Following directions in Junior infants

Rhyming at words in Senior infants

We had great fun making new words ending in 'at'.

The Pig in the Pond in Senior infants

We read the story 'The Pig in the Pond' and put the pictures in order.We retold the story to each other and acted the story out.

More about Owl Babies in Senior infants

Today we wrote a little bit about the Owl Babies and practised re-telling the story in our own words - have a look at how we got on!!!!

Making sentences in Junior Infants

 Some very clever children made up their own sentences using their names!! The thinking caps are well and truly on now!

Word bingo in Junior infants

We have great fun playing word Bingo.  We are very quiet and use grat concentration and then we get to shout BINGO when all our words are covered.

Owl Babies in Senior Infants

We love the story of the Owl Babies. by Martin Waddell. We know the story really well by now and each day we have been doing different literacy activities based on the story. We can name the author and illustrator. We learned what the 'blurb' meant and made up our own blurb for the book. We can name the characters and talk about the setting of the story. We can answer who, what, when, where, why and how questions about the story. We can re-tell the story again in our own words and can sequence the events of the story in the correct order. We can pick out our favourite characters in the story and say why we like them (Bill was certainly the most popular character in our class!!!). What a clever bunch we are!! We have also learned about owls in general. Here are some interesting things that we have learned about owls...

1. Owls nest in farm buildings as well as churches, sheds and natural holes in trees.

2. Owls can not move their eyes but they can move their heads almost right around.
3.Owls use their excellent sight and hearing to hunt for food.

4.Owls swallow their food whole and then spit out the bones and fur. This is called a pellet.

5.The Snowy owl is not nocturnal.

6. Owls have three eyelids – one for blinking, one for sleeping and one for keeping the eye clean.

7.Baby owls are called owlets.

8.Owls eat mice, rats, small birds and frogs.

9. Owls catch their prey with their talons.



The Twits in First Class

Teacher read The Twits to us during September. We really loved it and enjoyed hearing about all the tricks that Mr. and Mrs. Twit played on each other, especially the worm spaghetti that Mr. Twit ate!! We made Mr. Twit beards and had great fun pretending to be him. Check us out wearing them.

Junior infant reading time, Room 1

Reading and being read to is very important for younger children. Everyday we choose one book from the library and we spend five minutes, uninterupted flicking through a story and looking at the pictures.

Instructions-Making sandwiches in First class

Matching words and pictures in Junior infants

We are getting very good at matching the names of the Sunny Street Characters to the pictures.  

The children tell me they practice every night.  Well done to them!

Storyteller in Ballybane library

Last Friday, we walked all the way to Ballybane library where we were entertained by a funny storyteller.He told us stories about a wide mouthed frog and a princess and rabbit.We had to join in sometimes.It was great fun and the children were very good in the library and during the walk.

Titch the witch in Junior infants

A friendly witch has come to stay in our classroom. Her name is Titch The Witch.  Her broom stopped working and so she is staying in our classroom at night making potions and leaving notes for us to find in the morning.  We all work together and write a note back to Titch every morning.  We think of the questions we'd like to ask Titch and teacher writes it all down on the note for Titch.  Titch sometimes leaves Halloween activities and art ideas for us to try out.  She left lots of decorations for us and we all helped to put them up in the class to make Titch feel at home. 

We made spooky ghosts, pumkins and bats for Titch already.

Rhyming words in Senior infants

We are getting very good at rhyming words.

We can say lots of words that rhyme with rat, with map, with hag, with man, with ham and with Dad.

We love looking for rhyming words and we even have a song that goes:

"I wish I had a cat, had a cat.......

And if I had a cat, I would.............."

This song changes every time we sing it.

Ask us to sing it for you at home.

Making words

Today we made words using people.They had to turn into whatever word we put on their heads!

"Room on a Broom" in Senior infants

We have been reading a great story about a witch.  It is called "Room on a Broom".  We have a small version of this book in our room, and teacher borrowed the big book, so we could all have a good look at the pictures and the words.

Today we took out our instruments, and we used them, and our voices, to put in all the sounds from the story.  Have a look at us giving a huge big ROAR like the dragon in the story.  The ROAR sounds even more fierce when we use our instruments to help make our voices even more scary.

Flower phonic words in Senior infants

Literacy activities in Senior infants, Ms. Flaherty's class

We are working really hard at our letters and sounds. We have covered the letters a,b,f and h this month so today we had to match up the lower case letter with its corresponding capital letter. Then teacher put the magnetic letters into a box and we had to close our eyes and pick one letter out of the box. We then had to name the letter and say its sound and write it carefully on the board. We all had to check if the letter was being formed correctly. We all got them right so we really are a very clever bunch!!!