The Boy's Journey

The Boy Explorer is going on a journey to Dublin.We did handprints on felt to cover his cloak and keep him warm on his journey and remind him of his friends when he gets lonely.He is coming to pick them up off us next Tuesday.

The Boy Explorer

An eight foot tall Boy Explorer is coming to visit us next week!
He has lost his imagination and he sent us a letter asking the children to help him think up brilliant ideas again - ideas about new inventions and ways of making Ireland a better place. The children have gotten lots and lots of very brilliant ideas to share with him - they drew pictures of flying machines and robots that cut your hair,of remote control cake baking machines and supermarkets filled with free food!
They had wonderful ideas about making Ireland a better place - picking up litter,planting more trees and flowers, sharing food and toys and money with people who don't have much, giving money to homeless people so that they can find somewhere to live,being kind to animals,making new friends.........the list went on and on.

I think the boy will have no problem getting his imagination back when he meets his new very inspired and inspiring 5 and 6 year old friends in Renmore...

Violins!

The children took turns playing notes on a violin this week and agreed that they all made a much better sound than their teacher (who has just started to learn and who agreed!)

Music In The Classroom

Last week we went to Leisureland to see the RTE Concert Orchestra play.It was great! We saw violins,brass instruments,wind instruments,percussion instruments, a glockenspiel and a harp.Two funny men sang songs with us and children did ballet dancing.There was lots of audience participation,which the children loved.

Christmas party

We had a party on the day of the Christmas holidays.We made hot chocolate and marshmallows to warm us up and danced to Christmas songs!

Christmas elves

We had a visit from Santa's elves before the Chrstmas holidays!They had heard what good children were in Senior Infants so they popped in to see them.Elfie was very funny - he sat in Jake's chair and tried to write on his table!He played some Christmas songs but he kept getting the words mixed up.Minzie and Tiny Elves came in soon after and started singing with Elfie.They knew a song about the days of the week that we listen to in school!

Footprints in the snow

We followed the trail of adult and child footprints in the snow in the yard to find a Santa hat and sack! 

Reindeer

We all made red nosed reindeer using handprints to help Santa 

Our snowmen

We made snowmen using paper plates ,wrapping them up warm in ear muffs and scarves!

Acid or alkali?

We did an interesting experiment recently testing things like vinegar,coke,lemon juice ,orange juice and toothpaste to see if they were acid or alkali.If they contained acid, red cabbage juice turned a reddy/pink colour.If they were alkali,it went blue green.We saw that lots of the drinks we drink have a lot of acid in them and we learned that toothpaste is an alkali and alkalis counteract the effects of acids. So when we drink coke or orange juice ,we should make sure we brush our teeth after!

Fun in the snow!

The cold weather may have been inconvenient but the children loved it! They built a snowman and threw lots of snowballs the first day we had a decent amount of snow on the ground.