Junior Infants had a fantastic time at Clonfert Farm on Monday! Take a look at some of the pictures of the lovely activities we did there! From go karting to golf, to bouncing in the soft play area and on the bouncing castle, to playing football, playing in the playground, zooming on the zip line and of course, petting all the lovely animals, Clonfert Pet Farm really had it all!

For the last few weeks that are left in school we will be looking at the solar system! We set up our role play station ‘At the Space Station’ in Aistear and have also been doing some art!

Take a look 😁

Linking in with the theme of Summer we were discussing for our assembly, we also looked at the lifecycle of the butterfly! Check out our beautiful butterflies we created last Friday!

In Junior Infants we will be learning this poem over the next few weeks! You might like to practise it at home with your family for homework 🙂

Linking in with the garden centre, we have also been exploring the theme of water. We have been testing various materials to see if they change form in water, including ground coffee, sugar, coated beans, metal spoons, etc. Then we tested what materials were water proof. We discovered tissue and fabric wasn’t, but rubber gloves and plastic bags were. So, we decided to make welly boots for our bears using these two materials. We designed how we wanted them to look too 🙂

For the month of April, we have been exploring the theme of the garden centre through our integrated language curriculum! We have been having great fun in the role play, tuff tray and water station in particular! Take a look at some of our pictures 🙂

On Friday 24th of March, we celebrated Daffodil Day. In Springdale, the 6th class students sold daffodil badges and raised funds for the Irish Cancer Society. In Junior Infants we created daffodils during our art lesson to celebrate the day!

In junior infants we have been learning all about plants; the parts of a flower/ plant, the lifecycle of a plant and what a plant/ flower needs to grow!

We entered into a competition with Woodies and have started our planting process. Take a look at some of the pictures! Ms. Kenny helped the boys and girls in Junior Infants plant the flowers today!

Next month we will be looking at the garden centre in Aistear.

In Junior Infants, we have learnt 9 sight words so far! Take a look at our wall of tricky words. We will be adding to these words before the end of the year. You might like to practise these ones at home though!

Take a look at the Junior Infants recounting the poem, ‘An Bogha Báistí’!

They did a fantastic job learning it!