All about the Basque Country

We had a wonderful lesson about the Basque country in Spain with Mikel.

He was so interesting, and he had lots of interesting slides to show us.

 We saw the red green and white flag.

 We saw the Basque country on a map.  It is shaped like a heart and is situated in the north of Spain and in the south of France.

 The country looks beautiful, with lots of gorgeous scenery.

 Mikel is from a town called Onati (he had to help us pronounce it).

 Mikel's town looks so pretty with all the pink roofs on the houses.

We would love to try the dancing.  It looks so much fun! 

 Lots of sea food and delicious nibbles. Yummy!

We saw lots of unusual sports.  Most of us would like to try lifting stones or chopping wood the best.

Mikel likes handball.

Thanks so much Mikel.  Your lesson was so interesting.

We would all love to visit the Basque country!

Class photo at Christmas time

 Room 5, Senior Infants, Christmas 2013

with Mikel

Morning activities

This morning we played with Hexiesnaps, with the shape snap game and with the pirate ship.

The Christmas story

We went to the hall today to see an absolutely adorable Christmas Play.

Well done to Ms. Warde and her wonderful Junior Infants for all the beautiful singing and wonderful acting!

The water cycle

We had a wonderful session with Lara today.

She helped us learn all about the water cycle.

First of all we heard a story about raindrops and we had to pretend we were raindrops and say what was happening all around us.

We had a chance to draw our ideas and we used interesting materials which we had found in Lara's lucky dip to make our pictures really realistic.

After our lunch we helped Lara make a rainbow by cutting out coloured raindrops and sticking them to the rainbow.  We finished our session making lovely mono-prints with oil paint.

They look fabulous and each one is so different from all the rest.

Thank you so much Lara for all your work with us today.

Stories to watch

The Bear - by Raymond Briggs

The Snowman - by Raymond Briggs

Room on the broom by Julia Donaldson

Doodle 4 Google

Here are some of the wonderful Doodle 4 Google entries from Scoil Chaitríona Junior.

 Well done to all.  Your pictures are amazing!

Christmas reading

 We are reading lots of lovely Christmas stories in class.

 

If teacher runs out of nice Christmas books she will borrow more at Ballybane Library.

Fun with CVC words

We really enjoyed writing CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words today.

When we finish a word, teacher checks it, we can wipe it out and take a new word.

We are learning to spell lots of words.

Old Phones

Pop Up Santa toys

We made some wonderful pop up Santa toys.

Using push and pull forces it is easy to get Santa to go up and down the chimney!