• Welcome
    • News
    • About >
      • Principal's Welcome
      • School Ethos
      • School Routine
      • Calendar
      • Uniforms
      • Enrolment Policy
      • Policies
      • Active Schools
      • Awards
    • School Gallery
  • Parents
    • All you need to know >
      • Junior Infants Parents' Page
      • Senior Infants Parents' Page
      • First Class Parents' Page
    • Home School Liaison
    • School News Letter
    • Policies
  • Students
    • Attendance Awards
    • Websites for learning
    • Phonics Explained
    • Maths Explained
    • Aistear Explained
    • The Student's Say
  • Contact
  • Welcome
    • News
    • About >
      • Principal's Welcome
      • School Ethos
      • School Routine
      • Calendar
      • Uniforms
      • Enrolment Policy
      • Policies
      • Active Schools
      • Awards
    • School Gallery
  • Parents
    • All you need to know >
      • Junior Infants Parents' Page
      • Senior Infants Parents' Page
      • First Class Parents' Page
    • Home School Liaison
    • School News Letter
    • Policies
  • Students
    • Attendance Awards
    • Websites for learning
    • Phonics Explained
    • Maths Explained
    • Aistear Explained
    • The Student's Say
  • Contact
OLV Infants

Ms Murray's Class Blog

Friday 26th May

26/5/2017

4 Comments

 
Art - Butterfly Painting
We are learning about life cycles and this week we were looking about the life cycle of a butter fly... Check back next week to see what we are making!
Picture

Writing 

It is so nice to be able to do different activities now the the children have really mastered their hand writing. Each child is making a big effort to form their letters correctly. In the pictures below we are working on our dictation. I call out the word and the children use there skills to decode the sounds and spell the word. This is a good way for the children to practice their trick words too... try this at home when you have a spare five minutes! 

Language Topic - Furniture

As we continue our topic of 'Home' the children are learning the names for different furniture around the home.
Picture
Picture
Picture

Building

This story was a great inspiration for the children... it encouraged them to think big and imaginative when designing their homes.

Aistear Reviews

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Maths

Below was a simple maths game where the children had to match pairs to make sets of 5 altogether. 
Picture
Picture

Aistear Stations - Garden work,  The Home and whatever else springs to their imagination!!

Story Time
Story time was hosted by these two super stars this week! 
Picture
Picture

Homework Blog Challenge 
Check out the D.E.A.R time video below

Home Work

Great homework this week... 
Enjoy the weekend,

Regards,
​Ms Murray
4 Comments

Friday 19th May

19/5/2017

2 Comments

 

Fun For All Day!

The highlight of this week has to be our fantastic Fun For All day! It was super fun and the weather was perfect! Here is a little mix of some of the different sport we were involved in! 
Picture

Fun For All Day! from Ms Murray on Vimeo.


Super Chilled Little Workers!

We like to relax after all the fun and active learning in our room. Classical music is perfect to creating the right mood during our wind down time. We listen to calm and peaceful music all the time in rm 5!

Little Workers from Ms Murray on Vimeo.


Maths

Picture
We did some simple maths sums by adding two sets together.
Picture
Picture
Picture

A Squash and a Squeeze

This week we worked on this fun story to link in with our house topic. The children loved how the animals just kept piling into the lady's house but in the end she realised that she should have been happy with she had in the first place.
Below are a few pictures that the children drew about the story.

Art - Shadow Drawings

So we finished our shadow drawing art project today. The children traced over their pencil outlines using markers and then filled the siluette in using oil pastels. Finally we created a background landscape using a very watered down paint. I will post a picture of the finished work next week when they're dry and up on the display wall. 
Picture
Picture

Aistear Building

We can't get enough of our building theme in Rm 5... the children just get more and more creative as we explore new building designs during Aistear.

Building from Ms Murray on Vimeo.

As a Friday treat we took our Aistear outside while the sun was out. We hope to get a lot more outdoor work done over the last term so here's hoping the sun continues to shine! 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

That's it for this week. Hope you enjoyed the blog! Be sure to share your favourite part of the week in the comments section if you get the chance boys and girls! Have a nice weekend...
Kind Regards,
Zara
2 Comments

Friday 12th May

12/5/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
This month our new topic is The Home. We will be learning about different types of houses in our locality and also furniture and rooms in our homes. Our role-play area will be turned into a home so if you have any old toys you would like to donate from the list below we would be grateful. 

Kitchen toys 
Baby/doll toys and clothes
Junk Art recyclables
I'm looking for a lamp or light for the home area (it's a little dark with the new roof  on)


Thanks.

Different Homes

As part of our new topic we have been learning about different homes using language like mobile home, terrace houses, semi- detached, detached, flats, apartments, cottage etc. We have discussed how different houses have multi stories, garages attached and different types of room inside them. It would be great if you could have a chat about your own home with your child. It will support their language when sharing with their peers in class.
Picture
As an Aistear project the children were asked to design their own home in their Aistear copies while thinking about the different building materials we have available to us around the classroom. Below was some of the materials on offer but they are free to use whatever the like from around the room. Our Focus Fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs was an inspiration for some. 

Our Designs

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Little architects ;) 

Tuesday's Challenge: who can design and build a home?
Picture
Picture
After discussing basic structure of buildings and what makes a tall building stable, we went to visit an art project I completed with my class last year. The children were impressed with how tall the structure is! 
Picture
Picture
Wednesday/Thursday's Challenge: Who can design and build the tallest building?

Writing

The children are working really hard in their 'Best Writing' copies. However, the focus now is to apply the correct letter formation in all their writing, throughout the day at home and in school. If you see that your child is not forming their letters correctly when writing their name or on their homework, it would be helpful if you gently corrected them. Perhaps ask them to write a row using correct formation at the bottom of the page. This will really help them on the road to becoming skilled writers!

Shadow Drawings

We took advantage of the fine weather to do a little outdoor art. We looked at our own shadows and discussed how they are formed. Next we practised drawing our wild animal figures by tracing their shadows onto paper. Check back next week to see our final pieces of art work!

This is a lovely photo of the class after we received our medals for full attendance! Well Done Boys and Girls!
Picture
Have a lovely weekend,

Kind Regards,
​Ms Murray
0 Comments

Friday 5th May

5/5/2017

0 Comments

 

Well Done to Room 5 for winning the best Attendance in April which is a first ever record of 100% attendance for a month!  We are delighted. 

Picture
Picture
Picture

The children love this phonics clip below, it's called alpha blocks. It's a nice way for them to learn their phonic sounds.

The children love to read in Rm 5 
Picture
Picture

Trip to the pond to visit the tadpoles and check out what's growing in the vegetable patches.
I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather!

Kind Regards,
Ms Murray
0 Comments

    Categories

    All
    Aistear
    Art
    Autumn
    Christmas
    Early Days!
    Fire Safety
    Halloween
    Home
    Maths
    P.E.
    Reading
    School
    Science
    September
    Sound
    Spring
    Summer
    The Pet Shop
    Transport
    Winter
    Writing

    Archives

    December 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016

    RSS Feed

Photo used under Creative Commons from marcoverch