Summertime!

Happy summer holidays everybody!

 We have had a wonderful year in Junior Infants. We have learned so much. Now we are ready to have a rest! At the end of August we will move into Senior Infants with our new teacher.

Teacher would like to say a big thanks to all the mammies, daddies, grannies, grandads and minders who have been so good throughout the year!

Have a look at us when we started back in September.

Oh how we have grown!

Our Last Week in Junior Infants

Locality Walk

We have been talking about Clondalkin lately. We named many of the buildings and places in Clondalkin - the playground, the schools, shops, the Mill shopping centre, Tesco, Corkagh Park, the Garda station, the bank, the library the Credit Union and lots more!

On Tuesday we had a walk around our school.

We saw the Round Towers GAA clubhouse, two-storey houses, an apartment block and Scoil Mhuire when we walked to the front gate of the school and looked around.

When we went up to the top yard we saw Scoil Íde, Scoil Áine and saw St. Joseph's boys' school.

We went through the gate to the church grounds where we saw the convent and the the church. When we walked halfway down the church car park we saw the top of the round tower! It is so tall.

The Round Tower makes Clondalkin a really special place to live. When we went back to the classroom we drew pictures of the round tower. We made fantastic drawings. 

Clay Pots

Last week we rolled a piece of clay into a ball, stuck our thumb in the middle of it and pushed back the clay to make a small pot.

This week we had a chance to paint our pots.

Don't they look great?

Writing

We wrote two more sentences in our copies.

We wrote Come and play in the park on Monday.

We wrote The three little pigs are funny on Thursday.

Attendance Certificates

Five of the boys and girls in our class never missed a day of school. Isn't that fantastic? Here they are. Well done you guys!

Sight Words 4

We have learned ten more sight words.

To introduce each word I read a story which contains the word on each page.

You can read these stories with your children. Ask your child to find the words they know.
Some stories are a pdf file from mothershubbard.com, others are in powerpoint.

run

see

to

where

you

away

two

my

funny

three

Our Walk to the Playground

On Friday, all the Junior Infants from Room 1,2 and 3 went on a walk.

We walked to the park at the Community Centre.

On our way we saw an ambulance, a taxi, builders at work, a jet and a waterfall!

The park was fantastic! There were so many things to play with.

 We had so much fun. What a great day!

Rosie in the Secret Garden and Sandcastles in the Sky!

Rosie has made it to the garden. We brought her out on Tuesday. She looks great in the garden!

Her husband Jack lives in the garden too. She can keep on eye on him now!

While we were in the garden we had a look at the growth.

We saw the herbs we planted before Easter. They are growing well.

Some of the Indian daisies we planted are growing slowly.

We saw potatoes, spring onions, peas, raspberries, gooseberries and more!

Thanks for all your help in the garden John.

When we went back to the class we wrote Rosie is in the Secret Garden and drew fantastic pictures.

Sandcastles

We painted sandcastles last week using yellow paint. We then used blue for the sky.

This week we used sponges and white paint to put clouds in the sky. We put glue on the yellow paint and sprinkled sand on top. We glued a lollipop stick and a piece of fabric on top of the sandcastle to make a flag.

Don't they look fantastic?!

Writing

We learned to write three new letters this week.

We learned to write the letter j.

You start at the dot and go down, down under the line, kick it back and put a dot on top.

We learned to write the letter x.

You start at the dot and slant down, slant down.

We learned to write the letter z.

You start at the dot and go straight back, slant down and go straight back.

Now we can write every letter! We practised writing them again.

We also did another sentence in our writing copies.

I look for the little red bear.

Sight

We learned about our eyes this week. We can look and see with our eyes.

We played games with our partners. One child did actions and the other child had to be their mirror. It was great fun!

We talked about what it would be like if our eyes didn't work. Some of us had a turn wearing a blindfold.

We noticed that some people wear glasses to help them see better. Some of us tried on teacher's glasses!

Money

We can recognise the 1c, 2c and 5c coins. 

We can sort them.

We know how much 1c coins we need to buy different things.

We know what we can buy with 3c and 4c.

Five Little Ducks

We sing the counting song Five Little Ducks. Sing along!

We had to make sure our picture had five little ducks in it.