Author Archive | Una Kilcoyne

Room 4 enjoyed their last Zoom call of the year this morning where they said ‘Goodbye for now!’ to their classmates. They are very excited to be starting Senior Infants in September!      

The children in Junior Infants enjoyed their first World Book Day experience today by participating in a range of activities to celebrate the day. All the girls and boys looked fantastic in their costumes and loved drawing and sharing their favourite book characters with the class. Everyone loved visiting The Book Fair where they got […]

We learnt that today is Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of Lent. Father John came to visit us and marked our foreheads with ashes. Have a look at the promises we made that we will try hard to keep for the Lenten season.

We have had a busy December in Room 4 and we are really looking forward to Christmas! In Maths, we have been continuing to improve our number formation and we have started to solve some simple addition problems. In Language, we have loved learning new sounds, practising our letter formation and we have started to […]

In Religion, the girls and boys in Room 4 have been learning about the very first Christmas. The children have loved listening to stories about the different people that visited the baby Jesus in Bethlehem and have learnt the classic Christmas Carol, “Away in a Manger”. To bring the story to life, the children visited […]

   The boys and girls in Room 4 have been very busy over the past few weeks. In Aistear we have loved our new topic “At the Supermarket”. In Maths we have been working very hard to improve our number formation and perfect our pattern making. In Science we were very excited to visit a […]

The girls and boys in Junior Infants enjoyed their first Halloween dress up day at school. Everyone came to school in fancy dress and had lots of fun celebrating. Children enjoyed Art, Drama, Music and a party today and were very excited to parade their wonderful costumes before the whole school disco this afternoon. Lots […]

Last week, the girls and boys in Junior Infants Room 4 enjoyed their very first STEAM week. They engaged in a variety of activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths. Have a look at some of the things we got up to!

Last week, the girls and boys in Room 4 headed to the School Garden to see what fruit and vegetables Gaby has been growing. Everybody enjoyed learning about how the different vegetables grow and the children noticed that some grow above the soil and some below. Their favourite part was trying some of the fresh […]

Junior Infants Room 4 have been busy with their new Aistear topic for October; ‘Home Sweet Home!’. The girls and boys loved acting as members of the family in our role play corner, washing the dishes and measuring in the water tray. They used PlayDoh to create items for different rooms in the house and […]