Making the gowns...
Check out the finished puppets here...
Writing
Visit our new display!
Word Box Copies
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Kind Regards,
Ms Murray
The children are delighted with their new puppets they made! They worked so hard and made each puppet so uniquely beautiful! I hope they will cherish them and keep them forever! Well done boys and girls!
Making the gowns...Check out the finished puppets here...Writing
Your child may have mentioned to you that we have started the formal learning of correct letter formation. The children are now well skilled in the use of pencils and have strengthened their correct pencil grip. They are also well practiced in copying the intricate patterns necessary for correct letter formation, through their regular drawing practice. I am very happy with their first efforts and over the second half of the year we will be re-visiting the letters with the focus on letter formation. This will also offer an opportunity for children to revise their letter sounds in a different context which should improve phonetic fluency.
Visit our new display!Word Box Copies
The children will be going home with their new Word Box copies in their homework folder next week. Once your child is familiar with most of the sounds, the next step is to blend or stretch out the letter sounds to hear the word. Please encourage the children to blend smoothly by "stretching out" the sounds on one continuous breath (without any gaps) rather than choppy separating of letter sounds. They may find this difficult but it tends to just click at some point with plenty practice and repetition.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Just a reminder to please return your child's homework folder to your child's schoolbag each day so that it is brought to school everyday. Also homework readers MUST be returned every Friday so I can pass them onto the next child. Thank you.
Have a great weekend.
Kind Regards, Ms Murray
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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 setsWe made patternsScroll through the pictures to take a look at the creative ways we worked with our autumn resources.ArtWe thought about how we could make an autumn picture with our collection. MathsMore hedgehog counting activities Matching the objects with their partner. Early Writing SkillsWe practiced our autumn mark making in this fun dice game. Leaf RubbingsLearning about the different textures of leaves. The rough side makes a perfect surface for rubbings. AistearDuring 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 PortraitsThe 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
As we have enjoyed two short weeks, I have put our work together to make one blog. You will have noticed this week that we have finished up the homework sheets but we would ask you to continue with the word boxes and reading each night, I will also be doing a Blog competition each week until the end of school so check their bags on a Monday for the quiz. We are on the wind down now, hard to believe we have only three weeks left! I will be starting to send home their workbooks as we finish them up, so please enjoy looking through them and you can keep them at home. Enjoy the blog... I hope you like the video at the end!
Writing
We were practising our procedure writing last week. We looked back at our blogpost from Spring when we planted sunflower seeds and wrote about it, step by step. What fantastic work the children did and look how much everyones writing has improved in only a few short months!
Story Time
We have been learning about the life cycle of the butterfly and what better story to read than Eric Carle's The Hungry Caterpillar! Read it below at home.
Below is our super copy work showing the life cycle of the butterfly. Why not ask you child to tell you the four stages of the life cycle that they have learned in school.
Art
We enjoyed making these super cool pasta art projects... can you guess what we are making?
Hmmmmm... What could we be making?
I forgot to take a picture of the finished display so you'll have to come and see it in real life outside our room on Monday!
School Tour - The Farm!
I hope you enjoy this great video of our trip to Red Mountain Farm! I think you'll agree that the children had a really great time!
That's it for this week! Enjoy the weekend...
Kind Regards, Ms Murray
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!
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