We have been using paints and sponges to make some fantastic prints during our art lessons. The children chose some sponges to use to make their prints. The shapes they used was a squirrel, a tree, a hedgehog, a rabbit and an owl. First we put some bright paint on some paper plates. We then pressed the different sponges into the bright paint. After that we carefully lifted the sponges and pressed them onto the page in front of us. The finished prints look amazing..... Well done Junior … [Read more...]
Board Games Day in Junior Infants
November 26, 2010 By
Look at how much fun we had during Board Games Day today! … [Read more...]
Rain, rain, go away!
November 26, 2010 By
Junior Infants have been busy learning about weather over the past few weeks and this week we focused on "rain". When it rains we get wet so Junior Infants came up with ideas on how we could keep dry when it is raining. We figured out that we need to wear rain coats, rain hats and wellies before we can go out splashing in the rain!! We also remembered that you could also use an umbrella to keep dry! We drew some beauitiful pictures of us keeping dry and we made some beautiful displays! … [Read more...]
Rama and Sita
November 19, 2010 By
Hi all, We have been hard at work discovering all about Hinduism in Junior Infants. We now have beauitiful displays of our Rangoli Patterns, our Diwali Cards and our Diva Lamps in our classrooms. We also listened to the story of Rama and Sita which is a Hindu Story which we are going to tell you now: A good man called Rama was married to a beautiful princess called Sita. They had been banished to live in the forest with his brother, Lakshman, by his stepmother, as she wanted her son to … [Read more...]
Exploring Feelings
November 12, 2010 By
In Croi na Scoile this month, NETNS are focusing on Exploring Feelings as part of the Moral and Spiritual strand of the Learn Together curriculum. This is a topic that we regularly talk about in the Learning Support and Resource room. Recognising how you are feeling and expressing that appropriately to those around you is a valuable skill. A game we love to play is Time to Talk. In this game, we role-play everyday experiences and practice conveying our feelings to other people. We also … [Read more...]
Scientists in Junior Infants!
November 12, 2010 By
This week Junior Infants became little scientists while carrying out a fun experiment in Science! We wanted to know what would happen to chocolate buttons when we put them near some heat. Can you guess what happened?? First of all we placed some chocolate buttons in a container. We then placed the buttons over a cup of hot water and waited to see if anything would happen to them......... Slowly the buttons began to melt! We were all very excited to see what was happening to the buttons!! … [Read more...]
Fun Times in Junior Infants!!
November 5, 2010 By
We had lots of fun during our art lesson in Junior Infants today! We carried out two exciting (and messy!) tasks! It was our first day using paint in Junior Infants and we did fantastic work! We used two primary colours, blue and yellow to make a new colour. We put one hand in the blue paint and made a handprint on the page and we put the other hand in the yellow paint and made another handprint. Then we rubbed our two hands together to mix these two colours . Can you guess what colour we … [Read more...]
Super Smiley Junior Infants :)
November 1, 2010 By
Welcome back everybody! It put a smile on my face today to see Junior Infants coming back to school after the mid-term break with big smiles on their faces! :D :D We heard lots of news about the things that everyone got up to over the break and we drew pictures about our news too! Rumour has it that there were lots of scary characters roaming around Newbridge over the weekend!! I am delighted that everybody enjoyed their well deserved break and came back to school this morning … [Read more...]
Adventures in the woods!!!
October 22, 2010 By
Junior Infants went on a very exciting trip today to the woods.......well when we say woods we mean the wooded area at the back of our school!! The children had lots of fun collecting sycamore leaves and conkers from deciduous trees and pine cones from evergreen trees! We had been learning about these trees over the past two weeks! Watch this space for photos of our adventure in the woods! Have a great mid-term break and we look forward to seeing everyone in November! :) … [Read more...]
Junior Infants learn about Autumn
October 15, 2010 By
Junior Infants have been learning all about Autumn this week. Some of the children went on nature walks with their families and brought in some of the things they found. We had lots of conkers and nuts to show everyone. We also learnt that the leaves on trees change colour in Autumn and they begin to fall to the ground. We began learning a song about a squirrel who begins gathering lots of acorns to help get through the Winter. We had lots of fun learning the song!! Well done to all of … [Read more...]
