Welcome to Suzanne's
​Junior Infant class.

Playball
We are really enjoying Playball every Monday.

Our value of the month for February is Love.
​Last week we replaced regular homework with the opportunity to... 
Do the things you love,
Love the things you do! 

We enjoyed taking part in a Circle time session about "Love" and we made St.Valentine's Day cards for our parents and buddies.
We also got to meet our 5th class buddies in the hall so that we could
​look at the lovely display of hearts on the wall together.  

Vegetable Tasting
Last week we read the story of Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French.
In the story Oliver tells his Grandpa that he doesn’t eat vegetables…only chips. Oliver decides to go on a search for potatoes in his Grandpa’s garden, but first he makes a bargain with his Grandpa that he will
eat whatever vegetable he finds and no complaints!
 
This week in class we tasted the seven vegetables that Oliver found in his Grandpa’s garden:
Carrots, spinach, rhubarb, cabbage, beetroot, peas and potatoes.

The children made a bargain (just like Oliver did!!) and gave each vegetable a try!!!
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Perhaps you might consider including some of the vegetables in your child’s lunch/dinner next week.  A big Thank You to all the parents who helped out with the vegetable tasting during the week. 
 
Sing along to The Vegetable Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE5tvaveVak&vl=en

   We really enjoyed this story about peas!!

                        Chinese New Year 
​               2020 is the year of the rat. 

The boys and girls enjoyed taking part in their first Chinese New Year parade. Thankfully they weren't too scared of the dragon!
It is a tradition in the school that 6th class are the dragon, so they can look forward to their turn in a few years time!

Snowman at Sunset
Well done to the girls and boys on a wonderful performance of their play!

Ballywaltrim Library
There was great excitement in Junior Infants today
as we visited the library together for the first time.
The boys and girls can keep their library book at home during the week  and return it next Tuesday - happy reading!  

Library Lion
Have a listen to one of our favourite stories. 

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               Science Week 
      The girls and boys had great fun during Science Week. 
           We'd like to say a big Thank You to Ollie (Oscar's         
           dad) and Lee (Liam's dad) for coming into school on
           Wednesday and helping the children blast their rockets              into space!
                                                  
The children also participated in a Science Fair organised by their 5th class buddies.

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Diwali
As part of our B.S.S.E. subject the children have been learning about 
Diwali,  the Hindu Festival of Light.
Diwali comes from the Hindu word Deepavali which means “row of lights.”
The Festival of Diwali started on Sunday (27th Oct.) and will continue for 5 days.

We learned about some of the customs and traditions associated with the festival.
          Today we coloured in Rangoli patterns and made Diwali cards.
We also made a Hindu lamp called a “Diya” out of clay and enjoyed decorating it with jewels.                               

*We talked about Fire Safety and how important it is that the tealight in the “Diya” should only ever be lit by an adult.   

Class Photo
We have reached the end of a very busy first half term!
I am delighted with how well the children have settled
into school life here in Bray School Project.
​Enjoy the break and see you all back again on the 4th November.

Our first Halloween in B.S.P. !!
Halloween is fast approaching!

Please click on the fun Halloween activities below. 

                                       more2.starfall.com/n/holiday/halloween/load.htm?f&n=main​

                                      www.magickeys.com/books/witchstw/witchsstew.swf

Halloween fun!  

​Maths Week

 
​We are looking forward to doing lots of fun maths
    activities together everyday this week. 
I hope you enjoy doing the Maths Week Counting Challenge at home together. 

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Please click on the link below to play some maths games.
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www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
   

Rosh Hashanah

As part of our B.S.S.E. subject the children have been learning about
​Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. 
The festival lasts for two days and this year it started on Sunday 29th September. 
The children learned about some of the customs and traditions associated with this special festival.

At Rosh Hashanah people share apples and honey to wish each other a sweet and happy new year. 
The boys and girls really enjoyed dipping slices of apple in the honey! The children also got to help make apple juice using a wooden apple press. It tasted delicious!!  Many thanks for sending in all the apples. 

                   Our 5th class buddies showed 
                us the Roman Shields they made.

Please click on the link below to have a look at a PDF version of The Learn Together Curriculum.
​learning.educatetogether.ie/pluginfile.php/18552/mod_resource/content/2/Learn%20Together.pdf

Walk on Wednesday (W.O.W. Day!)
We have a very active Green School committee in Bray School Project.

We encourage as many pupils as possible to make a special effort to try and travel to school by walking, cycling, scooting, park and stride or by bus on Wednesdays.

Each Wednesday we then find out how many pupils in each class have participated in Walk on Wednesday. 

The class that has the most participants in Walk on Wednesday wins the 'Golden Boot' 
​and gets to keep it in their classroom for the week.
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The children have been learning about how to keep healthy.
They've been enjoying practising the Vampire Cough and
​singing the  Safefood Clean hands song.

Have fun cleaning hands song:
Before you handle your food,
And after you have used the loo,
There's one thing you really must do,
And that is to wash your hands,

STEP 1 Put your hands right under the tap,
STEP 2 Turn the water on,
STEP 3 Get the soap and rub a dub-dub... 
the germs will soon be gone!
STEP 4 Bubbles everywhere,
STEP 5 Bubbles in the air,
STEP 6 Rinse the soap away,
STEP 7 Dry your hands with a towel that’s clean...

HURRAH! HURRAH, HURRAH, HURRAH!!!

YOU'RE DONE, that's the way we'll all have cleaner hands - HURRAH!"

​Nursey rhymes
Click on the links below to listen to two of our favourite nursery rhymes. 

Jolly Phonics

Junior Infants are following the Jolly Phonics literacy scheme. It is a multi-sensory and child centred approach to teaching literacy.
In term one the children will learn 42 letter sounds made up of single letter sounds and digraphs.
Each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the children will learn a new sound. They will have a 'sound sheet' and the new sound stuck into their 'sound book' in their folder. 
The 'sound sheet' can be kept at home, but please send the 'sound book' in each day.

Visit www.jollylearning.co.uk for more information