Busy builders

There has been a lot of construction work happening around Scoil Mhuire. We decided to get in on the action and have our own building site in room 4! 

Our first step was to go and visit the real builders and get some practical advice:

Then we set up our own  building site in our classroom: 

We used lots of different tools to build! Ask your child to name one of those tools, they were very good at learning the names. 

We also used big building blocks called Jaggo blocks. The blocks are a fantastic resource newly purchased by the school. The children absolutely love building and using their imaginations to create wonderful designs.

Now we have to go and build some houses for three scared little pigs .... we think we are up for the challenge! 

Mad about Maths

It was Maths week in our school and we were very busy in Room 4!

Here is a quick look at what we got up to: 

 

We used our cubes to make tower blocks, we then ordered our towers from smallest to largest

We used our combining skills to add two numbers together using the cubes. 

We worked with our partners for these activities! 

We were also playing our favourite maths game - KABOOM! 

Ask your child all about this game, maybe you could make your own KABOOM game at home! 

Here are some websites to practice maths games at home with your child: 

• http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=11
• http://www.mathplayground.com/grade_1_games.html 

Our School Walk

Our annual school walk took place last Friday.

We had been looking forward to this all week! 

We made sure we had a big drink before we left , we knew this walk would be thirsty work!! 

We had a great time on our walk and an even better time in the playground. We are very lucky to have such a lovely park so close to our school.

 The exhaustion hit us half way home, but we made it! 

The children drew beautiful pictures of their adventure ...

Welcome to room 4!

Hello and welcome to our blog! 

We are the Senior Infants in room 4. 

Our blog will give you a quick insight into our school life!

We have been very busy behind the blue door of room 4 ... 

Our theme in September was 'Myself'

The 5 Senses 

We were learning all about our senses for the month of September. We made jelly to explore our sense of smell, touch, taste and sight. 

We also explored the smell and feel of shaving foam:

This was so much fun - and very messy! 

     Stay tuned to see what we get up to next...