Show and Tell


The boys and girls in Seomra Alice Junior Room were very gentle when they were holding, undressing, washing, drying and redressing the tiny babies today πŸ‘ΆπŸΌπŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸΌπŸ›πŸ§·

The boys and girls in Seomra Alice loved petting Basil the four day old baby lamb πŸ‘!! 

Egg Stem Challenge

How many plastic eggs can you stack using playdoh?

Senior Infants embraced this FUN & TRICKY Stem Challenge.  Well done to all πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ πŸ₯š πŸ₯š

The boys and girls in Senior Infants planted daffodil bulbs on 20/12/2022. The got to bring their beautiful daffodils home today - Daffodil Day 2023. πŸ’›πŸ§‘πŸŒΌπŸ§‘πŸ’› 

The boys and girls in Seomra Alice Junior Room really enjoyed planting sunflower seeds 🌻, pansy seeds 🌺 and nasturtium seeds 🌸 and they are already looking forward to seeing them grow into beautiful flowers πŸ’! 

Senior Infants had lots of practise counting coins to make totals within 10c. πŸ’°

Senior Infants enjoyed playing the Money Board game. A fun way to practise our money counting skills πŸ’°

Senior Infants enjoy using QR codes to easily access maths games on the iPads. 🀩

The boys and girls in Seomra Alice junior room put on their Wellies and coats and went outside to look for lots of different signs of Spring around the school grounds! They found a birds eggπŸ₯š, lots of buds, blossoms and daffodils πŸŒΌπŸŒ±πŸƒ, some mini beasts and lots puddles β˜”οΈπŸŒˆ

We were very lucky this week to enjoy an β€˜Amazing Air’ workshop ran by the Nutty Scientists. 

We explored the wonders of the Air all around us through an integrated STEAM approach πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»

**STEAM is an integrated approach to learning through areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. 

 

 

 

To mark Engineering Week 2023 Senior Infants had great fun constructing structures from spaghetti & mini marshmallows.

They also took part in a Tinfoil Challenge where each pair got 1m of tinfoil & had to try to construct the tallest free standing structure!!! Their work was most impressive. Well done to all our budding engineers!!!! πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌπŸ€©

Check out just some of our maths, science, PE and other activities we have been up to in 1st class over the past few weeks.

Maths Stations

Science:

Investigate whether blubber (fat) is a good insulator

Investigate which type of ball is the bounciest

PE: Skipping on Active Friday, Hurling, Gymnastics

Celebrating Pancake Tuesday πŸ₯ž Yum!

Celebrating Chinese New Year by playing with ancient Chinese puzzles called Tanagrams

We love using concrete materials in maths to help with our understanding of number. Here we have used cubes & links to make 1 - 10 towers & chains. We had fun taking away a tower/chain & asking our partner to tell us which tower/chain was missing! 

 

Engineering Week 2023


Second Class enjoying The Nutty Professor’s Amazing Air Workshop

To mark Engineering Week in Mahoonagh Robert, the Nutty Scientist visited our school with his Amazing Air Workshop.

Huge thanks to the Parent’s Association & School for funding these workshops. As you can see from the photos, Senior Infants had a BLAST! The hovering balloons & Air Blasting Canon were probably our favourite activities!!

 

The boys and girls in Seomra Alice Junior Room LOVED learning all about Air during todays Nutty Scientists Amazing Air Workshop

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