Friday 11th November

11/11/2016

We are delighted to have everyone back safe and refreshed after the Halloween break. I hope you all had some fun family time together. So this week saw the start of our new monthly topic 'School', this is also the month we will be celebrating our school's 50th year anniversary so we are very excited and we have lots of fun things planned.
Ms O'Brien has really enjoyed working with the girls and boys too. And they have been doing lots of fun lessons.

Below the children are sorting things into sets. Including themselves!

Below, they worked on their patterns...

boy, girl, boy, girl...

long hair, long hair, short hair...

For art this week we looked at collage. Using our pattern skills we were able to create some really interesting designs.

This week also saw the start to the new topic 'School'. We are slowly introducing it into our aistear stations along with other subject topics. The children really enjoyed playing teacher and pupils in the role-play area.

This week saw the start of our Jolly Phonics program. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday your child will learn a new letter. If they could practice them each night in their little phonics book that would be great. In Jolly Phonics the 42 main sounds of English are taught, not just the alphabet so if you are unsure of any of the letter sounds click here to hear the sound .

Each night their sounds copy can be filled in as shown below. Please make sure they practice writing the correct letter formation once in pencil and don't colour it in. They can join the letter to the pictures beginning with that sound and colour the pictures with colouring pencils or crayons. Not markers as they can show through the page.