Fáilte go Naíonáin Shinsearacha 1!
March 2023
March got off to a great start with World Book Day, where all the children got to show off their amazing costumes during a day of book related fun! The costumes were hugely impressive and well done to everyone for getting involved and putting together such impressive costumes.
Congratulations to our many award winners this month, who won awards for World Book Day, Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine and the monthly assembly awards. Maith sibh gach duine! (Not pictured is Finn Malone).
February 2023
February began with Wellbeing Week, which included a wellbeing walk and daily sessions on mindfulness, gratitude and growth mindset. We had a visit from a magician who amazed us all with his tricks, along with his super helper, Nel! Our Aistear theme was the Farm, and we had lots of fun playing with farm animals and enjoying lovely sensory play with sand and rice. On Pancake Tuesday we made pancakes together as a class and enjoyed our delicious food for lunch before writing out the recipe as an example of Procedural Writing. We began to learn all about animal homes, along with the names of mother and baby animals. We finished our Zumba lessons with Audrey and started tennis coaching for PE. In art we looked at the work of Jack B. Yeats and created our very own paintings inspired by his famous paintings of horses. After mid-term we started Maths Power Hour and it’s been going so well, we have a class full of clever mathematicians!

January 2023
January was cold and dark, but it was a great month for everyone in Senior Infants! Our Aistear theme for the month was the Arctic and Antarctic and we really enjoyed exploring all aspects of it. We played with water and did some experiments investigating different properties of water. We examined what happens to water when it freezes, what happens when you mix oil and water, materials that do/don’t dissolve in water and how some objects float on the top of water (surface tension!) We started Zumba in PE and I was delighted to see how many fabulous dancers we have in the class. There was great excitement when we used the school iPads for the first time. Take a look at some photos of all the fun things we got up to.

These are some of the Aistear activities we’ve been doing this month on the theme of Autumn! We made some spooky spider’s after learning all about the spider and some hedgehogs ready for hibernation!



