Super September
Hello everyone, welcome back! Hope you all had a great summer. We all enjoyed our holidays and we're ready and excited for a new fun filled year here in St. John's.
​This is the full crew here in Ms. Ryan's class!!! 
Our themes this month were Myself and School.
We enjoyed a fun game blindfolded trying to find different parts of our body.
We made these beautiful handprint crafts - each one unique.
What better way to learn all about 'myself' than looking in the mirror. 
Check out our handmade mirror crafts.
We tried drawing ourselves on our chalkboards.
Such fun playing 'matching body parts'.
Creativity with our playdough mats.
What a cute activity - guess the baby! 
Fun group bingo game. 
Every Monday morning we share our news from the weekend with our friends. We have a very important share chair which we sit on when telling our news.
Our first birthday celebration this school year...... party time....... wahoo!!!!
Our next theme this month was School. We really enjoyed exploring the school grounds and visiting all the different classrooms, meeting all the staff and our school friends. 
We visited our school principal to get us started on our exploration.

We enjoyed meeting our friends in the different classrooms and having a chat :-)

We loved our school hunt - could we remember where those rooms were?!!!!
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Busy making our very own school bus craft.
PE fun in the classroom with a variety of movement activities.
Sensory art time - rainbow in a bag!! Such fun!!
That's it for this month. We hope you enjoyed our photos.
Check back next month to see what we've been up to!!!

Oh it’s October!!

Our first theme this month was Autumn. Of course this meant we took trips outside to spot signs of autumn.
​We collected leaves and picked berries.
Now to sorting those leaves ........ by colour.
Let's use these leaves to do some leaf rubbings.
We're going on an autumn hunt.......
Bustin' some moves to our Scarecrow Scarecrow dance ;-)
Let's take a rake and rake them up, pile them high and jump right in!!!!
Guess the autumn object?!!
Helping Ted dress for the autumn weather.
Our lovely autumn stained glass leaf crafts.
Drama time - The Little Red Hen.
Creative fun with blocks - matching autumn pictures.
Our second theme this month was Halloween. We do love Halloween here in Room 5. 
We enjoyed getting dressed up in costumes for our theme song 'Knock Knock Trick or Treat'.
Taking to the dance floor yet again.....
Throw the dice and colour by number - maths made fun.
Fun Halloween themed movements in PE.
Time to go shopping.........
Fun carving out our pumpkins. Thank you so much to the leavers class for helping us. We couldn't have done it without you :-)
Fun with Halloween balloons in PE :-)
Maths fun - sequencing Halloween pictures. We worked really well together with these, helping each other out!!
Our scary Mummy paper plate crafts.
We got busy in the kitchen - we made these yummy strawberry ghosts and marshmallow eyeballs!!!
And yummy they certainly were..... mmmmm ;-)
Such fun in drama re-enacting our themed story 'Room on the Broom'.
And what a way to finish off our Halloween theme than to visit the Durrow Greenway Tunnel. It was so spooky!!!!!
Happy Halloween everybody :-)
We had such a busy month, not only with our themes...........
It wouldn't be October if we didn't pay a visit to our local fire station during fire safety week. Thank you to all the firemen who allowed this to happen and took the time to make our visit such a memorable one. We really appreciated it.
Working on our Jolly Phonics.
Come on Ireland!!!!!! We watched the Ireland V Russia game in the school hall with all our school friends. 
We enjoyed our visit from Penny the dog from Dog's Trust Ireland. 
We paid one last visit to Ms. Walsh's room to visit the beautiful butterflies before they were set free!!
Thanks to the Leavers class for a lovely Cheerio's Breakfast morning. We enjoyed dining with Ms. Whelan's class. 
Such a fabulous movie - Abominable!!! We really enjoyed it.
And now for our well earned break - our midterm holidays!! Time to recharge the batteries. See you all very soon.
Now its November!!!
We're back!!!! We all had a lovely midterm break and enjoyed Halloween. Time to get back to business.......
Our first theme this month is Homes. We enjoyed learning a new theme song called the House song. Lots of lamh signs to help us through it.
Creativity with our home themed playdough mats.
Now where does that belong? In what room in the house?
Check out our cool houses made from blocks......
Our next theme of the month was ‘Shopping’.  We really enjoyed this theme and everyone loved playing shopping. We kicked off with story time with a ‘Race to the Checkout’.
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Our shopping trip to the supermarket!!
We bought pizza at the supermarket and had a PIZZA PARTY after our shopping trip! Yummy!!!!!

It’s Christmas!!!!

We had so much fun making our Christmas Hall display! 'Oh Deer......Christmas is Here!'
We were so good during the week that we treated ourselves to some yummy doughnuts!!! Yummy!

We made snowmen....It was 'Snow Much Fun!!!'
Our fabulous Christmas lunch, enjoyed by all!!!!🎄🎄
We had lots of fun making decorations with play dough!!!! 
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We had our annual trip to Faithlegg. We met Santa, Elsa and lots of other character! We had soooo much fun!!! 
We were so lucky to spend the day in Waterford at Winterval. We went on the train and had some cookies and hot chocolate with our friends! 
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We went to the cinema to see Frozen 2. Everyone was so excited!!!
​In December we watched some lovely Christmas movies....we watched Klaus and Happy Feet
We had our Christmas show too! Everyone did so well and we had a blast. We were little snowmen on stage singing our hearts out!!!