Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st Class will begin a 6 week gymnastics course on Thursday ( January 23rd) . The cost is €12 and can be given to your child's teacher next Tuesday ( Jan. 21st). 

It is very important that your child wears shoes that he/ she can easily take off and put back on by themselves. 

For insurance reasons, only socks with grips may be worn while doing gymnastics. Your child may have these already. Children may also participate bare foot. 

JUNIOR INFANTS 2015/ 2016 

Welcome to our class website. This page will show some of our work and hopefully give you an idea of just how busy we are at school! 

JUNIOR INFANTS 2014/ 2015

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Welcome to our class website. We have 10 girls and 14 boys in our class. We come from lots of different countries- Ireland, Poland, Albania, Nigeria, Malawi and the Congo.


Our webpage will show you some of our work and hopefully give you an idea just how busy we are at school!

We have now finished Junior Infants. Congratulations on graduating from Room 4! I will miss you all  :(

We have completed our Alive- O Junior Infant programme. Each child were very proud to get their certificates. 

We read the story 'Commotion in the Ocean'. Do you like our art based on this story? We also practised our cutting skills.

More Fun in the Sun!

We went on a maths trail around the school. We saw lots of numbers, shapes, colours, made comparisons, etc. We had lots of fun. 

More words we have been learning. 

We have been learning these words. 

Summer Art:  Clay Ladybirds

Getting ready for summer in Room 4!

Breithlá Neasa atá ann. Breithlá Rossa atá ann freisin. 
We made birthday cards for Neasa and Rossa. Here are some photographs of our work. 

We love going to the circus. We watched a cartoon called 'Ben and Bella at the Circus'. We then wrote about the circus during English and for Art we painted clown faces. Here are some photographs of our work. 

Our current maths topic is money. Please practise making amounts up to 5 cent. 

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It is time to revise the 42 sounds we have learnt this year. 

Easter Art and Rice Krispie Buns!

Here are some photographs of us doing art and making green jelly!

This video helps us with another rule- When magic 'e' comes at the end of a word it makes the vowel in the middle say its long name.

This video helps us with this rule- 'When two vowels go out walking, the first vowel does the talking'.

Keep revising our jolly phonics songs!

We visited our local church recently. 

We had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day on March 5th. We brought in some of our favourite books. We had a 'show and tell' session and then we drew pictures about these stories.

Look who was shown on RTE Operation Transformation tonight! (25/02/2015) 

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Here is a video of us singing our new Irish song 'Tá Téidí Agamsa'. 

We wrote a list of ingredients that we need to make pancakes. Here are photographs of some of our work.

We had yummy pancakes on Pancake Tuesday. 

Some examples of art we created using 2D shapes. We also linked our art with English writing. 

This is a video of us singing 'Once I Caught a Fish Alive'. This was recorded in November- sorry only uploading it now. We hope you enjoy it!

We really enjoyed doing art today. We made a lovely surprise for our special valentine! 

We listened to this song during our music lesson. Then we wrote a class book together. Here are some of the first few pages of our book 'Where is Teddy'?. 




Reading Tips for Parents:

  • A love of reading begins at home.
  • Your child’s success at reading starts before he/she starts school.
  • Good oral language skills help develop good reading skills.
  • Talk to your child and let your child talk to you.
  • Good readers surround themselves with books.
  • Repeated reading helps develop fluency.
  • Encourage re-reading of books, of chapters, of pages, of paragraphs.
  • Use the following top when choosing books for you children:
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We made 2D Shapes using toothpicks and marshmallows.

Look at us tracing and printing 2D Shapes

Happy Grandparents' Day from all in Room 4!  (Jan. 28th 2015) 

We love singing this song about how special we all are. 

We have been very busy writing class books. We are the authors and the illustrators. We have a front cover, a back cover and a blurb in our books.

1. Our Christmas Presents 
2.Winter is Here
3. What Can Goldilocks Do?


Here are some of the first few pages of each book.


We will be making lots more books during the next few weeks.  

We are learning all about circles. We had fun tracing circular objects. 

Here are some photos of us painting our kittens and mittens.

Here is a copy of our second word list. Please find this in the homework journal. Continue to revise previous word lists. 

Here are the sounds we will be learning for the next few weeks. Please listen to the jolly phonics songs for the correct pronunciation and practise and revise regularly. 

Here is the video with the songs for our new sounds. Please practise and revise at home each night.

Look at us working quietly doing some of our Christmas art!

We got certificates after our Christmas Nativity Play. We hope you enjoyed our play. 

We are learning how to count and write the number 3. We like watching these rhymes. 

We enjoyed looking at photographs of when we were babies. We also brought in some of our old baby clothes and baby toys. 

We have been learning about road safety. We love singing and dancing the 'Safe Cross Code'. We each got hi-vis vests so we will be safe crossing the roads when it is dark.

We love singing this song. It helps us learn our counting to number 10. 

Here are two videos of us singing 'Miss Polly Had A Dolly'. In the first video we are doing our actions and in the second video we are holding our own dollies we made during art. (07/11/2014)

Fun at playtime!

We used lots of lovely fabrics during art class today.(06/11/2014)

The children in Room 4 love helping each other to learn! 

We love working at our maths and literacy centres.  (04/11/2014)

We are supporting the Millstreet Footballers!

Five Little Pumpkins

Look at our Halloween Costumes!

Here is the word list for November and December. A copy of this list is to be found in you child's journal. 





The words have been printed on card and placed in your child's folder. Please cut out the word they are learning each night and keep them safely at home. 

We are getting ready for Halloween. We love Halloween! (22/10/2014)

We had lots of fun painting Halloween pumpkins. (07/10/2014)

We worked as a team to sort the objects into groups according to their colours. There were red, green, blue and yellow groups. (01/10/2014)

We are learning all about the season of autumn. We collected leaves to look at all the different colours of autumn leaves. We then painted a picture of an autumn tree and stuck on some of these leaves. 

We can follow the rules at P.E. We had lots of fun throwing and catching our beanbags. (25/09/2014)

We are now settling into Junior Infants. We decorated our photographs so we will always remember our first day at school. (12/09/2014)

Please practise these songs at home!