October 2024
Our themes for the month of October were Autumn and Halloween. We loved learning about Autumn in class. We had lots of opportunities to explore Autumn through play. We enjoyed playing at the Autumn Farm shop acting as customers and shopkeepers. We looked at leaves, pine cones and conkers in our tuff tray and we enjoyed constructing Autumn parks. We used paint to create some Autumn trees and leaf prints. We learned lots of new vocabulary associated with Autumn. The Infants are really enjoying GAA coaching with Jimmy. We have been learning lots of new games and we are working hard on our throwing and passing skills using footballs. We really enjoyed Maths Week this year. The fixth and sixth class paid a visit to our room for Maths stations. We had fun activities which were enjoyed by all, including maths bingo, counting games, making patterns and matching games. We also had a maths problem of the day each morning. The Infants were all eager to win the daily prize which was up for grabs! We were very excited for Halloween in class. The Infants were working in the Witches Kitchen making potions. We enjoyed making some Haunted Houses out of our construction materials and hiding some spiders in the sand. We also completed some spooky Halloween ghosts and made our own Halloween masks. We were using lots of new Halloween words in Irish and we all enjoyed singing our song ‘Oíche Shamhna’. We recited our poem ‘5 little witches’ each morning. We also enjoyed teaming up with first and second class for a Halloween quiz! The Infants enjoyed dressing up on the day of the holidays!
