October is here!

It is the first week of October in our class and we are busy exploring our new Aistear theme "The Birthday Party". We have lots of creative and educational areas set up to build our fine motor and social skills and they are lots of fun too. Our Birthday Party role play area is very exciting, we have been writing invitations at the writing area, building presents with polydrons at the construction area and creating birthday cakes at the creative area.

Birthday Party role play

Creative area

Construction area

In English Junior Infants are busy learning lots of new group 3 sounds and practicing our blending skills. We have been using the "Stretchy Snake" strategy to stretch out the sounds in words. 

You can listen to our new sound songs below. 

Senior Infants have been learning "ck" words like duck, click, stick, brick, clock, and revising our letter formation too. We will be moving on to capital letter formation next week. At our iPad station we are using "Teach your Monster to Read" to reinforce our phonic skills. 

We have been exploring "Recount Writing" over the past number of weeks and have been creating pieces of work together using the question words who, what, where, when, why and how to help us structure our work. 

In Maths we are busy exploring patterns and counting skills.If you would like to practice some educational Maths skills at home click here to visit the Topmarks website.

Some of the rhymes and songs we are learning are below so you can practice at home too.

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Hey Diddle Diddle