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Junior Infant Team Teaching class
Ms Hallissey’s Junior Infant Maths class
Our School Tour
“Breaking News”
Holy Communion Day paintings
We did some lovely paintings for the boys and girls on their Holy Communion Day.
Rumble in the Jungle
🧘♀️ Yoga 🧘♂️
The children are really improving their yoga skills, balance and coordination through head stands, hand stands, concentrating, wheel barrow races, various poses and bench work.
Well done everyone
Finger Painting: The children used finger painting to create some May flowers.
Sequencing: The children worked in pairs to sequence the story of The Three Little Pigs
My Future Self: The children looked at people working in our local community. The children then draw themselves in the future working in their community.
Autism Awareness Day
We all wore blue on Friday to show that we are unique and we must all show kindness and respect to each other. Well done to Miss Kissane and Mr Kelly for organizing.
Maths
Juniors have been very busy working on number with Ms Hallissey. The Juniors are using lots of our Maths equipment to learn about adding number.
Farm
We have been learning all about the Farm in Juniors. We made some lovely pigs during art which lead nicely onto the story The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of The Thee Little Pigs
Butter
The children are learning all about the farm as part of Aistear. We are learning about all the farm animals and all about farming. We then looked at the cow. We looked at our lunch boxes and discovered that we had milk, cheese, butter and yogurt all of these are dairy products. Today we made butter as a class.
Yoga 🧘♀️
The Juniors enjoyed their first Yoga session. They had to quickly learn lots of new poses. We are all looking forward to next week already.
Paired Reading📖📖📖📖
Junior Infants enjoyed paired reading with 3rd class.
World Book Day 📕📗📘📙📓
We enjoyed World Book Day at Fossa NS on Thursday. Children in Junior Infants dressed up as a character from their favourite book or they brought in a prop from their favourite book. We had to guess who they were. We visited the library on the day and we also did paired reading with the big boys and girls in 3rd class. We also made our very own books which we gave to someone special. We had a great day. Happy World Book day 2018
Pancake Tuesday 🍽🍽🍽
Before our Easter holidays we went to the teachers staff room and we made lovely pancakes. They were delicious.
Fossa GAA🏐🏐🏐🏐
Fossa GAA visited Fossa NS. They told us all about football training at Fossa GAA. They even did a draw for two footballs which were signed by Kerry and Fossa GAA players. Well done to James and Eve the very lucky winners. Thanks Fossa GAA😀😀
Our Easter Art
Easter Fun
The Juniors had great fun on the day of our Easter Holidays. We had an Easter egg hunt, an Easter Bonnet parade, a big school draw for yummy Easter eggs and we even had time to go to the playground! Happy Easter Everyone
Easter Bonnets
The Juniors and their parents created some beautiful Easter Bonnets. They were absolutely beautiful and extremely colourful. We also went on an Easter Bonnet Parade around the school where everybody admired our creations! Well done everybody and Happy Easter.
Kerry County Museum
The Junior Infants enjoyed a visit to The Kerry County Museum in Tralee. We travelled by bus which was great fun. On arrival at the museum we enjoyed a movie about Peter Rabbit. We then went all around the museum on a Teddy Bears Trail. We finished the day off with some art activities. We all had great fun.
Team Teaching
We read many stories about Elmer by David McKee. We then created some ElDuring Team Teaching we have been working on sequencing stories. You can see all our hard work on our notice board.
Our Christmas Nativity
The Junior Infants were just fantastic as the beautiful angels. We went to Torc Waterfall and some of the angels went to Muckross House also. We had great fun. We even appeared in the Kerryman Newspaper! We hope you enjoyed out Nativity.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
The juniors had great fun prepare for our Christmas nativity.
Our Winter Hats
The Juniors are getting ready for Winter
The Juniors are getting ready for Winter. We painted beautiful hats and mittens. We also learned about The Water Cycle. We then painted raindrops.
Fine Motor Activities
Posted on 15/11/2017
Lots of fine motor activities happening this week!
Letter formation
Posted on 15/11/2017
We started our new copies this week. We had to stay on the blue line while forming the letter C. We also had to draw a picture of something that begins with C.
Halloween Fun in Junior Infants
Something spooky happened in the Junior Infant room on Friday. We had some barmbrack, we made witches and ghosts, we did the skeleton dance and we even had little party! Have a look at our spooky pictures! Happy Halloween Everybody! 
A busy time in Junior Infants
The children used play-doh to make their sounds, they used the mini whiteboards to write their sounds, they used felt to make scary monsters, they played dice number games, they complete numeracy activities with Ms Hallissey, they did lots of Halloween cutting!
Our Sounds Table for n,c,k,e,h,r.
The children brought in some wonderful items for our sounds table. Can you find the following items and say what sound they begin with. coat, kitten, rabbit, eggs, elephant, necklace, helmet,cup, car napkin,horse, key, roll, card, rat, cow, hat, newspaper, rubber, hammer, kite, koala, kangaroo and many more. Use these pictures to help with practicing your sounds.
Autumn in Junior Infants
We created leaf people using the beautiful Autumn leaves. We are also looking everywhere for signs of Autumn. We also went on an Autumn trail last Friday. We learned about animals that hibernate.
Manners Matters Month
We read a lovely story called Have You Filled A Bucket Today? You can listen to the story and song with your child. The children then created pictures of nice things to fill other peoples buckets. You can fill someones imaginary bucket by being kind and nice.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The children enjoyed the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We made blankets for baby bear, we made wanted pictures looking for Goldilocks, we made porridge, we went on a bear hunt, we had a Teddy Bears picnic and we even had a visit from Father Bear! We all had great fun. Hope you enjoy some of the pictures.
Structured Play
The children enjoy structured play each morning. Activities include various way to improved their fine motor skills and creativity.
Our Sounds Table
The children brought in some wonderful examples of items beginning with the sounds s,a,t,i,p.
Can you find something that begins with the s sound?
I wounder what sound does pumpkin begin with?
What sound does tractor begin with?
Name all the items that begin with the t sound?
(Have fun playing this at home)
Baking with Mary
Day 1:
of baking with Mary. Junior Infants had the wonderful opportunity to go to the Kitchen and do some lovely baking with Mary. The children made some very tasty rice krispies buns. The pictures show the first group baking. Lots more pictures to follow and some feedback from the wonderful Juniors! A big THANKS to Mary.
Day 2:
The Green group went baking with Mary on Wednesday. They made some more lovely buns. Mary even let the boys and girls lick the spoons!! I think she even let someone lick the bowl!!!! The children had lots of fun. THANKS Mary
Day 3
The children in the Blue Group went baking on Thursday. They really enjoyed themselves and they even made a bun for their teacher. She gobbled it down! Great team work today! A big go raibh maith agat to Mary.
Day 4
Baking with Mary came to a lovely conclusion today. Well done to the lovely red group who had a lovely time in the kitchen today. They even took their teddy bears baking. Go raibh maith agat Mary for all your hard work.
David Clifford called to see us
David Clifford called to see us on Tuesday. David Clifford plays for Kerry who won the All Ireland Minor Final. We made Kerry Jerseys to wave at David. The older boys and girls sang a lovely song for David.
Brown Bear what do you see?
The Junior Infants read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? We then created beautiful masks. It might be a nice idea at home to play the clip and get your child to recall the story. Enjoy
Junior Infant Team design their very own jerseys
Check out the new Junior Infant Team. They designed their very own jerseys. The line up is as follows………
Junior Infants enjoyed their first day at school
The new Junior Infants enjoyed their first day at school. Here is a little snap shot of them. We all had a wonderful two days!
Our School Tour Knockreer House
The Junior Infants went to Knockreer House for their school tour. We had a wonderful day. We found out about lots of animals, we found traps with some field mice, we used pooters for collecting insects which we then examined under microscopes and we went to the river to collect Aqua species. We may have got a little wet here but we had loads of fun!! We went to Knockreer House on a bus which the children absolutely loved and most importantly we had……. ICE CREAM!!!
Zoo Projects
Posted on: 30/05/2017
The Junior Infants recently completed zoo projects as part of their homework. They all did a wonderful job. All projects were very creative. Well done Juniors! Watch out a film about our projects is currently being created and directed😃😃🐼🐨🐯🐻🐵🐝🐞🐠😀😀
Teddy Bears Picnic
Posted on: 29/05/2017
Old and New
Posted on: 29/05/2017
The Junior Infants looked at old and new. We looked at some very old toys that our grandparents would have played with. We then looked into the future at our future self. The boys and girls drew pictures of themselves in the future. They drew what jobs they may be doing in the future. Have a look at our future rock stars, dentists, doctors, horse riders, gymnasts, soccer players, divers, teachers, farmers, builders, engineers, ballerinas, designers, dog walkers, guards, vets etc.
Team Teaching
Posted on: 29/05/2017
The children have been taking part in team teaching all year. They are all doing wonderfully. This is one group here reading their ditty sheet. Well done to all the teachers and children involved.
The Zoo
Posted on: 29/05/2017
