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Ms Murray's Class Blog

Friday 26th January

26/1/2018

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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! 
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Making the gowns...

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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. 
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Visit our new display!

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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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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 

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We made patterns

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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.
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Maths

More hedgehog counting activities
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Matching the objects with their partner. 
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Early Writing Skills

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

Learning about the different textures of leaves. The rough side makes a perfect surface for rubbings. 
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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!
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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 9th June

9/6/2017

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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!
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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.
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Art

We enjoyed making these super cool pasta art projects... can you guess what we are making? 
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Hmmmmm... What could we be making?
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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
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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. 
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Best Sorters

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What makes these coins different?

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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. 
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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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Friday 3rd February 

3/3/2017

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The children had great fun this week... pancakes were the highlight! We enjoyed trying out some yummy toppings on our pancakes. We had a choice of chocolate sauce or lemon and sugar. 
Although we didn't make our own pancakes from scratch this time... we did learn what ingredients are used to make pancakes and the procedure involved. We recorded the procedure on our 'Pancakes' sheet putting special focus on our handwriting. The children did a fantastic job. They are really starting to understand that the written letter requires uniformity (i.e. tall letter, short letters, letters with tails) they also show an understanding that letters need to sit on the line, but NEVER start forming them from the line. We are still only starting our formal teaching of letter formation but the children are off to a fantastic start! Well done everyone! 
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They also had fun adding their own toppings onto their pancakes. I acted as scribe for them here... my favourite topping suggestion was chilly peppers! Flick through the photo and your child will show you their work.
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The children had fun reviewing their own work and each others. Their task here is to pick 'Two Stars and a Wish' (what they did well and what they can improve on in regards to their handwriting) 

We started our new 'People who help us in our community' topic this week. Thank you to everyone who brought in resources to use in our play. We did lots of role-play this week and are learning new vocabulary like stethoscope and thermometer for our doctor's surgery. We also opened a bakery with our lovely new play-doh that Ann-Maire made us. Thank you Ann-Maire!! The pink play-doh looks good enough to eat! 
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Well done girls and boys on another week of hard work! You are such Super Stars! Enjoy the weekend.

Regards,
​Ms Murray

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