Please see the Gallery for photos from December.
November
Our themes for November were Homes and Shopping. We enjoyed exploring these themes and had lots of fun with them! The Christmas festivities have also started so we are really looking forward to all of the fun filled activities that December brings!
Our first theme was Homes. We looked at a variety of homes and houses. We also looked at different animal homes.
Our second theme was Shopping. We made shopping lists, played some shopping games and of course we went around the shops in town.
We explored different vegetables and types of bread.
We started Zumba every Thursday for six weeks. We love this!
We celebrated a very special birthday this month!
We went to Cork Pops and thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment.
October
Our themes for the month were Autumn and Halloween. We did lots of activities relating to these themes. Take a look at some of the things we got up to!
Here we are busy in art.
We learned Autumn words and matched pictures to the words.
We looked, smelled, touched and tasted different vegetables. We looked at how they were spelled too.
The Leavers were raising money and made delicious pancakes for us!
We decorated buns with Halloween bats.
We looked at different Halloween related pictures that we might see.
We did some Halloween themed word work.
We painted funny faces on our own pumpkins.
We helped Liam carve a pumpkin. One or two of us even tasted it!
We played some Halloween games in class and had great fun!
We joined up with other classes in the hall and explored some gooey Halloween sensory bowls!
We had to find the pumpkins and hidden inside were lovely treats!
We saw Penny from Dog's Trust.
We took a trip to the cinema with the whole school.
We watched Ireland play in the Rugby World Cup.
We took a trip to Durrow to see the spooky tunnel!
September
Welcome back to school!
September was a busy month of settling back into our routines. The themes for the month were Myself and School. Take a look at what we got up to.
We picked pictures of our favourite things and stuck them on trees.
We took a look at ourselves in the mirror.
We did some art activities.
For the School theme we looked at and spoke about pictures of our school and then went and visited the different classrooms and other rooms in school.
We did some school activity word and picture matching. We played "I Spy...".
We made lovely school bags and pencils.
Every morning we go for a run to help us get ready for our work.
Here we are busy doing our work.
We like to play games on the board!
We enjoy our smelling session and our food exploration! Sometimes!
We have a few minutes of quiet/relaxation time where we listen to nice music and use a sensory toy.
We like playing with our sensory boxes.
We had a very special birthday.
Some of the older students found a hedgehog outside so Georgie brought him in to show us.
