Doctor, Doctor...

We had a doctor's surgery in our classroom all week. We had turns playing the doctor, the nurse, the receptionist and the patients. It was great fun. Have a look at us at work!

We learned about doctors and where they work. They can work in a hospital or a doctor's surgery. They help make people better when they are sick. We had a look in the doctor's kit. We talked about the stethoscope, the blood pressure monitor, the syringe and the thermometer. We drew pictures of doctors at work.

We also learned the counting song Five Little Monkeys. In the song Mammy has to call the doctor!

Ladybird, Ladybird

We learned a rhyme about ladybirds. It goes like this:

Ladybird, ladybird

Fly away home

Your house is on fire

Your children are gone

All except one

Her name is Ann

She hid under the frying pan

We made ladybirds during our cutting activity in the morning.

We coloured the ladybird's body black.

We drew black spots on the wings and them coloured the wings red.

We cut out the body and the wings.

Then teacher stapled the wings onto the body.

We also made ladybirds using paper bowls and paint.

First we painted the bowls red.

The next day we painted the black stripes and spots onto the ladybird.

The last day we used white paint for the ladybird's eyes and mouth.

 Here is our class display based on the Ladybird, Ladybird rhyme. Can you find Ann? 

Some other ladybirds are crawling in other parts of the classroom. Have a look!

Writing

We learned to write the letter a this week.

Start at the dot, go all around like a c, close it and go straight down with a kick.

St. Brigid

This week we learned about a special lady called St. Brigid. She lived a long, long time ago. We heard a story called Brigid and the Butter and another story called Brigid and the Cloak. Here is a picture of St. Brigid's cloak. It's very long!

This is St. Brigid's cross. When we see it we think of Holy God and His love for us.

We learned a song about St. Brigid called We Sing a Song to Brigid. We sang the song at assembly on Friday. We were fantastic! All the children and teachers in Scoil Mhuire were so impressed!

We coloured a picture of St. Brigid and her cloak. We used lots of different colours and made sure to do our best colouring.

St. Brigid's day is Saturday the 1st of February. St. Brigid brings the spring.

Happy spring everybody!

Praying

Deacon Séamus came to visit us on Thursday. He told us that he is going to be a priest soon.

We showed him how we say our prayers. He asked us to ask our mammies and daddies to teach us to pray at home too. We think of the people we know and love when we say our prayers.

Feeling Happy

We looked at a picture of a present and we imagined how somebody would feel if they got that present. We said excited, happy, surprised, glad and pleased!

We then drew what we would like the present to be. Here are some we drew.