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Ms Murray's Class Blog

September 29th, 2018

29/9/2018

11 Comments

 
What a fantastic first month back to school! Having the same class has been super and we just got straight into things! I've lots of videos to share with you this week, we've done soon much! But first, Just a few notes about what has changed for your child this year now they've made the big move up to senior infants!
  • School finishes at 1.45 this year. This allows the junior infants a few minutes to get out safely before us. Delivering your children to you safely is my absolute priority. I am very grateful to the parents and child minders for your patience here. If someone else collects your child please take the time to explain this system to them. I take the children over to our line up area BEFORE they are allowed to be taken from the line. They must say goodbye to me before they leave and I have made eye contact with their parent/minder. if that mean the child hanging out of me to get my attention, I really don't mind ?
  • Homework. Reading practice is the most important homework you can do with your child each night. I have sent home readers in their folders and on Monday I will send home a reading tracker. If you could fill in the tracker when your child has read and re-read the book and is ready for a new one (they will need to ask me). Be mindful not to rush the readers, enjoy re reading them and asking questions about what they have read. Comprehension and fluency are equally important. I will also include tricky words that the children are to learn by sight. We will be moving onto the yellow set and doing two a week. If any parent of struggling readers wish to have a quick parent/teacher/child reading workshop with me please come talk to me. *Please keep readers and homework sheet in folders and return to their schoolbags everyday* Use pencil for writing activities and colouring pencils for colouring activities. Thank you!

So here's the fun bits...

Visit to the Botanic Gardens

It's always a treat to get out of the classroom to explore our local commnity and this month the Botanic Gardens were having a sculpture display. 

A week of Sculpture

In this video the children were reviewing and retelling our Week of Sculpture inspired by the above trip. Our focus was on exciting the  senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and sound).

A week with The Little Red Hen

We had lot's of fun around the story of the Little Red Hen. We did some acting, movie making and bread making! Check out the movie below and ask your child to identify their role in the making of the movie. Each child participated in the voice overs and stage props. The improvement in child's articulation and language is very clear when compared to our last story production of the Smartest Giant last year. Well done girls and boys! 
Of course no Little Red Hen week would be complete without making our own "Bread in a Bag!"
That's it for this week!

Ms Murray
11 Comments
Mareen
29/9/2018 11:47:34 pm

It's great to have the blog back. :-)

Alex had so much with all the little projects you doing in class such as the play the little red hen, the voice recordings and of course the bread making.

He was so proud on Friday of his team bread making. that He couldn't wait to taste it in the car home. It turned out that they might have added 1 or 2 spoons of salt to many in the mix ha ha ha.

I've noticed that his reading is coming on great along with blending of the letters. We read books every day since he is little but since about 1 week he is reading the books to me and tells me about the stories and tricky words after he finished. He also reads German books and points out the tricky word in German. Also his math is coming along. But most of all he likes to speak Irish. :-)

Thanks for being such a great teacher!

Have a nice weekend.
Mareen

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Ms Murray
30/9/2018 05:43:21 pm

I had to laugh reading your comment... I love your honesty! I have to addmit though it may have been my fault though re. the salt. I think I may have got the measurement wrong 😬 but we had fun making it. I think Alex's team forgot to put in half their yeast too. It was all learning though. lol 😂

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Ms. Fallon
16/10/2018 05:35:39 pm

BRAVO BRAVO Room 6!!! A really fantastic retelling of The Little Red Hen! I love the clear, crisp voices. I could enjoy every sentence. So good I think you need a challenge 😉. So here goes.....
Room 6...... can you compose and act out your own story??? I bet you can.

Ms Murray
16/10/2018 06:08:41 pm

Ms Fallon... CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! As soon as we finish the final cut of The Scarcrows Wedding (release date this Friday) We would be most happy to take up your challenge. After all, the children and I are always looking for a way to extend our story telling skills!  

Alan Byrne
30/9/2018 09:06:42 am

Great to see the blog up and running again, my son was so happy on Friday after baking his bread, keep up the great work.
Dean's Dad

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Ms Murray
30/9/2018 05:39:49 pm

they really enjoyed making it... but I'm not sure it tasted as good as it looked 😬

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Jolita
30/9/2018 02:37:24 pm

Welcom back everybody ☺we really enjoying watching yours working so hard 🤗🤗Thanks Murray for lovely videos and amazing photos 👍

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Ms Murray
30/9/2018 05:36:40 pm

Thanks you! We work really hard but love every minute of it 😊

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Gina
1/10/2018 06:42:51 am

Wow!! What a amazing beginning to the new school term. They all look like they have had a very interesting September.. Now that maci goes up the stairs by herself to class, I miss seen all that is going on in class and the work she does. I will definitely be checking in every week on the blog to see what's going on in her little school world. Well done Ms Murray on all the hard work..

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Ms Murray
2/10/2018 08:14:39 pm

It was a super month! Make sure you drop in some morning to take a look at Maci's work and see the classroom every now and then  👍

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Ruwida Abushina
8/10/2018 04:48:44 pm

Hi Ms Murray, it's late to say Welcome back, but just seeing these amazing videos and photos.
Thanks for such a hard-working.
I was stunned when I saw all the blogs, coz Sajed never mentioned 😭 all those events to me.
Baking, botanic garden, sculpture,
Even though I kept asking him, 😅.
But generally speaking I can notice his languastic improvement.

Much appreciated Ms Murray,
Keep going💐💪.
Ruwida

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