Library Time

We go to the library every Thursday to choose a new book. Our library is full of so many fantastic books and we love the chance to pick out our own book. We like to share with others and to tell them about the book we are reading.

Author in our class!

We have our very own author in our class! He has written his second book, Alf's Holidays using his eye gaze technology! The children loved hearing him read his story about all the adventures that Alf got up to on his holidays! Maith an buachaill!

Learning in Literacy

In our classroom we love to learn to read and write new words. We have been learning about different word families and we make lots of different real words and sometimes even nonsense words! We use the lovely resources in our class like magnetic letters and this week we filled our tree on the board with lots of word apples! 

We love reading!

We love reading in our class and we visit the library every week to read books and pick out other interesting books to read at home!

World Book Day

We had great fun dressing up as our favourite storybook characters for World Book Day! We also loved listening to and reading other children's favourite stories too!

Learning about Poland

The children have been learning all about Poland for the International Festival we are having, to work towards getting our Yellow Flag! Some of the parents very generously gave their time to teach the children songs, poems and dances and read traditional Polish stories to the children.

Santa's Little Helper

We Múinteoir Ailish's Junior Infants had a very special visitor in their classroom before the holidays - Santa's Little Helper! She read them a special Christmas story all about the importance of spending time with family and friends over the festive season!

Our School Library

We are so lucky to have such a fantastic library in our school. All of the boys and girls in our class get to take a book home each week from the library. Look at how happy we are to be bringing home our first book from the library this year!

Making fruit smoothies

This week in Literacy, we have been learning about procedural writing. We planned to make a smoothie and discussed the different steps involved to prepare for the activity.

1. Wash your hands. 

2. Wash the fruit.

3. Peel the fruit.

4. Put the fruit into the blender.

5. Twist the lid on the blender.

6. Switch on the blender.

7. Pour out the smoothie into glasses.

8. Drink and enjoy!

After tasting our delicious smoothies, we did some shared writing, recording the different steps involved in making the smoothies. We will be busy over the next few weeks coming up with our own pieces of procedural writing!

World Book Day

This week we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as characters from our favourite books. Check out our fantastic costumes!

Cat, Miss Trunchbull (Matilda), Spider-Man, Michelangelo (TMNT)

Sarah (Owl Babies), Elsa (Frozen), Little Miss Naughty

Sarah (Owl Babies)

Angry Bird, Pirate (Return to Neverland), Spider-Man, Anna (Frozen)

Kipper (At School), Little Red Riding Hood, Pirate (Peter Pan), Batman

Spider-Man, Ninja (Lego Ninja), Horrid Henry

We shared our stories with one another and explained why we liked our books in circle time. 

Gingerbread men

We have been busy in First Class making gingerbread men! In Literacy, we read the step by step recipe and in Numeracy, we had to use our skills of measuring to make sure the ingredients were just right for these tasty treats!