We created our own sunset scenes in class, using warm colours and really taking our time with the painting.
We had great fun trying out the dancing raisins experiment – lots of curiosity and excitement watching them move!
We planted cress seeds and are looking forward to watching them grow over the next few days.
Busy baking in class – lots of great teamwork and hands-on learning.
Making Rice Krispie buns for our families – we had great fun and some of the mixture was very tasty!
Written by: Ronia, Hari and Finn.
The children of 6th class A have been taking part in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme since January. The Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP) is Ireland’s leading entrepreneurship skills programme. So, we started and began brainstorming ideas. We split up into three groups and created three different ideas. The ideas we came up with were a cap company called Kapz, a board game called Chaos Dimensions developed by The Yella Fellas and Big Boards, and a squishy company called Squish Melon.
After we finished making the prototypes, we met the Dragons (Tony, Aoife and Molly) so they could choose a product for our class to focus on. They asked us lots of questions about our products. Then they consulted with each other and selected one product. We then got the message that they chose Kapz. The whole class got behind the idea and we began to brainstorm what we needed to do to bring the idea to market.
KAPZ
Kapz is a cap company that creates caps that suit everyone’s style. Our product helps because we are entering the summer term and the UV rays are VERY dangerous – so we have designed hats that students and teachers can enjoy wearing to keep them safe from the UV rays on the yard. The reason our hats are so special is because they include all types of styles so everyone can feel special and seen.
The Production Process
The first thing we needed to do was come up with a survey. We visited every class in the school, showed them the prototypes we had made and asked them questions about what types of hats they would like to wear. From this, we discovered that people liked bucket hats as much as caps and that they preferred hats that were customised with patches and beads rather than with material. After we found out people’s preferences, we ordered all the resources we needed to make the caps. Once we received the package, we got straight to work designing the caps and bucket hats. We split into two teams: marketing and design/production.
The marketing team created posters for display around the school, planned an idea for a promotional video and directed, filmed and edited the video. They also documented the process to share here on the school website.
The design and production team decided which style of patches / beads would match each hat. The patches cater for all sorts of interests: teddy bears, sports, food, animals, nature and space! The production team then sewed the patches on to the hats.
By then we were very tired, but we powered through and wrote this blog post and finished the production process and now we are ready to sell our products!
SPRING FAIR!!!
We will be selling our caps at the Spring Fair on Thursday, 23rd April. They will cost €5 each. Don’t miss out on getting yourself a unique cap for the summer!
Senior Infants have had a lot of fun in term 2! We have been so lucky to have Marianne with us for 8 weeks on teaching practice doing lots of exciting things every week!
In March, we had World Book Day. We had a lot of fun dressing up as our favourite book characters. We also had visits from 5th class who did buddy reading with us. We loved listening to our friends reading us stories.
We did amazing science work with Marianne and learned all about the conditions plants need to grow. We then got to grow our own Cress plants! We loved watering our plants everyday and checking their progress.
We also had a lot of fun in March learning Irish dances with Katie for the big Lá Glas Ceilí!
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It has been a busy winter in Senior Infants!
Before the winter break we had a lot of fun learning about Narrative writing and turning our knowledge of fairy tales into the magical winter show of Goldilocks.
In Aistear we had a lot of fun playing in the Post Office and writing letters to each other!
In PE we got to try Hurling and Football with coach Jenny and coach Teresa and got to practice some new skills!
We moved on to a new topic of Space in January and we have been loving playing in the rocket and learning all about the Solar System in Science and Geography.
In Maths we have been learning about 3D shapes and got to go on a shape hunt around our school!
Here are some highlights from Term 1 in 6th Class A!
Author: Ronia Nieznalski
RTE Filming
At the beginning of the year RTÉ came to our school to film about our relatively new building! A lot of us got interviewed and then we got to watch ourselves on the board during lunch! The guy who interviewed us was called Cathal and he was nice to us all.
The Canal Clean Up
One of our highlights of the year so far is the canal clean up with the Hilton Hotel staff. They invited us to help them clean up the canal and the area around our school, some of us were even raking dead leaves off the ground. After that we found out that all of our hard work paid off as we got invited to come into the Hotel to get some hot chocolate and cookies (they were delicious).
Our Novel
The novel we have been reading is Journey to the River Sea, a story about a girl who goes to live with her family in Brazil. The story is set in the early 1900. Some of us liked the book and some of us didn’t enjoy it as much.
Learn Together: Fast Fashion
We spent a long time learning about fast fashion in 6th class this term. We learned about how our hunger for fashion can harm other people and about their poor work environments. We did a lot of work on our school iPads about this and some of us even made videos!
Maths Week in 6th Class
Maths week is something we celebrate throughout all the school however this year we did something else to celebrate Maths week, this year we made DIY maths games! We all have so much fun playing them and sometimes we play them during maths which always puts everyone in a good mood.
PROJECTS!!!
We have done a couple of projects this year we have been doing them on iPads and on paper. One of the projects was about space each of us chose a planet and made a project based on it at home. Some of the projects we did on the iPads are: the EU, young people changing the world, fast fashion and time zones! Once we finished the projects we presented them.
I have been doing a course in Podcasting and Radio in IADT, the Institute of Art Design + Technology Dún Laoghaire.
Rachel and her class Junior Infants B, were kind enough to volunteer to be the subject of my first podcast. Please find the recording here and spend some time in their lovely class. I am so grateful to them for their generous participation.
Enjoy!
Maeve
Senior Infants have had a very busy first half-term with lots of learning and lots of fun!
In Maths we spent time revising our numbers to 10 and moved on to counting up to 20. We revised our addition skills and making number sentences.
We had a lot of fun during Maths Week making our Figure it Out Posters and going on a Maths Trail!
In English we worked on revising our sounds in phonics. We also worked on Recount in writing and wrote recounts about our trip to the roof and the first floor of the school!
In Aistear we learned about homes and food and had lots of fun playing and learning.
What a fantastic first term we’ve had in ALC A! Our class has been busy learning, exploring and growing together through a wide range of fun and engaging activities. This term we enjoyed taking part in group activities, 1:1 learning, developing fine-motor skills and enjoying plenty of art, music and sensory play. We made lots of time for outdoor play, movement breaks and hands-on experiences that helped us learn while having fun.
Take a look below at some of the highlights from our busy and happy term 1 🙂
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