We had a busy month learning all about different houses and homes. We even set up our own Estate Agents in the classroom and worked very hard to impress our customers! We created houses of our choice in the junk art station, designed homes with playdough and built magnificent structures in the construction area.

We had lots of fun learning all about the Café during Aistear in November. We had lots of stations including role-play, playdough, small world and construction. We also made funny face biscuits as part of our procedural writing.

Some of the children started to show us fantastic patterns they can make with a simple piece of string/wool so we decided to get everybody involved. Ms. Hyde was very kind to send us some of her students to help out and show us the different skills they have learned. A lot of concentration was needed!!

This month our theme has been minibeasts and we have learned so much about these little creatures!! Our minibeast hunt was definitely a big hit, the children were certainly not afraid of anything!! We also had some marvellous creations in our junk art and playdough areas!

We had a very busy week for Engineers Week with lots of fun activities. We created structures with toothpicks and marshmallows, built bridges with cups and lollipop sticks and made some amazing structures with balloons! Well done to all for the amazing teamwork!!

February has been such a quick month but we managed to fit in some lovely activities in Aistear. Our theme for the month was the restaurant so we all became chefs, waiters and customers in our mini restaurant! We used playdough to create food and made restaurants out of blocks in the small world area. We also managed to fit in some love art just in time for Valentine's Day!

We have also been working very hard to get some points on Class Dojo and as a reward for reaching 250 points as a whole class we went to the hall to play some games with the parachute!! It was fantastic!!

January was another busy month for us. Our theme of the month was 'school' so we created our own mini school within the classroom. The children had lots of fun being the teacher for a change :-) In the junk art station we created mini schools..they turned out AMAZING!!! 
We were also learning about life in Antarctica this month so we decided to create our own penguins. We created a colourful background for the penguins and learned about mixing colours to make new colours!  

We read the book 'Santa Selfie' recently and it was so good we decided to do our own Santa selfie!!! 

Our school play this year was Whoops-a-Daisy-Angel. We had a fantastic night performing for our family and friends and everybody was absolutely amazing. Well done :-)

We received some exciting post at the beginning of December...our very own elf!! Santa sent him from the North Pole to make sure we are behaving and he also installed a camera in our classroom so that he can check in on us whenever he wants! We named our elf Elvis and he is getting up to all kinds of mischief at night time when we are not there. One morning we found him inside Ms. Dunne's sweet jar!! 

December has been a very busy month in our class. Our theme in Aistear was Christmas and it has definitely gotten us in the festive mood! We set up Santa's workshop where we dressed up as elves and designed, made and wrapped toys for Santa. In our art station we created beautiful Christmas trees and we cut out Christmas pictures to improve our cutting skills. We also made wonderful Christmas objects with playdough and designed Santa's workshop in the construction area! We have very hardworking elves in our class :-)

We had great fun during maths stations recently. Senior Infants copied patterns to their peg boards, 1st class completed a Christmas maths mosaic and Junior Infants played snap with dice patterns, put matching pairs together and ordered numbers without counting!

Ms. Dunne's class was a very scary place to be on Thursday as we had lots of spooky characters visiting our classroom. Well done to all of the children for the excellent costumes on display! We played some Halloween games to get the party started and apple bobbing turned out to be quite tricky!! 

We had a spooky week in school in the lead up to Halloween with lots of fun activities!! We created potions and spells in the role play corner, made haunted houses in the construction area, made lots of spooky characters with playdough and made witches in our art station. We also carved out a pumpkin with the help of Michelle. It was a very busy week!!

Maths Week took place from the 13th - 21st October and we had lots of fun completing various activities in the classroom. We have been recognising 2D shapes in the environment and 1st class made some shapes from leaves outside. We also made 2D shape monsters as it is getting very close to Halloween! We played some maths games on the computer and 1st class went on a maths trail around the school estimating and measuring the width of the classroom, corridor and yard. We had so much fun!

We have been very busy since we came back to school in September and everybody has settled in really well. Aistear is a huge part of our day and we love moving to all the different stations. 
In the role play corner we set up a veterinary surgery and the children have loved looking after all of the animals. In our construction area we built homes for animals and the results were amazing!! We also made homes for animals from recyclable materials in our junk art station. 

Junior Infants were talking about mustaches!!! So we decided that we should really try them out!!! Check out our pics!!!!