Play, learn and grow together in Room 6!!!: October 2016

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!