June

May 

Technology and Food were our themes for the month of May. 

​We looked at lots of lots of different forms of technology over the fortnight. 
​Here we are glued to our very own telly!

Next we looked at technology through the ages. We opened up our very own museum in school and had so much fun exploring the various pieces of old technology.  

We decided to make our own phone out of cups and string!

We also took part in lots of robot activities. We loved doing different robot dances each morning!!

We went on a hunt around the classroom to find things that were the same colour as our robots. Some of us could even identify the letter that these colours start with!

We tried our hand at some robot maths problems, some robot colouring and robot play dough mats.

Then we got creative with some tin foil and designed our very own robots. 

We really enjoyed our robot scavenger hunt. We searched high and low to find all the pieces of a robot jigsaw . Our prize for completing the puzzle was a bag of yummy "nuts and bolts".

Next up was the theme of Food- our favourite!!!

​We used our sense of sight, touch, smell and taste to explore various foods. Lemons are a new favourite for some of us, while others weren't so keen........

For Science we explored what happens when you leave cabbage leaves in food colouring over night. Amazing!!!

We set off down town with our shopping list one Thursday morning and bought all the ingredients we needed to make pizza. 

It was just delicious!!!

We were so impressed with how our pizza turned out we decided it was time to set up our own restaurant. 
Business is booming so we advise that you ring ahead to book your table!!

We learned lots of new food themed Lámh signs and enjoyed practising them with our friends.

For Art we made some of our favourite sweet treats. Of course we had to sample of little nibble afterwards. 

A barbecue and a picnic in the same week, the theme of Food was definitely our favourite!!!

We got fabulous weather for the Cork sports day and we enjoyed an ice-cream on the way home almost as much as we enjoyed the races! Check out the gallery for some more snaps of the day. 

We enjoyed a big slice of chocolate fudge cake for a very special 10th birthday!

And the very special day we had all been waiting for: First Holy Communion.

April

Our first theme this month was the theme of "Spring". 
​We loved learning about all the new baby animals and flowers. 
​Here we are discussing the theme of Spring using some of our new vocabulary.

We loved the feeling of getting our hands and feet painted! We used the prints to make colourful Spring flowers. We also enjoyed making some daffodils and birds nests. 

Here we are working hard on some spring counting activities. 

For Science we created some "April Showers". We made clouds out of shaving foam and rain drops from food colouring.

It was back to the poly-tunnel for some more planting and watering!! 

We made the most of the glorious spring weather and headed off on a spring nature walk around the school.

For P.E. we pretended to be lots of different spring animals: buzzing bees, flying birds, wiggling worms etc.

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Our next theme was "The Farm".  
​We created lots of farm animals!

We even painted our own barn and had so much fun playing inside!

For Science we made our own butter andthen sampled it on some crackers. It was a thumbs up from us!!

We loved making farm jigsaws and playing with the farm animals. 

After a hard days work we often enjoy some mediation or some time in the ball pool to help us relax.

March 

What an exciting month we had here in Primary 2 getting ready for St.Patrick's Day!

We did lots of Irish themed art. 

A cheeky leprechaun hid his gold all over the school yard and we had so much fun trying to find it!

Here we are working on our playdough mats.

Our Irish themed Conversation Station!

We were great to help look after the shamrock plants in our classroom.

We worked really hard to count out the correct number of gold coins which belonged to each pot. 

As you probably know, we are all big fans of Science here in Primary 2. This month we had fun with two festive experiments!

First we made some green slime! We hid golden coins and leprechauns inside but only some of us were brave enough to try and find them!!

Next we created some fizzing pots of gold! We added food colouring and vinegar to some baking soda and watched the magic happen. How exciting!!!

To top off all the madness we even held our own parade!

Unfortunately we didn't get very long to explore the theme of Easter!

We did get a chance to work on our Easter playdough mats however!

We made some lovely Easter wreaths.

Here we are practising our signs to the song "1,2,3 Jesus is Alive"

Some of our Mother's Day art:

We had an Easter egg hunt with all our friends from the junior side of the school. It was such fun!

And before the month was over we celebrated another very special birthday!

February 

Primary 2 had lots of fun exploring the themes of Friendship and Health throughout the month of February.

We learned a lot about how to be a good friend and we practised helping others, sharing and having gentle hands. 
Have a look at us with our buddies, aren't we just gorgeous?!

Here we are making some friendship bracelets. Look at our happy faces when we gave them to our friends.

We enjoyed choosing a friend to have a boogie with!

We were great at taking turns and cheering on our classmates in some bowling. 

We met our friends from Primary 1a and 1b for a Teddy Bear's Picnic in the hall. We got creative with some paint and made a collage of colourful hand-prints on a friendship blanket. Of course we enjoyed a few goodies too, yum yum!! 

And there was no way we could forget all our wonderful Mammies and Daddies on Valentine's Day!

Next up was the theme of Health.
We learned lots about good dental hygiene. Here we are cleaning and flossing some teeth. 

​We also painted some sparkly ones!

Here we are practicing our counting by adding teeth into a mouth. 

Our most favourite activity of all was definitely taking a trip to the dentists! Here we are reading a book in the waiting room and diagnosing our friends with very dirty teeth!!

We also did lots of learning about healthy and unhealthy foods. 

​First we sorted all the foods that are good for us into one pile and the foods that aren't so good for us into another. 
Then we stuck pictures of healthy foods onto the outline of a smiling man and unhealthy foods onto the outline of an unsmiling man. 

Here are some snaps from our trolley dash.  We had to race our friends around the hall to collect as many healthy/unhealthy food items as we could. It's hard to know who enjoyed it more, the staff or the pupils........

We read the story "Blow Your Nose Big Bad Wolf" and learned all about how germs can make us sick.
​We then used glitter to show how easily germs can spread from one person to another. As you can see some of us weren't a big fan of the glitter germs!

We love getting time to visit the Conversation Station and have a chat about all things health related. 

We've also been doing a lot of work on our feelings and emotions. Every morning we choose the image which best represents how we're feeling and stick it up beside our picture on the wall.

We took a trip to the polytunnel one sunny morning to give Sue a hand with some planting. 

Unfortunately we had to wave goodbye to a very special friend. We took a trip to McDonald's to say goodbye and wish him all the best in his new school. 

This month we partied in style for not one, not two, but three special birthdays!!! What a lot of cake!

January 

Happy New Year Everyone!!
Here in Primary 2 we were delighted to be back to school and to get stuck into our themes of Winter and Space!


We enjoyed making lovely Winter crafts.

During Maths we did some Winter matching and ordering. And we really enjoyed playing Winter Bingo!!

Here we are working hard on our Winter themed Play-Doh mats and singing our "Winter Mittens Song". 

Science is one of our favourite lessons and we loved seeing what happens to water when it gets really cold. First we filled some gloves with water and food colouring and then we put them in the freezer over night. We were so surprised to find they'd turned to ice! We made such a mess melting our frozen hands with salt, it was great fun!! 

It's not Winter without a snowball fight, so of course we had to have one in our very own igloo. 

Next up was the theme of Space! 
We took a trip to the cookery room to make some colourful fruit rockets. They were so yummy that we ended up eating them all before we could get a photo of the finished product!!!

We worked really hard on our prewriting activities. 

Again we had fun in Science when we made our own moon sand. We took turns to mix the ingredients and then we all made our own planets!

We took a trip to the moon and filled in our passports when we returned from our travels! 

We learned some lovely space songs and rhymes and had great fun practising them in our very own space helmets - which we made ourselves!

In between themes we made sure to keep fit and active. We even met up with Ms. Hogan's class for a game of dodge ball! Hopefully February will bring as much fun!!

December 

Here's a glance at what we got up to in December. Check out the Gallery for more!

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November News
Lots of fun and learning happened here in Primary 2 during the month of November! Here's just a snapshot of some of our work...


Our first theme this month was Homes.
We really enjoyed creating our own houses.

We had lots of fun reading the story of The Three Little Pigs and getting creative afterwards.

Making houses of straw, sticks and bricks was great fun....until the Big Bad Wolf blew it all down!!

We used lollipop sticks to make colourful homes and drew all our families inside.

We planted some cress seeds inside our very own greenhouses .We were delighted to see them growing.

We also had a look at some animals and the kind of homes they live in. We went on an adventure walk around the school to see what we could find

After, we were lucky enough to get a visit from Buddy and Snowy!!

Our next theme was Shopping- one that we really enjoyed!
We practised being a shopkeeper and customer in the classroom.........
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Before taking a trip to the shop to purchase some treats for ourselves!

We made a lovely graph of all our favourite treats- as you can see chocolate was the clear winner!

But it wasn't all just unhealthy foods!! We used some rice to make some musical shakers and potatoes to make monster prints.

And just before our month ended we celebrated a very special 9th birthday!!

November brought lots of fun and we're even more excited to see what December has in store for us!

October antics
Wow, what a busy month here in primary 2!!! We certainly enjoyed our themes this month  - Autumn and Halloween.
We got out and about in the lovely autumn weather to collect some fabulous autumn leaves.

Some took a well earned swing when they were finished......

We got busy back in class with our lovely autumn leaves. We learned a poem called 'Autumn' which allowed us to make a great big mess but of course we helped to clean up when we were finished!!!

We made some cute leaf hedgehogs.

We enjoyed our autumn themed playdough mats.

Fun on the floor - we got down and busy with our autumn themed building block activity. We had to match the correct missing half of each autumn themed picture!!

We had fun doing our autumn dance pretending to be a scarecrow - we took turns performing for our classmates.

In between our themes this month we still had time to do our weekly jigsaw morning activity. We sometimes work together to help make our jigsaws.

One of our all time favourites....... I am the music man!!!! Such fun we had!!

Back to our themes and our next one was Halloween. I don't have to tell you that this was definitely one of the favourites. Our theme song 'Knock, Knock, Trick or Treat' allowed us to get dressed up and have lots of fun creating sounds and actions to accompany the song.

We got busy on the dance floor yet again with our monster shuffle.

We were active in PE creating the movements of different Halloween characters.

Back in the classroom we put our creativity to the test with our playdough as we worked on our Halloween themed playdough mats.

We were only delighted to get our hands on the dress up box and we enjoyed some imaginative play.

It wouldn't be Halloween if we didn't carve some pumpkins! So yes, we got stuck right in, loved the mess and were very proud of our creations!

We dabbled in some cookery also!!! We won't lie and say we baked......... but we definitely decorated our buns with some home-made icing and yummy chocolate treats.

We tried a very fun experiment with Halloween Balloons called 'Static Ghosts'.  

Our class got invaded by Mummies!!!!!

We took off into town in our Halloween costumes to visit the Tourist Office to hand in our Witch Hunt Competition sheets and enjoyed some yummy treats while there. After that we went up to the shopping centre where we enjoyed watching St. Mary's school perform Halloween songs. It was lovely to see all the different costumes too!!! Great fun was had by all.

We were all well ready for our midterm break after this action packed month here in Primary 2. We would like to wish you all a Happy Halloween. We will be back soon!!!

Settling into September

Primary 2 are back in action!! We all had a great summer. We are happy to be back at school and we are all settling very well into our routine. We have two new pupils in our class and we were sure to make them feel very welcomed.

Our themes this month were Myself and School.

We enjoyed measuring our individual heights and arranged ourselves in order from the tallest to the smallest in the class.

We were delighted to see our class puppets Dino and Daisy make a return after the holidays. They love to watch us do good work everyday and they even give us treats. We love Dino and Daisy!!!

We enjoyed some free play with our class toys and we listened to some very relaxing music - our dolls loved it!

We were sure to take an active part in Beat the Street and enjoyed some lovely walks where we all tapped our own fob independently.

The sun was out so why stay inside....... we were active once again out on our lovely new yard with our bikes.

As we were preparing for our swimming sessions to start again, we said we better practice putting on our swimming hat and armbands. We talked about the rules at the swimming pool. Everyone enjoyed this lesson and were excited for the real deal.

For our school theme we learned a lovely song called 'Time to go to school'. We learned loads of new signs to help us act out the song. Look at us in action.....

When confident we knew all our signs for our song we took to the stage......

We had so much fun touring around our school, meeting staff and exploring inside the different classrooms. We now know where to find different people if we are sent on a message!!!

Here we are visiting our school secretary...........

And our school principal.....

We love our nursery rhyme time each week and here we are acting out 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow'

We enjoyed making these bus crafts as part of our school theme and they are now on display in our corridor for all to see!

We take a walk to our local sports centre every Friday afternoon where we enjoy some ball games with our friends.

This is just a small insight into the work and fun we had here in Primary 2 over the month of September. We are excited to see what October brings....... be sure to check back in with us soon!!!!