Aaaarrgghh, Spider!

We are back in school after the Christmas holidays. We had a very busy week.


Super Spiders

We love the rhyme Incy Wincy Spider. Most of us knew the rhyme even before we started school. Teacher was so surprised! Laura told us that spiders have eight legs. We counted the legs on our pictures of spiders to make sure. She was right! James told us that spiders spin webs. Sam told us that spiders eat the flies that get caught in the webs.

We listened to the story “The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle. Have a listen.

For our cutting activity we coloured and cut out spiders. Some of us even put patterns on the legs. We are very clever.

We also made spiders using paper plates. They are in the shape of a circle. We painted the plates black. 

We stuck two circles on the plate for eyes. We stuck a semi-circle on the plate as the spider’s mouth. Anna told us the word semi-circle. It means half a circle. We counted out eight legs each. We folded the legs backwards and forwards to make accordion legs.

Our colourful spiders are spinning a web outside the classroom door. Some of the black spiders are out there too. The rest of the spiders are hanging in our classroom. We love having our eight-legged visitors watching us throughout the day!

Playground Games

We are learning playground games in PE. So far we learned The Farmer in the Dell, Duck, Duck, Goose and Cat and Mouse. We had so much fun. Can you guess what game we are playing in these photos?

Winter

We are learning about winter. We drew winter trees, Winter trees have no leaves. Have a look at our trees.

We learned a song called “Snowman”. It’s a great song about building a snowman in our garden at wintertime. We sang it every morning this week. We hope it snows soon!

On Wednesday our teacher read a story for us called Snowman. On Friday as a treat we watched it on the Interactive Whiteboard. We loved it! Here is the story.

Gaeilge

The weather is cold in Winter. Rocaí Rua says “Tá sé  fuar.” Sometimes it rains. We had a lot of rain during the holidays. Rocaí Rua says “Tá sé ag cur báistí.” We know a rhyme called Plip Plop Plí.

Time for Maths

We are talking about time in Room 2. We have lots of different times in our school day like play time, Rocaí Rua time, lunch time, yard time, letter time, home time! We drew a picture of a time we like. Here they are up on the wall in the classroom.

Math Stations

This week we started our math stations. We are in five groups. Ms Currivan comes to our class for half an hour each day. We do a different activity every day. There are four maths stations and one oral language group. The oral language group goes to Ms O’Flaherty’s room. Here are the different maths activities.

Number Jigsaws

Making Sets

Mosaic Pegs

Making patterns

We are really enjoying our math stations!