So we have a new theme this month for Aistear and the children are loving it already! We are role - playing the restaurant. We are pretending to be waiters, waitresses, chefs and diners. We are cutting and pasting our own menus and making food in the sand.
Múinteoir Gráinne's 2nd class invited us to their classroom to hear about their project on China. They told us all about Chinese customs and traditions. In return Leon in Junior Infants taught 2nd class how to say Hello and Goodbye in Chinese. We also made lanterns in Art to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Aistear teaches us to play together nicely and to work together as part of a team. These children worked so well together in the sand tray.
We have spent the month of January learning about the supermarket. Today we went shopping for real! We split into groups and M. Eimear, M. Niamh and M. Aoife came with us. We had to remember to bring our shopping list, €2 for the trolley and a bag to put the groceries in. It was so much fun walking down to Lidl and trying to find the food on our list in the shop. We were very polite to the shopkeeper and waited in the queue to get served. We gave the money to the shopkeeper and waited for our change. We had so much fun on our shopping trip.
Múinteoir Bernie's Junior Infants had their first hurling training today with Gerry! We learned how to hold a hurl and how to hit a sliotar. We wore helmets to protect our heads. We were so hot and sweaty from all the exercise but it was great fun! We can't wait until next Thursday to practice all over again!
We had a wonderful day on our school tour to Loughwell Farm Park. There were lots of amazing things to, such as pet some farm animals, pla...
