Sunday 11 December 2016

Christmas in Room 6!

            Welcome to Christmas time in Room 6!  


This month's theme is Christmas and our role play area in Aistear is 'Santa's Workshop' which we were very excited to open!!We have to take it in turns to play the role of Santa (who has his own sleigh) and of course the elves who have to make the toys! We have learned lots of new vocabulary about Christmas and words associated with making toys! We even get to practice our wrapping skills as the Junk Art group make us presents that we need to wrap and place in Santa's sleigh so he can deliver them to all the boys and girls!

                                      
                            A sleigh made from junk art and Christmas decorations made from playdough!



 


We have a very special person in our classroom called 'Freddy the Elf'. He paid us a visit on the first of December and left us a very special note and present. 

Freddy left us our very own Christmas Tree that we had to plant ourselves.John helped us to plant our tree in our very own pot and he also provided some soil,as that was a requirement. It will take three weeks for it to push through the top of the soil and before we go on our Christmas holidays we have to pick a spot outside (with the help of John) and plant our Christmas tree! We are very excited about that and we check in on our tree everyday to see if it has grown a bit!!
 

                                                   Maths
We have been learning all about 2d and 3d shapes. We reserved a spot in the classroom which was for our 2d shapes. We brought in items from our homes which were 2d shapes!We got to make our very own 2d shaped aliens which are on display in the corridor outside our classroom.Have a look! Ask me to name some 2d or 3d shapes around the home, I bet I can!
 We have also been very busy writing our numbers stories, counting from 0-10 backwards/ forwards, skip counting and even counting as Gaeilge! We have a new game to start off our Maths Class which is called 'Build a snowman'. We have to roll a dice and each number has a particular part of the snowman's body we have to draw, sometimes when we get the same number twice we have to roll it again and hope we get a different number! We have lots of fun trying to be the first group to complete the snowman!

                                  

                                                                             PE



In Pe we have reached our goal of being able to run for one whole minute continuously! We are normally very tired after running for long so we like to take a little break for a minute or two to catch our breath! But we are very proud of ourselves for being able to run for so long. We have been learning all about running, jumping in different ways, throwing - under arm throwing, catching and station teaching. This is where there are four different areas in the hall and we have to practise all our skills we have learned. We really enjoy station teaching as we get to move on to a different station each time. We have also learned our starting position for when we are running. On the word 'Ready' we must get on one knee and put our hands out in front of us. On the word 'steady', we must take our knee off the ground and get our bums in the air. And on the word 'Go' we must take off!!                        

SESE

Last month our theme was 'Clothes' and we were learning all about the different types of clothes for different types of weather. We also discussed what the word 'Waterproof' meant. Room 6 received a letter from a bear called 'Honeypotts'. Honeypotts wanted us to conduct an experiment on four different types of hats that he had sent us. 


We had to place four drops of water on each hat and see which hat was not letting the water through. The winner was the plastic hat! That did not allow any water through it and therefore was waterproof! We wrote down our results and sent a letter back to Honeypotts. It was very exciting to get a parcel delivered to our room!

On Thursday we had a visitor to the school, the 'Sam Maguire' Cup. It was really exciting to see the cup in real life and we were allowed to wear our Dublin jerseys or the colour blue into school that day. 

We have a very busy two weeks left in school. We are learning two new songs 'Jingle Bells and Away in a Manager'. Maybe you could play 'Away in Manager' to your child and ask them to sing along! Take a look at our classroom window as you come into school, we have decorated it with our Christmas Tree's that we have made from different materials and paper.We had to practice our cutting skills to make the tree's!

We hope everyone has a safe and happy Christmas!




Monday 10 October 2016

September - Myself

Welcome to Room 6 with Ms.Allen! We are Senior Infantastics and we would like you to have a look at what we have been doing,so far in Room 6.

We had our class photo taken when the weather was nice. Here is a sneak peak of what's to come! This is our 'fun photograph'. As you can see we are all smiling! : )


The theme for the month of September was 'Myself'. We talked all about our families, bodies and our five sense, learning a short rhyme called 'Five senses'. If you ask me I will recite if for you!
Our Family Tree's 


In English we have done lots of writing and  we have also revised our letters and sounds such as 'd/ n/ p/ /c /k / g/ m / r/ ' . We love to experiment with how we can make the letters so we practise using playdough, writing them in the air and also using the whiteboards along with practising them in our handwriting copies. We love listening to teacher reading our big books. This month we read 'The Gruffalo, Zog, and Owl Babies'. We did lots of work around all these books and some of our work is displayed in the classroom and outside the classroom.
Story Sequencing - Owl Babies 

Our Owl Babies 

The Gruffalo



Story Sequencing The Gruffalo


In Maths this month we were learning all about the numbers 1-5 and how to write them. We recited a rhyme about each number to help us remember how we write them. We did the same with our numbers as we did with our letters- making them in the air, using playdough and writing them on the whiteboards. 


 Aistear is our favourite part of the day. This month we our role play area was 'At The Doctors'.  We always start it off by planning what we are going to do. Sometimes teacher will show us a video clip - we watched a clip called 'Topsy and Tim visit the doctor'. Here we got to see what happens when you go to the doctor- checking in with the receptionist, getting a number and sitting in the waiting room. Teacher taught us loads of new words to do with the doctor such as - stethoscope/ bandage/ reflex hammer/ ear and throat device/ patient and lots more words! Everyday one group got to play in the role play area dressing up like a doctor with our gowns and gloves and pretending we were patients and one person was the receptionist, making sure we sat quietly and patiently until our number was called! In the other areas we had small world- which we made Gruffalo/ owl baby masks and we reenacted the story along with story sequencing. We also have a playdough area where we made the characters from The Gruffalo and Owl Babies. Other days we made jigsaws, completed bead work, used the peg boards and playing in sand (which we love, the messier the better!)





On the 30th of September we had our sponsored walk. We walked all the way from school down to Corkagh Park. I t was a long walk but the excitement of doing no work and playing in the playground kept us going! Teacher said we were very well behaved and we were very sensible when it came to crossing the roads, staying on the paths and holding on to our big person's hand. We had loads of fun playing on all the different things in the playground and it was lovely to bond with our classmates and the other children in senior and junior infants.When we came back to school we were allowed watch a film and eat our lunch. We were very sleepy and glad when the bell rang at half past one, as we all needed a nap!

















We hope you enjoyed reading this and watch out for our new post in October!

Go raibh maith agat and Slán. :)

Room 6