Junior Infants enjoying Playful Learning Experiences 

Junior Infants 2022

Pancake fun!
Ms. O' Mahony's class had lots of fun on Pancake Tuesday. WE made the batter, cooked the 'pancakes' and played restaurant when we were eating. We finished the day with " Toss the Pancake"

"Spring has Sprung " in Junior Infants

​St. Bridget loved to help the poor people by giving them food. Today we learned how to make butter using cream and some jam jars. We were very tired from shaking the jars but we got to taste some homemade butter on digestive biscuits as a treat.

Painting Daffodils 

Polar Express in Juniors 
Ms O'Mahony's Junior Infants became Polar Explorers in January. We learned about the Inuit people, Arctic animals and the Northern lights. We made tents and went fishing in freezing water!!! ​

Mrs. O Gorman's Junior Infants enjoyed making crosses today for their parents. We joined Fr. Larkin online for 10 o clock mass and he blessed them for us.

Lots of Christmas cheer in Junior infants 

Full STEAM ahead with a side of Fruit tasting in Junior infants. 

Halloween Hobble 
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Ms. O' Mahony and Ms. O' Gorman brought the Junior infant classes on a Halloween Hobble.
Ghosts, superhero's witches, princesses, Dracula and builders were spotted scaring the locals. ​

Maths week 2021

For Maths Week, Ms O'Mahony's and Ms. O' Gorman's  class were having lots of fun  working on creating 'tall' and 'short' constructions and learning about patterns . 

Getting to know each other 

It's early in September, and Ms O'Mahony's Junior Infants are busy cutting, sticking and getting to know each other. 

Aistear 

​We are learning social skills, language and maths each morning during Aistear, when we play with other friends. We have worked on the themes of The Farm Shop and The Halloween Shop.

Vegetable Printing in Junior Infants 

Ms O'Mahony's class have been working on fine motor skills. We enjoy threading beads, working with play dough and making jigsaws. 

Autumn has arrived in the junior infant class

PE class with Ms. O'Gorman 

Ms O' Gorman's class having lots of outdoor fun at Fiona's Playground.

​Pizza and chips for lunch after a great morning at the playground in Cappa!

A Special Visitor

Teddy Bears Picnic

Playing rugby with coach Andrew 

Zumba Dancing with Christina

Enjoying Basketball

Cappa Playground

Of to the Community Field for Sports Day

Welly Throwing Competition 

Mini Sports Day in the Community Field

A Trip to the  Woods

Ms. O Mahony's class had lots of fun on all these activities: 
Trip to Cappa, Playing Basketball,Slime with Carmel, Painting Pottery, Teddy Bears' Picnic, Sports' Day, Walled Garden and Mystery in the Maze 

We have been learning all about magnets 

The Ice Cream Van in Aistear 

Football training with Cian O Dea​

We really enjoyed trying out the iPads we got from The Clare Education Centre 

​We have really enjoyed watching our caterpillars change into chrysalis’ and emerge as beautiful butterflies. Today we released them in the Mercy Garden.

We enjoyed making hot chocolate with Carmel. We  had a lovely Easter party after our Egg Hunt.

We had great fun playing Headbands with Ms. O Shea

Ms. O Mahony's class are on a Bug Hunt. We are learning about minibeasts at the moment 

We are doing a science experiment: we are investigating how the height and texture of a ramp will effect the egg as it travels down the ramp.

We are making Glitter Jars. It is so exciting to create our own jar with our favourite colour glitter 

Ms. O Mahony's class are busy making a lovely gift for their wonderful Mammys for Mother's Day 

We have been planting seeds with Carmel. We are looking forward to watching our plants grow.

Ms. O Mahony's class are experimenting with sinking and floating.
​How many bears will the boat be able to carry?

​Mrs. O’ Brien brought in her two ducklings today for us to see. 

Practising our cutting and sequencing

Planting Seeds

​We went on a walk looking for signs of Spring!

The Restaurant 

We had great fun today playing in Fiona’s outdoor classroom.

​We have been learning about sequencing....what comes first, next and last!

We have really enjoyed watching our frog spawn grow from tadpoles to froglets. Very soon they will be fully grown frogs!

We enjoyed looking at the Easter Bonnets

Junior Infants Easter Egg Hunt 

Enjoying a game of Duck Duck Goose with Lauren

Practising our balancing, throwing and catching using bean bags

We made lime green and orange jelly so that when  we eat it with a scoop of white ice-cream it will look like the Irish flag! Green, White and Gold!
We are really looking forward to it!   

We really enjoyed our jelly and ice-cream after our parade today

We had great fun searching for our sounds in shaving foam

Aistear Bug Lab 

We are making the most of the sunshine by practising our writing outside 

Enjoying Minibeasts in Aistear

Mrs. O Shea's Christmas Nativity Play 2020

 Ms O Mahony's Christmas  Nativity Play 2020

Santa’s helpers, Robert & John from An Post came to visit us. They brought Santa’s special postbox so that we could all post our Santa letters. Thankyou Robert & John.

We got lovely selection boxes from Robert and John when they came to visit with Santa’s Postbox. Thankyou so much. 

Aistear Santa’s Workshop

Ms. O Mahony's Nativity Play 2020

Aistear -  Santa's Workshop

We had great fun at P.E. today 

We have been learning about our 5 senses . Today we explored our sense of taste. We tasted foods that were bitter, sweet, sour and salty.

We have been learning all about the Post Office in Aistear

We have been making sets of 1,2,3,4 and 5 things

Junior Infants are doing great work, writing their sounds on whiteboards

Junior Infants are enjoying the Aistear theme 'Post Office' this month

We have been learning our sounds

It's Halloween!

Junior Infants enjoying painting, play dough and working at the farm shop
Halloween adventures in Ms. O' Mahony's Junior Infants. We visited Spookyville,  played 'Over and Under' and got our fingers messy learning about pumpkins. 

Dressing up for Halloween 

​Today we cleaned out our pumpkins. We brought them home to carve them.

Aistear: Halloween Potions Lab

Sorting

Planting Bulbs

Practising our Fine Motor Skills to get ready for handwriting 

Sorting in Maths

Halloween Potions in Aistear

Chalk Pictures by Junior Infants

A Big Welcome to our new  Junior Infants 

Junior Infants enjoying painting, play dough, and working at the farm shop

Ms. O Mahony's Junior Infants are settling in.
We're working on fine motor skills and Aistear

Enjoying our movement breaks in Junior Infants