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Hi there! Welcome to our blog page. We are the new Student Council for Scoil Mochua, and we hope to make the school a better place for everyone. We are so happy to have a voice at last!!!! Here are the Council Members: Ciana O'Sullivan, Ben Sullivan, Kaci O'Connor, Cian Walsh, Kaite Brazil, Tadhg Halpin, Niamh Farrell, Seán Ballantine, Ruth Dwyer, Cian Bond, Emma Keogh, Cillian Colclough, Kate Hayden, Réamonn Comer, Tori Keegan, Adam Kasali. There are two children, one boy and one girl, from each class from 4th to 6th on the Council. Each class voted for its representatives. The voting took place last month and so far we have had 6 meetings. We have elected Officers to the Student Council. They are: Chairperson: Adam Kasali Deputy Chairperson: Ruth Dwyer Secretary: Seán Ballantine Deputy Secretary: Niamh Farrell Communications Officers: Kate Hayden, Cian Bond. Each class has a suggestion box and the students are welcome to put forward their ideas for ways to improve the school. We bring the ideas to the meetings and we discuss them and vote on them. Any that are passed are brought by The Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson to Mr Ryan for consideration. That's all for now. Next update on Fri 16th Dec. See you then ...... Friday 16th December Hi,today we talked about room 18's suggestion said that there should more balls for the yard we voted: 10 people for, 6 people against. Mr.Ryan said no to voting to go outside because some classes might say no and some say yes and one teacher can't be inside and outside at the same time. A jersey day was put down because a lot of jersey days would cost alot, and jerseys are expensive to buy. Mr Ryan loved the idea of a school anthem. We will hold a competition at Easter to compose one. Next blog, Fri 13th Jan 2012. Happy Christmas!!!!!
Fri 13th Jan Hello everyone and Happy New Year!! We lost our blog entry for today - we are still learning how this blog page works! No time now to re-type it all in. We'll fill you in next week....
Fri 20th Jan Announcing an Art Competition - we are looking for a fun, eye-catching, colourful, creative logo for the Student Council. Details coming to all the classes next week. Prizes for the winners... Our new notice board is finished and is in the new foyer. Cian Bond and Kate Hayden will keep it updated and current. We will be pumping the balls in the 5th and 6th classes every month. If you have any problems (balls lost, burst etc) please tell your class council rep.
Friday 27/1/12 Hi there. We had a lively meeting today. We decided to finish every meeting with bullet points of what has been discussed so that we know exactly what to say to our classes. We decided to ask Mr Ryan for the following: Mirrors for the bathrooms in the 6th classes as they are in every other room; Could every class visit Celbridge Library during the Readathon; More raffle tickets for children who read multiples of 20 (or 10 in the senior classes) books during the readathon; We are also thinking about inviting parents in to the classes to talk about their careers. We think that would be very interesting. Oh, and Ms Carragher is looking into getting us baseball caps with Student Council on them - we would wear them whenever we have to help out at school events. Talk next week! Here's a photo of us working hard! Fri 10th February Today each class brought up 2 suggestions, so lots of thinking went into today. Keep thinking about suggestions - hope you'll have lots after mid term because we need your voice. We decided to bring the following suggestions to Mr Ryan: a week off written homework during the readathon basketball nets in the senior yard bake sale which the Student Council will organize bring books to the yard when it's dry a book club that will be organized by the student council Enjoy the week off!!!!
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9/ 11/ 11 Today in room 22 we did a science lesson about electromagnets. Everybody did well but in one of the groups the battery went up in smoke! We also reviewed each others creative writing stories. We did a geography test - it was about the map of Europe. And we were excited because we went out the new doors and the builders worked very hard on it and deserve good money. By Reamonn Comer and Alina Borodina. 10/11/11 Today we did PE out in the yard. We played Round 1 of a soccer tournament.. We did geography with Ms Gamble. Conor and Sarah C |
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Welcome to our Blog! Wednesday 22nd February 2012 Ms. Moynihan came in this morning and made pancakes for us! She used eggs, flour, milk and a pinch of salt. She whisked all the ingredients together and added milk until the consistency was just right! Can you remember what Ms. Moynihan was doing in each of the pictures below?
Once the pancakes were cooked we got to choose our topping- most of us had chocolate spread but a few of us had lemon and sugar, which was yummy! Here we are enjoying our pancakes!
Thank you Ms. Moynihan- we will really miss your cooking!
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It's Pancake Tuesday today so we decided to sing you a song about some missing pancakes! We hope you enjoy listening to it as you munch on some delicious pancakes today! Check back here tomorrow for some pictures of us making pancakes in our classroom! We are looking forward to making them and (more importantly) we can't wait to eat them! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enjoy the week off and see you all on February 20th
January 2012 Week two of the Readathon is over and we have really enjoyed it so far! The best part of the Readathon is when the boys and girls from Room 13 come and read with us. Buddy reading is our new favourite time of the week! Check out how much fun we had on Wednesday morning! Click here for more information and tips on promoting literacy at home.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We had great fun experimenting with magnets today! We found lots of things in our classroom that are made from metal.
We also learned that each end of a magnet is called a pole. When the north pole of one is brought close to the south pole of another they are attracted to each other.
When the north/south poles of both magnets are pushed together they are forced apart and repel each other. Even when we pushed really hard we could not get them to touch! Why don't you have a look at some videos and games about magnets to learn more! Click the picture of Sesame Street! There are many more videos, games and songs on this website that relate to the topics we are covering in school! Have fun!
Here is a link to some games we have been playing in school! These games are great fun and they help us to learn! --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Readathon is now underway! Click here for more information and tips on promoting literacy at home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We have been learning about hot and cold this week. Have a look at the paintings we created using hot and cold colours!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 2012 Happy New Year to all and welcome back to a new term in Junior Infants! Next week we will begin reading our Sunny Street books ('Happy Birthday, Molly' 'Yummy' and 'Say Cheese') If you still have these books at home please bring them in on Monday! Well done to all children and parents on a very successful Nativity Play in December. The children were fabulous on stage and the costumes looked great. Thank you for all the help and co-operation in putting the show together! Here are a few photos of the special day!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merry Christmas Everybody! Have a safe, happy and healthy Christmas! See you all on January 9th 2012! December 2011 We are all very busy at the minute! We are rehearsing very hard for our Nativity play, learning lots of new songs and creating Christmas art! Our Nativity play will take place on Wednesday 21st December at 12.30. All are welcome! The play will be held in the big hall and parents can take children straight home afterwards. Children who have not been assigned parts may dress up as any character from the Nativity story. Please send in all costumes by Friday 16th. Here are some Christmas trees we decorated! Don't they look very festive?
We also drew scenes from the Nativity story this week. We learned all about Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem. The baby Jesus was born in a stable and was visited by Shepherds and Wise Men. Angels told them where to go. Can you see these people in our pictures?
Fun Day On Monday 12th December we had our Fun Day! We were amazed at the magic show. Mr. Jolly was really funny and his tricks were magical!
Can you figure out how Mr. Jolly made Rodger the Rabbit appear? Two children from room 1 were chosen to help Mr. Jolly on stage. They were very good magicians!
We learned a new song on Fun Day! We really hope this doesn't happen on Christmas Eve! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29th November 2011 We have been spending a lot of time learning about homes this week. We learned about different types of homes, both in Ireland and around the world. We looked at pictures of 4 children from around the world who live in very different homes to us.
We also looked at images of homes from long ago and we compared these to our homes now. Before people had electricity in their homes, they had a very different way of life. Did you know they had to boil the kettle and warm the iron over the fire? We have some artefacts in our school. We looked at these and tried to guess what they were used for.
As well as learning about the features of different homes, we learned about journeys we make to and from our homes. We used Google Maps on our interactive whiteboard to find our homes in Celbridge. We also found our school and we used street view to direct our teacher from our school to our home! Try it out at home. It's great fun! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 17th November 2011 We were feeling very creative this week! We drew pictures of our families...
...we printed with odds and ends to create patterns,
... and we used pieces of paper to create feathers on our owl pictures!
-------------------------------------------- 10th November 2011 We are all special! We are all unique!
---------------------------------------------------------- 28th October 2011 Happy Halloween from Room 1
We had a Halloween Disco in our classroom on Friday! Check out our dance moves in this video!
---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20th October 2011 Halloween is coming and we are all getting very excited! We have learned a sing called 'The Witch Rides'.
And we learned a poem about pumpkins! '5 Little Pumpkins'
---------------------------------------------------------------- 11th October 2011 Today in Room 1 we baked some delicious Ginger Bread Men.
Ms. Moynihan came in to help us because she is a very good baker.
She taught us about all the different ingredients and where they come from.
We used wet ingredients (butter, eggs, lemon zest, vanilla essence) and dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder). Ms. Moynihan said it is very important to follow the recipe carefully. So we used measuring spoons and weighing scales. We used a wooden spoon to mix all the ingredients together. We each cut out our own biscuit from the dough. We used currants to give the ginger bread man some eyes and a mouth.
We baked the biscuits in a very hot oven and when they were finished we let them cool. After that... we gobbled them all up! Even Mr. Ryan had one (or two!!).
------------------------------------------------------------ Note for parents Blending is the process of saying the sounds in a word and then running them together to make the word, e.g. c-a-t is cat. It is a technique your child will need to learn, and it improves with practice. Some children take longer to do this than others. To start with you should sound out the word and see if your child can hear it. The sounds must be said quickly to hear the word. It is easier if the first sound is said slightly louder, e.g. b-u-s. To give your child practice at blending, she/he will bring home lists of words in their sound copies. Please listen to your child blending the sounds to read the words each night for homework. To listen to all the Jolly Phonics songs we sing in school, watch this video.
To watch a video on how to help your child with blending, click here Blending Video ____________________________________________________________________ Here are some of our favourite songs in room 1. We listen to these nearly every day and they help us to learn in a fun way! You can sing along to these songs at home by clicking on the images below! Have fun!
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Welcome to Room 2 blog! 20th February 2012 We are back at school after a week off and ready for fun and learning! We are learning the poem- "Mary had a Little Lamb". It is springtime- the time when lambs are born! Click on the picture for some fun games!
Spring is here so we made daffodils thanks to all the egg cartons everyone sent in! We don't need anymore but if you are looking for ideas on what to do with egg cartons click here for fun ideas!
WOW!
We made pancakes! Ms. Moynihan came to help us- she's a great cook!
Yummy!
Thanks Ms. Moynihan- you're the best!
We celebrate Pancake Tuesday because Lent begins the very next day. Long ago people didn't use to eat eggs or butter during Lent so they used them all up the day before- Pancake Tuesday! Is there anything you could give up for Lent? Do you remember how to make pancakes? Try this click and drag quiz by clicking on the picture below!
Listen to a story about pancakes by clicking on the picture! Lisa Dooley is helping out in our class for the next 6 weeks! She is in her final year of an Early Childhood degree with Carlow IT. She is a past pupil of Scoil Mochua! Here she is reading us The Big Pancake!
6th February 2012 We made some fun and interesting discoveries with mirrors! Mirrors reflect light!
To learn more about light click here to play a game! We read the book Bear Shadow. It's all about a bear who cannot get rid of his shadow! Now we know that shadows are affected by how high the sun is in the sky. To learn more about shadows and play a game click on the picture below.
We are looking for lids! Please send in any lids you have at home. Any size, shape, colour or kind will do! We are also looking for egg cartons to make daffodils. Please send some in if you have any. Coffee morning! Room 2 will be performing a song at the coffee morning this Friday at around 9:30 ! We hope that you can make it. If not we will post a video of our performance here! The letter of the week is the letter f. If you would like to hear all the jolly phonics songs click here! Click on the sesame street picture for some videos and games! Click on the picture below for the new game as Gaeilge! We are learning about the number 4! Number 4 is all around us- click here to watch a video! 30th January 2012 Hi everyone! We had great fun with magnets! We are scientists-look at us!
We heard the story about St. Brigid and her cloak. The 1st of February is her special day and the beginning of spring! There is a girls school in Celbridge named after St. Brigid! Scoil Naomh Bríd!
This week the letter sound is L. Why not try some phonics games by clicking on the pictures below!
The new game as Gaeilge is here! Click below! If you have the book "Say Cheese" at home then please send it into school. We will be starting this book soon.
Click on the book for a list of words coming up in the new reader. 23rd January 2012 Hi there everyone! We are all settled back at school. We are learning lots of new things. We have started reading our Sunny Street readers- Happy Birthday Molly and Yummy! The next book- Say Cheese is coming soon! Don't forget to read the book every night. Be sure your child is not simply memorising the book. Ask your child to point out the words as they read and try the page at the back for revision. Click below for Sunny Street games and words to print out at home! Did you know the readathon has started in Scoil Mochua? Now is the perfect time to join the library and encourage the joy of reading at home. The gift of reading is one of the most precious gifts we can give a child! Our new sound this week is the letter u! Click on the apple to listen to some songs and play some games with the letter u! We have been learning about robins! Click on the picture of the robin! Robins are one of the only birds to sing through the winter. Watch a video of a robin red breast singing here! We will be experimenting with something special this week. Click on Little Miss Curious for a clue! It's still cold out there! Do you know how to dress for the weather? Let's see! Click below! 16th January 2012 We are learning all about dressing for the weather! Click on the picture to choose the right clothes for Muffy! The letter of the week is o. Click here to watch the O show! Click on the picture below to play the new game as Gaeilge! 9th January 2012! Welcome back to a new term of fun and learning! The letter of the week is g. Click on the Sesame Street pic to watch some videos and play some games. We like matching games. Click below to play a fun matching game.
Soon we will be starting to read our Happy Birthday Molly books. Please make sure you have given your book to Ms.Smith if it is secondhand. Click on the picture below to play the new game as Gaeilge! 19th December Christmas is nearly here! How exciting! Click on the link below to go to northpole.com for games and fun!
Click on the cbeebies picture below for lots of Christmas fun and games!
Our Nativity! Our Nativity play was a great success. Everyone was singing and on their best behaviour! Well done to all the boys and girls! Thanks everyone for coming and making it a special occasion!
5th December This week the new sound is the letter m! Click here to watch a video about the letter m. Someone in our class has the same name! Click on the sesame street picture to play a game! We have been reading the story of The Three Little Pigs. Help disguise the little piggies! Click on the picture to play a dress-up game! Try another fun matching game by clicking on the picture!
We will be learning about squares this week. Can you find anything that is shaped like a square? Bring it into school if you can and show everyone! 28th November This week we will be learning about different kinds of materials. Try to find three things in your home made from 1:metal 2:plastic 3:glass 4:wood What materials are waterproof? Click on the picture below to conduct some experiments!
The new sound this week is the letter r. Click below to watch a video about a rhino! Click HERE to play a game using the letter r. Why not sing the jolly phonics "r" song at home! Click below! It is important that we know what words rhyme. Click HERE to play a sesame street game about rhyming. Click on the picture below to hear some rhyming stories.
We are now learning to read! This week we will continue to read "Pat the Cat". Don't forget that learning sight words is very important. Here are some useful tips to help your child. Would you like to practise your writing at home? Click here for some useful worksheets to print out at home! We have been revising all the Gaeilge we know. We know lots! Click on the pictures below to play some games.
21st November This week we are learning all about different kinds of homes. On Monday we drew our homes. What kind of home do you live in? Is it a bungalow? Is it a semi detached house? Find out tonight and tell us all about it tomorrow! We will be learning this fun song all about different rooms in a home. What's your favourite room?
How good is your memory and concentration? Click on the picture below to play a memory matching game. We are learning how there are four seasons in a year. Click on the picture below to listen to a song and watch a video about the four seasons.
Why do some people call autumn fall?! We will be moving on to writing the letter a this week. The sound of the week is h. Click below for a fun video about the letter h. Click on the Sesame Street characters to watch some videos on the letter h. We had some more fun and games today with parent helpers.
Thanks to all who came along! Click on the picture below to play the new game as Gaeilge! We finished off our paintings of our families. We created a colourful border!Have a look!
14th November We will continue to write the letter c in cursive script this week. This can be tricky for the children to master at first but keep up the hard work everyone! Soon we will be moving on to the letter a. The new sound is the letter e.
Click here to watch a fun video about Eddie the Elephant. Click here to play the new game as Gaeilge! We are continuing to learn about owls this week. We made owls from shapes!
Don't forget we still need parent helpers every Tuesday. So if you have some time any Tuesday just pop in at 11.15! We love playing games together!
7th November Welcome back to school everyone! We will be learning all about living and non-living things this week. Click on the picture below to play a game about living and non living things. We completed a cutting and sticking activity all about living and non living things.
To watch a sesame street video playlist and hear some songs about being alive click here! We will be reading the story Owl Babies. It's a story about Sarah, Percy and Bill who miss their mother- will she come back? Families are important. We are talking about and painting our families. 25th October Happy Halloween everyone! This week we are continuing to blend our sounds together and a new word list is in the children's sound copies. Please practise each night. If you have not already seen the video about blending please click here. Click here for a fun cutting activity to practise blending that you can print out and complete at home! Click here to play the new game as Gaeilge! We made skeletons from white art straws.It took lots of concentration!
We have been practising our skeleton dance. You can do it at home too! Click on the video below.
We love counting. Click below to listen to a song called "Ten Little Numbers"
18th October Halloween is coming so the children can wear their costumes into school on Friday the 28th October-watch this space for pictures of the children in their costumes! We are still looking for parent helpers in particular on Tuesdays (starting 25th October) from 11.15- 12.15 but if you have spare time during the week on any other days please get in touch with Ms.Smith. Dads and Grandparents welcome too!
We love saying the alphabet. Sometimes the alphabubblies help us! Click here to watch a video of the alphabubblies We can all count to ten and we like the song Ten in the Bed. Look at the video here!
We have been learning about the triangle. Click here to play a game using triangles and here too!
Is breá linn an Ghaeilge! Click here to play a new game as Gaeilge! We learned a new song as Gaeilge- Tá duine ag an doras- try it at home by clicking below.
11th October 2011 We are very busy in room 2 learning lots of new things. We are so grown up walking around to the yard all by ourselves in the morning! We know how to save some lunch until big break and put on our own coats! We are learning a new sound- the letter p! We learned a new song- puff out the candles on the pink pig cake puff puff puff, puff puff puff! Soon we will learn the next sound- the letter n- hear the airplane nnnnn, hear the airplane nnnnn, hear the airplane nnnnn, making lots of noise! If you would like to hear all the jolly phonics songs we are learning click on this link! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug&NR=1 When we have learned the first six sounds we can start blending these together to make small words such as sat and pit. To watch a video on how to help your child with blending click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENPl1cS7qcw We are enjoying the story of The Gingerbread Man at the moment. We even made biscuits shaped like gingerbread men!
Yummy! We are learning all about foxes. Do you know what a girl fox is called? Here’s a clue- it begins with v! We learned a new song as Gaeilge- Timpeall, Timpeall! Click here to play a game as Gaeilge that we have been playing in class: http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/JI_Ceacht_03.html The most important thing we are learning is that practice makes perfect! Sometimes we can’t do things the first time we try but we should never give up! Crawford the cat learns how practice makes perfect in this enjoyable video for children- click on the picture of Crawford below! |
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22nd February 2012 It was Pancake Tuesday this week. We made pancakes with Ms. Moynihan. They were very tasty. Can you remember how to make them? Click the picture below to find out. We also read the story of Mr. Wolf's pancakes. What did he need to make his pancakes?
.We are learning all about triangles. They come in lots of different sizes. We can sort triangles in lots of different ways.
You can play a game with triangles by clicking the link below.
We have been exploring light. Did you know that mirrors reflect light?
We can make shadows by blocking light. Click below to play a game with shadows.
You can also watch a video all about grover's shadow here. The sun gives us light. Can you think of any other sources of light?
It is Readathon time. We love reading in our class. What are your favourite stories to read at home? You could take a trip to the library and find some new books. Ask a grown up to read you a story. I bet you can help them to read the words. Try reading some of the stories on the Starfall website.
We have been doing buddy reading with the children from 3rd class. Here we are enjoying lots of books.
2nd February 2012 We will be starting our new reader on Monday. Here is the word list for extension activities. Also here is a reminder of some other activities for reinforcing sight words.
Did you know that the 1st of February is St. Brigid's Day? Here she is spreading her cloak across the land. Can you remember the story?
We are also learning all about feelings at the moment. What makes you happy, sad, angry, scared? We made feelings puppets in school. You can make your own at home too, just click the link below. You can learn all about feelings, watch videos and play games on this website.
You can also play a feelings game by clicking the link below.
You can also sing along to 'If You're Happy and You Know It' by clicking here. Here is a story all about feelings. We can have many different feelings during the day.
28th January 2012
We have been learning all about things that are hot and cold. Look at our wonderful drawings using hot and cold colours. This week we are learning about the number three. Here are some number games that you can play - just lick on the links below.
We love the rhyme 'Three Little Kittens'. You can listen to it below. This week we will also be experimenting with magnets! You can look at this video about magnets by clicking the link below. We explored our classroom for things that were magnetic.
Can you remember which of these things were magnetic?
24th January 2012 In the winter we wear woolly clothes to keep us warm. Click the link below to watch a funny video about winter clothes.
This week we have been learning about where wool comes from. Click on the link below to find out. You can also watch a video about shearing sheep by clicking on the sheep below.
We also made our own woolly mittens in school.
Do you know what clothes to wear in different weather? Click the link below to play the game.
We have also been learning about different clothes worn by people around the world. Do you know where these clothes are are from? Can you remember what they are called?
We are also getting better and better at speaking Irish. You can practise at home too! Just click the links below to play some games. Each game uses words we are learning in school. Sa Bhaile - At Home An Scoil - School Breithlá - Birthday Éadaí - Clothes An Aimsir - Weather Bréagáin - Toys Siopadóireacht - Shopping An Nollaig - Christmas Gníomhaíochtaí - Actions Bia - Food Sneachta - Snow Scéal sa Leaba - Bedtime Story
9th January 2012 Welcome back and a happy new year to all. WE WILL CONTINUE WITH HANDWRITING AND GAMES THIS WEDNESDAY 9.00 AM - 9.45 AM HELPERS ARE NEEDED, SO PARENTS ARE WELCOME TO COME ALONG ANY WEDNESDAY IF YOU ARE FREE Well done to the children on their performance of the Nativity, and thanks to parents for their support with costumes, learning lines etc. Here are just a few pictures taken on the day.
This week we are starting to read about Molly, Jack, Lucy and Sam. Here are some games you can print off and play at home using our new words.
Sunny Street Games Sunny Street Matching
19th December 2011 We played lots of games this week. Learning is great fun!
Christmas is getting closer and closer! We have been making some Christmas collages. We made Christmas trees and Santas, don't they look festive?
We talked about old and new toys this week. Our teacher brought in some of her old toys. We enjoyed looking at them.
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Click the link below to play a game with old and new toys.
13th December 2011 We had our fun day in school on Friday. It was filled with lots of Christmas fun, games, art, a magician, and even a visit from Santa Clause! Here are some pictures of us making a dot painting. It is the natvity scene. Can you see Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus?
We also helped the magician to cast some spells. He did some amazing tricks, and he even made Roger the Rabbit appear!
At the end of the day Santa Clause came to visit us. He had a special present for all of us and told us we were very good boys and girls. We sang Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer for him.
We have also been enjoying singing about shapes and numbers. We can help Santa count to twenty !
8th December 2011 We love to find words that rhyme. We have been playing rhyming lotto in groups this week. Here are some great rhyming games to play! Click on the pictures to help Reggie the Rhino and Elmo find the rhyming words.
You can also read rhyming stories on the Starfall website. It has some great phonics games too!
We are getting ready for Christmas! Check out the North Pole website for great games and activities. You can see all the wonderful decorations in our school foyer and hear us singing a festive song in this video. We have also been busy working in pairs to make a reindeer. Our partner traced around our feet to make his head and our hands to make his antlers. We cut them out and added a bright red nose to make Rudolf. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
We are busy learning lots of new songs for the Nativity play. We are also singing some old favourites too! You can listen to Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer and Jingle Bells below.
Here is another Chritmas song we love. It is all about a dancing Christmas Tree!
28th November 2011 We are now learning to read. This week we are reading the story 'Pat the Cat'. Here are some very useful ideas and games you can do at home which will help your child to learn new sight words.
We are learning all about length. Here we are measuring things in our classroom. What is longer than ten links? What is shorter than ten links?
We are learning to write the letter d. We are very good at writing! Here are some handwriting pages to use if you would like to practise at home. We love playing games in room 3. Here we are having fun. Many thanks to the parents who join us on a Wednesday morning. If you are free you are welcome to come and join us!
This week we also drew pictures of our families. Everyone has different people in their family, but we all love them very much!
25th November 2011 This week we have been working hard on our throwing and catching skills in PE. Here we are having so much fun!
We have also been learning lots of new things in maths. We love counting and playing with numbers. Can you spot which number is missing??
Did you know that we can find patterns all around us? Can you find any patterns at home? Here we are making our own patterns and recording them.
21st November 2011 This month we have been very busy. We have been learning all about day and night. Did you know that the owl likes to hunt a night? We have been learning all about owls, drawing them and colouring them. We even had a visit from Percy, Sarah and Bill from the story Owl Babies. Night time also brings lots of different sounds. We have been listening and identifying different night time sounds. We also read 'The Very Noisy Night'. Here is a song we have learned about sounds at night.
We have been busy making patterns. Here are some that we have made using different shapes and colours.
We have also been talking all about our homes and our families. We love this song about our favourite room in the house. What is your favourite room??
Finally we met four new friends this week, Molly, Jack Lucy and Sam. We coloured some pictures of them.
24th October 2011
Halloween is coming soon so we have been practising our skeleton dance. You can practise it at home too!
Here is some of our Halloween art work.
This week we carved a pumpkin in our classroom. You can see it in the video below. We have also learned a spooky pumpkin poem.
We will be dressing up and performing on Friday at the coffee morning. You can watch our performance here.
We also has our Maths Fun Day this week. We played counting games, dice games and card games.
We all dressed up for Halloween. Look at all our super costumes!
We also went on a pumpkin hunt! Can you count how many we found?
 18th October 2011 This week we took our class picture .... here we are with all our friends! We have been learning a lot of new things through our play. Some children have been building tall space ships, some have been practising doing the house work and others have been practising their cutting and gluing skills.
We have also been drawing pictures of our bedrooms and talking about bedtime.
PHONICS We have now learned the first group of our Jolly Phonics sounds - s a t i p n. Here is a video of all the jolly phonics songs. This can be used to help children practise the sounds, songs and actions at home.
You can also click on this link to the jolly phonics website to hear the sounds individually. This week the children will be working on blending the sounds. Blending is the process of saying the sounds in a word and then running them together to make the word, e.g. c-a-t is cat. It is a technique your child will need to learn, and it improves with practice. Some children take longer to do this than others. To start with you should sound out the word and see if your child can hear it. The sounds must be said quickly to hear the word. It is easier if the first sound is said slightly louder, e.g. b-u-s. The following link will bring you to the Jolly Phonics page where you can read more about blending and watch a video showing you how to work on blending with your child.
To give your child practice at blending, she/he will bring home lists of words in their sound copies. Please listen to your child blending the sounds to read the words each night for homework.
TIP * It would also help your child if they could build the words from their word lists themselves using lower case magnetic letters, foam letters or letter flash cards. Below is a link to some picture cards you can use to help your child to build words using the sounds. There are also some blending activity cards and sound cards which you can print off and use at home for extra practice if you wish.
HANDWRITING At the moment we are strengthening up our hands and working on the correct pencil grip. It is very important to have the correct grip from the beginning to avoid bad habits. Here are two very useful documents for you to download with advice on encouraging the correct pencil grip with your child and preparing them for writing.
MATHS We are learning our numbers. This is penguin 1 and here is a video showing you how to practise writing number 1 .... and all the other numbers too!
We are learning the number 2. Here are 2 Dicky Birds, do you know the song? We are also learning to count to ten. Click on the video below and sing the 'How Many?' song. You can also download and a play number bingo game by clicking on the link below. Click the link below to play Cookie Monster's number game. |
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Welcome to our blog! February 2012 The Readathon has started and we are all very excited to be taking part in such an important event. We are enjoying reading books from our class library, and also favourite books that we have at home. We have shared reading each week. Thanks to the parents for their help during this time, which is really appreciated. We have also started "Buddy Reading" with children from 4th class, in room 16. Each week we meet in the hall, and we all team up with one of the older children. It's great fun, and a great way to enjoy a book. Here are some photos of us, during a "Buddy Reading" session!
January 2012 We all had a lovely Christmas, and are glad to be back in school, ready for a busy term ahead. We have been busy with our Maths lessons too. Here you can see us working hard in room 4, using our cubes to help us work out the answers.
Here you can see us during a writing lesson. We are becoming independent writers, using our word lists to help with spellings.
December 2011 We had our fun day on Monday the 12th of December. We all enjoyed Mr. Jolly's tricks in the hall, in the morning. Then we had a colouring competition, and later in the day Santa came to visit us! We all sang some Christmas carols, and Santa and his helpers gave us some sweets. It was great fun!
We all enjoyed practising for our Christmas play "Sleepy Santa". We were very busy learning the songs and lines for the play. Santa finally woke up in time to deliver all the toys! We performed it for our parents on Tuesday 20th in our classroom. Thanks to all the parents for the great costumes! You can also see some of us dressed up for our Carol Service, which we held in the school hall. We all sang Christmas songs, and Santa even telephoned Mr. Ryan, to check if we were all being good boys and girls!
We listened to the story of "The Three Little Pigs" and discussed who our favourite characters were. We also talked about the setting of the story and the sequence of events. For our Art lesson the next day, we made the house of straw, the house of sticks and the house of bricks. We worked in groups of ten, and learned about sharing and taking turns. We all agreed that the house of bricks was the easiest house to build! The straw was hard to stick onto the house, but it looked great when it was finished. We had to use really strong glue to make sure the sticks did not fall off the house. It was good fun, and the three houses looked great when they were finished. We all helped to tidy up after the art lesson. You can see us working in our groups in these photos, during the lesson.
November 2011 We have been learning all about the owl this month. We learned that they are nocturnal animals and that they have big eyes to help them to see at night. We also learned a new poem, about the owl. We recited it at Assembly with the other two senior infant classes! Here you can see us during an art lesson making owls. We used pencil parings for the feathers, kidney beans for the eyes and nose, and barley for the faces. We really enjoyed this art lesson. The owls looked great when they were finished!
Here you can see how the owls looked when they were finished!
------------------------------------------------------------ We also made hedgehogs out of clay, during another art lesson. We used matchsticks for their spines. It was lots of fun pinching, pulling and rolling the clay. Here you can see some of us in room 4 making our hedgehogs!
The hedgehogs looked great when they were finished!
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We had great fun at our Halloween disco. We also did a fashion parade!
------------------------------------------------------------------- Here you can see some of our art work that we have been busy doing since September.
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Welcome to our blog! 24th January 2011 We planted bulbs for spring. The bulbs looked like onions. We have hyacinths, tulips and daffodils growing in our class.
The hyacinths are pink. The shoots are growing on the daffodils and tulips.
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December 2011 We put on a fantistic Christmas play in Room 5. We practised really hard and everyone who came to see us was very impressed!
----------------------------------------------------- 28th October 2011 Today we wore our Halloween costumes to school! Don't we look very spooky?
---------------------------------------------------- October 2011 We made Hedgehogs from clay!
We enjoyed using the clay. We used our hands to roll, push, pinch and pull the clay into the correct shape. We also learned about Hedgehogs. Did you know? - Hedgehogs sleep in winter - They move very slowly - Their nose is called a snout - They have a prickly back and they curl up into a ball to protect themselves |
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Welcome to our blog! November 30th We are writing about a pretend pet monster that we have at home. We are writing about what the monster looks like and what he does! We drew pictures of our monsters too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are very excited about our Christmas play. We are learning songs and dances for it and we are looking forward to performing it for our parents on December 16th at 11.30!
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