Crazy Over Clothes!

We continued learning about clothes this week. We were delighted to find that the Dress Up Box had been added to our morning activities. Have a look at us dressing up. The nurse outfit proved to be very popular!

Design a T-Shirt

We worked hard to make beautiful t-shirts. We put our designer hats on and created these terrific t-shirts! Here they are hanging on the line. We stuck pieces of material to the paper using glue.

Waterproof materials

We turned into scientists during the week. It was our job to sort materials into two sets, waterproof and not waterproof. We had some different materials - glove, plastic bag, scarf, tin foil, wellie, t-shirt, tissue and paper. We made our guesses first. This is what we guessed.

Hard at work.

Everything turned out as expected. We found out that the tissue, the scarf, the t-shirt and the glove are not waterproof. The water went through those materials. It even ripped the tissue. The wellie, the plastic bag and the tin foil were waterproof - the water just ran off them.

Gaeilge

Rocaí Rua is helping us learn the Gaeilge words for some of our clothes. He can't believe how clever we are. We tried on some clothes and we said "Tá cóta orm." "Tá scairf orm." "Tá hata orm." We sang a song, "Tá cóta mór ar an múinteoir" and we changed the words the sing the names of the boys and girls in the class. We learned about mór agus beag.

Baby Clothes

We had a look through a box of baby clothes.

We talked about the differences between our clothes now and our clothes when we were babies. The size of the clothes was the biggest difference! We don't wear babygros or nappies anymore... though the onesies are back in fashion for sleepwear! We drew clothes on a baby and coloured pictures as the big boys and girls we are now.

Long and Short

We worked together to make two scarves in the classroom, a long scarf and a short scarf.

We made sets of long hair and short hair. Each table came up in turn and we sorted ourselves into the correct set.

We created long lines of camels, fruit, bears, links, cubes.

We played games on the IWB. Click the picture to play the game.

What is in our recycle bin?

 In Room 2 we learned that the teachers and children in Scoil Mhuire are putting too much into the recycle bin every week. It is our job to solve this problem! First we decided to look into our recycle bin and see exactly what is in there.

We put newspaper onto the tables to keep them clean. We sorted the rubbish into different piles. We had a pile for paper, for plastic, for tin foil, for lunch wrappers and for juice cartons.

We used a basin to measure the piles of rubbish.

Paper

We counted 2 and a half basins of paper!

That is a huge amount. We decided that we would use both sides of the paper when writing and drawing. This way we don’t waste the paper. Also we decided that it was silly to draw only one thing on a page and then get a new one for a different drawing. It is much better to fill the page up! Our teacher also decided that when she gets notes she will put them in the writing box so that we can draw and write on the blank side. This will make a big difference to the amount of paper that goes in our bin.

Plastic

We had one basin of plastic.

The plastic included pages our teacher had laminated and cut out and resealable bags for lunches. We decided that there is no need to put the plastic resealable bags in the bin. Why not bring them home, empty the crumbs out and use them again?

Believe it or not we had no plastic bottles in the bin. We know we can bring those home and use them again. Well done Room 2!

Tin Foil

We had half a basin of tin foil.

That is quite a lot. The tin foil was all really clean. A lot of the time the tin foil can be used again. We will bring our tinfoil home with us anymore. We have to remember not to scrunch it up so that we can use it again to wrap our sandwiches. Sometimes we don’t even need tin foil. A lunch box can keep our food fresh without needing to wrap it up.

Lunch wrappers

We had half a basin of lunch wrappers.

Lunch wrappers included the little boxes of raisins, cereal bar wrappers, rice cake wrappers, cracker bags/wrappers and clean tops from yogurt cartons. We think that this is OK  after a week of lunches so we are quite happy with this result. We will try to keep this up as the year continues.

Juice cartons

We were able to count the juice cartons and we only had 4 of them.

We think this is very good after a week of lunches. Most of us bring beakers to school with water, milk or sometimes juice. Some of us bring in plastic bottles to drink from and we are great for bringing those home and using them again.

What should we do to stop filling our recycle bin too much?

We decided that we need to focus on the paper, plastic bags and tin foil.

We are going to do our best to use the front and the back of the paper in our class when we are drawing and writing.

We are going to bring our plastic resealable bags home to be used again.

We are going to bring our tin foil home to be used again.

Room 2 can do it!

Don't Put Your Trousers On Your Head!

The topic of clothing has been on our minds all week in Room 2. We have been chatting about the clothes we wear at school, at home, at bedtime, on hot days, on cold days, when we are swimming and when we do our exercise. We never knew we had so much clothes!

We drew our favourite clothes in our new copies.

 Here are some of our drawings. Aren't we fantastic?

Cutting

We always have a cutting table during morning activities. Here are the green table hard at work. Look at what they are making!

We all had a turn.

Working in pairs

Ms Fox gave us each a picture and we talked to our partners about the clothes the children are wearing in the pictures.

Dressing for the Weather: Game

We play a game on the Interactive Whiteboard where we have to dress a person up in clothes depending on the weather. Click the picture to play the game.

Clothes Songs

We are learning songs about clothes. We really like the song Don't put trousers on your head, Fred. It teaches us how to wear our clothes properly! We love doing the actions to this song.

This song teaches us about the clothes we wear in school and the clothes we wear in winter. Have a listen to it below!

Fun with Phonics

Following the Parent Teacher Meetings that took place this past week I thought it would be helpful to let you, the parents, know the letters we have learned about so far this year.

We learn a new letter and sound each week while revising the previously learned letters every day. We learn a set phrase regarding the letter, the sound and a word that starts with that sound. i.e. a says |a| as in apple. We learn the Jolly Phonics song regarding that letter and a nonsense rhyme that features the sound prominently.  Below I have listed the letter, the set phrase and the matching Jolly Phonics Song.

Note: The letter t will be introduced next week.

Starfall

Click on the picture to bring you to the website. Pick the letter you want to learn about. Here you will hear the correct letter sound. You will also be introduced to words that start with that letter.

a

a says |a| as in apple.

b

b says |b| as in boy

f

f says |f|* as in fish

h

h says |h|* as in hat

i

i says |i| as in indian

j

j says |j| as in jam

k

k says |k| as in kite

m

m says |m| as in man

p

p says |p| as in pan

t

t says |t| as in tap

*Listen to how the sound is pronounced in the song. It might not be pronounced how you expect it!

We Are Writers

This week we introduced a new activity to our morning playtime - the Writing Box. We were so excited to see the markers, crayons, pencils and colouring pencils inside. 

Every morning the writing box was on a different table. We loved using it!

Ms Fox said we could draw or write whatever we liked. If we wanted we could tell her what to write and she would write it on our page.

 Some of us wrote our own letters and words. Our teacher was very happy and proud to see us working so hard. Here are some samples of our writing hanging up in the classroom.

 We are also painting in the mornings which will help us when we start our formal writing after the Christmas holidays.