Saturday, October 29, 2011
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.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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!!!!!
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