We have had another busy term here in Senior Infants. Our classroom has been a hive of activity since Christmas as we have been learning lots through SESE and incorporating what we have learned into our Writing, Art and Gaeilge lessons. Our reading in Senior is improving all the time. Little and often is the key to be coming a fluent reader! We have one term left in Seniors before we head to 1^stclass, where being a fluent reader will really help us! Lots of people have complimented the beautiful displays we have created in our classroom! It has been a great team effort, well done everyone!

This term we learned all about Emperor Penguins and what life is like in Antarctica for the scientist who spend time there. We learned about dolphins and what makes us mammals. We spent time dressing up in costumes to act out different jobs – we had firemen and women, doctors and nurses to name a few. We examined pictures and footage of old and new ways of ploughing. We looked a told and new bikes, cars and torches. We planted seeds and watched them grow. Mr. Walsh has built a new raised flower bed where I seedlings will continue to thrive.

We have enjoyed a variety of special days and special weeks this term. We loved welcoming our grandparents to our classroom for Grandparents’ Day and getting to perform a song for them in the hall. They loved the art work we had on display for them too.

We took part in the TLC clean up. Senior Infants were in charge of the yard and the grass at the front of the school. We picked up lots of litter that got trapped in the hedge and debris from leaves and branches. TLC provided the school with pickers, gloves and high-vis jackets to complete the job. The yard was spotless when our job was done!

For Wellness Week it was a real treat to get to bring in our cosy blankets and pillows for meditation time and we enjoyed bringing in our books from home for DEAR time that week too. On Pancake Tuesday the 6^th Class treated us to some delicious pancakes and other treats - they were so yummy!

Seachtain na Gaeilge was a busy week at school. We loved making an extra effort with our cúpla focal and had so much fun learning ‘Shoe the Donkey’ which we danced out in the yard. We finished the week by dressing up on Friday for Lá Glas.

We are enjoying completing our Skip around Europe challenges. Each skip is worth 1km.We add up all our skips to try to complete our journey. We are on our way to London!

We have really enjoyed the lead up to Easter. We have been busy making Easter baskets in Art with a Easter Bunny holding them; reading and learning all about Holy Week and we even got to enjoy an Easter Egg hunt outside in the glorious sunshine. We hope everyone has a lovely Easter. Cáisc Shona Daoibh!

Hello again from Junior Infants! What a busy term we have had. We took part in our first Grandparents’ Day in January and were so excited to welcome our grandparents into the school. We recited a grandparents day rhyme and sang a little song for them and afterwards, they came over to visit our classroom. We also started gymnastics lessons as part of our P.E and loved taking part in these each week. We learned how to balance and hold poses, walk forwards and backwards on beams and do the front crawl.

We had a Pyjama Day and had such fun coming into school with our pyjamas, slippers, dressing gowns and onesies on. We hope we can do another one soon! As we are in Junior Infants, we had a lot of ‘firsts’ this term. We took part in our first Wellness Week in school. We went for walks, read our favourite books, danced, and we even brought in our pillows and blankets to relax and meditate. It was really enjoyable.

We also visited the Scholastic Book Fair and bought lots of books to read at home. We dressed up for World Book Day and paraded around the school yard so all the parents could see our amazing costumes. We had lots of fun talking about our favourite characters and our favourite books.

Ms. Ruddle helped us to make bird feeders for biodiversity week using cereal. We took them home to hang on our trees and the birds really enjoyed eating them!

We have been working so hard in school and are now learning sight words for our last reader. We are reading Decodable stories each night for homework and are practicing our blending everyday. Our Literacy stations are continuing each week where we read, write and blend also. We are still learning rhymes as they are so important and have started our second rhyme book for homework. We are also doing lots of free writing and letter formation.

We had a lego hunt during our last week in school. We had to find a lego block with our name on it in the astro turf pitch. They were hidden under lots and lots of cones! When we found the block, we exchanged it for a treat! We also couldn’t believe it when the Easter Bunny popped by our room on our last day and gave us all an Easter Egg! We have worked very hard this term and are looking forward to a nice break! Thank you so much to Catherine who helps us each day and to Ms. Clancy for teaching us. Happy Easter from Junior Infants!

A huge well done to Blake in 1st Class who won the Easter hamper today! Many thanks to Lorraine, our secretary for creating this fabulous hamper. Thanks to everyone who helped the school raise funds by purchasing raffle tickets.

Thanks also to the Den for sending the Easter bunny to our school today and provided an Easter treat for each of the children!

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It has been a great week at Kilcornan National School celebrating Biodiversity Week! Our students were very busy learning all about the importance of nature. The juniors and seniors crafted beautiful bird feeders. The 1st and 2nd classes got to work planting pea seeds and 3rd to 6th classes created vibrant window boxes and planted raspberry and blueberry plants. It was a week filled with fun, learning and appreciation for the amazing biodiversity around us! See our gallery for more photos!

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