Welcome to Bláithín's Junior Infants
​2019 - 2020

HOME LEARNING

Ayman has been working hard at home! I really like your drawings of the mountains, beautiful work Ayman!

Look at the wonderful calendar that was made! Giving us inspiration to make something like this for when we are back at school!

Here is some work that Abby completed at home earlier in the week. It's so creative!

Jeremy and Geraldine the giraffe have kept busy too!
​They have been taking care of the class potatoes and made decorations for St. Patrick's Day!

Here is some work that Xavier completed since the school closure. I think it is fantastic, keep it up!

MARCH

For the month of March, our Aistear learning theme was the fancy dress shop. We loved exploring all the different costumes and becoming familar with money and paying for items in a shop.

Some of our lovely photographs have gone missing off the camera, so I have Jeremy the bear on the lookout for them! I'll keep you posted

We've been planting again, and this time it was potatoes! Yummy, we can't wait to watch them grow and make something delicious with them in June.

We started off planting the potatoes outside but it got so windy we were being blown away! Inside was much safer to plant our yummy potato seeds.

We all wore something glás for the day and we had a great time

What a seachtain! And we finished off with Lá Glas and a Céilí Mór. We had great fun Irish dancing and watching the other classes dance too

FEBRUARY

Our Aistear learning theme for the beginning of the month of February was the Restaurant. We had lots of fun learning about the restaurant through play!

Our fundamental movement skill we were focusing on this month was STRIKING. We practiced our striking with a hand technique using balloons. Best P.E. lesson ever!

Our daffodils have grown so much! We can't wait to see our tulips grow in March/April

At the beginning of the month we planted Daffodil and Tulip bulbs. It was so much fun!
​We LOVED planting!

We love to build! We are becoming expert infant builders!

                                            Grandparents' Day 07/02/2020.
A BIG thank you to all the wonderful grandparents who came to visit us and celebrate Grandparents Day. We asked the grandparents questions about what life and school was like when they were our age. Thank you for having so much patience and being so generous with your time. We really enjoyed the day and hope you did too!

JANUARY

This month was all about how to eat healthily and keep active.

STEAM WEEK
To celebrate STEAM week, we went to the Exploration Dome. We went inside the dome and experienced the solar system! We could see stars, planets, moons and so much more. We learned about the weather on different planets and all about the constellations.

We recently had our first reading circle. We read with some members of the Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School. They read to us, and we had a chat about the story. We really enjoyed it and are already looking forward to our next reading circle. Thank you to Firhouse ETSS!

​Today some members of the Dublin fire brigade came out to visit Junior Infants. The firefighters were extremely kind and took lots of time out of their day to show us the fire engine. We each had a turn to use the hose and to get into the fire engine. It was an absolutely amazing day!

DECEMBER

Here are pictures of the children's highly anticipated visit to Firhouse Post Office. We had a fantastic morning. A big thank you to the staff in the Post Office and to Paul and the fourth class for your kind help with making this trip so memorable!

For the month of November, our school held an attendance drive called 'Every School Day Counts". This national campaign is run by TUSLA Educational Welfare Services each year. Here are the children who attended school every day for the whole month of November.

​Congratulations on such an achievement!

This our class writing our addresses on envelopes. We are getting ready to send home a card for the first time. A big thank you to Paul and the 4th class for helping us get ready for our visit to the post office at the end of the week!

This week we had a visit from Eilbhe from ArtZone and she showed us how to make our own pencil toppers using air dough! It was so much fun making the polar bear toppers!

We came to school dressed the same, and we LOVED it!

NOVEMBER

We had our first buddy reading lesson with the fourth class. We really enjoyed reading our books together and telling the class about our reading buddies. Thank you fourth class!

​On Wednesday 20th November, we had some special visitors to our classroom - a vet, a veterinary nurse, and Lily the dog from Firhouse Vets! They told us about what they do each day, how they help animals and how we can look after pets. They answered all of our questions and we learned so much! What a fantastic way to end our theme of the vets. We even got to feed Lily the dog some treats and to listen to her heartbeat with the stethoscope. A massive thank you to Firhouse Vets for teaching us so much.

We learned about floating and sinking this month. We made boats in small groups and had a blast testing them in the water!

Our class earned 20 golden tickets. We then took a vote to decide what to do to celebrate. We voted to make popcorn on Friday evening.

This week we planted daffodil and tulip bulbs in window boxes. We hope they will bloom in the Spring. Our class will take care of them during the Winter and wait eagerly for the signs of the bulbs to begin sprouting. We had so much fun planting! 

Our Aistear theme this month is the vets. We are having lots of fun learning about the vets and building vet surgeries.

OCTOBER

Self-Expression Day
We fund raised money for Educate Together by dressing up as someone who inspires us or as ourselves expressing our personalities. Our costumes were so beautiful, that we held a parade and showed everyone in the school the effort we put in for Self-Expression Day!

We started learning how to play gaelic football with Adam. We will have 4 training lessons in total. We are enjoying learning how to play GAA through games.

We had our first visit to the school library recently and we borrowed a book from the library. We all seem to be enjoying reading our books at home.

We went on a nature walk around the school and collected leaves that we could use in our art. We looked at all the beautiful colours and jumped in a big pile of leaves. We has so much fun! 

​We have been learning all about the doctor's surgery and the hospital. We were lucky enough to have a visit from Nurse Sinead on Wednesday 16th October! She showed us some of the things that are used in a hospital, like bandages, stethoscopes and needles. Sinead explained the different things that doctors and nurses do and how they can help us. Thank you, Sinead, for visiting us!

Cricket Ireland came in to teach us how to play cricket. We had lots of fun learning and playing fun games.
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​We had our first class trip on Friday 11th October. We went to the Civic Theatre to see a show called Fairytale Friends. We all really enjoyed the trip, and the show was very funny!  A huge thank you to all the parents who came, and all those who offered to help. We had a great day, and are already looking forward to our next trip!

​We were so lucky to get to use the Beebots for Code Week 2019. We began to develop our coding skills. Thank you to the children from older classes who helped us!

SEPTEMBER

Our first month in Junior Infants has been so much fun!

Developing our math skills

​We have kept ourselves busy settling in to school, making friends and playing fun games!

International European day of Sport

It was European School Sports Day on Friday 27th September. We aimed to have 120 active minutes through our two yard times, some yoga, busy breaks, go noodle and best of all - we had extended P.E. and a dance party with all of the Junior Infants!

Our first day at school

Our first day at school. We were all very excited to start in junior infants in Firhouse. We played games, read stories, sang songs and made new friends.