Welcome to Jen's Senior Infants' Class
Home Learning 30th March - 3rd April
Our Senior Infant class have been working really hard at home completing activities in Maths, English and Irish and also some other subject areas. Have a look at some of the amazing work they have been doing and fun they have been getting up to.
Home Learning
The children in Senior Infants have been busy doing some wonderful work at home. Look at some of their amazing creations.
Melanie did some sums and spelling work. She also made a dragonfly from recyclable materials. Well done Melanie!!
Tess was very creative and built the stairs that Harry Potter lives under using LEGO and she also wrote about flowers in her garden at home. Such a wonderful idea Tess!!
Dennis was busy working on his addition sums and writing out his dictation sentence. He also decided to create a wonderful Art piece of a butterfly out of different coloured strips of paper. Amazing work Dennis!!
Maya did some wonderful work on her phonics at home practicing writing her letters and words. She has also been working on some life skills such as making up beds in her house, gardening and cooking. You can see her making chapatis which is a type of flatbread which comes from India. She has also been enjoying some fresh air and outdoor adventures with her brother. Great to see such amazing and creative work Maya!
Self Expression Day
We had great fun dressing up as people we admire and expressing ourselves on the last day before the midterm break. Check out some of our cool costumes! :)
Aistear Time At The Doctor's Surgery
We love Aistear in our class. Have a look at the fun we had doing role play in a doctor's office, creating some tools that the doctor uses with playdough such as a stethoscope and drawing some patients at a doctor's surgery.
Science Week
We did lots of experiments for Science week in our class.
Here we put skittles of different colours in a circle around a plate and poured warm water on top. A rainbow gradually started to appear. It was so much fun to watch!
This experiment is called 'Storm in a cup'. Here we put water in a jar and on top put some shaving foam. We mixed some water and blue food colouring into a bowl and then poured it bit by bit on top of the shaving foam. The shaving foam acted as the clouds and when the clouds could not hold any more rain, the storm happened.
Dancing Hearts - this was a great experiment that we did in small groups. We got a cup of 7up and some love heart sweets. We placed the sweets into the cup and watched as they danced in the fizzy 7up!
We were so lucky to have Cormac's Mum come in and do a fun experiment using flowers and food colouring in our class. She placed the flowers in the food colouring mixed with water and we left the flowers on the window ledge for a few days and watched as the petals changed to the same colour as the food colouring. The stem had soaked up the coloured water and changed the white petals to a different colour. Science is so much fun!!!!!
Fun with our musical instruments
We made some instruments at home using recyclable materials and we experimented with them in class along with some of the instruments we have in school already. We created a song in our groups and played it for the class.
Post Office Aistear
The children had great fun playing Post Office for Aistear in December. They used Lego to build their own post office and created their own role play in a Post Office.
People At Work
Children had great fun taking on the roles of different people at work. They enjoyed being builders using Jago blocks and making different items for different jobs using playdough.
Weight
The children enjoyed learning about weight in Maths and using a balance to weigh different items around the classroom, seeing how many cubes it takes to balance each item.
They also cut out different items and decided whether they were heavy or light and stuck them down on the correct sheet.
They also cut out different items and decided whether they were heavy or light and stuck them down on the correct sheet.
Aistear: The Vet
We all became vets and were busy looking after all the animals in Aistear.
The Visit From The Vet
The Senior Infant classes were so lucky to have a visit from Firhouse Veterinary practice. Lily the dog came in with them for a visit. We used a stethoscope to check Lily's heartbeat and fed her some nuts.
Grandparents' Day
Some of the childrens' Grandparents came into our class to visit. They spoke about what life was like when they were young. Caíntigern's Grandmother brought in a chicken to show the class and she even laid an egg on our floor! It was a great day!!