Cinderella Play

Before the Easter holidays, we went to see the play Cinderella in the hall - it was very funny and we loved it!

The Post Office

We've been learning about the post office in Aistear. We filled in passport forms, chose lotto numbers, bought stamps and wrote and posted letters, in the role play area. We also designed our own stamp, made a postman's map and practised writing our names and addresses in the writing area. In the construction area, we made postboxes with lego. Here are some pictures of us at work.

 We even got to go down to the post office in Cavan and post a Valentine's card we had made ourselves, in an envelope we had addressed and stamped oursleves!! It should have arrived at our houses by now and we hope all our loved ones like their surprise!

Alakiy and Dawid post their cards.

Outside the post office! Letters posted and on their journey to our homes....

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'!