March
We started off March with the theme of St.Patrick’s Day.
We learned a lovely song about a leprechaun who hid a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Then we had fun with our own rainbow activity where we had to match skittles to the different colours on the rainbow 🌈🌈
We learned a lovely song about a leprechaun who hid a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Then we had fun with our own rainbow activity where we had to match skittles to the different colours on the rainbow 🌈🌈
We mixed shaving foam with PVA glue and orange paint to make puffy paint beards for our leprechauns.
Below you can see us busy at work on our St.Patrick’s Day play-dough mats. We love the feel of play dough!!
Next we used these St. Patrick’s Day hats to help us learn our shapes. Some of us practiced saying the different shape names and colours, some of us were able to match the shapes and some of us worked on our fine motor skills by sticking the shapes on and then pulling them off again. Ms. Whelan was very proud of us all!!🍀
A big thanks to Ms. Walsh who invited us into her classroom to see the new chicks who had just hatched. We were so gentle rubbing these little chicks, we were all big fans!! 🐣
February
Our first theme this month was Friendship and Valentines!
Throughout the fortnight we picked different friends to dance with, pass a balloon with and roll a ball with.
Throughout the fortnight we picked different friends to dance with, pass a balloon with and roll a ball with.
Next we filled a bucket with treats and headed off to visit our friends in the other classrooms. They were delighted to see us (and the chocolate!!).
Our friendship trees.
We were very busy making lots of art for those we love 💓 💕🥰
Our favourite activity of all: messy play. We really enjoyed these Valentine’s Day sensory bags and bottles, filled with foam hearts and water beads.
Our next theme was Health and here in Room 3 we decided to focus on oral health and hygiene.
Lots of colourful crafts!
Lots of colourful crafts!
Here we are using toothbrushes to clean dirty germs off some teeth.
We enjoyed walking down town to buy new toothbrushes and our story “Peppa Pig Goes to the Dentist”.
We also had fun counting the correct amount of teeth to stick in each mouth and learning some new vocab!
We also had fun counting the correct amount of teeth to stick in each mouth and learning some new vocab!
There’s nothing we like more than a party here in Room 3. A very happy birthday to a very special friend!!
January
Happy New Year and welcome back all!!
Our first theme this month was Winter. We really enjoyed getting wrapped up for our Winter theme song.
First we made some hot chocolate crafts and then we went to sample the real thing☕️
Here we are learning the difference between hot and cold. First we felt the hot and cold jugs and then we had a look at other hot and cold objects like ice and a hot water bottle.
We practiced putting on our winter coats.
We made lots of winter crafts.
Of course our messy play had to be snow!!!
Our next theme was Countries. We started off by learning about Ireland.
We took our cars for a spin around Ireland.
Our passports are ready, it’s off to France!
Cheese and “wine” tasting , oh la la 🍷 🧀 🥖
We practiced our fine motor skills with this Eiffel Tower button activity. First we spread the PVA glue on our towers and then we stuck the buttons on top. We were really good at this!
French flags, French landmarks, French chefs, French snails!!
Another snail craft and even more fine motor practice. Look at us sticking the stickers on the snails shell!
Snail slime messy play 🐌
Lots of practice on our balance bikes!
This month we also started horse riding. We had the best fun! Look at us go....
December
Please see the gallery for out December pictures!
November
Our themes for this month were Homes and Shopping. We enjoyed exploring both of these themes!
First up was the theme of Homes. Below you can see us busy at work making houses and homes out of different types of blocks.
First up was the theme of Homes. Below you can see us busy at work making houses and homes out of different types of blocks.
After lots of practice in the classroom we decided to pay a visit to Ms.Dunfords room to show off our skills. While we were there we also enjoyed playing with the dolls house and making our own large house out of cardboard.
Some of our crafts from this theme.
Next we talked about the people who live in our homes with us and looked at some pictures of all these special people. Such excitement!!!
We gathered lots of household equipment and popped them in our trays full of water. We had so much fun pouring, measuring and splashing!
Our story was The Three Little Pigs and we enjoyed making houses of straw, sticks and bricks afterwards! We also enjoyed a sensory craft, where we mixed shaving foam and brown paint together in a bag to make a muddy pig.
We are getting very good at our Do-A-Dot activities, as you can also see below!
We are getting very good at our Do-A-Dot activities, as you can also see below!
For cookery we made the Three Little Pigs houses out of cheese, bread sticks and chocolate. You have one guess what our favorite topping was......🍫🍫🍫🍫
The Three Little Pigs love mud and so do we!!!
Our next theme was Shopping, so of course we had to get out and about and visit the shops!!
We also had a look through some magazines and chose our favorite foods to fill our trolleys with.
We also had a look through some magazines and chose our favorite foods to fill our trolleys with.
We had great fun playing shop with Ms.Dunfords class.
This month we started Zumba. It’s just so much fun, we love it!!
October
Our first theme this month was “Autumn”, a theme we thoroughly enjoyed here in Room 3!! Wait until you see all the fun we got up to.....
Our theme song this month was the” Dingle Dangle Scarecrow” and we took turns to dress up and perform this action song for our friends each morning.
Our theme song this month was the” Dingle Dangle Scarecrow” and we took turns to dress up and perform this action song for our friends each morning.
We made our very own scarecrow craft to match!
Here we are making some Autumn trees. We practiced our fine motor skills by using clothes pegs to pick up pom poms and then we dabbed them in red, yellow and brown paint!
Look at us raking up all the Autumn leaves in the school playground.
Back in the classroom we made some leaves of our own. First we had to rip strips of colored paper into smaller pieces and then stick them down with glue.
Below you can see us busy at work on a selection of autumn themed activities: a leaf counting game, fine motor practice with buttons, colour sorting autumn leaves and themed play dough mats.
Our story this month was “We’re going on a Bear Hunt”. We made the journey through the grass, mud, forest, river and snow storm as we read the book. Such fun!
Cookery was beans on toast and what a delicious feast it was!
Our next theme was Halloween- such fun!!!
We decided to kick start this theme with a spooky mummy craft. We put some marbles in a tub with white paint and rolled them all around to make our mummies look like they were all bandaged up!
We decided to kick start this theme with a spooky mummy craft. We put some marbles in a tub with white paint and rolled them all around to make our mummies look like they were all bandaged up!
We learned a lovely poem about “5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate” and then made a craft to match! We also had fun making bats.
We got together with our junior friends in the hall for some Halloween sensory fun. Witches fingers, eyeballs, brains........the messier the better!!
Georgie made a fabulous Witch’s Hat Ring Toss and we all had such fun playing with it.
We love a game of ghost bowling!
Before and after we carved our spooktacular pumpkins.
Take a look at our spider counting books. We enjoyed tracing over the foam numbers with our fingers and then making the correct of spiders with our bingo markers.
We were so busy making our Halloween masterpieces in the cookery room that we forgot to take pictures of us at work. We did get a few snaps of the finish products however- spider buns and chocolate covered apples, delicious!!
The whole school took a trip to the cinema to see Abominable. What a super Halloween treat!
That wasn’t the only trip we took this month. We were also lucky enough to get to visit the fire station. A brilliant day out for Room 3!
The day of the Halloween holidays we all dressed up in our favorite costumes and took a trip to the spooky tunnel on the Greenway. Don’t we look fantastic???
Our midterm was definitely needed after such a busy month!!!
Our midterm was definitely needed after such a busy month!!!
September
A big welcome back to everyone after the holidays! We're all settled in and ready for a great year here in Room 3!!
Our first theme this month was "Myself". Take a look at some of the colourful crafts we completed as part of this theme.
Here we are dressing mini versions of ourselves!
Next up: the cookery room. We used fruit, veg and pasta to create different faces. Turns out we're big fans of peppers and grapes.
We had great fun with all our different sensory trays this month. Water, sand, beans and our all time favourite....jelly!!!
Our next theme was "School". We started off by looking at pictures of all the people who are in our class in school.
We had so much fun with our school themed playdough mats.
For our next activity we had to name and sign the colour of the crayon and then post it into the box.
Lots of painting and sticking!
Our back to school sensory trays were a huge success. We had to dig around to find markers, glue, blocks, crayons and letters.
Alphabet soup!
An apple a day.....
We took to the cookery room to make our very own apples- toasting and spreading jam, no problem to us!!
We took to the cookery room to make our very own apples- toasting and spreading jam, no problem to us!!
We followed it up with an apple printing craft back in the classroom. Of course we had to have a little nibble first!
Back to the cookery room and this time we made pencils. Creative and delicious!
Below you can see us all chilled out after TacPac. We’re getting better at relaxing each time. We definitely need it after such a busy month!
