Happy Christmas!!

Last Friday, we had a special surprise visitor to the classroom: he had a red coat, trousers and hat, big black boots, a white beard and he was carrying a big black sack. Can you guess who it was?...that's right, good old Santa Claus!!! He brought us some sweets and we got a class photo with the man himself.

Today was the last day of school before our Christmas holidays. We had a special assembly in the hall for the giving out of awards and prizes for good attendance. Our class did really well, in fact we had the best attendance in the whole school this term  - well done Room 14, keep up the good work and keep coming to school!!
Here are our prize winners for from the draw and also thse who got certificates for 100% attendance  this term:

Good job Keeley, Danielle, Malaz, Alakiy, Emilija, Zaya, Brenda, Justinas, Leo, Dawid and Mozan.

Happy Christmas everyone - keep safe and enjoy the holidays!

Santa's workshop

Our Aistear theme for December was Santa's workshop. Here are some of the things we did:

Writing letters to Santa.

These elves are busy helping Santa in his workshop, building toys, checking quality and packing.

We also wrote Christmas cards, designed our own toys and wrapped presents.

Online phonics & sight words activities

These might help for practising letters and Senior Infant words for homework:

Links for sight vocab/dolch words

http://www.iboard.co.uk/activity/Phase-3-Tricky-Words-Train-748

Links for phonics

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/Fishing_Bowl_US.swf

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm  (CVC)

Time activities/games

We have been learning about Time in maths. Here are some websites and activities which we did which you might like to play at home:

http://www.iboard.co.uk/activity/Set-the-Clock-Getting-Started-1432

http://resources.oswego.org/games/ClassClock/clockres.html

http://resources.oswego.org/games/StopTheClock/sthecR.html

The Optician

Our Aistear theme for the month of November was The Optician. We learned all about why we go to the optician, the types of tests done there and how we can be shortsighted or longsighted. We had fun designing glasses, making them with playdough and pretending we were at the Optician's in the Role play area.

Malha tries on some glasses!

'Optician' Leo tests Charles's eyesight.

Receptionist Zaya is busy making appointments!

Dawid and Justinas are in the waiting area while Betty calls 'next please'!

2D shape poems

Here are the rhymes we learned to help us remember our 2D shapes:
Tommy Triangle is the name for me,
Count my sides: 1, 2, 3!

Sammy Square is my name,
I have 4 sides, they're all the same!
 

I'm Reggie Rectangle, I am a good sport.
I have 4 sides, 2 long and 2 short!












I'm Cindy Circle,
My side bends,
It's one long curve that never ends!

2D shape

We have recently been learning about 2D shape in maths. Here we are doing some of our maths activities, constructing shapes from different materials.

Triangles.....

.....and squares.

Shape video(square) 
Shape video (circle) 
Shape video (triangle) 
Shape video (rectangle) 

Check back soon for some more games and links for 2D shapes.

Hedgehogs

We've been learning about Autumn, including animals that hibernate. In art we made these cute, spiky hedgehogs from clay and matchsticks. They're just getting ready for their long winter sleep....

Building bodies!!

We have been learning about parts of the body and The Doctor's Surgery in Aistear. Look at these excellent playdough bodies which Deborah, Kelly and Leo made.

Welcome back!!

Welcome back to school: we are all settled into Room 14 Senior Infants and are looking forward to a busy but fun year ahead.

All smiles from our new Senior Infants in Rm 14

Sports Day

Yesterday we had our school sports day. We did races, traditional yard games, skipping, parachute, relaxation exercises, dance and even got some ice-cream! We had a brilliant day and were all pretty tired by the time we went home....

 Keeping cool with some ice-cream.

 Fantastic skippers - Mellissa and Alan.

 Check out our funky moves at dance!!

Our young athletes - well done Alex, Eivinas, Favour, Karolina and Viktorija for winning medals in the races.

School tour

Last Friday, we went on our school tour to Kilinkere farm. The weather was perfect and were very excited as we all set off on the bus in the morning. We had a super day and got to do lots of fun things - riding a pony, going on a tractor-trailer ride, meeting and feeding animals, playing in the sand area  and playground and even racing up a hill with teacher!!

The rabbits liked Kornel!!

....and Yasmin!

Dylan and Raghad made friends with the gerbil.

Check back later....we may have more photos of our tour for you!