Digital storybooks

We have been learning about the dentist in Aistear.  We learned lots of new words from the wordwall, did roleplay, played the Popstar Dentist App, read ‘The Wobbly Tooth’, drew comic strips and then turned them into digital storybooks.  Here are a few for you to read! The dentist.ppsx File Size: 795 kb File Type: …

Practical maths activities

We are having lots of fun this morning creating sets, partitioning them and recording the number sentences!

Literacy

Senior Infants were working hard on their literacy activities today!

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Phrasaí don Seachtain na Gaeilge Learn Irish with your child!  Click on the blue links to hear the phrases, songs and poems! Dia dhuit (Hello) Dia’s Mhuire Dhuit (Hello) Conas atá tú? (How are you?)     Tá mé go maith. (I am good.)     Níl mé go maith, tá mé tinn. (I’m not good, I …

Aistear: Shopping

This fortnight we have shopping as our Aistear theme. One group makes things that you would find in a supermarket out of playdoh. Emer and Aoife have loved our scanners, trolleys, food & toys! Another group have fun role-playing being shopkeepers, cashi ers and customers. The third group work on their sounds, write shopping lists …

January 16th, 2014

These crisp, bright mornings are perfect for an ‘art walk’ to closely observe trees in winter.  We sketched the trees with pencil first then drew them with charcoal, graphite pencils, ink with calligraphy pens and skinny brushes, and with black markers which have different-sized tips.  We drew on white paper on which we did washes …

A lovely day to end a wonderful year!

What a wonderful year!

Korean day

Thank you so much to Kian’s Mum and Dad for coming into our class today and teaching us about Korea.  We tried on traditional clothes, played games, ate Korean treats and learned some taekwondo.  It was so much fun!  Here is a video of some of the things we did.

Finn’s Grandad came to visit!

Finn’s Grandad is here on holidays from Yorkshire. He told us all about his work as a dentist & also about his new job showing people around Leeds rugby ground!

Aistear in the sunshine

Taking advantage of the lovely weather to have Aistear time outside!

It really is a wonderful world!

I see skies of green…

Aistear

Our Aistear topic this week is the farm.  We have three areas: creative play, role-play and constructive play.  Here are some photos of us learning through play.

Chalk art

We were busy doing chalk art at break time today playing.  Do you like our drawings?!

Mini-beast Hunt

Off on our mini-beast hunt to find centipedes, spiders, ladybirds and many others… This is our magnifying glass Shining a light on nature Looking everywhere!

Baha’i Festival

Vivienne’s mum, Hailey, spoke to the children about the Baha’i festival of Ridvan.  She told us that Ridvan is part of a twelve-day festival and refers to a beautiful garden near Baghdad.  We talked about loving and respecting other people.  Hailey sang a song. We made flowers using tissue paper and coloured pipe-cleaners. Look at …

Baby David comes to visit!

We were delighted to have baby David visiting us today.  We were able to ask his Mummy and his sister Julia all about the things that he is able to do now.  We found out that he just drinks milk and that he is nearly able to roll over.   Every day his Mummy puts …

Rewards!

We have been working very, very, very hard!  To celebrate we watched ‘The Singing Kettle-Funny Farm and had some hot, tasty popcorn. We all had fun!

Chinese New Year

We were learning about Chinese New Year.  We dressed in red and decorated our room for the celebration.  We made Snake mobiles because this is the year of the snake.  We watched a dragon dance on YouTube.  Click on the YouTube below to watch the video.  Here are some photos we took on the day!

We got a fish for our tank!

Leon’s Dad came to school again today.  He brought a heater for the fish tank and our very first fish.  These are photos of us watching all the action!

Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday

We have had a very busy two days learning about Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday from Emer and Caoimhe.  Did you know that Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday and that it comes from France?  Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras is the last day before the fast time of Lent.  People all over t he world celebrate it in many …

Irish poem

Listen to our new poem! Yum, yumIs maith liomBrioscaí agus scónAgus bainne do mo lón. Yum, yum,Is maith liomIm agus ubh Agus arán le subh.

The cold weather didn’t stop us having fun!

Leon looks very comfortable!

Fireworks!

We went to the science lab today and Una mixed chemicals to make fireworks. We had great fun!  Click on the photos to see them properly.

Our 3rd week in school!

We worked so hard! Now we know the letters s. a, t and i! We know the actions and the songs for each letter.  We practised our pencil grip and had fun doing rainbow writing and using the whiteboards. We had fun doing our maths and english activities! We love Golden time!

We love rhymes and songs!

We have been learning songs and rhymes every week. So far we know: Five Sugar CookiesFive Little DucksOne, two, three four fiveTwo little dicky birdsFive speckled frogsFive little monkeys Sin é LeoMise an traeinRollaí pollaíLámh, lámh eileTá mé i mo sheasamhTá mo shúile oscailteTic tocTá téidí ag rithCeann is gualainn Oh it’s time to say …

Our 1st twitter project #anfomhar

We have started tweeting!  One of the first things we did was join the twitter project #anfomhar.  All classes were asked to look for signs of Autumn.  We went for a walk in the school grounds and found leaves that were changing colours, fruits and buds. Emer went for a walk in a park and …

Our Monster Doodle!

On October 1st 2012 we were lucky enough to be part of a Monster Doodle workshop.  Niamh Sharkey, well kn own author and illustrator of The Ravenous Beast and The Hufflebugs and the current Children’s Laureate , lead an interactive art class from Tallaght library.  There were eight other groups from around the country following …

National Tree Day

Emer found us lots of interesting things to do about trees on the tree day website http://www.treeday.ie/

Maths Week

We are really enjoying National Maths Week! Move your mouse over the photo and click Play to view the slideshow.

Gardening

Thank you to all the people from St. Tiernan’s who made the planters for us and helped us fill them today-we had great fun!

Our concert!

On Thursday 25 October 2012 we had a ribbon cutting ceremony in school.  After it we did a concert for our parents.  Here are some of our songs.  We hope you enjoy them!  Thank you to Kian’s Dad for taking the video!

We love our new PE equipment!

Music class

Paula, from St. Tiernan’s came to teach us music today. We had lots of fun playing percussion instruments.  Here is a video of us learning rhythms!

Our new library!

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Longer and shorter than!

We were learning about longer and shorter than today.  We went on a maths walk around the class and the school and found things that were longer and shorter than a stick of 10 cubes.  Here are some of the things we found.

We went to a real science lab!

We are so lucky! We got to visit a real science lab in St. Tiernan’s today.  We met ‘Bones’ the skeleton, learned about our heart and our pulse.  Real scientists wear white coats and special glasses-look at our scientist Hailey!

Meditation

We had our first meditation time today! Emer talked to us about a star. Here are some of the things the children said: Maggie ‘The light filled our body’Max ‘We lay down and we had a cushion.’Erica ‘I would like to do it again.’Iggy ‘Some people were very good at keeping still.’Ella ‘We all got …

Click here to see a video of our 1st two weeks!

A taste of our Winter Celebration!

Science week!

This week is Science week.  Yesterday we learned all about Neil Armstrong and the first landing on the moon.  Today we made a chocolate moon and looked at the craters our playdough meteorites made!  We also launched a balloon rocket and made biscuit planets.  We had great fun!