Junior Language 2018/19
On Pancake Tuesday our classroom transformed into a kitchen! We put on our cooking hats and aprons and made a pancake mix. Then we all got the chance to make a pancake in the pan. Next we decorated ou ...
Thursday the 7th of March was World Book Day. The theme of Book Day in our school was Irish Authors, so we read lots of books by Oliver Jeffers this week. We had a storyteller come into our school who ...
Our theme in Maths at the moment is money. We’ve been doing lots of practical tasks involving money and learning through play. We set up a class food shop and took turns as both the shopkeeper a ...
We learned all about Spring in the Junior Language Class in February. We were happy to see flowers start to grow and watch buds develop on the trees. We made the most of the great Spring weather by go ...
Namaste! We’ve been doing lots of yoga in the Junior Language Class. We started doing Yoga as part of Healthy Living Week and we noticed that it helps us wind down in the afternoons. It has quic ...
We’ve been busy over the past two weeks getting back into routine after the Christmas break. One big change for us this term is that we are integrating with Senior Infants for Aistear time in th ...
What an exciting week it’s been here in the Good Shepherd! On Monday we had the Sam Maguire come in for a visit. On Tuesday we had the Garda band come in and perform for us, and Santa came all t ...
We really enjoyed Science Week at GSNS. Our favourite activity was going into the mobile planetarium dome in our hall. We also enjoyed looking and learning about birds from an expert, as well as the i ...
Our theme this fortnight was Fruit and Vegetables. We learned about different fruits and vegetables, how they grow, what they look like and what they feel like. We even tried out what they taste like! ...
We really enjoyed our Halloween dress up day on Thursday the 25th of October. We did lots of Halloween activities, Halloween games and art. Look at our lovely costumes! Playing apple on a strin ...
This week we’ve been cooking up a storm in our class restaurant! Our restaurant has been very busy with lots of hungry customers. We had lots of fun in role as customers, chefs and waiters/waitr ...
Our theme this fortnight was Dinosaurs. We’ve been busy learning about the different types of dinosaurs, what they looked like, what they ate and how to pronounce their very long names! We know ...
This fortnight our classroom transformed into a doctor’s surgery! We read lots of stories about doctors and nurses, and had great fun in our play area. We’ve been working very hard to look ...
We’ve all settled back to school and had fun learning about Autumn this fortnight. We collected leaves, did some fantastic art and learned a poem about the leaves changing colours! WeR ...