Wednesday 9 March 2016

We Love Reading

We love reading in Junior Infants and we enjoy literacy stations every day. We have been busy blending and matching, and using our library corner.




Multicultural Week and Seachtain na Gaeilge

This week we are celebrating Multicultural Week and Seachtain na Gaeilge in the school.

We have taken part in some fun activities including an African drumming workshop on Tuesday. All the classes in the school created beautiful artwork from different cultures around the world which is displayed in the GP room. Our artwork was based on Ireland and the legend of St Patrick.



We worked together to make our multicultural artwork. Each group made one colour of the rainbow using their fingertips. We all made shamrocks and used these to decorate the finished picture.






We had a great GAA workshop today with Pádraig. We learned some skills for Gaelic football and we were excellent!

We have also been learning a dance called 'Skip to My Lou'. We will perform this dance on Friday for third class.

Capacity

We have been learning about the topic of capacity in maths.

We looked at different containers from home and in the classroom. We experimented in the sand and water area to show full, empty, nearly full and nearly empty containers. We learned that capacity is a measure of how much something can hold.

We had great fun experimenting with different containers and guessing which holds the most sand!




The Doctor's Surgery

We have been learning about people who work in the community and people who serve the community in our SESE lessons. Our play theme was based on these lessons over the past few weeks.
In the role play area we set up a doctor's surgery. We took turns taking on the roles of doctors, nurses, receptionists and patients. The doctors and nurses were kept very busy as the patients presented with a number of illnesses. The doctors examined the patients and wrote prescriptions for medicine. The nurses bandaged a number of wounds and gave injections when needed. The receptionists were also very busy making appointments and ensuring that patients were comfortable in the waiting room.





In the small world station we used puppets and dolls in our toy hospital.





In construction we built a number of hospitals, fire stations, surgeries and schools.