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THIRD CLASS
Ms. Sherwin & Mr O'Connor

Self portrait art 

Paired reading with 5th cLass 📚

Our trip to the art GallerY

Composing 🎻

Our communiOn ceLebrations

💎 jewellery making 💎

Composing with Ultan🎻

Easter 🐣

Dance with lauren

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Pancake Tuesday 🥞

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We enjoyed some pancakes while listening to one of our favourite stories, Matilda!

World Book day📚

We had a visit from the librarians from Coolock library, we made bookmarks and listening to a funny story about Squishy McFluff!
We got book vouchers and forms we can fill out to join the library!
On Thursday we had our Book Character Parade!

❤️Love is in the aIr ❤️
HappY Valentines day

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Art 🖼

We were inspired by Irish artist Lola Donoghue. We send our work to Lola and she was so impressed with our abstract art.

Our fIrst confession

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Merry ChrIstmas from 2nd class!

Active school week!

Our Trip To the farm!

WOrld down syndrOme day 🧦

Planting 🌱

🦖 Dinosaurs 🦕

We have been learning about dinosaurs.
Today we became palaeontologists!
We searched really carefully for fossils.

Active Break Everyday Challenge

Today we ran 1km, we're off to such an amazing start with our active break challenge. The challenge will run for the next 4 weeks. Well done girls, excellent running/dancing/ walking today!

Maths Week 🧮

Take a look at what we have been up to so far this week!

☀️ Enjoying the sunshine ☀️

We Love Art 🖼

We learnt about two famous artists over the past two weeks and we were inspired by their work. We looked at paintings by Georges Seurat and we noticed he uses pointillism. We were inspired to use the same technique to complete our Autumn Trees.
We also looked at work by Paul Klee, he uses lots of shapes and colours. We were inspired by his building piece and created our own using pencils to sketch, crayon to outline and watercolours to paint. Take a look!

Week 1 in 1st Class!

Welcome back girls, 1st class gave a big welcome to Emily and Seoirsia who have joined our class this year!
It’s been so lovely to see all of your smiling faces back at school this week.
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22nd - 26th of June

 Hi everyone,
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We are now into the final few days of Senior Infants- what a year it has been! We have missed you all so much over the past few weeks and are so disappointed that we will not get to see you before you finish up for the summer.

However, we do have some good news! This week we will be organising a show and tell zoom call with you all. It will take place on Friday the 26th at 1pm. We will be sending you all an email this week with some further details. It would be great if you could let us know by Wednesday if you would like to be included in the zoom call so that we can send you on the link to join. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to email us.

Well done to everyone that took part in sports week- it looked like you all had a great time! This week we would like you to focus on cooking.  It would be great if you could help your parents with the masterchef competition- You can find out the full detail on the school home page and you can all see what the teachers have been cooking.

​We have included lots of fun ideas in the chart attached below that you can choose from each day. As always, don’t forget to send us on some photos.

We hope you are all keeping safe and well and look forward to hearing from many of you on the zoom call,
Ms Sherwin and Ms Quigg
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 PAWS water safety book. Click on this link to read the book ​https://online.flowpaper.com/7efd0784/PAWS1ENGLISHWEB/#page=1
Click on this link to play some water safety games ​http://paws.edco.ie/junior-and-senior-infants/
What have Senior Infants been up to ?

15th - 19th of June

Hi everyone,
We hope you all had a lovely weekend :)
We have some very exciting news!! This week we are hosting a virtual sports week. The main focus for this week is to be as active as possible. The active school page will be posting different activities each day for you to practise to get you ready for our virtual sports day this Friday. Try your best to do as many as the activities as you can each day- we promise they are lots of fun! We would love if you could send us on some photos of you trying out the activities. We will be emailing certificates of participation to the girls that take part :) Sport day this year will be very different, but you can have just as much fun from your home- why not get the whole family involved?

As you will be so busy getting active this week, we have decided to give you a lot less work.  This week we would like you to continue to read each day, practise your sounds, play some counting games and participate in the virtual sports week.
There is also a poster competition which has been posted on the Learning at Home page that might like to get involved in :)

Ms Quigg is still running the baking/cooking competition every week. All you have to do is take a picture of something you bake/cook and send it to Ms. Quigg by Friday.  A big well done to Molly who won the cooking competition for this week, her Homemade Pizza looked so Yummy. Head on over to the cookery page if you would like some ideas. 

Have a fun and active week and don't forget to send on your photos,
Ms Sherwin and Ms Quigg

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Congratulations Senior Infants!! You are the winners of last weeks daily mile challenge. We are so proud of you all :) Make sure you send on your distance travelled this week on Friday to see if you can win 2 weeks in a row! 
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8th - 12th of  June

We hope you are all keeping well and helping out your parents at home as much as possible We’re into our last month of school now, time is flying in. We are missing you all so much. Thank you again to everyone who has engaged in distance learning. We have attached you list of work below, try your best to do as much work as you can and of course enjoy the beautiful weather too. Don't forget to send us on some photos if you can :) ​

Ms Quigg is still running the baking/cooking competition every week. All you have to do is take a picture of something you bake/cook and send it to Ms. Quigg by Friday.  A big well done to Brianna who won the cooking competition for this week, her Shepherds Pie looked so Yummy. Head on over to the cookery page if you would like some ideas. 

If you have any questions or have anything you would like to tell us or show us just drop us an email. We love hearing from you. 
We will be giving you all a phone call this week to check in on you and see how you are getting on. 
Missing you loads,
Keep Smiling :)
Ms. Quigg and Ms Sherwin. 
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To listen to the pronunciations of this weeks Gaeilge vocabulary use the following website - https://www.focloir.ie/  . Type in the word in English and click the speaker button beside the Irish word to hear the pronunciation :) 

English Resources

Maths Resources

Gaeilge Resources

PE Resources

SESE Resources

SPHE and Visual Arts Resources

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Take a look at the amazing work the girls in Senior Infants have been doing at home and the fun activities they have been getting up to. If you would like to see your picture here just email one onto Ms.Quigg or Ms. Sherwin :) 

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1st - 5th of June

 Hi everyone,
We hope you are all keeping well and enjoying the sunshine ☀️ We have a very exciting new theme for Aistear this month- Fairytales! Each week we will focus on a new fairytale. It would be great if you could set up your own fairytale role play area! We have attached a list of work for this week and resources below. As you were due to be off school Monday and Tuesday, we have included a list of some fun activities and challenges that you could try out on those days.

Try your best to do as much work as you can and of course enjoy the beautiful weather too. Don't forget to send us on some photos if you can :) ​
Don't forget to enter Ms Quigg's Junior MasterChef Competition if you would like to be in with a chance of winning one day where you do not have to complete any school work. This weeks Winner is Fiadh Peyton! Well Done Fiadh! :) If you would like to enter just send a picture of what you have made to msquigg.stjohnofgodartane@gmail.com. Good Luck Girls :D 

We hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend!
Ms Sherwin & Ms Quigg
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 25th - 29th of May☀️

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Hi girls,
I hope you are all safe and well☺️
The work for the next week and all all the resources are attached below.
Well done to everyone who took part in the the daily mile challenge last week, we clocked up a great distance once again💪🏻 We’ll be the fittest class in the school!🏃🏻‍♀️ It would be great if some more of you could join in in the challenge this week, let’s see if we can get 150km 🌟

Well done to all of you who entered Ms.Quigg's cooking competition last week, your creations looked so delicious. Huge Congratulations to Ella Ryan, who was the winner for the week from Senior Infants. If you would like to enter something this week all you have to do is send Ms. Quigg a picture at msquigg.stjohnofgodartane@gmail.com  👩🏻‍🍳 you can win a pass to get a day with no school work just like Ella did this week ☺️Best of luck 💫


It has be so lovely to get all pictures from you all of all the great work that you have been completing. We hope to get them again this week. 
Keep up the all the great work,
Missing you loads, 
Keep Smiling :) 
Ms Quigg and Ms Sherwin x

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Extra Resources to the Jungle :) 

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Extra Maths Resources :)

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Happy Birthday!!!

Hi Girls,
Hope you are all doing great and enjoying the great weather! We know a lot of you have had to cancel your birthday parties, so this is just a shout out to all of you who missed celebrating your birthday with your friends due to COVID 19. Hopefully someday really soon you will all get a chance to celebrate with your family and friends! We hope that you got to mark the occasion in some way! It will be a birthday that you will never forget.
                                                                                                             HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:

Brianna Lawless on the 12th of March, Sophie Doherty Flood on the 13 of March,  Maya on the 13th of March, Sarah on the 19th of March, Kasie on the 10th of April, Ella on the 21st of April, Sophie Solinska on the 28th of April, Molly on the 29th of April. 

Keep Smiling Girls :)
Ms Quigg and Ms Sherwin 

May 18th - 22nd 

Hi girls,
We hope you are all keeping safe and well at home. Well done to everyone that took part in the art competition - you all did a fantastic job, we were very impressed!! Congratulations to our winners :) Thank you so much for your emails and for sending on some photos- we love hearing how you are getting on at home. 
Here is a list of work for this week. We do not expect you to get it all done- just do what you can. Your best is enough!!  Don't forget to try your best to send on some photos of your work if you can :)

Just a little reminder girls that Ms.Quigg will be hosting a cooking competition for the next few weeks. Each week she will pick two winners and they will get a certificate and get to pick one day where they have to do very little school work. All you have to do is send in your pictures to Ms.Quigg at msquigg.stjohnofgodartane@gmail.com by 5pm on Friday. The winners will then be announced on Sunday Evening! :) Good luck girls :D 

Have a fun week,
​Ms Sherwin and Ms Quigg
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11th - 15th May

Hi girls,
We hope you all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the sunshine ☀️ Well done to all the girls that took part it Active Home Week, we were really impressed by how many of you took part! If you haven’t sent on your chart yet there’s still time to send it on this week 😊
Active school has set a new challenge for the next few weeks. We want you to run/walk as much as you can each day and record your distance using a parents phone, watch, google maps-whichever works for you! Send us in your total weekly distance every Friday and we will add up the total distance for Senior infants. The class who runs/walks the furthest distance will win some special active vouchers to be used when we get back to school. The teachers will be taking part too and we really want the Senior Infants to win some vouchers so make sure you send in your distances! 🏃‍♀️ Check out the active school page for more info.


Don’t forget this Wednesday 13th of May @5pm is the deadline to send in a picture of a piece of artwork to be entered into the school art competition. Well done to the girls who have already sent in a picture, it’s going to be a tough competition!!


Here is a list of work and resources for this week. There is no pressure to complete all of the work, just do what you can. Don’t forget to send us on some picture of your completed work, we love to see how you are getting on at home.


Have a fun, active and safe week.
We miss you all,
Ms Sherwin and Ms Quigg
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4th - 8th of May

Hi girls,
We hope you are all keeping safe and well at home. Well done to everyone that took part it Active Home Week last week- it was a great success! Don't forget to send us on a picture of your completed Active Home Week Chart as soon as you can. Try your best to continue to keep active for 60 minutes each day- there are lots of fun ideas on the active school page!
This week it would be great to see you working hard in the kitchen- check out the new Cookery Club section on the website for some delicious recipes- send us on some photos if you decide to give cooking/baking a go!
 
This month our theme for Aistear is The Airport.  We have included some resources and ideas in a folder below. You may like to print out some of the colouring sheets or word cards or you could make your own! Try your best to engage in Aistear each day and to write an aistear plan.
We would love to see some pictures of you in action during Aistear- you could set up your own aeroplane, check in desks, etc and get your siblings or parents involved in the fun!
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Read along to Hippospotamus with Ms Sherwin!
Gaeilge PowerPoint 

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School Closure work 27th of April - 1st of May

Hi Girls,
We hope everyone is well and is staying safe at home. We really love hearing from you all and getting all of your emails, we can really see the progress that you are all making and you should all be so proud of all the hard work that you are doing. If there is anything in particular that you want us to put up on the class page send us an email and a little sentence explaining what you are doing/have done in the picture.

Exciting news! This week is ACTIVE HOME WEEK! You have received an Active home chart to fill out this week!
Get creative and think of new ways to be active for 60 minutes or even more each day from Monday-Sunday!
If you could send some pictures of you being active to us that would be great☺️ We’ll upload all the pictures onto our active schools section of our website then!

Have a fun, energetic and safe week! 
We miss you all,

Ms Sherwin and Ms Quigg :)
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Extra Money Resources

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Art Competition 

​More exciting news, we are holding a School Art competition! You can put your art packs to great use and draw or paint ANYTHING that interests you! You have lots of time so don’t rush your creation! Make sure you email me a picture of your finished piece before Wednesday the 13th of May 🎨

PE Surveys

Hi everyone, we would greatly appreciate if parents and pupils could fill out the surveys below. The surveys will only take approximately 3 minutes each and your feedback will greatly help us to continue improving PE and yard time at school!
Pupil Questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/66SR727
Parent Questionnaire: ​https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z9VP7FJ

April 20th - 24th 

Hi girls,

We hope you all had a lovely Easter and are keeping well at home. We have loved getting your emails with pictures of the great work that you have all been doing. It looks like you are all working really hard and getting very creative at home.

Unfortunately, we will not be returning to school this week, so here is some work that you can complete at home. We will be attaching some PowerPoints here to accompany some of the work which may help you to learn some new topics. Once again, there is no pressure to complete it all, just do what you can. We would love to see some pictures of you in action in aistear at home, your artwork, how you are keeping active, and of course some school work- send them onto your class teacher via email.
Don't forget you can tune into RTE Home School Hub on RTE2 daily from 11am-12pm.
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Stay safe,
Ms Sherwin & Ms Quigg
Use this link to revise some of the poems that we have been learning throughout the year.
https://content.yudu.com/web/1yssw/0A224cw/BookOfNurseryRhymes/html/index.html?origin=reader
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Easter Learning Activities 🐣🐰​

Hi Girls,
Well done on all of the online learning work you have been doing girls. We love getting your emails of all of cool and fun things you have been doing and all of the great work that you are all doing. Don't forget to help out at home too! Ask your parents what chores you can help out with for example making your bed, setting the table, tidying away your toys etc.

We
hope everyone is well and is staying safe at home. For the next week our Integrated Learning theme is Easter. Here is a choice of activities you could do at home if you wish. You are doing a great job and as long as the girls are happy and safe then that’s all that matter.

We hope you all have a lovely and safe Easter and don’t eat too much chocolate!! Remember to keep trying to get a bit of fresh air every day and a bit of exercise. (a fun way to do this during Easter is to do an Easter hunt in your garden or around your house).
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Happy Easter, We miss you loads and can't wait to see you soon.
Ms Sherwin and Ms Quigg
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Raz-kids Reading

We have set up an account for all the pupils on this website. This website allows them to complete readers at their own level and move up accordingly. They can also record themselves reading and it has different activities in literacy. Through this, we can monitor their reading and look at different activities completed.

This can be found through the following link:
https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login/DesktopVersion/y

We have class accounts created which they can join, the usernames are:
For Ms Sherwin’s class: MsSherwin
For Ms Quigg’s class: MsQuigg

If you would like your daughter to take part, please email their class teacher at: mssherwin.stjohnofgodartane@gmail.com or msquigg.stjohnofgodartane@gmail.com

and we will send on their individual passwords to log in. Again, there is no pressure to complete this.
This website is new to us too so we will see how it goes! :)


As well as this, Amazon have cancelled all subscriptions of books and audio stories for children, so they can be instantly streamed on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet by using the following link: http://stories.audible.com/discovery. These stories come in 6 different languages!

Monday 30th March- Friday 3rd April

Hi girls,

We hope you are all keeping safe and well at home. We have attached a pdf of work that you could do during this week to keep you busy. Please do as much as you can there is no pressure to complete it all!
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More importantly, remember to stay at home and keep your social distance from others. Continue to wash your hands for 20 seconds (2 happy birthdays) throughout the day with warm water and soap and remember to cough into your elbow or a tissue!
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We have attached our emails below, if you have any questions about the work please send us an email and we will get back to you as soon as we can. You can also send us on pictures of the work you have completed or some artwork that you have created.

​mssherwin.stjohnofgodartane@gmail.com
​msquigg.stjohnofgodartane@gmail.com
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We hope to see you all very soon,
​Ms. Sherwin and Ms.Quigg
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27/03/20

Hi Girls,
Here is your new challenge for today:
  • Writing: Keep a simple Diary of your days spent at home. Write about the things that you can see in your Bedroom or Kitchen e.g I can see a _______. Write a card/letter for a loved one that you might not be able to see during this time.
  • Dictation: Call out some simple sentences and see if your child can write them.  Get them to sound out the words if they are finding it difficult to spell them but don't worry about the spelling (let them be inventive) e.g I went to the Park.

25/03/20

Hi Girls :D
Here is your new challenge for today:
  • Make a list of all the letters and sounds you can remember! Can you write a big list of all the tricky words you know? Count how many you got?
  • Youtube: Check out alphablocks, Jolly Phonics, Geraldine the Giraffe, Lotty Learns & Epic Phonics
  • Here are some activities that might help the girls with their tricky words and phonics :)
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Hi Girls :)
We really hope that you are all keeping safe and well. Keep an eye on this page every few days as we will be putting up a different challenge for you all to try at home every few days. In school we have done a lot of work on patterns. Today we want you all to use the skills that you have learned about patterns and matching and sorting to help with the washing. Help your Mum or Dad to pair ALL the socks that are in the washing basket after they have been washed.  Here are also some PDFs of games or activites that you could print out if you want and play. 

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School Closure work

Hi everyone,

We hope everyone is keeping well and looking after themselves over these next few weeks. We have sent home a number of books with your daughter to keep them busy over the few weeks. We would like to stress that all of the work we have sent home is revision so please do not feel under pressure to get this work completed. You can decide on how much or how little your daughter should complete over the next few weeks, we will not be looking for all of this work to be completed, it is just to keep them busy! There will also be some interactive games and websites on the schools main home page.
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Fireworks Giants Puppets and Ducks: Page 3, 4, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30 and 32

Handwriting Today: Your daughter can practice any of the lowercase letters that they like. Please do not do the Capital letters as the girls have not been taught cursive capital letters yet.

Planet maths homework book: Page 7, 8 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.

Sketch copies: The girls can sketch any items that they spot from around the house. They could also use Art for Kids Hub on youtube to follow a step by step guideline on how to draw various farm animals.

Tricky words and sounds: Please revise all tricky words and sounds daily if possible. All Jolly phonics sounds are available on youtube.  Geraldine Giraffe on Youtube could also be used to revise words associated with different sounds. We have also attached a picture  down below of all of the sounds that we have completed this year.

Paired reading: We have sent home additional paired reading books for your daughter to read each day with an adult. These can be re-read over the time off.

Active homework: We have attached a file of some active homework the girls could complete to stay active over the coming weeks.

Looking forward to seeing all of your smiling faces soon.
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Kind regards,
Ms. Sherwin and Ms.Quigg
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Dance

The girls have been working really hard on their dance moves this month. Here are some photos of them making some shapes using different body parts. I’m sure they would love to show you their great moves at home!

Pancake Tuesday

The girls made some delicious pancakes and crepes with a great selection of yummy toppings!

Aistear

The girls love being creative using blocks and sand in Aistear!

Making Jelly

The girls in Senior Infants had great fun this week making Jelly! We combined Capacity in Maths and Material and change and Hot and Cold in science, plus a whole lot of fun and ended up with some very tasty Jelly! Even Brownie Bear got in on the Fun.

Reindeer Food
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The girls in Senior Infants had great fun making magical reindeer food to put out on Christmas Eve for the Reindeers. The girls used there maths skills to measure out each of the ingredients.

20 Day Challenge

Well done for completing the 20 day challenge in December!
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Maths for fun!


Making shapes and patterns!

The skittles experiment

We love to do science experiments in senior infants!

Aistear- The Witch kitchen

Our Aistear theme for October was the witch kitchen. We had great fun in role as witches casting spells, building towers and castles for witches, making potions in the potion lab and lots of fun art!

Our autumn walk

We had great fun looking for signs of Autumn around the school. We collected leaves, acorns, conkers and helicopter leave leaves!

Crazy hair day!

Aistear- The seaside/Summer

Aistear- The Hairdressers

St. Valentine's Day Painting

Maths for Fun!!

Aistear
At The Airport

We are really enjoying our Yoga classes every Tuesday...

Our Autumn Walk....

Pumpkin Painting 

Freaky Hair Friday...

Hedgehog Art..

WELCOME TO JUNIOR INFANTS

Check back regularly to keep up with the latest goings on in Room 4!
Here are the Junior Infants getting used to their new classroom and making new friends on the first few days of school
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