Category: Maths

Friday 2nd March

2/2/2018

Transport

What a fantastic week! Our new topic 'Transport' really took off! A big thank you to all the children and parents who sent in towns for us to play with! It really enhanced the children's play! Keep them coming...

Lots of people were booking holidays in the sun at the ticket office... I don't blame them after the cold week!

We even planned our own meals for the aeroplane!

To finish the week off we made our own aeroplanes... Check back next week to see how they turned out!

Maths

Lots of playful maths this week. We were learning '1 More' and '1 less' with the number 1-5. Try asking them to do this at home...

Counting and matching sets...

...and writing our number 3 and matching set of 3.

We can make patterns every where! Even during yard time!

Science

We were so thrilled to have some of the parents visit us today to do some wonderful experiments! The children were so excited!

That you to the parents who took the time to come in and work with us!

Homework

Fantastic homework this week. I can see that parents are taking some time to read through the sheet with their child and discuss the various language tasks. This will be such valuable time spent and your child will learn lots! Thank you.

In other news...

We were using the resources below during the week and when we tidied up it seemed some of the pieces were missing. They could possibly have fallen into pockets or bags so please, if you do find any at home cold you return them. They are very valuable to us teachers!! lol :)

Head lice

We had a reported case of head lice this week. Please check your child's head over the weekend and treat if necessary. Notes will go home on Monday. Thank you.

Stay Safe Programme...

We have started the stay safe programme with the girls and boys in class. It is a very important part of their learning and we would like you to be involved in their awareness and development as your child learns about keeping safe. You will find occasional worksheets going home in their folder. If you could take a little time to talk to your child about what they are learning that would be very helpful. Thank you.

Have a great weekend!

Kind Regards,

Ms Murray

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Friday 13th October

12/10/2017

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Thank you so much to all the grown-ups who brought such an amazing array of autumn resources. Having such a large selection of leaves, chestnuts, pine cones, acorns etc to work with allowed me to bring our Autumn topic into every part of your child's learning. So a big thank you to everyone.

We made sets

We made patterns

Scroll through the pictures to take a look at the creative ways we worked with our autumn resources.

Art

We thought about how we could make an autumn picture with our collection.

Maths

More hedgehog counting activities

Matching the objects with their partner.

Early Writing Skills

We practiced our autumn mark making in this fun dice game.

Leaf Rubbings

Learning about the different textures of leaves. The rough side makes a perfect surface for rubbings.

Aistear

During Aistear time the children get to bring everything they have learnt over the week and incorporate it into their play in their own way! Anything goes...

Just bringing the pumpkins babies for a walk!

Self Portraits

The children were so thrilled with how their self portraits turned out. I can't believe how well some of them captured their own likeness. What a good job they all did!

Hope you enjoy the blog this week. Thanks again for all your support resourcing our learning. Next week will be all about the fire station. I am fully stocked for junk art and tins now so I don't need anymore for now, thank you.

Kind Regards,
Ms Murray

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Friday 6th October

6/10/2017

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Fall into Autumn in Rm 5!

Wow! Look at these wonderful leaves! Thank you to everyone who brought in leaves for our class this week and we got some fabulous conkers and pinecones too. With your support we can make our learning so much fun and far more visually stimulating for the children. Way more interesting seeing things in real life than just looking at them in a book! Keep them coming :)

Nature Walk

What better way to start learning about the seasons and autumn than to take a trip out of the classroom and head on a nature walk! We collected some leaves and twigs and helicopters to add to our Aistear play stations.

Maths

We continue to learn about patterns all around us and here we are making some random patterns. We had great fun! Scroll through the photos below to see your little ones!

We have also been learning about sets and how to group objects that belong together. We talk about why they belong together.

DEAR Time

Reading time have never been soooo inviting! Thank you to our wonderful caretaker Tom who is always more than obliging to help us by sawing our plastic lid in half to create a table for each box. Let's hope the children don't grow too much lol!

Aistear

So we have been setting up our new Aistear stations this week and the children have been full of wonderful ideas. I sent a note home on Friday about resources we will need over the next topic but please, don't feel under any pressure and a few leaves will completely suffice!

The Hibernation Station makes the perfect little snug for reading and play. Full of all the colours of autumn.

Our Autumn Woodland is perfect for going on a nature hunt!

Our furry little autumn friends are perfect for encouraging the children to use their topical language. On Monday I will be sending the children home with a list of topical language, it would be greatly beneficial to their learning if you could practice vocabulary with your child.

Conker Hunt - We bring maths into our Aistear by searching for conkers, we count our set and the winner is the person who has collected the most. Who said maths wasn't FUN!

Play doh is always a favourite with the children.

Thanks for reading this weeks blog. I hope you all enjoy your nature walks over the weekend!

Kind Regards,
Ms Murray

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Friday 19th May

19/5/2017

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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!

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

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

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.

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!

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

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Friday 17th March

16/3/2017

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We had an event packed week in Rm 5. The week got off to a great start with the Spring Service. Everyone worked really hard to prepare for it and the Service was a great success. Together all the junior infants brought the walls to life with all signs of spring. It was lovely to see parents and grandparent who were able to make it. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Spring Service from Ms Murray on Vimeo.

Egg and Spoon

It was lovely to get out to enjoy the lovely weather earlier this week. We hope it comes back again soon.

Egg and Spoon from Ms Murray on Vimeo.

Maths - It's All About The Money!

We have been learning about these little copper coins. We discussed what is different about them (size, numbers). It is interesting to note that when the children were asked which of these amounts would buy me more in a shop, everyone have their reasons for picking one or the other. The commons misconceptions where that the 5c coin would buy more because it is a bigger coin or the five 1c coins would buy more because there are more coins. Interesting. Try to take any opportunity to talk about money when visiting the shops and maybe give the children a chance to hand the money to the shop keeper and wait for the change.

Best Sorters

What makes these coins different?

Sorting
What makes the coins belong together?

Favourite Book Day

The children had a lovely Favourite Book Day in rm5. Ms Murray read out some of the books during the day using her best funny character voices! The children had lots of DEAR time and the where really happy to read for enjoyment and share with their friends.

Hand Writing

As we continue to improve our hand writing, we are returning our focus to the letters we have already learnt. Each week we have two letters we focus on, this week it was m and p. When we have done a little writing practice we write our very best work into our special writing copies.

Well done to these super homework superstars!
What lovely rainbows and pots of gold.

Happy St Patrick's Day

We finished off our last day this week celebrating St Patrick. Here's a little video showing all the wonderful performances by the girls and boys in school.

Have a great mini break boys and girls and stay safe!

Regards,
Ms Murray!

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Ms Murray's Class Blog

Friday 2nd March

Transport

Maths

Science

Homework

In other news...

Head lice

Stay Safe Programme...

Friday 13th October

We made sets

We made patterns

Scroll through the pictures to take a look at the creative ways we worked with our autumn resources.

Art

Maths

Early Writing Skills

Leaf Rubbings

Aistear

Self Portraits

Friday 6th October

Fall into Autumn in Rm 5!

Nature Walk

Maths

DEAR Time

Aistear

Friday 19th May

Fun For All Day!

Super Chilled Little Workers!

Maths

A Squash and a Squeeze

Art - Shadow Drawings

Aistear Building

Friday 17th March

Egg and Spoon

Maths - It's All About The Money!

Best Sorters

What makes these coins different?

Sorting What makes the coins belong together?

Favourite Book Day

Hand Writing

Categories

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Sorting
What makes the coins belong together?