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Ms Murray's Class Blog

Friday 9th December

9/12/2016

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Santa's Wonderland has arrived in room 5!

IMG 4766 from Zara Murray on Vimeo.


We have been working really hard at our letter formation this week! Our focus was numbers 1-3.

As we continue to learn our letter sounds and blending them into words it is important that we also continue to reinforce our rhyme. The chilrden are getting so good at hearing the sounds in the words. 
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Letter Matching

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Working on our Christmas words. First we listen to the sounds and syllables in the words and then cut and stick them into our copies.

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If we want to be good workers in Santa's Toy shop we need to learn all about tools and toys! We've been doing lots of research, making collages of our favorite toys and learning about what they are made of... wood, plastic, foam, metal, fabric etc. 

Picking our favourite toys from magazines and sorting them. from Zara Murray on Vimeo.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Santa's Hepers graduates of 2016!
Below we sorted our own toys into sets according to what they are made of. Then we choose from our selection of work tools to practice fixing the toys. You'll be delighted to know that following a week's intensive training, they all passed their Santa's Little Helpers exam and are now elegable to work in Santa's Workshop.
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Electric drill on fabric toys.
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Nail gun on plastic dolls.
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Electric saw on wooden doll house.
While it is always great to learn through play and fun. Sometimes we need quiet, focus and 100% concentration. I think you'll agree that you could hear a pin drop during our writing practice. Also I notice that everyone has a great pencil grip! Well done boys and girls... your parents would be super proud of how hard you all work. I know I am! I love the 'silent' self congratulating clap towards the end! lol

Quiet Writing Practice from Zara Murray on Vimeo.

Thanks again to everyone who brought in decorations! The classroom really looks amazing. Next week is our Christmas Concert (We're on Thursday) looking forward to seeing everyone there. The children have been rehersing very hard! 
WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS CONCERT -  If anyone has any disposable tin plates like the ones below I would be grateful if they could bring them in on Monday.
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Thanks for all the lovely comments over the past blogs, it's always good to get feedback from you and the children. I hope you enjoy the lovely message below we got from Brian in the Philippeans. It's a great opportunity for the children to learn about other countries and climates in the world.

Have a great weekend everyone, stay safe!

Regards,
Ms Murray

P.s. Congratulations to the winners of the Website Launch Raffle! Click here to see the results.
4 Comments
Seán
9/12/2016 10:37:52 pm

Highlight of the weekend, waiting for the blog to update! The boys and girls of RM5 are so lucky to have such an amazing teacher who has made their first term fantastic. Lovely to see Brian enjoying weather almost as warm as Dublin!! Can't wait for the show on Thursday

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Ms Murray
10/12/2016 08:34:52 am

Thanks! Such wonderful little minds need lots of creative nurturing! Looking forward to Brian's next posts... I've been promised some snaps of mountains and all the delights of the Philippians!

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Caoimhe Scott
12/12/2016 10:01:20 am

Love love the blog every week all the children look so happy Caoimhes older siblings are very envious and wish they had a blog when they were in the infant school thank you Ms Murray for all the updates

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Ms Murray
12/12/2016 08:05:17 pm

Ah, that's great to hear. It's good to be able to use the technology to link school to home!

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