The children had a great day today as all classes enjoyed Tag Rugby with Graham. The sun shone and the children had a great time.
Here are some photos of senior infants enjoying the game.
Tag Archives: Aistear
Junior Infants go farming!
This month the Junior Infants are down on the farm. In construction, we are building a farm from our wonderful happy architect set. In sand, we are busy ploughing fields to get ready for the harvest. The role play area are very busy working on the farm. They are tending to the animals in the field who have had a tricky few days because of the snow. The playdoh area are making farm animals and machinery. We love farm life here in Junior Infants even though some roads have been blocked because of the snow and treacherous conditions!
Garda Checkpoint!
These gardaí were busy in Marshalstown recently. Luckily, no suspicious behaviour was noticed and all vehicles were being driven at a safe speed through the village! Keep up the good work everyone! 🙂
Junior Infants Learning Log
Junior Infants have had a busy few weeks in their classroom. Last week they learned all about the produce that a farm can grow and opened their own shop to sell all the fruit and vegetables! They also began using the ipads when they were practicing their new letter sounds. This week they are exploring the theme of Halloween and the fancy dress shop. The 5th and 6th Class children, along with their teacher Miss McCarthy, made a witches den. It is a very spooky place! The Junior Infants and their teacher, Miss Butler, would like to thank the 5th and 6th class and their teacher for all of their hard work that went into creating the den.
Down on the farm!
Junior and Senior Infants have been very busy learning about life on the farm for the past number of weeks. They are exploring the theme of the farm through Aistear. As you can see they have made some wonderful farm animals out of clay while their farm area in the classroom is also very true to life. Miss Butler made the wonderful farm area background and fence and, together with Miss Dobbs, added some props to make a very realistic farm in the classroom. Click on the photographs for a closer look 🙂
Senior Infants publish the Three Little Dogs
The Senior Infant classroom has been a hive of activity in the past week. They decided that although the tale of the Three Little Pigs was good, they knew that they could write a much better story. Everyone worked together to suggest ideas and discuss them and soon the story of the Three Little Dogs came to life. Miss Dobbs was given the job of typing the story when the children had completed the final draft as they were also busy illustrating the text. I’m sure you’ll all agree that the Senior Infants did a fantastic job and the Three Little Dogs will become a bedtime favourite in many homes around Marshalstown. 🙂
Invitations to the premiere of the story and movie itself were also designed and created by the children.
Click on the link below to view the Three Little Dogs.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8xcqz8bs000nzlt/The%20Three%20Little%20Dogs%20Photostory.wmv?dl=0
Junior Infants had a farm…e i e i o!
The 5th and 6th Class children recently constructed some farm buildings for the Junior Infants to use during Aistear and other playtimes. As you can see, they paid great attention to detail when constructing these buildings. They even made a tractor to drive on the farm as well as some logs for the fire. Many thanks to Miss McCarthy’s 5th and 6th Class for all their hard work.
Senior Infants go farming!
Senior Infants are exploring the theme of The Farm during Aistear this week. We are very lucky that our school is in the countryside as we get to see the signs of farming all around us. Today, we noticed that there was a farmer ploughing his field across from the school. We went to have a closer look …just to make sure he was doing it right as we have a few farmers in our class!! 🙂 While we were out and about we also noticed some signs of Spring in our environment, such as the buds on the trees.
Senior Infants explore The Arctic!
The Senior Infants have been learning all about the Arctic this week. Did you know that polar bears live there? We made our own polar bears in Art. They look very real! Click on the photograph for a closer view…don’t be scared! 🙂