Senior Infants had such an enjoyable time in Lullymore for our FIRST EVER school tour! We were so excited on the run-up to it and we had a special calendar to count down the days. This made the excitement build even more!

We got a big double decker bus which was such fun. When we arrived to Lullymore we were greeted by our guides. We got to do lots of fun activities like a train ride, the playground, indoor play area and a tour of crainneogs. We had lunch together and then returned home very tired but delighted with our tour!

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Term 2 was a busy one for us in room 4. Check out the information and pictures below to find out what we got up to!

Aistear: The Post Office
One of the children's favourite Aistear topics this year has been the Post Office. We did lots of fun activities such as delivering post, finding hidden post office words in our classroom, constructing train tracks, making our own fairytale post map, practising our blending by posting in the post box, role play in the post office and lots of sensory work with shredded paper and shaving foam. 

Art: Clay Pots
One of our proudest art pieces to date were our clay pinch pots. This lesson was over two days as we first created the pinch pots and left them to dry. Once they were fully dry we then painted them with our favourite colours. We learned lots of techniques when creating our pots and used water at the end to both smooth and shine our pots. Check out the finished products!

Science/Music: Sound Shakers
We studied sound in science and used recycled bottles and various materials such as cheerios, rice, and lentils to make sound shakers. It certainly created a big mess in our classroom but it was totally worth it when we got to use our new instruments with to accompany some of our favourite pop songs!

Aistear: The Dentist
Mr. Geaney was very impressed with some of our budding Dentists during this Aistear topic. We had some amazing receptionist who helped the Denists when the surgery got busy also. During this Aistear topic we had to scrub plaque using toothbrushes, make some amazing smiles and work on our fine motor in sand by picking teeth (marshamallows) using tweezers. There could be some dentists in our midst in the future!

Art: Valentine's Day
We took our inspiration for our Valentine's Art from artist Jim Dine. We recreated his piece entitled 'Painted Heart' with lots of striking colours. These art pieces got lots of compliments from those who passed them outside our classroom!

World Book Day
We celebrated world book day in style in our classroom this year. We really enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters from books. We also had a dance party with the other senior infant classroom in the hall!

Aistear: The Farm
Another popular Aistear topic was the farm. We enjoyed lots of activities based on the farm and farm animals. We did lots of art pieces including making spring meadows with paintbrushes, and making paper plate farm animals. We used role play for the farmer's market, soil for planting and water for ducks and lots of farm games like mother and young matching, bingo and puzzles!

St Patrick's Celebrations
We did some themed St. Patrick's Day art which you can check out below. We used crepe paper and water to make special prints!

Spring is Here!
We are always interested in seasonal change and we really enjoyed learning about Spring. We learned lots of facts and Mr. Belgey also took us on a Spring scavenger hunt to our garden. Check out our rendition of 'Spring into Action' below too. We think we did a great job!

Aistear: Space
We loved becoming astronauts during our Aistear topic Space. We used the role play to prepare in the Space Station and to launch from our rocket. We also contructed rockets using lego and big blocks, created an art piece of the sequence of the planets and created rockets also! We loved clay so much before that we created our own clay aliens! This was a really fun Aistear topic!

Thank you Mr. Begley!
We were so lucky to have Mr. Begley teaching us for three weeks. He did so many fun things with us and was so kind to us. We had to get a group picture with him on his final day and before we finished for the Easter break!

Thanks for visiting and see you soon, 
Senior Infants!

January
In January, we were happy to return to school to see all our friends after the Christmas break. We shared lots of fabulous stories of our break and of the excitement of Santa’s visit to our homes.
In Art, we experimented with Primary and Secondary colours and made our very own colour wheels. We then created a colourful class caterpillar.

​The following week, we explored what we had learned about mixing colours to create tonal hot and cold colours. We were all experts at this!

​In Aistear, we learned about the Post Office. We built postal routes, made maps for the Postman, went on a word hunt, worked in the sorting station and wrote and posted letters to our friends. We learned the process of how letters and parcels arrive at their destinations. This was fascinating!

In Science, we explored floating and sinking. Thankfully, all of the water containers stayed upright and most of the water remained in them! 

​February
In Maths, we learned about 3D shape. We are all very familiar with cubes, cylinders, spheres and cuboids. We sorted shapes, drew pictures with them, built shapes using matchsticks and play doh (This was a challenge!) and made towers.

​In Music, we made shakers using a variety of different dry foods. We listened to and discussed the sounds our instruments made. This may have resulted in us having a picnic lunch as the clean up became a little too much… we were secretly delighted!

In Handwriting, we used matchsticks and lollipop sticks to make our capital letters E, T, K and H!

Listen to the song we learned whilst learning about the Lifecycle of the Frog.

We became Dentist’s in Aistear.

​March
In phonics, we matched pictures to words, went on word hunts, played board games and other games to help us learn our ‘ai’ sound.

​On Pancake Tuesday, we decorate pancake faces and ate pancakes with our favourite toppings… they were devoured before we had time to take pictures!

​In Drama, we created Sculpture Galleries. We worked with a partner to mould each other into shape for others to view in the Gallery. We learned that it is very hard to keep a straight face!

World Book Day was so much fun. We had some interesting characters in our classroom that day.

​The water containers returned for maths, and we explored units of measure. We learned how to show containers that were full, empty, half-full, almost full and almost empty.

​Check out our Green Day song, parade and dance moves.

​We had some lovely weather and Gerry invited us to the garden to help him plant some trees.

​April
Early April, saw us take off on a mission to Space in Aistear. We learned about Astronauts, their voyage into Space and the planets.

​In phonics, we worked on out oo and oo sounds before our well-earned Easter break!

​We hope you enjoyed catching up on what we got up to in Term 2.
From,
Senior Infants