Welcome to Danah's Senior Infant Class 2024-2025
Senior Infants - School Tour at Festina Lente
Senior Infants had a great time down at Festina Lente this afternoon. They had the chance to lead ponies around the yard, groom the ponies and learn all about their food. The children also had the opportunity to participate in a scavenger hunt, create some beautiful butterfly wands and paint. We had the best time ever horsing around!
Teacht le Chéile is a great way to start the day. We are learning how to share, take turns and communicate with our friends. Sometimes we build exciting structures with the magnetiles.
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This is our book 'The Bray Vampire' by Danah's Senior Infants. We were so inspired after reading the book 'The Dublin Vampire' by Úna Woods, and decided to create our own version using recognisable landmarks in Bray. We hope you enjoy listening to the audio along with our exciting visuals.
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In our first week of Senior Infants we read the story 'The Three Little Pigs' and constructed our own houses made out of sticks, straw and bricks. The children loved testing how durable the materials were and creating their own hypotheses about which material would be the strongest.
2023-2024
Our First Intercultural Fair
The children really enjoyed attending our first Intercultural Fair. Many thanks to all the parents and children for making it such a special day.
The Kookaburra
As part of our Intercultural Fortnight, we focused on learning about Australia. The children learned all about a very special bird called 'The Kookaburra'. They learned the song 'The Kookaburra sitting on the old Gum Tree'. They also made a Kookaburra using the papier maché method - some lovely photos below.
Drama Performances
The children enjoyed two dramatic performances this month. The first one was by the Childrens Midlands Theatre Group and the second one was from the renowned storyteller Niall de Burca. The children were enthralled throughout!
School Trip to Festina Lente
We had a super trip to Festina Lente (in spite of the weather!). The children really enjoyed grooming the horses, making straw beds and even cleaning up horses poo!!! They also had fun being creative painting flower pots, making magical wands & beautiful flowers.
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Seachtain na Gaeilge
Bhain na paistí a lán taitneamh as Seachtain na Gaeilge. Ghlac siad páirt sa cheolchoirm agus chan siad an amhrán 'Is Robot Sinne'. Bhí siad ag damhsa sa ceilí le Rang 6 sa chlós. Rinne siad a lán éalainne aláinn.
World Book Day 2024
The children brought in their favourite books from home. They enjoyed meeting their buddies and reading their books together.
The Polar Regions
The children have been learning all about the Arctic and Antarctica. See below some pictures of their displays and also of their beautiful Northern Lights paintings, created using coloured inks, embossed paper and chalk pastels.
Celebrating St. Brigid
The children learned all about St. Brigid. They met with their buddies and made their version of St. Brigids Cloak together by weaving paper and putting all of the pieces together to make the lovely colourful cloak.
Here is the final product!
Chinese New Year Parade
The whole school came together to participate in our Chinese New Year Parade. It was great fun and lovely to see our dragon out for its annual procession around the yard! Senior Infants made Dragon Masks as this year is the Year of the Dragon.
Bee Bots
The children had great fun working with the Bee Bots and the Lego Robot. Thanks so much to Ollie and all the other parents who came into help. Thanks also to the helpers from 5th Class! Lots of pictures below.
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Buddy Reunion!
There was great excitement seeing our buddies again for the first time after the summer holidays. They gave us lovely Mr Men books and wrote messages for us on the books.
Colourful Artwork
The children had great fun experimenting with food dye and kitchen towels whilst creating this lovely masterpiece!
Chalk Art and Games
Linked to our Aistear theme of 'School', we met with our buddies and drew some chalk art pieces on the paving slabs infront of the main door. We also played some school yard games using the chalk, including hopscotch, twister and 'x's and o's!
Our Self-Portraits
The children drew fantastic self-portraits using chalk pastels.
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Maths Week 2023
Halloween Dress Up Day
The children (and staff!) had great fun dressing up for our annual Halloween Parade 👻
Celebrating Diwali
The children created some fabulous rangoli patterns. They also listened to the story of 'Rama and Sita'.
Science Week 2023
The children enjoyed doing a variety of different activities for Science Week. They made paper helicopters, learned all about trees, did an experiment with leaves and food colouring and also visited their buddies class to see the wonderful experiments that 6th class had undertaken.
Celebrating Thanksgiving
The children marked the occasion of Thanksgiving by creating a gratitude tree. They thought of all the things that they are thankful for and cut out little pictures to represent these things. They then stuck the pictures onto leaves and placed them on their mini trees. It was a really beautiful activity. Thanks so much to everyone involved.
Playball with Carl
The children had a great time doing Playball with Carl and Estaban this term. Many thanks to both of them for all the super games and exercises they did with the children.
Christmas Stockings
The children really enjoyed making their Christmas Stockings with their buddies.
Trip to the Post Office
We walked to our local post office today to post some very special Christmas Cards!
(It was a bit windy, so everyone is looking a bit windswept!)
(It was a bit windy, so everyone is looking a bit windswept!)
