Our Junior Infants are full of energy and excitement as they dive into a variety of activities! From the thrill of rugby to the balance and focus of yoga, these little champions are developing key skills while having a blast. Whether they’re tumbling in gymnastics, exploring the outdoors through play, or taking a moment for brain breaks, each activity is helping them grow stronger, more confident, and more connected.
We couldn’t be prouder of how hard these boys are working and supporting each other. Their teamwork and determination on the rugby field, their strength and focus in gymnastics, and their creativity during outdoor play are truly impressive. They’re showing remarkable resilience, especially when taking on new challenges, and their energy and enthusiasm are contagious. These moments of learning and play are shaping them into confident, well-rounded individuals, and we can’t wait to see what they achieve next!
What a busy time it has been in the Junior Infnat classroom!
December was a month full of fun, joy, exploration and creativity!
There was great excitement on the lead up to our Christmas Show 'Ralph the Reindeer'! The boys were amazing at directing, discussing and sharing their ideas on how to make the show amazing! We worked as a team to learn all our songs, lines and actions for this fun filled play! It was an amazing show and the boys should all be very proud of themselves!!! Well done Junior Infants!!!
Junior Infants have enjoyed visiting our super school library where we have some fantastic reading time with all of the beautiful books! We realy enjoyed listening to some winter stories!
Junior Infnats are always so busy creating wonderful works of art and this month we fpcused on using our own imagination for a variety of art projects! We painted, cut, glued, drew and even got our hands (and classroom!!!) very messy with all of the materials! The children thoroughly enjoyed getting creative and exploring the possibilities within our Arts Curriculum! Lots of future artists on our hands that is for sure!!!
On our last day of school before the Christmas holidays, the boys had all eanred a golden ticket to attend our classroom cinema! We had a fantastic time roleplaying visiting the cinema including buying tickets and snacks and getting to our very special seats! Along with our super cinema we were the luckiest boys to receive a visit from Santa Claus!!! Santa loved hearing all of the boys questions and oit was fantastic news to hear we all made the nice list!!!!!
WOW! We really have been so busy in the junior infant classroom having so much fun!!!!
Science Week was fantastic fun in Junior Infants!
We decided to link our lovely nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty to our science activities!
The children were busy building the most suitable walls out of different materials for Humpty Dumpty to safely sit on! The boys worked in their teams and they enjoyed discussing what materials and shapes would be best for the wall! Teamwork, sharing and communicating played a big role in this activity.
The boys then decided it would be best to create a jacket for Humpty Dumpty to wear while on the wall incase he does fall again! The children took lead in this learning and in their groups selected the materials they would like to use! Once again, the boys worked amazingly together and we had great fun predicting which materials would work best! As you can see from the photos we had great fun watching some of the eggs go SPLAT!!!
The boys also participated in a variety of STEM and fine motor activities in the classroom where they were allowed to be as creative as they like! We had many buildings, hats, towers, farmyards to name a few creations we saw in our classroom!
We definitely have future engineers in our classroom as the children were tasked with creating their very own playgrounds out of paper! They were cutting, sticking, ripping, folding, squashing, twirling paper to make their fabulous creations!
Well done boys you really were super scientists this week!!!
Junior Infants were very busy learning all about and celebrating Halloween before we had our midterm break!
This week was full of fun activities including various Art, Literacy, Gaeilge, Music, SESE and Drama!
The boys all loved creating pumpkins, ghosts, monsters and magic wands using their own creativity and imaginations!
We enjoyed lots of fun Spooky songs and dances!
Our Spooky Walk was also a huge hit followed by our delicious fruit party and Room on the Broom storytime!
October has been a very busy month in our Junior Infants classroom as we celebrated both maths and space week!
Maths week offered the children lots of opportunities for investigating and exploring. Our stimulus was the story of The Three Little Pigs and from there we had so much fun! The boys were busy learning all about the 2D shapes and using these to build and design houses! The building site was brought into the classroom and the boys made sure everybody in the school had a lovely home!!! Our investigations ranged from talking about builings, electricity and what you find in a home! The class also enjoyed a variety of shape and maths trails both in the classroom and outside!
The boys had a blast during space week learning the planet's names and facts about each of the planets! We enjoyed singing our space songs and making the planets from playdough. We also made fantastic art pieces of the Galaxy with all our planets and stars! The children loved reading lots of space stories and imagining our own adventures in space!
October has been a brillliant month learning all about Autumn! We were very busy exploring the outdoors through nature and autumn walks! The children have also created together an amazing nature table / investigation station with the fantastic items we found! We also used our nature walk to gather materials for our Autumn art! We also combined our nature walks and maths week for the ultimate maths week trail using our mini whiteboards to draw what we found!