Pop over to the Junior Infant page for more photos on this theme. I would like to thank Geraldine for donating the Star Wars ship, the beautiful Space jig-saw and for all her help with getting the role-play area ready for January's Aistear. Also thank you to Clara Corless and Anne Hester for lending us the astronaut costumes. Thank you also to Ann-Marie, Yuliya and Niamh (3 parents) for giving up their free-time to come in and help with Aistear Stations and Damien for organising getting the bee-bots for me. The bee-bots help to teach the children about computer programming in a fun child friendly way.
Infants Winter Walk to Rinville Woods
On Tuesday, Junior and Senior Infants enjoyed a Winter Walk to Rinville Woods. They have been learning all about Winter, winter weather and winter clothes during their S.E.S.E lessons so we decided to top it off with a lovely walk and picnic to Rinville Woods.
The Senior Infants and the Junior Infants buddied up together and the Senior Infants showed the Junior Infants how to tick the items off on their Winter Hunt Checklist.
We were very lucky with the weather. Although it wouldn't have mattered as the Infants were prepared for whatever weather was thrown at them. They were fantastically decked out in their Winter Clothes- wellington boots, waterproof coats and pants and hats, scarves and gloves.
We had a lovely picnic just outside the playground and although the picnic benches were wet, that didn't faze our Infants, they just put took off their coats and sat on them and none of them got wet.
They had a fantastic time together in the playground. It was such a great outing - a lesson to us all that whatever the weather, we should wrap up in the right clothing and get out in the fresh air and enjoy nature.
They spotted pine cones, holly leaves, brown leaves, bare tree and evergreen trees. We didn't get to tick off the frost and ice as the weather was so mild.
Ethan Corless gave the trip 10/10. Thank you Ethan! We are looking forward to our Spring Walk in March or April.
Junior Infants receiving hurling coaching from Gerry Spellman on Monday mornings!
Great way to wake us all up on a Monday morning!
Junior Infants have just completed their second Aistear sessions this year.
We have have been having great fun in the Junior Infants classroom learning all about animals. The children have completed five activities based on the theme. They made an enclosure for a zoo animal using boxes, scraps of material, bottle lids, pine cones, etc. The enclosure had to have a place for the animal to sleep, interesting space to roam around that would remind him of his natural habitat, something to drink and eat and an area for humans to view the animal.
In the role play area, the children were pretending that they were a family visiting a zoo. The parents had to come up with riddles and the children had to guess what animal they were thinking about and then they would visit that animal. The visit ended with a visit to the gift shop and the children could buy a souvenir if they were "good".
They also made long snakes, short snakes, fat snakes and thin snakes out of play dough, used animal play dough cutters, played "The Greedy Gorilla" memory game with Hilary and Suzanne and constructed their own zoo's using small world materials eg small animals, wooden tracks, small people and safari cars. This activity was great for sorting animals and counting etc.
Thank you to all the parents who helped out. We will be starting our next Aistear this Tuesday. The new theme is Winter/Winter Clothes/Weather.
Best of luck to the Claregalway footballers this Sunday.
We were delighted to welcome some of the Claregalway football team and management ahead of their Connacht intermediate football championship final tomorrow in Hyde park, Roscommon.
We were to delighted to have had Stephen Cunniffe teach with us the past few weeks as part of his teacher training placement. We wish Stephen and all the team the best of luck tomorrow from everyone here at Claregalway Educate Together.
Green School News
We have recently held our 2017/2018 Green School Committee Elections and there are 6 newly elected representatives on our Green School Committee. Well done to Evita and Darragh from Siobhan's room, Muireann from Niamh's room, Saibh from Daniel's room, Molly from Damien's room and Kate from John's room. Well done to all the children who went to the effort of preparing a speech for the elections. It is a sign of your enthusiasm and energy.
Our first job was to choose our Green School Motto. All the classes were working on coming up with a catchy slogan. The Green School Committee have made a short list of the entries and we will announce the winner on Tuesday.
We had a visitor Catriona from Green Schools on Tuesday, 7th November and she gave an excellent power-point presentation on " Climate Change" to the Green School Committee and 4th, 5th and 6th Class. She got the children up dramatising Climate Change and it was very informative and interesting. Now, 4th, 5th and 6th Class are working on Climate Change Projects for the next few weeks. We will then choose 5 Projects to be displayed in Tuam Library for one week on 28th November.
The Liam MacCarthy visits CETNS
Aistear in Junior Infants! Theme-Halloween!!!!!
Thank you to all the parents who came in to help with our first Aistear this year. Pop over to the Junior Infants page for more photos and a video!
2nd Class teach Junior Infants how to use the Bee-Bot problem solving App!
Pop over to the Junior Infant page for more photos!
Green Flag News
Tetra Pak Tree Day October 5th 2017
Junior Infants planted some acorns for Tetra Pak Tree Day. They have been learning about the importance of trees. First, they put the acorns in water to see if they would float or sink. The acorns that sank were the "good ones" so we planted those ones. Thank you to Ann Marie Kelly for buying the compost for me when I was under pressure! And to all the people who sent in the reusable milk cartons. Great Teamwork!
Tomorrow they will go on an Autumn Nature Walk with Senior Infants to do some "Tree Spotting" on Claregalway Castle grounds. Thank you to Claregalway Castle for allowing us to do this.
