Supermarket Sweep, Fantastic Firefighters and Wonderful Writing

We created a supermarket in the class this week. We all had a turn acting as the shopkeeper and the customer.

Painting

During playtime we had a painting table. It was our first time using four different colour paints at the same time! We only had one brush. We learned to wash our brush when we wanted to change colour.

 We were all very good at keeping our palates a mix-free zone!

Have a look at some of our paintings.

Big and Small

We explored the topic of big and small. We divided our counting bears and connecting camels based on size. We found the big ones, medium ones and small ones.

We played some big and small games on the Interactive Whiteboard. Here is a game about three bears. We didn't get a chance to play this one in class yet!

We cut out leaves and sorted them into big, medium and small.

Firefighters

We learned about firefighters this week. We looked and responded to pictures of firefighters at work. We named the fire engine, the fire station and the hose. We saw a picture of the fire station in Tallaght. Some of us had been there before.

We drew pictures of firefighters. We did a fantastic job!

Writing

We started our formal writing this week. We learned how to write the letter c.

We sit properly in our chairs with our two feet flat on the ground. We hold the crayon in our writing hand and we hold our other hand flat on the copy so it does not move when we are writing.

On Monday we made a rainbow c in our writing copies.

You start at the dot and go all around to make a c.

On Tuesday we completed two lines of the letter c in our writing copies and on Wednesday we finished the page in our writing copies.

On Thursday we did the page about the letter c in our writing book.

Hot and Cold

We discussed hot and cold. We talked about things that are hot and things that are cold. We looked at pictures. If we thought the picture showed something hot we walked over to the red page with the word hot written on it. If we thought the picture showed something cold we walked over to the blue page with the word cold written on it.

The next day we completed a worksheet. We had to colour the cold things blue and the hot things red.

Happy

We talked about feeling happy this week. We sang the song If You're Happy and You Know It. Have a listen.

We read the story Everyone feels... Happy. We talked about the children in the story and why they were happy. We thought about times we were happy. We thought about the things that make us happy. We learned that happiness is catching so we are going to pass a smile whenever we can!

We made happy masks and we put them up on the windows in our classroom.

Playtime

Here are some other pictures from playtime this week.

Beautiful necklaces were made with beads. We saw more fantastic writing from the children using the writing box. Pictures were created using the box of shapes. Children worked together to complete jigsaws. Constructions were made using the straws.

We had a very busy week!