Clay

We made some lovely pots out of clay last week. We had to roll and shape the clay carefully. We rolled it into a ball and then used our thumbs to shape it into a pot.

We left them to dry for a few days. We painted and decorated them. They looked lovely when we had them finished.

Recycling

Today we were talking about recycling in our class. We have to put different coloured bottles and jars into different coloured recycling bins. Our teacher took us down to the bottle bank and she had a bag of different coloured bottles to put into the bins. We had to guess into which bin we had to put each bottle.  

Gardens

We were sowing vegetables in our gardens last week in class. We were learning to sow them in rows. We put one type of vegetable in each row and we did not mix them. It was good fun. We had lovely stickers of the vegetables.

Patterns

We are back at school and settled in to our new Senior Infants class. Last week we were talking about patterns and making patterns. We made patterns using bears, links, elephants and cubes. We also made patterns on our Interactive whiteboard where we dragged and dropped animals to create a pattern. We will search at home for something with a pattern on it and bring it in to teacher.

Picnic at the beach

We went on a picnic to the beach yesterday. It was a nice sunny morning and we had a lovely walk there. We had our picnic first at the picnic tables. We left the place clean and tidy after us. Then we went down on to the beach. We kept away from the water and we had lots of fun on the sand. We made lots of sandcastles and we used feathers as our flags. We played hopscotch and collected shells and crabs.
We washed our hands before we came home. By the time we reached our classroom we were exhausted but we all had a very enjoyable day.

Construction

Construction is part of our Art and Craft programme. Have a look at our future Engineers, Architects, Artists and Scientists at work. They are very proud of what they make!

Floating and sinking

Today we were doing an experiment to see what would float and what would sink. We discovered that a pencil, wood, a bottle and a piece of paper float. We discovered that a stone, a coin, and a piece of lego all sink. Teacher gave us a ball of plasticine each. When we put it in the water it sank to the bottom. We discovered that if we made it into a boat shape it would float.

Making words

We make lots of words using our magnetic letters on our magnetic boards. We are able to make lots of words without any help.

The Lifeguard

We had a visit from Séamus, the lifeguard, on Monday. He told us a lot of rules about swimming at the beach. We must swim between the yellow and red flags where it is safe. A red flag means "danger" so we should not swim if it is up. We should not swim after eating as we might get a cramp. He gave us stickers if we could tell him one of the many rules.
Séamus showed us a lifebuoy and showed us how a person is pulled from the water using the lifebuoy. He also told us not to mess with the lifebuoy as some day it might be needed to save someone.

Raised vegetable bed

Wictoria's dad made a lovely " raised bed " for our classroom. It is a wooden rectangular frame with a canvas base. He kindly transferred the potatoes which we had growing in a plastic bag into the new bed. We planted two cabbage plants into the bed. We also sowed some lettuce seed and onion seed in the bed. We water them every day and we are waiting for the seeds to grow.
A big "thank you" to Wictoria's dad from all of us!