Blog Archives - St. Cronan's Junior National School Brackenstown, Swords

Ms. power's senior infants, room 4

29/9/2012

We have 23 children in our class - 12 boys and 11 girls. We work hard and we have lots of fun too!

Artist's chair - leaf rubbings

26/9/2012

We worked as leaf detectives and examined the leaves we brought to school. We made colourful leaf rubbings with oil pastels on A3 white paper.

Culture box

21/9/2012

We made a culture box with artefacts from around the world.

Caoimhe showed us a fly swatter from Ethiopia.
Billy told us about the Indian elephant.
Jake brought in chop sticks from China.
Izabela made a Polish flag. We compared an English fairy tale book to a Polish fairy tale book.
Heather showed us stamps from Malta and told us that Malta is in the Mediterranean Sea.
Amber brought in an American dollar.
Hannah had a Miraculous Medal from Medjugorje.
Kaya made a collage of currency and photographs from Turkey. He told us that Merhaba means Hello!
Alan showed us a miniture bus from Switzerland.
Sam let us look at his book from Lanzarote.

We have been very busy!

artist's chair

19/9/2012

We looked at and felt lots of different materials. Then we designed and created our own flag for our make-believe country!

Our timeline

3/9/2012

We can read

3/9/2012

Look at all the words we remember from Junior Infants.