Junior Infants - Room 7
Learning together in Room 7!
We’ve had a fantastic term at school, and the boys are thoroughly enjoying their daily activities. On Mondays, we look forward to our circle time discussions, where we share news and ideas with each other. Each morning, we focus on exercises to strengthen our gross motor skills, which help us with our schoolwork. We explore a variety of topics, such as the doctor’s surgery, and have fun acting them out during role play. December was especially busy in Room 7, with our Christmas performance “Baarmy Bethlehem”, a trip to the pantomime in the National Stadium, and a special visit from Santa Claus!
Starting our first year in school!
Well done to all the boys for completing their first few weeks in Junior Infants.
The boys were lucky to start off the year playing GAA with Laura. They really enjoyed the throwing and catching activities using beanbags and footballs.
We have also enjoyed playtime and working on our gross and fine motor skills. Each day we have tabletop activities including, peg boards, cutting & pasting, threading and using Play-Doh.
Story-time is a great part of the day and we love to hear what the boys have to say about our story. We are also practising our oral language skills in circle time.
Room 7
We have had a hectic few months in room 7! Not only have we been learning our sounds in English and all about our numbers in Maths, we’ve been spending lots of time exploring other areas of the curriculum.
In December, the Christmas spirit really hit! We performed our Christmas play ‘A King is Born’ for our parents and family members and we were SUPERSTARS! We had to learn a lot of songs and remember our special lines> Our teachers and parents were so PROUD of us!
We also got to a pantomime called Buffy and the Beanstalk! It was so funny and we loved travelling at the top of the bus.
Since we came back to school, We had friendship week where we explored what it means to be a good friend and we were able to come up with lots of examples.
Finally, we started Mindfulness and story massage with Una! It is our favourite time of the week. We love listening to hear stories, doing our breathing exercises and most importantly helping our friends relax with our special hand movement during story massage.
Room 7
We are having great fun in room 7 learning through playful activities. We use Numicon when learning Maths. It’s so much fun!
We have spent a lot of time doing fun activities to build up our muscles, like playdough disco, building blocks and tweezer.
We love practicing mindfulness in our classroom with Una too. Story massage is our favourite!
