Welcome to
​Suzanne's
​Junior Infant class.

Science Week:
We had fun doing lots of experiments ​during
Science Week. We did a Balloon rocket activity,
a Dancing raisin experiment and a Skittles rainbow activity.

Play based learning – The Farm:
The children have enjoyed building barns using large construction. They have also had fun constructing barns using the magnetic tiles. One of the children’s favourite activities was role playing being a shop keeper/ customer in a Farm Shop that we set up in class. The children played an animal matching game and drew the farm animals using chalk. They have had great fun sorting and counting the many items on the Nature table. The children are very enthusiastic about sensory play and have enjoyed playing with the lentils
​and Halloween items on the tuff tray.

Diwali
As part of our B.S.S.E. subject the children are learning about Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light. Diwali comes from the Hindu word Deepavali which means “row of lights.”
The Festival of Diwali begins on October 20th and will continue for 5 days. We are learning about some of the customs and
​traditions associated with the festival. We coloured in
Rangoli patterns and made Diyas out of clay.  

We made Diyas out of clay and decorated them with gems. 

Halloween fun
The children enjoyed mixing different shades of orange paint.
They then painted their pumpkins and stuck on funny faces. 
On Wednesday we played Halloween Maths games with our buddies.
On Friday we had a Halloween disco with the 5th class buddies
and they participated in their first B.S.P. Halloween parade.

We have been learning Halloween Lámh Signs.

Click on the link below to complete this ​"Pick the Pumpkin" activity:
Starfall: Pumpkin 

Sing along to these fun Halloween songs:

We did sponge painting on cardboard and made
photo frames. We stuck on photos of the children
​meeting their 5th class buddy for the first time. 

We are looking forward to doing lots of fun maths activities together
every day this week. ​​​I hope you enjoy doing the Maths Week
Counting Challenge at home together! You might like to watch an
episode of Numberblocks or Numberjacks during Maths Week.    

 Maths Week Activities:
On Monday we played 'Number games' in the P.E. hall. On Wednesday we did a Maths Trail with our buddies in the school yard. Many thanks to 5th class for making the Junior Infants beautiful 'Snakes and Ladders' games - they were delighted with them. The children really enjoyed playing 'Snakes and Ladders' together in the P.E. hall on Thursday!
We played 'Hopscotch' in the yard with our buddies on Friday.

We love singing along to this Maths rhyme in class:

Have fun playing these Maths Games 
by clicking on the links below!

Learning to Count up to 15 with Teddy Numbers Interactive Maths Game (topmarks.co.uk) 
Learn to Count up to 10 with Underwater Counting Maths Game (topmarks.co.uk)
Ladybird Spots - Counting, Matching and Ordering game (topmarks.co.uk)

Lámh Day
We had a special assembly on Friday to celebrate Lámh Day, which will take place on Wed. 15th October.
Five of the J.I. children stood up at Assembly and shared their favourite Lámh signs, which were: banana, horse, sandwich, ball and Saturday. During the week we learned the Lámh signs for the song 'What a wonderful world' and sang
and Lámh-signed the song at the assembly. 

Leaf hunt
We enjoyed searching for sycamore, oak, lime and ash leaves with our 5th class buddies. Then we had fun doing leaf rubbings together. 

Our first visit to Ballywaltrim Library:
We enjoyed walking to the library together.
The librarian gave us a tour of the library and read us a story. 
​We are looking forward to borrowing a book next week. 

We really enjoyed reading 'Library Lion':

Autumn:
The children are learning about Autumn. This is our Nature table.  
The girls and boys are welcome to bring in items from nature to put on the table.
They are enjoying sorting and counting the conkers and acorns etc.

We read this story - 'Little Acorn'.

We like singing this song - 'Parts of the tree'.

Rosh Hashanah:
We have been learning about the Jewish New Year
festival of Rosh Hashanah.
During the festival people go to the synagogue to pray and
the shofar ​(a trumpet made of a ram’s horn) is sounded.
Apples and honey are eaten for a sweet New Year!!!
We tasted apples dipped in honey in class.

Seasons Song:

We meet up with our 5th class buddies every Wednesday.
This week we played with chalk together.

Click on the link below
to read a copy of the revised
LEARN TOGETHER ETHICAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM.
Educate Together’s revised Learn Together Ethical Education curriculum is launched - Educate Together

Yard time.

We had fun doing finger painting and made
​special cards for our 5th class buddies.

We really enjoy doing our Morning Activities.

Sing along to some of our favourite Nursery Rhymes.

Our handprints.

The girls and boys have been learning about how to stay healthy.
They are very good at doing The Vampire Cough!   

We have been learning how
​to be soaper-heroes!

We really enjoyed the story
​'I am too absolutely small for school':