April/May
May has been such a fun month for us again here in Primary 1.
Our themes for the month were Life-Cycles the Circus and Mini-Beasts.
Our themes for the month were Life-Cycles the Circus and Mini-Beasts.
Life-Cycles
While we had the lovely weather, we brought our sensory play outside. We focused it on our story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' using all the fruit that the caterpillar ate - he had apples, oranges, strawberries, plums and pears so that is what we had to get stuck into.
We had to wash our feet afterwards and my goodness did we enjoy that! Who knew it could take half an hour to 'wash our feet'.
We took a look at the life cycle of a butterfly and made some interesting and also tasty crafts!
We had such fun in the drumming with Eddie O' Neill.
Circus
We had such a fun time during our circus theme with lots of different activities. Because we didn't have the opportunity to go to a circus...... we brought the circus to St. John's! We had a special visitor for not just one day but two different days (we are so lucky). Our visitor was Bobo the Clown. We played lots of circus games with Bobo. Take a look at some of the fun we had below.
We had such a fun time during our circus theme with lots of different activities. Because we didn't have the opportunity to go to a circus...... we brought the circus to St. John's! We had a special visitor for not just one day but two different days (we are so lucky). Our visitor was Bobo the Clown. We played lots of circus games with Bobo. Take a look at some of the fun we had below.
Have a look at some of the fabulous circus crafts we made.
We got out to the polytunnel to get a lesson from Georgie and we helped to plant lettuce and herbs. We each got a smell of the lovely herbs before we planted them.
Mini-Beasts
We had great fun with our sensory play based on our mini-beasts.
We loved our mini-beast crafts.
We got out and about when the weather was nice. We went for ice-cream, went for a walk to the park and had great fun playing in our school playground.
Our Jolly Phonics letters were 'M', 'D' 'G' and we made some lovely crafts for these.
We celebrated a very special birthday this month and enjoyed cake of course!
The highlight of our YEAR was definitely our trip to the Greenway. What a day!!!!!!!
We enjoyed some much needed relaxation after our greenway trip :)
March/April
St. Patrick's and Spring/Easter were our themes of the month.
St. Patrick
St. Patrick
Our favourite activity has to have been our sensory play in the hall. We had boxes filled with green, white and orange and different textured items. These photos are from early on when we were all still clean.....we won't show you the photos when we were finished!!
We were very busy with our theme this week. We had a lovely story and songs about Leprechauns for the theme, we made gorgeous crafts, we had a hunt for some gold in orange jelly for our sensory table, we made some very tasty leprechaun hats for cookery, we had a leprechaun hunt in the hall....we found lots of leprechauns, but unfortunately no pot of gold!
We hope all of our mammy's loved the crafts we made especially for them for Mother's Day.
Spring/Easter
We had great fun playing in the ball pool.
With Easter coming, we got inventive with our sensory play in the hall. All the boxes were CHOCOLATE!! We had all sorts of textures of chocolate and the smell was amazing! Again, we got messy!!
We did some beautiful art and crafts activities.
We made the most of the fine weather and got a few walks in, we went to the playground and fed the ducks.
We were so proud as we all went to the cinema for the first time as a full class!! We went to see Sing, which was great!
We got a very special visitor into our class to celebrate Easter while we had an Easter egg hunt, it was very exciting!
How lucky were we here in Primary 1, we brought a luxury spa to the classroom!! We had a food spa with lovely warm water, bubbles and gorgeous lavender essential oils.
Our jolly phonics for this month was 'R' so we did rainbows and robins.
We made gorgeous easter egg shaped treats made from yogurt, berries and granola. We then froze them and they were delicious.
February
We had a very exciting month this February with our two themes Valentines and Dental Health.
Along with these themes we are busy beavers every day getting our one-to-one tasks done.
Along with these themes we are busy beavers every day getting our one-to-one tasks done.
Valentines
We spread the love here in Primary 1 and celebrated Valentines in style with a lovely story called 'Guess how much I Love you'. Our song was Valentines Day song which we really enjoyed listening to.
We spread the love here in Primary 1 and celebrated Valentines in style with a lovely story called 'Guess how much I Love you'. Our song was Valentines Day song which we really enjoyed listening to.
As usual we got crafty!
We cooked very special heart shaped eggs in the cookery room and all had a taste.
Dental Health
We are very good in this class as we brush our teeth everyday, however this theme we learned even more about dental health.
We practised scrubbing little germs off teeth, we positioned teeth on a picture of a mouth, we did painting with a toothbrush, but to name a few activities. Our new song went down a treat with the class as it was like having a disco in the classroom!
We are very good in this class as we brush our teeth everyday, however this theme we learned even more about dental health.
We practised scrubbing little germs off teeth, we positioned teeth on a picture of a mouth, we did painting with a toothbrush, but to name a few activities. Our new song went down a treat with the class as it was like having a disco in the classroom!
Our story for this theme was the 'Smiley Shark'. We loved hearing about his big toothy smile! We had lots of sensory toys to get into the story.
Our Jolly Phonics letters were 'e'
January
We got straight back into the swing of things after the Christmas holidays. Our two themes for the month were Winter and Toys which we thoroughly enjoyed, as usual.
Winter
We got up and active as usual with our songs. Our winter song was 'The Penguin Song'.
Our winter themed story was 'Cub's First Winter' which was lovely as we learned about what happens during winter. We had lots of lovely crafts to do based on winter.
Winter
We got up and active as usual with our songs. Our winter song was 'The Penguin Song'.
Our winter themed story was 'Cub's First Winter' which was lovely as we learned about what happens during winter. We had lots of lovely crafts to do based on winter.
Toys
For our theme of Toys, we had had great fun exploring all the different toys in the classroom.
For our theme of Toys, we had had great fun exploring all the different toys in the classroom.
Our song was 'My Teddy Bear' and we even dressed up our class teddy bear so she was ready for our story 'Peace at Last', which our teddy bear loved just as much as we did!
We did lots of crafts with the theme of toys.
We were very excited to start cooking in the cookery room with lots of opportunities to help with spreading icing and mixing and tasting of course :) As you can see we made winter themed cupcakes. We also loved getting back to our sensory tasks in the sensory room and at our sensory table.
We still had time to do our Jolly Phonics 'c' and 'k'.
December
December was full of excitement for Primary 1.
Our fist exciting trip was a duck hunt in Dungarvan. We had clues to find the ducks in the shop windows around the town. It was so much fun!
Our fist exciting trip was a duck hunt in Dungarvan. We had clues to find the ducks in the shop windows around the town. It was so much fun!
We went to Faithlegg to meet Santa and went to a pantomime 'Frosty the Snowman'.
In amongst all the trips, we were busy doing our Christmas crafts and have been working on the letter N for Jolly phonics.
We elf-ed ourselves!!!
We had a special visitor from somewhere very special.... THE NORTH POLE!!! We are so lucky to have such a wonderful visitor and we had great fun checking to see where Jingle the Elf was every morning.
November
What a fun few weeks we have had! Our themes this month were Fruit and Vegetables and Our 5 Senses. We did lots of work.
Fruit and Vegetables
Our song for this theme was so enjoyable. It was the Hokey Pokey with a fruit and vegetable twist! We enjoyed making lots of fruit and vegetable crafts and our story was The Enormous Turnip which was a brilliant story.
Fruit and Vegetables
Our song for this theme was so enjoyable. It was the Hokey Pokey with a fruit and vegetable twist! We enjoyed making lots of fruit and vegetable crafts and our story was The Enormous Turnip which was a brilliant story.
We loved our drama and sensory play which integrated with our story. We all dressed up as characters from the story - we had the farmer, his wife, a boy and a girl and went through the different scenes in the story and got a bit messy in the process!
Our Five Senses
For our next theme, our song was a lovely song about our senses, we focused on the sense of sight for our story, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? We did lots of crafts relating to our senses and the highlight of our was our sensory trip to the firestation. We used all of our senses while we were there, we saw the fire-engine, heard the siren, we touched the firemen's suits to feel the material and tried on their helmets, sat in the fire-engine and even got to spray water from the hose! And for our taste and smell senses..... we had a little treat in McDonalds because we were so good.
For our next theme, our song was a lovely song about our senses, we focused on the sense of sight for our story, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? We did lots of crafts relating to our senses and the highlight of our was our sensory trip to the firestation. We used all of our senses while we were there, we saw the fire-engine, heard the siren, we touched the firemen's suits to feel the material and tried on their helmets, sat in the fire-engine and even got to spray water from the hose! And for our taste and smell senses..... we had a little treat in McDonalds because we were so good.
We were delighted to do another sensory play in the hall related to our story. We got our feet and hands stuck into our sensory boxes which were all different colours.
And we are very proud of our beautiful Five Senses Bear..
We have been working on the number 1 and Jolly Phonics letter I and P.
October
We have had such a busy month this month. Our two themes for the month were Autumn and Halloween.
Our Jolly Phonics letter we were focusing on was 'T'. We made lots of crafts for T. We expecially loved our turtles and turkeys.
We had lots of fun with our story 'We're Going On a Bear Hunt' because we all went on a bear hunt ourselves. We went through the deep cold river, the thick oozy mud, the swirling whirling snowstorm, the big dark forest and eventually got to the dark gloomy cave where we found our bears!!
We even made our own bears, that we got to eat....who knew bears were so tasty!
We really enjoyed an Autumn Scavenger Hunt. We were looking for different colour leaves, bark, acorns, twigs, pine cones, grass, stones, winged seeds and flowers.
Our song was 'Scarecrow, Scarecrow' which we loved so much, we even turned into scarecrows ourselves!
For our Halloween theme we loved our song 'Knock, Knock, Trick or Treat' and especially since we all got to dress up as each of the characters in the song. Our story was 'Room on the Broom' and we made lovely Halloween crafts.
We enjoyed a gruesome Halloween Hunt where we had to find witches, dressed up as mummies, ghost bowling and the best part was the Halloween sensory boxes. We got our feet and hands into the brains, monster ears, witches fingers, eyeballs and skeleton bones! It was great fun!
We also celebrated some very special birthday's this month.
We were all very happy we got to go for a walk downtown in our Halloween costumes. As you can see we really enjoyed it.
September 2016
We welcome our new students to primary 1.
Fun at the sensory table with water and bubbles and angel delight.
Lots of fun was had at our football sessions with Barry.
We learned how to make rice krispie buns and we especially liked eating them.
