Ms. Dervan's 2nd class

We have been learning about spring in Junior Infants. We read the story 'Emma's Lamb' and had lots of fun doing spring art and exploring the theme of the farm through play. The children created lovely vases of flowers using fabric and fibre. The children also worked collaboratively to create a farm in pairs using pens, markers, cutting out pictures and farm stamps. Look at the lovely art work below. 

  The children did some great writing today. We read a story called 'Moon Mouse'. We talked about going to space and all the things we would need to bring with us. The children did super writing and drew lovely pictures. We also created our own planets using marbling inks. The children really enjoyed this and loved mixing the various colours to create their own planets. 

We explored the theme of space this week in one of our Maths stations. The children worked really hard on their cool space creations. 

We have been learning all about Space during the month of January. We have had lots of fun reading stories, learning new facts and exploring our new theme through playful learning experiences. Below are some pictures of our Space fun!

We were very busy last week exploring measures in Junior Infants. We were exploring capacity and have been learning about - full, empty, half full, almost full and almost empty. Junior Infants had lots of fun at the water, sand and rice station exploring these concepts. They were excellent at comparing containers and using the new words to describe their containers. We also explored length and height at two stations where children built tall towers, long snakes and long chains. Again, they were excellent at  comparing different towers and chains using their maths vocabulary e.g. long, longer, longest, short, shorter, shortest, tall, taller, tallest.  Look at the lovely steps going from short to tall. Super work! What a long chain! Empty, half full and full containers. Super work! Empty and full containers! Comparing two towers using our words short, tall, taller.  Comparing two snakes! Great job Putting the snakes in order from shortest to longest