What a busy month we have had in Junior and Senior Infants!
Following our reading and enjoyment of the popular stories 'The Day the Crayons Came Home' and 'The Day the Crayons Quit', we wrote letters to our favourite coloured crayons and presented them to our classmates.
In Art, we used paint and cardboard holders to make New Year's Eve fireworks. Our fine motor skills were also put to the test when we cut circles, squares and triangles in folded pieces of paper to make unique snowflakes.
During Aistear time, we got into role working in our very own Mulhussey Post Office- we wrote postcards, paid our TV licences, lodged money to our savings accounts, bought stamps and sorted the letters and parcels. We also sang the songs 'Postman Pat' and 'I Sent a Letter to my Friend'.
We continued our work on First Lego League by completing more of the challenge cards that our STEAM facilitator Niamh Gregory, supplied us with in Term 1. We placed a special focus on exploring probability by constructing colour windmills and completing our own tallies.
We worked in teams to complete different literacy games based on matching upper and lowercase letters, initial sounds, building CVC words and rhyming.
In maths, we loved learning all about 3D shapes. We put on our 'maths eyes' and went on a 3D shape hunt in the classroom to find cubes, cuboids, cylinders, cones and spheres. There was plenty of discussion and debate when it came to sorting each object into the appropriate hoop!
Our SESE lessons integrated nicely with our English writing genre this month- we researched some of the animals that live in the Arctic such as the snowy owl, the polar bear, the walrus and the arctic fox. We then wrote a report on polar bears to consolidate our learning.
