Halloween art in Junior infants

Autumn leaves are falling in Junior infants

                              

                            Autumn Leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down.
                           Autumn Leaves are falling down, down to the ground.

Autumn time in Junior infants

We have a new season and it is called Autumn. We talked about the squirrel and all the animals that are busy getting ready to hibernate for the Winter. The leaves are beginning to fall from the trees. We painted an Autumn tree and used our fingers to paint the falling leaves - they are all different colours - orange, brown, red, yellow and some still are green.

Halloween mimes

Scary skeletons in Senior infants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpvuqj5nv6U

Drama in Junior infants

Some say we are very good at being dramatic in Junior Infants.  We are fantastic at pretending which makes for fantastic actors.  

         Look how still we can be                   shhhhhh!!!

We love to pretend we are toys that come to life.  The toy shop owner (teacher) fixes all the toys onto the shelves for the night and cleans them all. When she goes to bed something amazing happens, the toys come to life.  When the toy shop owner hears all the noise she rushes to the toy shop to see what is going on.  She finds the toys are in different places and very messy looking.   The toys have to stay very still when the owner is there because she will sell any talking or moving toys for alot of money.

 
But when we come to life, we really make some noise!!

Halloween art in Senior infants

We have made many wonderful things for Halloween this month. Have a look at the following:

Pumpkin men

Colourful ghosts!!!

Paper plate vampires

Spiders made out of clay

We made these spiders out of clay today. We had great fun beforehand banging the clay to get all the air out. Then we moulded the clay into a ball shape and pressed it between the palms of our hands to flatten it to form the basic shape of a spider. We pressed on googly eyes and stuck in pipe cleaners (4 on each side) for the legs. We will paint our spiders when the clay dries completely and they harden.

Baboró: Nubes (clouds) perfomance

We went to see 'Nubes' (clouds) in the Town Hall Theatre on Friday as part of Baboró's International Festival for Children. Nubes/Clouds premiered in Madrid in 2009 and last year it also graced the stage of London’s world-famous Sadler’s Wells. It has won the coveted MAX awards for Best Children’s Show and Best Costume Design.

We thought that it was an amazing show from start to finish and it was  stunningly beautiful to say the very least. We were simply mesmerised throughout the entire performance (both pupils and teachers alike!!!!!). We loved the flipper dance and the ladder dance not to mention the people dancing with no heads!!! The six dancers were superb - bravo to the Spanish dance company Aracaladanza!!!!!

When we returned to school after the performance we discussed, wrote about and drew a picture of our favourite parts. Have a look at the following video to experience a little taste of what we saw and prepare to be amazed!!!!!




Halloween band in Senior infants

We are learning some lovely songs for Halloween. One of our favourites is a song called 'There was an old Witch'. We took out the instruments to accompany the song. We used claves for 'She tapped on the window'. We used maracas for 'swish goes the broomstick' and we used drums for 'plop goes the fat toad sitting on her hat'.

We also listened to some music from Harry Potter and we pretended to be ghosts, goblins, bats, monsters, witches and zombies. It was great fun.

Nubes at Baboro

We saw a magical show in the Town Hall today-with shadows that did their own thing ,clouds floating out of rooftops,snow twirling out of umbrellas,dresses that turned from black to white.It was beautiful!

Hallwoeen masks in Senior infants

We made Halloween masks and played games with them.

Clay hedgehogs and gallery tour in Senior infants

Hedgehogs in Junior infants

We had great fun finding all the shapes that were hidden in the clay..  We made a hedgehog body and added the spikes.  It was hard work putting all the spikes into the clay and we needed to make sure the spikes were close together like on a real hedgehog. 

We have learned a song about Harry Hedgehog.  We know he is getting ready for a big sleep by gobbling up the berries and the insects and the worms.  He is going to have a big rest for the Winter time and he doesnt wake up until the Spring time. 

On our tour to Briget's Garden we learned of lots of animals that like to have a big sleep for Winter.

Friendship bracelets in Junior infants

We love threading and doing activities with our hands.  We discussed all about friends.  Friends we have at school and home.  We think we should treat everybody the way we would like to be treated.  So we made friendship braclets to show we are all great friends in this class.  We think they turned out brilliant.  We think they even look as good as the ones you can buy in the shop.