Hi everyone, welcome to our first post for Junior Infants! We have been settling in really well and doing lots of fun activities such as painting, playing with playdoh, building lego constructions, counting to ten, learning new action songs and listening to stories! Have a look at our fun photos from our first few days in Junior Infants!
The last two weeks the children have been learning all about Autumn. They brought in Autumn leaves, pine cones, conkers and sticks to put n our nature area, which they then used to build nests and habitats for the hibernating woodland creatures. We read the story about Hattie the Hedgehog in Don't Hog the Hedge and made our own hedgehogs using clay, paint and match sticks for the prickly spine. We also constructed our class scarecrow out of boxes, leaves, felt, materials, wool and twigs. We called him Steve! We also went on our sponsored walk around the school grounds and saw more Autumn leaves and even some sunflowers in the school garden! Thank you to everyone who donated money :)
Last week we listened to the story of the Three Little Pigs. In our groups we acted out the story, using masks and props. We also painted and constructed paper plate pig faces as well as practising our cutting and pasting skills by cutting out and sticking together the 3 pigs. We made their 3 houses using yellow crepe paper for straw, lolly sticks and red squares for the bricks. Check out our cool Three Little Pigs display!
The children have been having great fun doing yoga with our yoga teacher Vanessa. Check out all our yoga poses!
We had great fun on our Halloween dress up day! We had a disco in the hall, then we made chocolate witches hats with cones, melted chocolate, smarties and marshmallows! We made very cool Halloween art with pumpkins (made from apple prints), handprinted ghosts and spooky silhouettes. Check out our spooktacular photos! Happy Halloween!