Ms. Dervan's 2nd class

We had so much fun this week in Junior Infants for Science week. We have been very busy doing experiments every day: dancing raisins, skittles experiment, lava lamp, elephant toothpaste, candle and magic water experiment and capillary action (kitchen towel colour) experiment. The children also did great work at home, doing experiments and creating very impressive vehicles as part of a STEM task. We have also been learning some cool facts. Did you know: - It is impossible to lick your own elbow - Snakes smell with their tongues - Our fingernails grow twice as fast as our toe nails - Apples float on water Today the children drew a picture in their SESE copies of their favourite experiment. Great work Junior Infants!

For the month of November we are learning about the theme of 'Homes'. We read the story 'The Three Little Pigs'. The children loved acting out the different parts. We then did a STEM task where the children built lots of lovely homes using a range of different toys. See some of the lovely homes below. We also did shape art and worked on collaborative drawing and cutting projects.             

We had lots of fun today for our Halloween dress up day. The children had such great costumes. They really enjoyed visiting another class to show off their costumes and loved seeing all the other costumes on the yard. We had a little Halloween dance party and lots of Halloween fun. 

We have been learning about Autumn and have been listening to lots of Autumn stories. We have also been exploring the topic of Autumn through play. Activities included the sand station, leaf stencils, building homes for hibernating animals, small world play on the farm, Autumn playdough activities and sensory play. 

 We have been having lots of fun this week for Maths week. We have listened to stories, number songs and poems. We have played lots of games and loved playing BINGO. Junior Infants have been busy exploring the topic of 'patterns' and created great patterns of their own. We also had lots of fun with different stations this week including Topmarks Maths game on the ipads, number puzzles, creating number lines, hungry numbers and lollipop stick patterns.