips and daffodils from observation and then painted their drawings.

More from 'The Garden Centre'

First class looked at patterns for maths. For History, they were learning about games of the past and games today, the similarities and differences. They were lucky to get golden time to learn how to play some modern board games! :0

March

Children were busy with Mr. McNamara making Irish Flags in preparation for Seachtain na Gaeilge and St. Patrick's Day.

Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine
3/3/17 24 / 3/17

mím- Is maith linn a bheith ag imirt rugbaí!

Play time at the Garden Centre!

Play time- The Pet shop

Stretch and Grow with Monica

February

Be my Valentine!

Creating Kandinksy style art. Children chose to draw and paint hearts instead of portraying Wassily's 'concentric circles'.

Operation Transformation's 10@10 10/2/17

Community Games Swimming Medalists

Mr. McNamara facilitated a science lesson on sound and the class thoroughly enjoyed investigating and exploring the effects of sound!

Playtime, History and Drama with Mr. McNamara

Literacy and Numeracy Stations

Fabric and Fibre Art Work based on the Big Book Elmer the Elephant

Catholic Schools Week

St. Brigid's Day Art

Persuasive Writing Genre - Walking Debate

An Teilifís

Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine

January

Drama and oral language -improvisation and storytelling using reader words

Show and Tell

First Class are having fun playing maths games on the school laptops

Seniors are having fun learning about the story of 6 in Maths

Maths Stations- time and money and using the number line!

happy birthday meggie! 26/1/17

'Handy Andy' -Children were inspired by pop artist Andy Warhol and created hand print art using paint.

Our growing and changing projects

In Maths, we are learning about money.

Literacy

Game: Hide the Bear under the Tricky Word Cups

Literacy Stations - playing games using tricky words, words from Jolly Phonics and Consonant- Vowel- Consonant words

Handwriting Stations - Capital letters 'H', 'A', 'T', 'Y'

PE -gymnastics and yoga in the classroom

Basketball with Martina and Richard

star of the week- 13-1-17

Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine 13-1-17

December

Advent

Art- Children created jesus in the manger (on top)
(underneath) Children were inspired to create their very own 'Owl Babies' after reading the book!

Maths

Children played the 'Number Bonds to Ten' Card Game in groups of three

The Class were introduced to the 'Adding Machine' and children were also learning to add using cubes, hands and pocket sheet.

Children are learning about Time.
We loved playing the game: 'What's the Time Mr. Wolf?'

1st Class had fun learning their tables outside!

Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine
2/12/16. 9/12/16

November

Maths fun and games

Higher or lower
Number bonds to ten
numeral formation
using dice and number lines

Tricky words fun and games

Science Week: Children participated in various experiments during science week: The Lava Lamp Experiment, The Birdie in the Cage, The Celery Experiment, Floating and Sinking....

The Green Schools Water Theme is interlinked in some of these science experiments.

Art

Maths: The children were learning about 2D shapes this week. The class were involved in a 2D shape hunt in the classroom and around the school. Children also learned to create pictures using concrete shapes and make shapes using lollipop sticks.
*** Please visit www.sesamestreet.org/search?keyword=shapes for more fun learning about shapes! ***

PE: We really enjoy basketball with Martina and Richard and hurling with John Condon!

Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine:
11/11/16 25/11/16

Birthdays

October 2016

Halloween Dress Up, Fun and Games!

Literacy Stations:
The class concentrated on learning Tricky Words:
1. Roll, read cover win!
2. Memory Match
3. Snakes and LAdders
4. Tricky Words Bingo

Recount Writing:
Children worked in groups to organise the recount example text in order noting the introduction, middle and conclusion of the recount.

Children completed a planning template for writing 'My News' and then used that to write and draw their news about their weekend.

Seniors and First Class Children are aware of the rules of crossing the road and made posters to make the whole school aware of Road Safety Week 2016.
"Stop, Look, Listen, Think, Live" became a class motto for road safety.
The class performed the Safe Cross Code song and dance which is available on the Irish Road Safety Authority website (www.rsa.ie).
The class were also involved in making drama- 'freeze frames/still images' of different road safety scenarios which were created in groups and children learned how to 'thought-track' the frame/image.

Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine:
7/10/16 14/10/16 21/10/16

Happy Birthday! On 26th, Chloe and Jamie shared their birthdays! Chloe turned 6 and Jamie turned 7!

Art-autumn trees - responding to 'pointillism' art

Children went on a sound hunt outside looking for something that begins with their letter....

Making Tricky Words using letters

Handwriting stations- practising the letters 'r h and n'

Athletics with Martina and Richard and Hurling with John

Maths-Capacity

1st class work on The story of 12

Halloween Art

'The Scream' by Edvard Munch

Seniors and first class were inspired by 'The Scream' to create their very own using chalk pastels and they inserted a photo of themselves to capture the spookiness of the content of their drawings!

Children have been busy creating Hallowe'en art and decorations for the classroom.

September 2016

Recount Writing: My Summer Holidays

Show and Tell

Literacy Stations

Seniors and 1st are busy bees working in groups playing various literacy games such as Tricky Words Bingo, Treasure Hunt using Reader words, Making CVC words in many different ways-play dough, magnetic letters, writing CVC sentences using whiteboard and markers, matching rhyming pairs, matching picture to word. The class are also developing their oral language skills and descriptive vocabulary when playing the game 'Headbandz'.

Children learn reader words by 'climbing the ladder'

Handwriting Stations

Seniors and First Class were practising the letter formation of 'c' and 'o' this week in many different ways; tracing letters in sand trays, writing using whiteboards and markers and chalk boards and chalk, making the letters using play dough and making rainbow letters using different coloured crayons and highlighters.