Welcome to
​Suzanne and Aisling's
​Junior Infant class.

The children love playing this fun CVC phonics game
​ on our interactive whiteboard!
Click on the link below and have fun playing it at home together.  
www.topmarks.co.uk/phonics/balloon-phonics-cvc-game

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   The Family Book   (by Todd Parr)
We have been learning about how there are lots of different kinds of families. 
We read a picture book together called "The Family Book" and watched the video below.
Then we used oil pastels to draw our favourite picture from the story. 

Sunflowers

We really enjoyed planting our sunflower seeds.

Spring Parade

Getting ready to march in the parade!

Click on the link to view the video of the Spring Parade: youtu.be/gE1lfKsprPg
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Springtime​

We did some beautiful drawings of daffodils using oil pastels and sugar paper.

We had fun learning about Shapes.

Science Week 2020

The core theme for Science Week 2020 was - Choosing our Future’ focusing on how science can improve our lives in the future, and in the present'.  The Primary School focus was on Health & Well Being.  In Junior Infants, we talked about the importance of exercise, healthy eating, sleeping and being outdoors in nature.  We learned how to take our pulse and how exercise makes our heart stronger.  Below is an assortment of photos showing the children taking their pulse, exercising to Joe Wicks and doing some Cosmic Kids yoga!

To finish off Science Week, we did a fun 'Dancing Raisins' experiment which the children really enjoyed.

Jolly Phonics
 
Junior Infants are following the Jolly Phonics literacy scheme.
It is a multi-sensory and child centred approach to teaching literacy.

The children will learn 3 new sounds each week.
Each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the children will learn a new sound in class.
 
Please encourage your child to practice saying their letter sounds
and  doing the appropriate actions on a daily basis.
 
Your child can also practice letter formation by completing the writing activities in their copy.                                        
Visit www.jollylearning.co.uk for more information. 

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 will take on Saturday 14th November
and celebrations last for 5 days.
We are learning about some of the customs and traditions associated with the festival.

Our first Halloween in Bray School Project.

Pumpkin art.

Halloween fun!

Sing along to some of our favourite Halloween songs!

                
               Click on the link below to complete 
              the "Pick the Pumpkin" activity that
              we played in class.

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

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​                                 Maths Week

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

Here are some of our photos from Maths Week 2020.  The children in Junior Infants were really busy all week doing lots of different maths activities including - counting with cubes, sorting, making patterns using pegs and magnets, threading and they also completed a maths trail around the school grounds that their 5th class buddies made for them. 

How many letters are in your name?

Clay Hedgehogs

We had great fun working with clay to make our fantastic hedgehogs.

           A Hedgehog visited our school yard today.

5th class buddies 

The children met with their 5th class buddies.
They gave each other beautiful cards.

                          We had great fun taking part
                  in a Drumming Workshop!

         Sing along to two of our favourite Nursery Rhymes.

Our Hand Prints

Here are my hands with ten fingers in all, My first mark in school to hang on the wall.
As years go by, I will remember and say, "My hands and I had a good first day!"

Yard time!

Activity Time

We have lots of fun playing with our friends during activity time.

          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!