Welcome to Holly's Junior Infants 2019 - 2020
March
February
We have been focusing on the skill of 'striking with the hand' in P.E.
We finished up by playing some games with balloons, including the classic 'keep the balloon off the floor'. Balloon tennis was a favourite!
Rinne muid pancóga!
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We made pancakes!
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Safer Internet Day 2020
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Recycled Art Competition
Grandparents' Day 7th Feb 2020.
A massive 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. We found out some very interesting facts, and then the grandparents stayed to play with us! Thank you for having so much patience and being so generous with your time. We really enjoyed the day and hope you did too!
Our daffodils and tulips are growing!
January
Chinese New Year
We are celebrating Chinese New Year. We read the story of the Chinese Zodiac. We ordered the animals from 1st place to 12th place. Our work is on display on the stairs for the whole school to see!
We are learning all about keeping healthy.
Steam Week 2020
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've been very busy in the new supermarket in our room. We have been making shopping lists, looking at brochures, going shopping with our family, paying for our shopping at the checkout and then going home to put it away.
We love to build!
On Wednesday we 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!
Our daffodils are growing! Hopefully the tulips we planted will begin to grow soon.
December
Trip to the post office 13/12/19.
Some children in our class didn't miss a single day in November - well done!
Visit from the Sam Maguire, 11/12/19
We are learning about the post office. We have been writing letters, writing the address on the envelope, buying stamps and posting them! We have also been weighing our parcels and sending them. Soon we are going to walk to the post office and post a card home!
On Wednesday 4th December, we used our time in the library to do some buddy reading with second class. We really enjoyed reading some books together. Thank you second class.
On Tuesday 3rd December, Cathy from Artzone came in to our class. She did some amazing art using airclay. We made polar bears with scarves.
November
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.
This month we have been learning about the Vets. We have had a lot of practice creating waiting rooms, waiting with our sick pets, ringing to make appointments and working as a receptionist, a vet or a nurse.
Over the last few weeks Adam from St. Anne's GAA Club has been doing P.E. with us. We have had a lot of fun and developed tonnes of new skills.
Science Week 2019.
We have loved doing experiments in school this week. Over the last two weeks, we worked together to design and make boats using recyclable materials. We spent some time painting and decorating them. Our challenge was to make a boat which floated for five seconds, with the three little bears on them. It was so much fun! We learned a lot about sinking and floating, and about waterproof materials.
During Science Week, we made some predictions about which classroom objects would sink and which would float. We recorded the results.
Finally, for our last experiment, we put some skittles into warm and cold water and observed what happened. The sugar coating on the skittles dissolved and made a rainbow!
Well done everyone for their fantastic work as scientists.
Monday 4th November.
Today we planted daffodil bulbs. We made sure they were facing the right way. We each added some soil. We will make sure they get enough water and sunlight and hopefully they will grow in Spring.
October
Self-Expression Day
