We were very busy this month celebrating Chinese New Year. We made a Chinese restaurant, built Chinese temples and the Great Wall of China. We made a class Chinese dragon, Chinese fans and lantern decorations.
We are exploring Winter this month through lots of playful learning activities. In Construction we are building and designing machines for the snow, in Junk Art we are making polar animals. We explored a variety of materials and used our light boxes to play at the Sensory Winter Table and we love pretending to be polar bears over at our Igloo and polar bear den area.
We performed our Christmas play this week for our families and friends. Look at our wonderful costumes!
Senior Infants had fun with our box of decorations and made number sentences for the number 7 in lots of different ways.
Well done to everyone who prepared shoeboxes to send away to less fortunate children around the world- we had a large collection in the front hall this year which was great to see- generosity is very much alive in our community this year!
In November we learned all about fire safety and rescue vehicles. The Enniscrone Firemen explained all the equipment on the fire engine and we even got to spray the water hose!
We went on a Nature walk around the school in Kilglass to observe and record signs of Autumn. We heard and saw lots of things on our walk. We were very excited when we found a secret path behind the hedges at the back of the church- we had great fun exploring this!
We had great fun playing with the parachute today with coach Aaron Costello from Sligo Sports Partnership. We loved hiding inside the parachute to make a tent -everyone in the class had to work together and sit down at the same time which was a bit tricky!
We welcomed our new Junior Infants on Monday and welcomed back Senior Infants to school- everyone is settling in well and enjoying daily life in Kilglass N.S. so far!
What better way to end our first week of school with P.E. activities from GAA coach Stephen Henry and painting!
