Our themes this month were winter, clothes and belonging.  Our Aistear areas were as follows:
Role Play Corner - the clothes shop
Small World - Our Class
Sand - The Arctic
Construction - Duplo
Creative - Winter playdough mats

We have been working on making patterns using 3 step sequencing.  We had lots of practice using maths manipulatives and on Thursday we used MS Paint to create shapes and 3 step patterns

Last week's story was the Gingerbread Man.  We read the story, retold it in pairs, made a storyboard and put cut and stick gingerbread men in our scrapbooks.  On Friday we went to the staffroom to bake some gingerbread men.  It was lots of fun measuring out the ingredients, mixing, stirring and rolling.  The best part was eating them - they were delicious!  Some of the children were hoping the gingerbread men wouldn't run away before we ate them!

We have been working hard on sounding out and spelling cvc words.  We read the story "Zac the Rat" which you can read here.  Then we made lots of words from the story and wrote them on our whiteboards.

Happy New Year to all our families and friends.  We hope everybody had an enjoyable break.  The children in Room 6 did great work this week and I think everyone was happy to be back at school and see all their friends again.  Here is a quick synopsis of our work for the 2 weeks

English:

• Letters - Kicking King, Lucy Lamplady..  Revision of other letters.
• Reading - revision of sight words, Little Book 7 - The Telescope.  New sight words - up, went, down.
• Building cvc (3 letter) words using letters covered.
• Word families - the "en" family - pen, men, hen, ten, den
• Story - No room for a baby Roo, Penguins can't fly, The emperors egg, A winter's day, the Gruffalo's child, Ice Bear
• Rhymes - Humpty Dumpty and Little Bo Peep

Maths

• Counting games from "Mata sa Rang" programme.
• Number 2 - matching sets of 2, identifying and making sets of 2, writing the numeral 2, sorting sets of 1 and 2.
• Maths activities - Numicon, pegs, beads, pattern blocks

Gaeilge
Éadaí (clothes).

• cóta, hata, scairf, briste, gúna, geansaí, léine, carbhat, bróga, stocaí, sciorta, t-léine. (coat, hat, scarf, trousers, dress, jumper, shirt, tie, shoes, socks, skirt, t-shirt).
• Cuir ort/ bain díot/ croch suas do chóta/ hata. (Put on/ take off/ hang up your coat/ hat.
• Tá cóta/ geansaí/ bróga orm (I am wearing a coat/ jumper/ shoes)
• Cá bhfuil cónaí ort?  Ta cónaí orm i Sord (Where do you live?  I live in Swords)

Topics/ Aistear
Winter, Arctic and Antarctic animals and weather, Family and Belonging., clothes - esp winter clothes

Aistear Areas:

• Role Play - Clothes Shop
• Small World - My Class
• Sand - The Arctic
• Creative - winter playdough mats/ winter art
• Construction - Mobilo

For our last music lesson with Jenny with did some listening and responding to the The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky.  Here are some videos