Junior Infant Number Work February 2022

 Junior Infants are enjoying learning about the Number 4. Here are the sets of 4 we made today.

January Projects in Ms Nolan's Room

Some students in Senior Infants and First Class were very busy in the month of January doing their first ever projects. Many students were in isolation so for those in school we chose to revise our schoolwork and start some cool projects.

Our theme for January was Polar Regions. We learned about animals and their habitats and this theme transferred across the curriculum.

Below are some samples of our project work

A TASTE OF CHRISTMAS AND SANTA'S WORKSHOP

 

We Fit Together Like Pieces in a Jigsaw

 As part of Friendship Fortnight during the month of September we did some cool artwork. We created friendship chains, We designed and coloured jigsaw pieces. We added leaves to our friendship tree outlining when people had been kind to us. Friendship is Fabulous.. 

Houses and Homes

 As part of our All About Me Theme - we have been studying Houses and Homes. Here are some of the wonderful houses we created as part of our theme.

Rang a hAon have been learning about An Teach agus rinne siad tithe leis na seomraí.

New School Year New Classes

 This year we have 3 classes in our classroom. We are now Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class - 22 of us in all. We are back in our lovely big room, which is great because there is a big bunch of us!

We are continuing to use our Outdoor Classroom for Aistear and on a rainy day we have our play/leaning time indoors.

We are glad to be back

Christmas Dioramas from the Junior Classes

 We are still working on our fine motor skills - colouring, cutting, sticking, rolling and pulling. Look at these amazing Christmas dioramas we made. We sang  Christmas songs as we were working away. 

Our Christmas Wreaths

 Junior and Senior Infants have been busy building our fine motor skills. We tore green and red crepe paper and bundled them into a ball then glued them onto a paper plate. Ms Nolan gave each of us a red bow to finish them off. They look really festive. 

Post Office in St Thomas National School

 For the next few weeks we are going to learn about the Post Office.  Today we learned about the Journey of a Letter and all the items that can be bought in a Post Office - stamps, envelopes, dog licences, TV licences. We can also get passport forms and pay bills. We then played outside at Aistear. It was really good fun.

A Very Important Visitor has Arrived!

 Guess who has arrived in our classroom?

Yes, Elfie is back! He is our most favourite Elf on the Shelf.

It is much earlier than usual but he must 'Elf-Quarantine until December 1st.  We are so happy to see him. He has even left us a note tellng us that he is going to keep an eye on us untile Christmas and tell Santa how well we are behaving.

Welcome back Elfie!

Science on a Monday

 This is Science Week. We did 2 experiments. First was the Skittles experiment. 

Then we did a Walking Water Experiment. We used water, food dye and kitchen roll to do a really cool experiment. 

We used 6 classes, pouring water into every 2nd one. We added food colouring to the 1st, 3rd and 5th glass. We folded a strip of kitchen towel and placed one end into the coloured water and the other into an empty glass. We saw the colour begin to move up the paper towel. Throughout the day we observed what happened. Before we went home the water had walked across the glasses! We all thought this was magic. It was in fact science at work. Capillary action caused the paper towel to pull the water up. The water kept travelling along the paper towel, across the bridge and into the next glass. Cool!

Look at the end result!!

Rainbow Rice

 Our Rice has now dried out.  This is our last batch of 2 shades of red.  We mixed the colours to make rainbow rice. We used fool colouring to dye our rice.. We are going to use it for some fun activities like searching for our letter sounds or our Tricky Words.  Watch this space!