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.  

Length

We were learning about long and short.  

We sorted things that were long together, and things that we short together.  

We made our very own long and short lines out of lots of different things in the classroom. 

Numbers

We are learning to recognise and form numbers.  We play number hunting games, number detective and lots more.  We love making numbers out of play doh and forming the numbers in our books.  We learn a little poem to help us remember how to make the number.  

So far we have learned the number one.

Straight line down 

and then we're done 

thats how to make 

the number one

Number 1 is like a stick.

A straight line that is very quick.

And we have also learned the number 2.

Around and back

On the railroad tack.

Two, two,

Two, two

For number 2, go right around.

Then make a line across the ground.

Matching

We are getting very good at matching the names of the Sunny Street Characters to the pictures.  

The children tell me they practice every night.  Well done to them!

Drama in Junior Infants

Some say we are very good at being dramatic in Junior Infants.  We are fantastic at pretending which makes for fantastic actors.  

         Look how still we can be                   shhhhhh!!!

We love to pretend we are toys that come to life.  The toy shop owner (teacher) fixes all the toys onto the shelves for the night and cleans them all. When she goes to bed something amazing happens, the toys come to life.  When the toy shop owner hears all the noise she rushes to the toy shop to see what is going on.  She finds the toys are in different places and very messy looking.   The toys have to stay very still when the owner is there because she will sell any talking or moving toys for alot of money.

 
But when we come to life, we really make some noise!!

Data in Junior Infants

Titch The Witch asked us to share our favourite things about Halloween with her.  We decided the best way to do this was with pictures and using a chart.  Each picture represented something about Halloween.  

We each had a turn to pick our favourite picture. Then we hid it so we would not just copy our neighbours favourite thing.  

Here were our findings

We had lots of questions and the chart answered them all for us.

There were 15 children in school today.  Most of the children thought trick or treating was the best thing about Halloween ( the sweets represent this).  Only one person liked all the spooky things about Halloween.