Super September

Hello everyone, welcome back! Hope you all had a great summer. We all enjoyed our holidays and we're ready and excited for a new fun filled year here in St. John's.
​This is the full crew here in Ms. Ryan's class!!! 

Our themes this month were Myself and School.
We enjoyed a fun game blindfolded trying to find different parts of our body.

We made these beautiful handprint crafts - each one unique.

What better way to learn all about 'myself' than looking in the mirror. 
Check out our handmade mirror crafts.

We tried drawing ourselves on our chalkboards.

Such fun playing 'matching body parts'.

Creativity with our playdough mats.

What a cute activity - guess the baby! 

Fun group bingo game. 

Every Monday morning we share our news from the weekend with our friends. We have a very important share chair which we sit on when telling our news.

Our first birthday celebration this school year...... party time....... wahoo!!!!

Our next theme this month was School. We really enjoyed exploring the school grounds and visiting all the different classrooms, meeting all the staff and our school friends. 
We visited our school principal to get us started on our exploration.

We enjoyed meeting our friends in the different classrooms and having a chat :-)

We loved our school hunt - could we remember where those rooms were?!!!!

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Busy making our very own school bus craft.

PE fun in the classroom with a variety of movement activities.

Sensory art time - rainbow in a bag!! Such fun!!

That's it for this month. We hope you enjoyed our photos.
Check back next month to see what we've been up to!!!

Oh it’s October!!

Our first theme this month was Autumn. Of course this meant we took trips outside to spot signs of autumn.
​We collected leaves and picked berries.

Now to sorting those leaves ........ by colour.

Let's use these leaves to do some leaf rubbings.

We're going on an autumn hunt.......

Bustin' some moves to our Scarecrow Scarecrow dance ;-)

Let's take a rake and rake them up, pile them high and jump right in!!!!

Guess the autumn object?!!

Helping Ted dress for the autumn weather.

Our lovely autumn stained glass leaf crafts.

Drama time - The Little Red Hen.

Creative fun with blocks - matching autumn pictures.

Our second theme this month was Halloween. We do love Halloween here in Room 5. 
We enjoyed getting dressed up in costumes for our theme song 'Knock Knock Trick or Treat'.

Taking to the dance floor yet again.....

Throw the dice and colour by number - maths made fun.

Fun Halloween themed movements in PE.

Time to go shopping.........

Fun carving out our pumpkins. Thank you so much to the leavers class for helping us. We couldn't have done it without you :-)

Fun with Halloween balloons in PE :-)

Maths fun - sequencing Halloween pictures. We worked really well together with these, helping each other out!!

Our scary Mummy paper plate crafts.

We got busy in the kitchen - we made these yummy strawberry ghosts and marshmallow eyeballs!!!

And yummy they certainly were..... mmmmm ;-)

Such fun in drama re-enacting our themed story 'Room on the Broom'.

And what a way to finish off our Halloween theme than to visit the Durrow Greenway Tunnel. It was so spooky!!!!!

Happy Halloween everybody :-)

We had such a busy month, not only with our themes...........

It wouldn't be October if we didn't pay a visit to our local fire station during fire safety week. Thank you to all the firemen who allowed this to happen and took the time to make our visit such a memorable one. We really appreciated it.

Working on our Jolly Phonics.

Come on Ireland!!!!!! We watched the Ireland V Russia game in the school hall with all our school friends. 

We enjoyed our visit from Penny the dog from Dog's Trust Ireland. 

We paid one last visit to Ms. Walsh's room to visit the beautiful butterflies before they were set free!!

Thanks to the Leavers class for a lovely Cheerio's Breakfast morning. We enjoyed dining with Ms. Whelan's class. 

Such a fabulous movie - Abominable!!! We really enjoyed it.

And now for our well earned break - our midterm holidays!! Time to recharge the batteries. See you all very soon.

Now its November!!!

We're back!!!! We all had a lovely midterm break and enjoyed Halloween. Time to get back to business.......
Our first theme this month is Homes. We enjoyed learning a new theme song called the House song. Lots of lamh signs to help us through it.

Creativity with our home themed playdough mats.

Now where does that belong? In what room in the house?

Check out our cool houses made from blocks......

Our next theme of the month was ‘Shopping’.  We really enjoyed this theme and everyone loved playing shopping. We kicked off with story time with a ‘Race to the Checkout’.

Our shopping trip to the supermarket!!

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We bought pizza at the supermarket and had a PIZZA PARTY after our shopping trip! Yummy!!!!!

It’s Christmas!!!!

We had so much fun making our Christmas Hall display! 'Oh Deer......Christmas is Here!'

We were so good during the week that we treated ourselves to some yummy doughnuts!!! Yummy!

We made snowmen....It was 'Snow Much Fun!!!'

Our fabulous Christmas lunch, enjoyed by all!!!!🎄🎄

We had lots of fun making decorations with play dough!!!! 

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We had our annual trip to Faithlegg. We met Santa, Elsa and lots of other character! We had soooo much fun!!! 

We were so lucky to spend the day in Waterford at Winterval. We went on the train and had some cookies and hot chocolate with our friends! 

We went to the cinema to see Frozen 2. Everyone was so excited!!!

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​In December we watched some lovely Christmas movies....we watched Klaus and Happy Feet

We had our Christmas show too! Everyone did so well and we had a blast. We were little snowmen on stage singing our hearts out!!!

Joyful January

Happy New Year everyone. We hope you all had a fabulous Christmas. We enjoyed our break but we’re back and ready for action!!!
​First up we welcomed the New Year in school with some fun footprint art. And boy did it tickle😁

Our first theme for this month was Winter.
We enjoyed an ‘I spy with my little eye’ activity on the interactive whiteboard.

Having spotted a snowman we said we would try draw our very own on our chalkboards (might be the closest we get to the real thing this winter)

​We took our love of snowmen to our play dough mats also!!!

Fun times in PE - paper plate ice skating, snowball tennis and some snowman bowling.

Our winter clothes display - we enjoyed colouring these winter clothes and adding some sparkle.

It's storytime........ Polar Bear and the Snow Cloud.

Check out our creative Snowy Owls.......

Let's here you say 'BINGO'!!!!!!!

Our Winter Mitten display board

Our next theme for the month of January was Countries.

We looked at the globe and talked about planet earth. We looked at the land and sea.

We looked at the country we live in and found it on the globe. We then made an Irish flag craft in Art.

We tried drawing planet earth and the Irish flag on our blackboards with chalk.

One of our classmates is from Poland. We looked at Poland on the globe, listened to the Polish National Anthem, learned to say hello in Polish and made a Polish flag for art.

This month involved so much.........
One of our classmates learned to read the story book 'The Little Red Hen' at home and then for his news in school he read the story to his classmates. It was so lovely. We all really enjoyed it. 
Also one of our other school friends went on a trip to England and brought us all back a present of a keyring torch. He shared them with us all at news time. It was so kind of him. We loved our present.

We are busy learning all about shapes and we played a fun game on the interactive whiteboard.

We had fun with musical instruments whilst singing our nursery rhymes 'Bingo' and 'I am the music man'.

Check back soon to see what fun February brings us here in Room 5 ;-)

February Fun
This month we started off with a great theme - Friendship & Valentine’s. It was such a lovely feel good theme.
​We looked at what makes a good friend and a bad friend.

We learned a fabulous theme song ‘Will you be a friend of mine’ and each day we picked a new friend to dance with.

For nursery rhyme time we chose a friend to act out ‘Row row row your boat’ with.

We practised drawing our friends on our chalkboards.

We made some very cute friendship bracelets for our friends.

We all painted our own hand to make a special handprint which went on a friendship wreath display in the hall with all our school friends.

We enjoyed some playtime with our friends.

Next up ‘Valentine’s’. We thought we’d share some love!!!
We started off with our love cushion and talking about who we love.

We played a fun game in PE called candy heart race.

We played a game called ‘Pass the coloured heart’.

We made some very special Valentine art for our loved ones.

We took to the dance floor for some Valentine boogieing;-)

We enjoyed a special Valentine’s breakfast.

Our friend made us some yummy buns for Valentine's - what a lovely treat for us.

February was an extra special month as we celebrated not one but 3 important birthdays for 3 great friends who all turned 9!!!!
Happy Birthday guys :-)

The birthday girl brought in her birthday present and shared it with her friends at playtime. So kind!

We enjoyed a whole school trip to the cinema to see Dr. Dolittle. It was such a great movie.

We took a trip on the school bus with Ms. Price's class up to Lismore. It was a lovely afternoon out with friends.

Our final theme of the month was Healthy Eating.
We looked at good foods and bad foods.

Is it a fruit or a vegetable?!!!!

Snacktime - how healthy is our lunch box?????

Let's be healthy and shop for some fruit and veg!!!

Now lets set up our very own fruit and vegetable shop....... 

Let's not waste our fruit and veg - fun printing in art.

Fun on the interactive whiteboard - race against the clock to find the fruit!!!

Mmmmmm tasty kiwi's........

Is it healthy or unhealthy?

Wow what a busy month!!! 
What wonders will March bring????
Check back soon to find out.

Magic March......

Our theme this month was Ireland. We looked at where in the world we live and how Ireland looks on the map.

We played an old traditional game of Marbles in PE.

We learned all about St. Patrick, our patron saint of Ireland and made some stained glass shamrocks.

We enjoyed learning about and using some traditional Irish musical instruments.

Our leprechaun crafts.......

Fun on the interactive whiteboard.....

Our very own Irish dancing session....

St. Patrick's Day songs and rhymes using our musical instruments.