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Senior Infants made spooky Jack O’ Lanterns with Ms. McDaniel! Happy Hallowe’en to all!

Senior Infants are working on Construction as our theme in Aistear. We have architects and builders on site who know how to abide by health and safety and building regulations!We are confident and efficient and are available to help the builders working on the school’s extension if they need it ;)!

Senior Infants used Ipods to take photos of 2D shapes in our Environment! We found lots of 2D shapes outside our school. Here are just a few..the school windows are made from 6 square window panes which altogether make a rectangle! The front doors are rectangular as is the letter box! There are triangles in the flower boxes and we saw circles in the wheels of
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        Senior Infants made vehicles and other items used for construction in Junk Art this month!

                            We went on a Mini beast Hunt around our school! Mrs. McDaniel came in to talk to the Junior and Senior Infants and helped us identify the mini beasts we found! Mrs. McDaniel is a Zoologist and works with the Green Schools Committee. We found several different types of mini
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Our Aistear theme for the past few weeks has been a hospital. Junior and Senior Infants had a visit from a doctor! Dr. Mary Breslin works as a doctor and surgeon in Sligo General Hospital. She came to talk to us about the work she does in the hospital. Dr. Mary brought our class bear, Toby, into the hospital as he had a sore
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 Our Aistear theme for the past few weeks has been a Hospital.  We have a Radiographer working in our Hospital.  We learned all about our skeleton and the names of the bones in our bodies.  We cut and pasted bones to make a skeleton and we labelled the major bones in the body.  Here are some pictures….

      We grew watercress seeds in our class.  We put some compost into a yogurt pot and planted some seeds in it.  We watered our seeds every day and placed them in sunlight.  Our seeds grew in a few days! We also set up two control pots – Pot 1 was watered but placed in darkness, Pot 2 was placed in sunlight and not watered.
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        We had a visit from Mr. O’ Hara and his two pet lambs, Sarah and Humphrey!  They are four weeks old.  They need to be fed four times a day with milk.  Mr. O’Hara fed the lambs with a bottle, they drank the milk very quickly and were wagging their tails really fast!  The lambs were very friendly and we
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We visited the Fire station in Sligo last Wednesday.  Jason and Glen (Firefighters) showed us around the station.  We saw all the different fire engines, they were so big and we got to sit in one!  Glen put on the siren for us, it was very loud.  The firemen showed us all the different equipment that they use, it was very interesting. The fire
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