September
Here are a few pictures of our new Junior Infants having lots of fun during their first few days.
Welcome to our new Junior Infant class. They had a great first day settling in to big school. Well done to all of you!
Here are some websites that we love to visit:
June
Aistear: The Travel Agents
May
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Friday 27th May 2016
Maths- Teddy Bear Activities
Data-making a gummy bear Graph-our favourite coloured gummy bear
Pin the nose on the Bear
Guess how many gummy bears are in the jar
Where's the bear? Behind number...
What's the time Mr. Bear?
Data-making a gummy bear Graph-our favourite coloured gummy bear
Pin the nose on the Bear
Guess how many gummy bears are in the jar
Where's the bear? Behind number...
What's the time Mr. Bear?
Aistear: The Estate Agents
May - The Month of Mary
Children made posters of Mary for our sacred spaceChildren also brought in some flowers to decorate our May Altar |
Theme: The Church: Children made stained glass windows
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Poem: 'A Cupful of Kindness'
Local History Trail-The Wells Church
Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine:
6/5/16 13/5/16 20/5/15
6/5/16 13/5/16 20/5/15
April
Aistear: The Pet Shop
Gaeilgeoir na seachtaine
8/4/16 15/4/16 22/4/16 29/4/16
8/4/16 15/4/16 22/4/16 29/4/16
P.E. Gymnastics
Children practise balancing poses in pairs and play 'Hungry Crabs'
Children practise balancing poses in pairs and play 'Hungry Crabs'
Maths Fun and Games
--> The story of five using '5 frames' and cubes/bears. When children make 5 they give each other a 'Hi 5'
--> The story of five using '5 frames' and cubes/bears. When children make 5 they give each other a 'Hi 5'
Dice Addtion and active numeral formation stations
Active Writing
Literacy and Maths Stations
We're going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Art- Clay- Inspired by the story 'The Rainbow Fish' by Marcus Pfister- Children create their own underwater creatures.
March
Aistear: The Garden Centre
Seachtain na Gaeilge: 1ú - 17ú Márta 2016
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Lá le Pádraig
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Laptop Time: We learned how to power up and shut down the laptops, click and drag, type and play Literacy & Numeracy games and also to use paint!
Maths:
Hopscotch counting, The Story of 5 using 'The Adding Machine' Addition Bingo
2D Shape Hunt and making 2D Shapes
English:
Loop Cards--> Sight words
Loop Cards--> Sight words
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Letter Hunt around the classroom!
Find something that begins with your letter......This is what we found....
Find something that begins with your letter......This is what we found....
Making two-letter words
Literacy Stations-
1 stamping letters to make reader words
2 sight word bingo
3 making reader words using letters
4 threading letters
1 stamping letters to make reader words
2 sight word bingo
3 making reader words using letters
4 threading letters
1916 Commemorations- children participated in Irish song, music and dance. Juniors and Seniors did 'ogham' writing on their own national flags and also made patriotic shamrock headbands to wear on the day of the flag raising.
Children learned about the history of the Irish Flag and all about School now and long ago.
Children learned about the history of the Irish Flag and all about School now and long ago.
S.E.S.E.:
Cress Seed Experiment: Children grew cress heads.
We put pot A in the cupboard at the back of the classroom where the cress seeds would get no sunlight. We put pot B on the windowsill with our own pots except we did not water this one.
Result: The children's pots of cress seeds grew while Pot A and Pot B didn't grow at all.
Children learned that plants need air, water and sunlight and nutrients in the soil to grow.
Cress Seed Experiment: Children grew cress heads.
We put pot A in the cupboard at the back of the classroom where the cress seeds would get no sunlight. We put pot B on the windowsill with our own pots except we did not water this one.
Result: The children's pots of cress seeds grew while Pot A and Pot B didn't grow at all.
Children learned that plants need air, water and sunlight and nutrients in the soil to grow.
Examining and labelling parts of a plant...
Nature Walk - Searching for signs of spring around Clonmoney N.S.
Spring is all around us!
As well as recording signs of spring in our S.E.S.E. copies, we painted some of our observations on our classroom windows!
As well as recording signs of spring in our S.E.S.E. copies, we painted some of our observations on our classroom windows!
Planting in The School Garden
GROWING AND CHANGING
Easter Art & Religion
Easter Egg Hunt!
February
Green Schools' Day: Be Green, Wear Green and Eat Green!
Green Schools' Project
Science: Water Investigation:
What causes water pollution? We followed Freddie the Fish on his adventure .... and this is what we learned...
Before the experiment, children predicted whether they thought Freddie's bowl of clear fresh water would still be clear or not after putting all the pollutants in the water and then taking them out.
Science: Water Investigation:
What causes water pollution? We followed Freddie the Fish on his adventure .... and this is what we learned...
Before the experiment, children predicted whether they thought Freddie's bowl of clear fresh water would still be clear or not after putting all the pollutants in the water and then taking them out.
As Freddie swims downstream, he comes to a place where people will be building new, big houses. Big bulldozers knocked down trees to make way for building. It begins to rain. There are no tree roots to hold the soil in along the river bank and dirt slides down into the water. (Dump soil in into Freddie's bowl.)
Look! There are some big, brown animals with horns coming down to visit me! One of them said, “Moo!” Oh, look – he’s leaving me some presents!! (Liam pours in some raisins or 'animal droppings' into Freddie's bowl.)
Where is Freddie now? Next to a golf course! Some golf courses put lots of fertilizer on the grass to keep it green. Extra fertilizer runs off into the river, especially when it rains. This hurts our rivers and streams. Lily pours in some 'fertiliser'! Poor Freddie!
Freddie swims beside a house. Someone is changing the oil in his car. Wait – is he pouring the oil down the drain along the street?? Josh and Gregory pou "Oh no! My gills are getting covered in oil !!!" says Freddie.
Freddie passes a construction site along his way. "Oh, my! All that sand and rock dust is blowing into the water." What do you think of the water Freddie is in now?
Freddie swims past the city park. Some picnickers didn't throw their trash into the garbage can. The wind is blowing it into the river. (children put in TAYTO and sweet wrappers.) "Oh, no! What’s all this junk in the water?? I can – hardly – get – through – all – this – litter! Yuck!"
Look! There are some big, brown animals with horns coming down to visit me! One of them said, “Moo!” Oh, look – he’s leaving me some presents!! (Liam pours in some raisins or 'animal droppings' into Freddie's bowl.)
Where is Freddie now? Next to a golf course! Some golf courses put lots of fertilizer on the grass to keep it green. Extra fertilizer runs off into the river, especially when it rains. This hurts our rivers and streams. Lily pours in some 'fertiliser'! Poor Freddie!
Freddie swims beside a house. Someone is changing the oil in his car. Wait – is he pouring the oil down the drain along the street?? Josh and Gregory pou "Oh no! My gills are getting covered in oil !!!" says Freddie.
Freddie passes a construction site along his way. "Oh, my! All that sand and rock dust is blowing into the water." What do you think of the water Freddie is in now?
Freddie swims past the city park. Some picnickers didn't throw their trash into the garbage can. The wind is blowing it into the river. (children put in TAYTO and sweet wrappers.) "Oh, no! What’s all this junk in the water?? I can – hardly – get – through – all – this – litter! Yuck!"
Result: Ronan and Rory tried to remove all of the pollutants from Freddie's water. They realised that it was almost impossible! Children stated they wouldn't like to drink or swim in Freddie's water!
History - story sequencing
School Long ago and now - comparing uniforms, school stationary and heat in the classroom....
PE: Athletic Stations -sprinting, throwing, skipping, jumping...
Valentine's Art: Kandinsky - style hearts
St. Brigid's Day - Designing St. Brigid's Crosses and making a St. Brigid's Cloak
Gaeilge: Éadaí
Cuir ort do chóta.....
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Bain díot do chóta.....
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Croch suas do chóta....
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Cuir bríste ar Teidí. Cluiche Biongó
Síscéal: Cinnín Óir agus na Trí Bhéar
Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine: Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine: Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine: Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine:
5/2/2016 12/2/2016 17/2/2016 25/2/2016
5/2/2016 12/2/2016 17/2/2016 25/2/2016
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ICT: Developing Literacy and Numeracy in the classroom using iPads
Aistear Theme: The Building Site
Big Book: The Three Little Pigs
Maths:
Card Games: 'Show Most' and 'Show Least'
Active Numeral Formation Stations: Number five
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Numeracy Stations
1. 'Make Five'
2. Memory Match (1-6)
3. Connect 4
4. Snakes and Ladders
1. 'Make Five'
2. Memory Match (1-6)
3. Connect 4
4. Snakes and Ladders
Literacy Stations:
1. Reader Words Bingo
2. Reader Activity Workbook
3. Jolly Phonics Writing 'ng'
4. Blending to make and read words from Jolly Phonics Word Boxes
News Time
Art: Making Constructions using marshmallows and cocktail sticks
Juniors and Senior became inspired by looking at famous buildings and structures from around the world.
Examples; Empire State Building, The Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Colosseum, Big Ben, Sydney Opera House.
January:
Aistear Theme:
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Role-play Area: 'At the Doctor's Surgery'
Free Writing
Writing 'Get Well Soon' Cards
Junk ArtMaking x-rays!
Designing doctor/nurse headbands
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Construction: Constructing a layout of the Doctor's Surgery
Play Dough : Creating equipment that the doctor would use.
Making stethoscopes
Rory made a plaster for his sore finger.
S.E.S.E./Motor SkillsSequencing, cutting and pasting: 'How to Brush Your Teeth'
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Maths: Matching numeral to set
Matching using Dominoes- The Bears Group were very creative making the dominoes into a giraffe shape!
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The Story of 4
S.E.S.E.: 'The Senses' Experiments and Trails
Before venturing around the school, children examined different materials and described their texture...rough, smooth, bumpy, soft....
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Children went on a 'sound walk' and a 'texture walk' around the school
Juniors and Seniors loved participating in the sight, smell and taste experiments!
Active Writing Stations
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Jolly Phonics -Blending sounds to read and make words
Reader Words -
Children reorder themselves as words to make a sentence! Children love to play the Headbandz game! Junior Infants also have fun climbing the ‘word ladder’!
Big Book-The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Children become authors of their very own 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' Book!
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Juniors and Seniors design their own caterpillars and paint their own symmetrical butterflies and cocoons
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Retelling the story in Pairs-The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Game
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Word Hunt |
Headbands Game-describing
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Art- 'Handy Andy' -Children became inspired by artist Andy Warhol to make 'pop art' style handprints
S.P.H.E. - Feelings and emotions
P.E. with Coach Liam
Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine:
8/1/16 15/1/16
8/1/16 15/1/16
22/1/16
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29/1/16
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DEAR: Drop Everything And Read!
December:
'What I Have Learned' Chart: Children reflect on their week's work by writing or drawing something they have learned during the week.
Instructions: How to make Christmas Jelly....
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Gaeilge: An Nollaig
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Mím: Tá Daidí na Nollag ag rith |
Obair Beirte: "Tá Daidí na Nollag ag....."
HO HO HO: NOLLAIG SHONA DUIT
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Tá Daidí na Nollaig ag ól |
Aistear Theme: The Toy Shop
Motor Skills Maths Free Writing Role-play Area
Role-play Area |
Free Writing |
Junk Art |
Construction |
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Junk Art
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Role-play area
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Small World
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Free Writing
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Show and Tell: My Favourite Toy
Adah tells us about her 'Cupcake Surprise' and Bo shows us her Jack-in-the-Box
Jamie tells us all about his Fire Truck and Liam shows us his Minon |
Lucy shows us her doll, Grace sings 'Let it Go' and Joe shows us his wind up toy car
Ruairí has transformed into Darth Vader.
'May the force be with you' |
Gavin tells us about Spongebob Squarepants
Michael tells us about his musical Christmas teddy
Emma tell the class about her truck and jetRory shows us his Ninja Turtle Truck
Ronan tells us about his toy truck. |
Colin shows us his car that shoots! Teacher made sure to stand out the way!!
Lexie shows us her toy pet puppy
Evan tells us about his dinosaur
Lily walks her toy pet dog around the classroom
Saoirse shows us her toy pet too |
Christopher shows us his toy aeroplane.
Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine
4/12/15 11/12/15 18/12/15
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Maths: Matching using Dominoes
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Children work in pairs to play 'Roll a Tower' using a dice, cubes and an abacus!
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English:
Junior Infants work in pairs to make words that include the Jolly Phonics sound /x/ using magnetic letters and boards
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Phonics: Alphablocks Game
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Art: Juniors and Seniors learn how to 'Elf themselves'
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I made a Christmas Pudding!
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Juniors and Seniors make their very own Gingerbread men having read the Big Book
S.P.H.E: We love to listen to Mr. Howard B. Wigglebottom as he learns important lessons in life. He learns about bullies. We learn about bullies too. Please visit www.wedolisten.org
The Junior and Senior Infant classes created anti-bullying posters in response to the story.
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Science -Forces- Toys that Push and Pull
P.E. : Children practice yoga to help both the body and mind.
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History: Story Sequencing -> Children retell the story of the Ugly Duckling in their own words using sentence starters -First, Then, Next, Last
Religion: Advent and Christmas
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Music: Children use percussion instruments to accompany the song 'Star Light, Star Bright'.
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November:
Junior Infants were busy making Irish flag badges for Sgt. Derek from the Defence Forces Ireland who visited Clonmoney N.S. today to present our school with a new national flag and a copy of the Proclamation to commemorate 1916 Easter Rising.
In November We Remember - Juniors and Seniors created 'memory leaves' to attach to our class Remembrance Tree included in our Sacred Space to remember those who have gone before us.
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Whooooooo loves the Big Book Owl Babies? .....Junior/Senior Infants do!
Children learned about the author and illustrator of the book. Children responded to the story with some art creating their own 'Owl Babies' using chalk pastels, fabric and fibre.
Children learned about the author and illustrator of the book. Children responded to the story with some art creating their own 'Owl Babies' using chalk pastels, fabric and fibre.
Juniors are learning to write the letter 'j' in four different ways: Rainbow Writing, tracing 'j' in sand, writing using chalk and mini blackboards and writing using mini whiteboards and markers.
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Aistear: The Post Office
Free Writing
Table Top Games
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Motor Skills/S.E.S.E.
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Role-play Area
Construction
Junk Art
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The children were delighted with their delicious treats from the Cake Sale Fundraiser last Friday!
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Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine 13/11/2015 Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine 20/11/2015
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Science Week 2015- The Lava Lamp Experiment and Catch the Birdie Experiment
The letter we are learning to write the letters 'w' and 'v'. |
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Maths Fun and Games: Counting and Pattern Work
I am '1' and you are '2'... |
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Big bear, small bear.... |
'Ten' Game |
Artist of the Month: Piet Mondrian - we learned to draw shapes and paint using the primary colours.
October:
Some of the Halloween fun in the Infant room.
Some more Maths week activities. 5th class gave a great help with the Maths Trail. Thanks to all the helpers who came in for Maths games on the Friday.
Infants had great fun learning all about the number 1!
Maths Week:
Our Junior Infants have been busy today with Maths Week. They had to roll dice and follow instructions on how to make their own Monster!!! They did great work on this. We will have more fun activities during the week.
Our Junior Infants have been busy today with Maths Week. They had to roll dice and follow instructions on how to make their own Monster!!! They did great work on this. We will have more fun activities during the week.
National Tree Day:
The Junior and Senior Infants were very busy this week learning all about trees. For National Tree day on Thursday the infants did leaf rubbings of the Hazel leaf. We all went on a nature walk and planted an Apple tree. They had a great day!
September:
The Juniors are having great fun learning lots of new sounds-here they are tracing the letters in sand.
Our new Junior Infants have settled in very well. Here are a few photos of Juniors and Seniors lovely art work on Humpty Dumpty. They also started coaching with Kevin and had great fun!
Seo iad na páistí le dán nua á rá acu:
We would like to welcome all the Junior Infants into Clonmoney School. They are settling in great and are having great fun making new friends and learning lots of new things. Here are a few pictures showing how they are getting on.
