Monthly Archives: October 2016

Harvest Fest

The Harvest Fest on Saturday last was a great success. Thanks to everybody who; helped organise the day, lead activities, brought lovely food and cakes, served teas and coffees. It was great to see so…

Spooky Times in Junior Infants

Ellen's Junior Infants have been playing in The Witches House this month. We have also made masks in our Creative Station. This Friday, we made goofy pumpkins using paint, glue and pieces of card.

Number Fun: Junior infants

There is great team work happening during Aistear jigsaw time. We have been using Numicon number shapes to make number bonds. Here are some examples of number bonds to 10

Autumn Handprints: Senior Infants

We had great fun making Autumn hand print trees.  We drew the outline of our hands and coloured them in brown to create a tree trunk.  Then we used autumn coloured paint and made leaf…

Senior infant work on Homes and Houses

During October Áine's senior infant class have been working using the theme of Home. We write about home/houses at the writing station. We play house in our role play corner and we have even built…

Third Class Artists

This month third class have been studying the artist Henri Matisse. They experimented with his idea of 'painting with scissors' by cutting out Matisse inspired shapes to create paper maché bowls. They also used the…

Nature Walk in the Park

Fifth and sixth class went on a nature walk  the park this week. They located the various deciduous trees, berry plants and the native " Rowan Tree" or "Bog Oak" with its distinctive red berries.…