We have had a busy week celebrating Literacy week. We entered the door competition with our 'Bookflix' theme, using books that we have read and would like to read soon.
On Wednesday we had a lovely afternoon playing games in the hall, using our oral language skills along the way.
Both our class and Mr Moriarty's class have been learning about World War II in history so we performed a play about the blackout in Ireland during the war, called 'When Ireland was quiet'. We welcomed a big crowd in on Friday to watch our performance.
Our genre of writing for this month is Poetry. We combined writing with art and ICT by typing and printing our haikus and then painting a background to display them. We chose the theme of floods for inspiration!
We were very lucky to have story teller Seosamh visit our school and tell us the story of Fionn Mac Chumhaill through english agus trí Ghaeilge with engaging animation.
To finish off Literacy week, we took a trip to our local library where we listened to some lovely stories told to us by Liz. The standout story had to be 'The Extraordinary Gardiner'. We then visualised the two worlds in the story through art.
We have lots of fun activities arranged across the school. Classes are busy preparing for their classroom door competition. The best door wins a class Pizza party. The competition will be ajudicated by our local Librarian from Inchicore Library.
6th class will host a games day in the PE hall, setting up and supervising Oral Language and spelling games such as Charades, Headbanz, Bananagrams, Articulates, 20 questions, I spy etc.
On Friday 6th we will have a Parents day where children invite their parents or someone from their family in to see them present their work. Some classes are doing Authors chair, drama, project presentation, debates etc.
They are so proud of their work adn are so looking forward to sharing it with everyone.
On Monday the 9th we will have Storyteller Seamas O Maonlai visit us. We are really looking forward to this as he comes highly recommended. On Tuesday 10th Junior and Senior Infants will visit a storytelling session in Inchicore Library.
We look forward to a lovely week.
Christmas in Junior Infants
It has been a very busy and exciting time in Junior infants. We enjoyed welcoming parents into our class for a special Christmas crafts morning last week and we made some lovely festive art. A great morning was had by both children and parents.
Along with doing lots of art this season, the children had great fun creating their Christmas lists and talking about their favourite toys. We also enjoyed the school toy sale on Friday which was a great success in our class and brought lots of excitement. It has been a busy and fun run up to the festive period with lots of smiles and happy memories made in junior infants.
Senior Infants had a wonderful morning welcoming their parents into the classroom for some festive Christmas crafts. The children were excited to showcase their fantastic work, with Christmas music playing and plenty of holiday cheer in the air.
We created colourful Christmas trees using crepe paper, adding snowy details and cheerful snowmen made from cotton wool. The finished display was bright, creative, and full of festive spirit. It was a lovely way to start the Christmas season! 🎄✨
