Junior Infants

After listening to the story of Rapunzel, Junior Infants spent two weeks doing all things hair-related.

We built Rapunzel’s tower with blocks and sang a great song about hair!

At the creative table, we added faces and hair to paper plates!

Finally, we all had our hair done in our very own hairdressing salon!  It was a lot of hard work for those working in the salon.  The phone had to be answered and appointments made.  Customers had to queue up and read comics while they waited to get in front of the mirror! The stylists used combs, brushes, clips, and curlers to get some lovely results.  See what you think!

Building Rapunzel’s tower!

How much would you like me to take off?

This tower is going up to the sky!

Two of our stylists in action!

The busy salon!

Hard at work at the creative table!

Making an appointment!

Another happy customer!

What a lovely up style!

A day’s work is never done!

We had to paint plates before adding hair and faces to them!

Happy creating!

Busy at work!

Junior Infants have been getting all ready for Christmas!

We made traditional paper chain decorations for the classroom, cut out and painted Christmas tree decorations from clay,

built Santa’s sleigh, and wrapped presents to put in it!  We also practiced extremely hard for the Christmas show and

put on a wonderful performance for other classes and all our parents!

Well done everybody! 

Our clay ornaments

We made lots of paper chains!

We built a fine sleigh for Santa, which involved an awful lot of red paint!

We worked very hard wrapping presents to put in Santa’s sleigh!

I wonder what’s in this one?

Can you tell which Junior Infant this is taking Santa’s sleigh for a spin?

Happy Christmas!

Nollaig Shona agus Athbhlian faoi mhaise daoibh go léir!

Junior infants had great fun opening up a toy shop in the classroom!

We set up the shop, put price stickers on toys, and sold them to customers.

We also made toys for the shop ourselves, using lego and straws.  During creative play, we crafted our own toilet roll toys!  Finally we made musical shaker toys, which are going to be used during our Christmas show……

This toy was a big hit!

What great toys!

Our shakers sound great!

A master builder!

Shake Shake!

Our toilet roll toys!

This looks like fun!

What a great selection of toys!

what a lovely bunch of flowers!

The toy shop was very popular!

Having fun making toilet roll toys!

Busy at work!

We had fun making our toys!

Lego makes great toys!

Junior infants have been very busy in the last couple of months!

Here is just a flavour of what we have been up to!

We set up a restaurant in the classroom and had great fun making menus and waiting on and serving customers.

Say cheese!

More eager customers!

Another happy customer!

Not every classroom, has a buffet!

We made food out of plasticine!

Mmm,there’s so much to choose from!

Junior Infants have been very busy this month! We have been watching the weather closely as the leaves fall from the trees and learning all about the autumn activities of hedgehogs and squirrels. During our aistear playtime, we dressed up as hedgehogs and squirrels the hedgehogs made cosy nests for hibernating and the squirrels gathered nuts to store for the winter we also made leaf rubbings and leaf prints and searched for chestnuts and pine cones in the sand tray!

We made an autumn world with márla with loads of hedgehogs and even a tractor! As Halloween approaches, we are dressing up in Halloween costumes and playing trick or treat. We are also making pumpkins and bats to make our classroom really spooky. We even build witches castles with the big blocks.

We now know spooky songs too and make up actions to go with them. Our class will celebrate three birthdays in October; Heidi, Frankie and Dylan will all get to wear the birthday badge and pick a gift from the birthday box. Happy birthday! We are all very excited now about Halloween and can’t wait until next time. Happy Halloween!!