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Friday 27th October

27/10/2017

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Aye, Aye,I caught me some pirate sprogs!!

Parade in the hall!

Triangle Witches in our scrap books.

We learnt lots about Fire Safety this week!

Music Appreciation Wednesdays

Every Wednesday morning, to get us through the mid week slump, we have a 10 minute "Music Appreciation" first thing. Mostly it is something up beat that the children can dance to, but this week it was a little more spooky!

The Hibernation Station turned into a creepy spider's cocoon.

The Witch's Costume Shop was a must go to for the best costumes in town! As well as any potion ingredients you may require.

We practice our role-play before we go to play. The girls do a great job here!

Practicing our prepositions. "The pumpkin is on top of the monster"

Our new writing stations.

No Halloween costume would be complete without some magic wands!

Hope you all have a Spooktacular Halloween Break!

Stay Safe,
Ms Murray

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Friday 20th October

21/10/2017

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What a week! I missed my class terribly this week but was completely house bound with a terrible stomach bug. I'm almost back to normal now so looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday for a Spooktacular week of halloween fun! If anyone has any spooky decorations you could send in we would greatly appreciate it! It's almost time to carve those pumpkins!!

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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!