We have been busy!
Stay connected with all the fun activities of our Junior and Senior Infant classes below.
May 2023
The weather has been fantastic this month which means that we have spent lots of time outdoors. In PE, we have been doing skills stations and we have also been practicing for Sports Day. Check out the sports day tab for more pictures! We also went on a scavenger hunt to find natural things in our environment. We sorted them by their colours- we even found some wild flowers!
This month we have been learning all about plants. We were so excited to see that the potatoes and onions that we planted back in March are growing so well. During Aistear, we have been playing in the Garden Centre role play. We have learned about different flowers and made our own junk art flowers too. We designed our own garden centres and made them out of lego!
April 2023
Despite only having spent two weeks of the month of April in school, we managed to pack a lot in. During the first two weeks of April, the children were on their Easter holidays. The children were so excited to come back and tell their friends about everything they got up to over Easter, and so we shared and wrote Our News.
Our Aistear theme this month was ‘The Restaurant’. The children have enjoyed learning about how a restaurant works, and the different roles including chefs, waiters and customers. There has been lots of fun in the Role Play restaurant, the children have been learning about how to write menus, we have made some restaurant meals in junk art and played lots of games to learn all about the restaurant and food!
We also had our last gymnastics workshop. We have really improved our skills, balance and coordination over the six weeks. Check out our pictures below!
During the month of April, we had a book fair in our class. The children really enjoyed looking at the selection of books. This inspired us to draw our own book covers- one of us even won a prize for our design!
We have also been learning lots about water. We have learned about how water makes things dissolve, where water comes from and how to save water. As part of our Active Flag, we have also been completing the PAWS water safety programme and are learning how to stay safe around water. We read some fantastic stories about water including The Rainbow Fish where we learned about kindness, The Undersea Cleaning Spree which taught us about the importance of keeping our oceans and seas clean and The Water Princess which told us the story of a young girls dream to bring clean drinking water to her African Village.
Our Aistear theme this month was ‘The Restaurant’. The children have enjoyed learning about how a restaurant works, and the different roles including chefs, waiters and customers. There has been lots of fun in the Role Play restaurant, the children have been learning about how to write menus, we have made some restaurant meals in junk art and played lots of games to learn all about the restaurant and food!
We also had our last gymnastics workshop. We have really improved our skills, balance and coordination over the six weeks. Check out our pictures below!
During the month of April, we had a book fair in our class. The children really enjoyed looking at the selection of books. This inspired us to draw our own book covers- one of us even won a prize for our design!
We have also been learning lots about water. We have learned about how water makes things dissolve, where water comes from and how to save water. As part of our Active Flag, we have also been completing the PAWS water safety programme and are learning how to stay safe around water. We read some fantastic stories about water including The Rainbow Fish where we learned about kindness, The Undersea Cleaning Spree which taught us about the importance of keeping our oceans and seas clean and The Water Princess which told us the story of a young girls dream to bring clean drinking water to her African Village.
March 2023
During the month of March, we had lots of fun in Junior and Senior Infants. Our theme this month was The Farm. During Aistear time, we played in our role play area as farmers and vets. We really enjoyed milking the cow and also looking after the animals. We played with small world farm animals, we learned more about using the BeeBots and compiled mini- projects about farm animals. We also had a chance to plant some vegetables in our school garden. Junior Infants planted seed potatoes and Senior Infants planted onions. While out in our school garden, we looked out for some signs of Spring and found buds, birds nests and even saw some daffodils in the distance. We also made some lambs during art which we got to display in our classroom with some daffodils that we made for spring. In PE, we have started Gymnastics and are really enjoying all of the different stations and learning new gymnastics poses such as tuck, rocket and motorbike. Check out some of our skills in the pictures below!
We also celebrated World Down Syndrome Day on the 21st of March and rocked our socks! We showed so much care and kindness when we made cards for Mother’s Day. I rith Seachtain na Gaeilge, tháinig scéalaí Niall de Búrca chuig ár rang agus d’inis sé scéalta grinn dúinn as gaeilge. D'imríomar cluiche biongó agus d'fhoghlaimíomar an haka gaelach. On Friday the 24th of February we welcomed our families and friends to our classroom for the annual ‘Come and See Day’ and also put on a great show with the whole school in the Oak Centre. On the last day of Term, we were so excited to bring in our Easter Bonnets that we had made at home. We also made Chocolate Easter Nests and got to eat them too! We are looking forward to celebrating Easter over the school break.
We also celebrated World Down Syndrome Day on the 21st of March and rocked our socks! We showed so much care and kindness when we made cards for Mother’s Day. I rith Seachtain na Gaeilge, tháinig scéalaí Niall de Búrca chuig ár rang agus d’inis sé scéalta grinn dúinn as gaeilge. D'imríomar cluiche biongó agus d'fhoghlaimíomar an haka gaelach. On Friday the 24th of February we welcomed our families and friends to our classroom for the annual ‘Come and See Day’ and also put on a great show with the whole school in the Oak Centre. On the last day of Term, we were so excited to bring in our Easter Bonnets that we had made at home. We also made Chocolate Easter Nests and got to eat them too! We are looking forward to celebrating Easter over the school break.
February 2023
Despite February being the shortest month of the year, we managed to pack in lots of fun and learning in Junior and Senior Infants. Our theme this month was ‘Houses and Homes’. This meant that we learned lots about Houses through Aistear, playing in the Home Corner, with the Sylvanian Small World Houses, on the Duplo House game on the iPads and making houses with Junk Art. We also learned lots about houses and household electricity in SESE. In Irish, we are learning about ‘Sa Bhaile’, and learned a new song called ‘Cúigear Fear’ which we got to perform during Assembly.
This month, we also celebrated St. Brigid’s Day, Valentine's Day and Pancake Tuesday. On Valentine's Day, we dressed in red for the Red Cross Appeal and did some Valentine’s Day arts and crafts. On Pancake Tuesday, we learned about why we celebrate pancake tuesday, Lent and how Shrove Tuesday is celebrated all around the world.
We have also been enjoying Music Generation classes with Cathriona. This month she introduced us to the tuned chime bars, and we learned how to play ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ on them
This month, we also celebrated St. Brigid’s Day, Valentine's Day and Pancake Tuesday. On Valentine's Day, we dressed in red for the Red Cross Appeal and did some Valentine’s Day arts and crafts. On Pancake Tuesday, we learned about why we celebrate pancake tuesday, Lent and how Shrove Tuesday is celebrated all around the world.
We have also been enjoying Music Generation classes with Cathriona. This month she introduced us to the tuned chime bars, and we learned how to play ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ on them
January 2023
The New Year brought many new learning opportunities in Junior and Senior Infants. We have been learning all about the Supermarket in Aistear. We played in the Supermarket Role Play and learned about the names of different foods in games of Bingo. We wrote various different shopping lists and some of us even invented crazy recipes from our shopping lists!
We also completed lots of different art activities, like painting self portraits and making Chinese Lanterns, penguins and rainbows. We have also been really enjoying Music in school, with Music Generation on Wednesdays. We have also been learning a new song called The Green Machine. In PE we are practicing our skipping and we hope to ‘Climb to Great Heights’ with our skipping as we progress towards our Active School Flag goals.
We also completed lots of different art activities, like painting self portraits and making Chinese Lanterns, penguins and rainbows. We have also been really enjoying Music in school, with Music Generation on Wednesdays. We have also been learning a new song called The Green Machine. In PE we are practicing our skipping and we hope to ‘Climb to Great Heights’ with our skipping as we progress towards our Active School Flag goals.
December 2022
December has been a busy but exciting month in Junior and Senior infants with lots of celebrations, learning and fun! We spent lots of time this month preparing for the Carol Service and Nativity Play. We spent many mornings practicing our lines, trying on costumes for our dress rehearsals and learning to sing the Christmas Carols ‘Come and Join the Celebration’, ‘Let me Tell you About a Baby’, ‘Away in a Manger’, ‘In the Bleak Mid Winter’ and ‘Oh Come all Ye Faithful’! All of the hard work and practice paid off when we put on a fabulous show for all our parents, families and friends at the Christmas Carol Service.
In Aistear, we have been learning all about Celebrations and the Festive Season, by playing in the Elves Workshop. In Art, we have been using lots of different fabric and fibers to make Winter Gloves, snowflakes and santa’s!
In our classroom we had some celebrations ourselves- we had a whole school pizza party to thank all of the children for their help and patience with moving classrooms this term. We also celebrated Christmas by having movie time and baking Reindeer Rice Crispy buns on the last day of term before the school break.
In Aistear, we have been learning all about Celebrations and the Festive Season, by playing in the Elves Workshop. In Art, we have been using lots of different fabric and fibers to make Winter Gloves, snowflakes and santa’s!
In our classroom we had some celebrations ourselves- we had a whole school pizza party to thank all of the children for their help and patience with moving classrooms this term. We also celebrated Christmas by having movie time and baking Reindeer Rice Crispy buns on the last day of term before the school break.
November 2022
We have had lots of fun in Junior and Senior Infants this November. As soon as we came back from our Halloween break, we were delighted to see that our cocoons had turned into 25 butterflies! We really enjoyed watching the butterflies' life cycle in real life in our classroom and loved watching our caterpillars turn into cocoons and then butterflies. We released all 25 butterflies into our school garden and watched them fly away.
This month, we have also been learning lots about Transport and Travel! During Aistear, we enjoyed exploring the Travel Agents in the Role Play corner, playing with our train sets, using lego, making our own passports and playing BINGO! In Art, we also got to make Hot Air Balloons and Airplanes which we showed in Assembly, check out the pictures in the Assembly Tab!
This month, we have also been learning lots about Transport and Travel! During Aistear, we enjoyed exploring the Travel Agents in the Role Play corner, playing with our train sets, using lego, making our own passports and playing BINGO! In Art, we also got to make Hot Air Balloons and Airplanes which we showed in Assembly, check out the pictures in the Assembly Tab!
October 2022
October has been an exciting month in Junior and Senior Infants.
In Aistear, we started of with the theme of The School and really enjoyed our Role Play area of the school, where roles were reversed and the children were the teachers, principals, office staff and SNA's. Towards the end of the month, our Aistear theme was Halloween and we had lots of fun in our Witches and Wizards Potion lab!!
This month we were also delighted to welcome 33 caterpillars to our classroom. We have enjoyed watching them build their cocoons. We are waiting patiently for them to turn into butterflies, and hopefully after mid term we can release them into our school garden! We also enjoyed learning about hedgehogs and hibernation and even made our own hedgehogs in Art!
This month we also enjoyed having a mindfulness workshop with Úna Curran, a visit from Reptile Haven, continuing with our Music Generation classes, celebrating Maths Week and the Halloween Spooky Walk and Parade.
In Aistear, we started of with the theme of The School and really enjoyed our Role Play area of the school, where roles were reversed and the children were the teachers, principals, office staff and SNA's. Towards the end of the month, our Aistear theme was Halloween and we had lots of fun in our Witches and Wizards Potion lab!!
This month we were also delighted to welcome 33 caterpillars to our classroom. We have enjoyed watching them build their cocoons. We are waiting patiently for them to turn into butterflies, and hopefully after mid term we can release them into our school garden! We also enjoyed learning about hedgehogs and hibernation and even made our own hedgehogs in Art!
This month we also enjoyed having a mindfulness workshop with Úna Curran, a visit from Reptile Haven, continuing with our Music Generation classes, celebrating Maths Week and the Halloween Spooky Walk and Parade.
September 2022
Welcome back to school everyone! We were delighted to welcome eight new Junior Infants to our class this year. We have had great fun this month getting to know one another and exploring the theme of ‘Myself!’
In Aistear, we were playing in the Doctor’s Surgery. We loved dressing up as Doctor’s, Nurses and Patients in our Role Play area. We made Doctor’s equipment, such as stethoscopes and bandages using playdough. We built a Hospital for our sick teddy Ginger using Lego. We wrote Get Well Soon cards for all of the sick patients in our Doctor’s Surgery. We even learned about some of the bones in our body and made skeletons in Junk Art!
In Maths, we have been learning lots about Sorting in Matching. We really enjoyed doing different activities in our Maths Stations, such as sorting Pom Poms with tweezers, matching socks into pairs and matching pegs. We also loved using the iPads to play the fruit sorting game!
We learned lots about ourselves and the parts of our body as Gaeilge agus as Bearla. We made Potato Head faces, learned the names for our different fingers and learned lots of new songs- our favourite was ‘Seasagí Suas!’.
In Aistear, we were playing in the Doctor’s Surgery. We loved dressing up as Doctor’s, Nurses and Patients in our Role Play area. We made Doctor’s equipment, such as stethoscopes and bandages using playdough. We built a Hospital for our sick teddy Ginger using Lego. We wrote Get Well Soon cards for all of the sick patients in our Doctor’s Surgery. We even learned about some of the bones in our body and made skeletons in Junk Art!
In Maths, we have been learning lots about Sorting in Matching. We really enjoyed doing different activities in our Maths Stations, such as sorting Pom Poms with tweezers, matching socks into pairs and matching pegs. We also loved using the iPads to play the fruit sorting game!
We learned lots about ourselves and the parts of our body as Gaeilge agus as Bearla. We made Potato Head faces, learned the names for our different fingers and learned lots of new songs- our favourite was ‘Seasagí Suas!’.
School Tour 2022!
On Friday the whole school went on our tour to Tayto park. We had a tour of the zoo first and then we went on some of the rides! It was so much fun we wish we could have stayed all day long. There were some very happy but tired faces at home time!
Drum Workshop
Last week our class took part in a Drum workshop that took place in the school. We were able to make sounds with a variety of different drums with vibrant colours. We made tapping rhythms and learned about tempo and the different beats of music and we composed our own rhythms using the different drums. Great fun was had by all!
Capacity
Maths - Capacity. This month we were learning all about Capacity in Numeracy. We we were learning about the language of full, empty, nearly full and nearly empty. We also learned about the litre and filled and emptied different sized measuring jugs. We made estimates about how much it would take to fill different containers and recorded our reults. When all the hard work was done we enjoyed some free play with the water and containers!
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June Aistear
Aistear Theme - The Ice cream Parlour - We had lots of fun doing summer elated activities this month. We were serving ice - cream at our parlour, we were making ice-cream cones with the playdough and Kinetic sand, we were playing summer themed Bingo, and were doing cutting and sticking activities and arts and crafts based on the theme of summer.
Ball Jar Treat!!!
We finally filled our ball jar last week and there were lots of different ideas about what we would have as a treat. A Teddy Bear's picnic proved most popular but we had to postpone as the weather wasn't nice enough so we are going to have it next month so our next choice was to have a movie day! Our classroom was turned into a cinema with a cinema treat shop, designated seats and tickets. We had so much fun!
S.E.S.E
We have been making the most of the nice weather and doing some of our work outside in the sunshine. We went on a nature walk and explored all the signs of Spring we could see in our school garden and surrounding area and recorded what we saw through pictures.
Gaelic Football
We are very lucky to have Theresa in again from the Meath Sports Partnership. She will be here for 6 weeks teaching Gaelic football to all the classes and she is a firm favourite with the kids!
Aistear - April
We had student teacher Miss Crowe in with our class for three weeks and she did lots of wonderful things with us for Aistear. Our role play was the Science lab. We got to explore and study various different mini beasts using magnifying glasses. In our Lego corner we worked in pairs to build bug hotels. In our Art station we made bees and in our writing stations we made fact files on different mini beasts.
March Fun!
Road Safety Awareness
A member of RSA came into our class to give us a talk about ways in which we can keep safe when we are on the road. It was very interesting and it was great to be reminded of the dangers on our roads and what we can do to avoid them.
A member of RSA came into our class to give us a talk about ways in which we can keep safe when we are on the road. It was very interesting and it was great to be reminded of the dangers on our roads and what we can do to avoid them.
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Science Fun!
Our topic for Science was all about sound. We listened to sounds in and outside the classroom. We distinguished between high and low sounds and loud and soft sounds. As part of our Green schools initiative to reduce the amount of waste we use, we decided to use recycled bottles to make maracas. We used rice, salt, dried peas and pasta for each maraca and then tested to see which instrument made the loudest/softest sound. The pasta made the loudest sound and the salt made the softest sound
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Pancake Treats!
We celebrated Pancake Tuesday on March 1st. We learned all about where the name Pancake Tuesday or "Shrove Tuesday" came from and we learned about the steps in making pancakes by completing a cutting and sticking activity. The fun part was decorating our pancakes with lemon, sugar and chocolate spread. They tasted yummy!
Aistear Theme - The Supermarket
Our theme for this month was all about the Supermarket. In our role-play we had the cashiers desk and the supermarket and we had to go shopping with our shopping list, our shopping bag and our money. We played food related matching pairs game son our I-pads. In our writing station we wrote out our shopping lists. We made lots of food using our playdough tools and mats and we did some cutting and sticking activities. We loved playing the shopping list game in our group and the pupils also enjoyed working in small groups and using the lego to create new shops to put into a shopping centre.
SESE Topic - Space
This month we have been learning all about Space. We explored the first landing of the moon and did a fact file on Neil Armstrong. We came up with some questions we would ask him in an interview. We created rockets using recycled material from our homes and we created 2D shape pictures of aliens. The pupils loved doing this theme!
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Winter Topic - Penguins
We have been learning lots of different facts about penguins throughout the month of January. For Art we painted Penguins for our classroom display and we also did some cutting using 2D shapes to make penguins.
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January Aistear - Space Travel Agents
We had such fun with Aistear this month as we were doing all things Space related. In our Aistear corner we were booking holidays to space through our Space travel agents. We were using our giant block links to create rockets - some were nearly as tall as me!! In our art corner we were using our recycled objects to make our very own rockets. We were doing some spray art and matching with our I-pads and we were directing our BEEBOTS to the stars while also improving our counting to 20.
Winter Nature Walk
Junior, Senior and First class went on a lovely Winter Walk around the school grounds. We had a checklist of all the Winter things we wanted to see. Our list included frost, icy leaves and snow drops. We were very excited to spot the snow drops but we weren't so lucky in finding icicles as it wasn't cold enough but we were very happy with what we did see. It was nice to be out in the cold crisp air and wrapped up in our winter woollies!
Christmas Aistear
The theme in our role play corner this month was "The Christmas Post Office." The pupils had great fun delivering parcels and posting Christmas Cards. We were also very busy at our different stations - We played Christmas matching games and jigsaws on the I-pads and we directed our BEEBOTS on the North Pole mat. We did some cutting and sticking using different Christmas templates and we created objects on the theme of Christmas with our playdough. In our writing station we wrote letters to Santa. In our lego corner we constructed Santa's workshop - The kids had some great ideas - some even adding in an ice rink for Santa and the elves. Lastly we had our wrapping station where the pupils perfected their skills in wrapping presents using ribbons, paper and bows!
Christmas Panto and Hot Chocolate and Cookies!!
Junior, Senior and 1st have been working hard to fill their ball jar over the past few weeks. We have been working on following our yard rules - kind words and gentle hands and feet. We finally got it filled yesterday and today we watched the Christmas Panto "Little Red Hood" and had cookies with cream and marshmallows and chocolate chip cookies. It was a yummy treat and we had a lovely day! Well done everyone!
Numeracy - Topic - 3D Shapes
Last week we were learning all about 3D shapes. We explored the properties of 3D shapes e.g how many sides/faces?, can they roll? Can they stack? We did some station work on 3D shapes including making 3D shapes using marla and match sticks, playing 3D shape Bingo, making and constructing using 3D shapes and shape colouring activities!
Aistear Theme for November - Homes/Building
This month in Aistear our theme was all about Homes. Our group stations included building Lego mazes, making objects for rooms in the house using lego, using the BEEBOTS on Three Little pigs story mats and using a variety of different materials to make the Three Little Pigs houses. In our Role-Play corner we did the Traditional Fairy-Tales - Goldilocks, The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood
P.E - Topic - Creative Dance
Junior, Senior and 1st Class have been covering the topic of dance in P.E for the month of November. This week we were working in pairs to perform a mirror dance where one child made up 5 dance moves to music and the partner had to mirror the moves. We performed these dances in front of the rest of the class and we did 2 stars and a wish peer assessment. This involved the children saying 2 things they liked about the dance and something they would like to add or change to improve the dance. The pupils responded to this really well and all the children were so chuffed with the positive comments about their dancing.
Meeting the kittens!
One of the children in Junior Infants brought his new kittens in for a visit. We met the mother Boo and the 3 new little kittens Marvel, Boo Junior and Ella Eile! They were so cute!
October Fun - Aistear!
We are having lots of fun this month with our Aistear theme! For the first part of the month our theme was the farm and we had a Farmer's Market role play and then for the second half of the month we have had a Halloween themed Aistear and the children have been busy making lots of potions in our potions lab !
Junior, Senior and 1st Class Art !
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September Fun with Aistear!
Junior, Senior and 1st Class had lots of fun with Aistear this month. Our theme was the Doctor's surgery!
We have been busy!
Stay connected with all the fun activities of Junior Infants, Senior Infants, and First Class below.
A Big Welcome to JI, SI and 1st Class!
Look at all the wonderful children in the Junior room this year! They are ready and excited to learn so much! We can't wait for this year ahead!
ACTIVE CAMP4th June 2021
Active Camp came to St. Peter's on Friday 4th June. The sun was shining and the kids had an absolute blast. We made trophies in the Art Station, Played with the Parachute, Played the running and rock, paper, scissors game and the most fun of all was had in the water play area. The kids were absolutely drenched but loved every minute of it.
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