Junior Spider awards

Learning about the Advent Wreath and the Crib

Outside Ms Coleman's office is a beautiful advent wreath.  The four candles around the wreath represent the four weeks leading up to Christmas and they symbolise hope, love, peace and joy.

The candle in the middle is lit on Christmas day. 

 The school has a fantasic crib inside the main door.  We learned all about baby Jesus being born in a stable as there was no room anywhere else for him.  We are practicing very hard for our nativity play, where the inkeeper has a very busy life and lots of noisy guests and no rooms left for Mary and Joseph. 

We made some lovely Christmas cards with the nativity scene on the front of them. 

Advent

  Student of the day 5th of December

Student of the day 6th of December

Letter Puddles - Junior Infants

We do one new letter every week. 
We learn a song for the letter, make the letter from play doh, hear a story about the letter, write the letter and find things that start with that letter. 

So far we have met the letters; a,b,f,g,h,i,j,k,m and p.
The letter for this week is t.
 We know a very clever song about all the letters and their sounds...it starts A "a" aligator, B "b" ball, C "c" computer, D "d" doll.... (If you start us off at home we will sing it for you)


Today we played a fun game called letter puddles.  The idea is that you have to make it across the river with out missing a letter, you can only step on the letter once you name it, give its sound and something that starts with that letter (A says "a" as in apple).

Everyone had great fun with this game, even teacher had a turn, she knew all the letters, phew :) 

 

Learning about our senses

Today we learned all about the sense of hearing.  

Everyone in our classes can use their ears to hear but we know that every one in the world does not have the sense of hearing.   

We talked about all the ways we use our hearing; learning to talk, learnig in school, talking with friends and family, crossing the road, listening to music and the television.  

We tried using just the sense of hearing today.  This is what we heard when we concentrated hard on listening; 

Footsteps

A car

A truck

Wind

The teacher in the classroom next to us talking

The whiteboard.

  

The we played a game using just our heaing to identify different actions.  

Here are the ones we identified; 

             A tamberine 

             Shaking water in a bottle                    

             A book being closed with a bang   

             Teacher typing on the keys of the laptop

             Sharpening a pencil ( this was the hardest of all because we had to listen very carefully)

                        

Its begining to look alot like Christmas

Through out Advent we will have a student of the day.

Student of the day 1st of December

 

Student of the day 2nd of December

                                     Our advent calender.  It helps us with the countdown to Christmas. 

 Some of the Fantastic Christmas art we have made.  These are Santas toy sacks.

We had great fun decorating the Christmas tree today. We think it looks magical!