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We made chips out of the potatoes we grew.

3D Crabs

Anything Art- we cleared out our art presses, check out what Kelly’s class made

Smartie Maths

Smartie Maths – we worked in pairs and counted how many smarties of each colour was in a box and showed our results on a chart. Then we got to eat them. Yum Yum!
3D summer Cards
In Kelly’s 1st class we are counting down the days left in school by bursting a balloon each day. Every balloon is filled with a fun activity for us!
Ice-cream Art
Aistear this month is the Ice Cream Shop – check out our role play area and some of our playdough creations and mud kitchen creations
Science Afternoon
  1. Designing bridges
  2. Surface Tension/Bubbles
  3. Magnet Maze and Magnet Attraction
  4. Design a boat
  5. Acrobatic clown
Looking at our fingerprints
Some Summer Art

A fun packed month this month in 1st

Parachute fun for PE – we made a mushroom and hid from our teacher
Easter art and making chocolate nests by Cian’s class
Cian’s class green thoughts as part of Fun Friend’s Programme
Procedural Writing – Kelly’s class made jelly and chocolate nests
Kelly’s class made clay Easter nests
Easter work by Kelly’s Class
Fun in our mud kitchen during Aistear
Kelly’s 1st Class made pancakes and wrote about how to make them afterwards. They are learning about Procedural Writing/Instructional Writing this month.
Spring Flowers by Kelly’s 1st Class
Working in groups to write words that use an exclamation mark in Kelly’s 1st.
St. Patrick’s Day Art
Pete Cromer Inspired Birds
For Engineering Week Kelly’s 1st class worked in groups to create a lego marble maze.
Kelly’s 1st class are enjoying the lovely Spring weather and we are having some of our Aistear stations outside. We are loving our Mud Kitchen, we made mud cake and mud cookies. 
Poetry and Sunflowers by Cian’s Class
Lion Art by Cian’s Class created during Aistear
Cian’s class were inspired by the book Cave Baby and drew some drawings in the den
Holi Elephants by Cian’s class
Cian’s class made this during Aistear at the Junk Art Area
Celebrating the Year of the Tiger
Inuits by Cian’s Class
We read the Love Monster and English and in Art we made our own Love Monsters
This month 1st class have been learning about how to write a report.

Check out their Animal Reports they did as homework

After reading What If I had Animal Teeth – we wrote about what animal teeth we would like and why.
One of our morning activities this month was printing.
We stuck down the letters L O V E and then printed with sponges.
New Years Scratch Art
This month 1st classes learned about Report Writing. Check out their reports on Polar Bears
Cian’s 1st Class Reports
Polar Bear Newspaper Collage
Cian’s 1st Class Tom Crean Portraits
Kelly’s 1st Class Tom Crean Portraits
In Aistear some of Kelly’s class worked together to make Arctic animals and an Inuit with their playdough
Kelly’s 1st Class read the Grinch in English. We brainstormed ways to make the Grin Grin and wrote about it. Then each pod worked together to come up with adjectives to describe the Grinch.
Santa’s suit shrunk so we made new suits for Santa
Kelly’s Class Winter Snowmen
Aistear Art
Cian and Kelly’s 1st Classes have been learning all about Homes this month. They did mini projects on Homes.
Day of the Dead -Sugar Skulls Art
Positive and Negative Hand Art
Rangoli Patterns for Diwali
Mosaic Art
Data
  • Designing a new jumper for the Late Late Toy Show
Blow Paint and Winter Hats

1st class have been busy out this month

1st Class celebrated International Dot Day and created their own art work, turning a dot into…..

Warm and Cool Colour Moon and Sun Art
Celebrating Roald Dahl Day
Rainbow Self Portraits