Ms Conneely's Class Junior Infants: November 2011

We are special

We made puppets and they are all different just like all of us. No one puppet is the same and that was our

aim :)

We have been talking about families and how we are all different. We named the people in our families and made prints of our families.

What I want to be when I grow up

We have been talking about all the different jobs people can have. We listed all the jobs and talked about what these people do in their day. We took a giant leap into the future....... here is what the children in prefab 4 want to be when they grow up;

Fireman

Garda

Teacher

The tooth fairy

A transformer

A rockstar

A monster truck driver

A postman ("just like my daddy")

A queen

A princess

A babysitter

A doctor

A dressmaker

A cowboy ( "just like woody")

Rain, rain go away

We learned that some materials are very good at keeping out the rain. Umbrellas are a great way to keep the rain out.

Clap, clap your hands

very loud,

Stamp, stamp your feet

on the ground.

Hum high, hum low

Next a great big blow!

Listen, listen
To the rain.

Softly, softly

Down it came.

Absorbtion - science week

We learned about things made of wood and metal. We also looked at materials that soaked up water. We did an experiment to find objects that soaked up water.

We made these fantastic patterns using food dye and tissue paper. We folded the tissue into triangles and dipped the very tip of the tissue in the dye and watch how the tissue paper quickly soaked up the liquid.

Making sentences

Some very clever children made up their own sentences using their names!! The thinking caps are well and truly on now!

Science week

We were learning all about magnets last week.

We were talking about the materials that are used to make the things we use every day; chairs, tables, lunch boxes, toys... We discovered lots of different materials; wood, plastic and metal. It was very easy to find the metal things because it is hard, cold, shiny, strong and our magnets would stick to it.

We also discovered that magnets are fussy things. They will not stick to just anything. In a magnet north repels north, south repels south, but north and south attract each other. In our experiment that meant that the two blue sides would not stick together no matter how hard we tried and the two red sides would not stick together but the blue and the red attracted each other and stuck together very quickly. In discovering this we learned that we could push and pull things using magnets or even make our magnets spin around in circles.

We tested lots of different things to see if they were magnetic. We recorded the things that were on our worksheet.

We placed the magnets in such a way that they repel each other and in so doing appear to be floating. We thought this was like MAGIC!!

Aladdin

As we practice for our Nativity play, we were very lucky to see real actors prefom. We learned that we must speak very clearly and as loud as we can just as the actors in this play did.

Bingo

We have great fun playing word Bingo. We are very quiet and use grat concentration and then we get to shout BINGO when all our words are covered.

Learning about tall and short

We learned alot about sizes. We identified the tall and short children in the class. We learned Oliwer is the tallest person in our class ( besides teacher, even though its a close call :) )and Eireann is the smallest person in the class.

We had great fun sorting ourselves according to size.

small and BIG

We were learning all about size. Teacher had a bit of a problem with her library. It was very messy. We worked very very hard and sorted the books by size. We had a pile for the small books, the medium size books and the BIG books. We sorted the books into these three piles and then put them on the book shelves. The top shelf is for small books, the middle shelf is for medium size books and the bottom shelf is for the big books. We think the hard work paid off because we have a lovely looking library now and we can see all the books.