Balancing

We had great fun with some of our fantastic PE equipment today.  There is always great excitement when we try a piece of equipment.  We have worked on various balancing techniques and today we made a bridge over troubled water and crossed it without falling off. 

We also practiced blancing plates on a stick.  We could not believe how good some children were at this activity.  We think they looked like magicians.  They were far better than teacher at this.  Her plate kept falling off the stick. We all laughed :)

Making Hedgehogs

We had great fun finding all the shapes that were hidden in the clay..  We made a hedgehog body and added the spikes.  It was hard work putting all the spikes into the clay and we needed to make sure the spikes were close together like on a real hedgehog. 

 

We have learned a song about Harry Hedgehog.  We know he is getting ready for a big sleep by gobbling up the berries and the insects and the worms.  He is going to have a big rest for the Winter time and he doesnt wake up until the Spring time. 

On our tour to Briget's Garden we learned of lots of animals that like to have a big sleep for Winter.

Making Friendship Braclets

We love threading and doing activities with our hands.  We discussed all about friends.  Friends we have at school and home.  We think we should treat everybody the way we would like to be treated.  So we made friendship braclets to show we are all great friends in this class.  We think they turned out brilliant.  We think they even look as good as the ones you can buy in the shop. 

Titch The Witch

A friendly witch has come to stay in our classroom. Her name is Titch The Witch.  Her broom stopped working and so she is staying in our classroom at night making potions and leaving notes for us to find in the morning.  We all work together and write a note back to Titch every morning.  We think of the questions we'd like to ask Titch and teacher writes it all down on the note for Titch.  Titch sometimes leaves Halloween activities and art ideas for us to try out.  She left lots of decorations for us and we all helped to put them up in the class to make Titch feel at home. 

We made spooky ghosts, pumkins and bats for Titch already.

Big Trip

We learned lots of things in Brigit's Garden.

We learned what a mouse needs to survive and that the fox likes to eat mice.

We searched for leaves and hazelnuts on a scavenger hunt.We made a home for our friend Mighty Mouse to hide from the owl and fox.  The owl has big eyes and can find the mouse very easily.  We put leaves, twigs and moss into the home for the mouse. This is called camouflage. We think Mighty really liked the homes we made.  We hid them in different places around the garden. 

We listened for the song of three birds; the blackbird, the robin and the Chaffinch.

We played lots of games and had great fun.  

Using Nummber Fans

We love playing number detective with our number fans.  Teacher calls a number and we find that number hidden in the fan. 

Sorting in Junior Infants

We've practiced finding things of different colour and we were fantastic.  Teacher's toys got all jumbled up so we needed to help her sort them out.  Luckily we are all ready good at sorting now and we fixed all the beads and pegs into sorting trays by colour.