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Welcome to the blog page for Room 6.

We have a lovely new website which you can find here – it is still a work in progress !

 

https://sites.google.com/site/misssmythstcronans/home

 

 

Parents – you can email me at: miss.smyth.stcronans@gmail.com

I quite often send information via e-mail – I have some e-mail addresses but not all so if you would like to receive newsletters on what is happening in room 6 please e-mail me so I can add you to the contact list.

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November 3rd 2011

Nature Walk – during October we learned all about Autumn.  We talked about animals that hibernate, why the leaves change clolour, what happens to the weather and all about Autumn fruits.  The children brought in lots of leaves, conkers, acorns, pinecones and sycamore seeds.  We read lots of Autumn stories, had an Autumn sensory box, did leaf rubbings and went on a Nature Walk.

Hallowe’en

Here are some pictures of us dressed up for Hallowe’en and making our witches.  We read lots of spooky stories, made trick or treat bags, learned a poem about a teeny tiny ghost and played some traditional Hallowe’n games.

Some of the sides of the photos got cut off by the scoilnet software – apologies

 

October 14th 2011

We have been doing lots of art since we started school.  Here are some pictures of what we have made:

Self portraits                          Apple Tree                           Ice-creams

Rainbow fish                          Elmer

 

Each week we do a new letter in Letterland.  Here are our Talking Tess pages in our Letterland Area

We also drew some pictures of Miss Smyth

Fruit Friday

We get a lovely tray of fruit every Friday.  It is so yummy.  A big thank you to the parents who come in and chop it up for us.  Remember they are always looking for volunteers.

 

Sorting and sets

This week we were looking at set in maths.  We did lots and lots of sorting and making sets of things that belong together.

We also got a new writing activity – blackboards!

Learning through play

We are learning so much in our Aistear sessions – we have had volcanoes in the sand area, a party in the pizza parlour, a disco in Letterland, and a traffic jam in the construction area.

Our Colour Table

Each week (mostly!) we do a new colour.  Here is our Purple Table

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Here are some of the books we have been reading.  We have a book of the week every week based on our themes.

     

08 October 2010

Birthday Spot

Our October Birthdays are Amber, Kaya and Roberto who all turn 5 this month.  Happy Birthday!

Computers

Last week we went to the Computer Room for the first time.  We learned how to use a mouse and we went to Letterland and discovered lots of new characters.  We were very good at taking turns.

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Aistear

Our Learning through play sessions are going well, we really look forward to them every day.  As it is October we changed all our areas.  Our Role Play Area is now a Pizza Parlour.  We made signs and menus and we have a delivery service !  Our Construction area is now taken over with mini versions of us!  Our Small World Area has been turned in Letterland.  Our Creative Area is a painting station where we have been making Elmer and Rainbow fish (our stories for the last two weeks).  And the Sand Area has been turned into Dinosaur world.  We are reading lots of stories about Dinosaurs – yesterday we read Dinosaurs Love Underpants.  It was very funny

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Music Time

This week we had a look at the percussion instruments.  We had great fun playing along to our favourite Nursery Rhymes using tambourines, guiros, maracas, castanets, shakers, triangles, wood blocks, sleigh bells and claves.  We learned that a conductor tell the musicians when to start and stop.

 

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Fun Friday

Friday was a very exciting day.  First of all we had no electricity so we had to be very inventive with our lessons.  After break we went to the Library and had our pictures taken by a photographer.  Then we went to the hall where all the children were to see the Sam Maguire Cup.  Everybody was very excited and we gave lots of cheers.  Well done to MrMcCauliffe for his great job as MC.

Then, as if the day wasn’t exciting enough, while we were having our fruit Mrs Manton came in to tell us we were the Star Class this week.  We got the most stars for lining up in the yard.  Mrs Manton brought us a trophy and on Monday we will get some lollipops.

 

 

27/9/2011

Patterns!!!

This week we are learning to make patterns in Maths.  We know that a pattern is something that is repeated over and over again.  Have a look at some of the patterns we made

 

 

Sorting

We have also been doing a lot of sorting in our class.  We each get a sorting bag and see can we follow Today’s Sorting Rule.  We are getting very good at it.

We have met 3 new friends from Sunny Street and we are learning to read their names.  Here we are playing a Sunny Street game.

Writing

We have now learned 5 letters.  Here we are doing our writing activities for Hairy Hatman.  We have whiteboards, marla, sandpaper letters, racing cars and rainbow letters.

 

 

13/09/2011

We are well settled into Room 6 now and we had our first full day today.  This week we met Dippy Duck and Annie Apple last week in Letterland.  We have done the colours red, blue and green and the Nursery Rhymes Twinkle Twinkle, Jack and Jill and Humpty Dumpty.  We have also been learning lots of Gaeilge.  We met Molly and Jack from Sunny Street and read a story all about Molly.

In the morning time we are doing learning activities such as cutting, pegs, fine motor skills, numicon and sorting.

Today we started our Aistear Learning Through Play Sessions.  We have 5 learning areas – Creative Area, Sand Area, Small World Area, Construction Area and Role Play Area

This week we are working on the stories Elmer and Brown Bear Bear.

 

Our Nursery Rhymes are Humpty Dumpty and Incy Wincy Spider

 

Birthday Spot

Our September Birthday’s are Alan and Jessica who both turned 5 this month – a big Happy Birthday to both of you.

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First Few Days

All the children have been brilliant on their first few days in Big School.  We have been busy – getting to know eachother, having lots of fun playing together and learning some new things.

We went to Letterland and learned all about Clever Cat and today we did our very first writing in Junior Infants

Our colour of the week is red – we matched some red objects, learned a song all about red and made sets of red things.  Some children even brought in some things for the red table.  Here we are playing a red game

 

This week our Nursery Rhyme is Twinkle Twinkle Litle Star and we have read the following stories:

Owl Babies

Tiget Tom

This is the Bear

The Kissing Hand