Step up week!

As part of Step up week in our school each class had to record the number of steps they did each day. The class with the highest number of steps at the end of each week won either the golden boot, silver boot or the flip flop. Room 2 have been so busy - we counted up to 20,000 steps during Step up week in January! We went on our Shape walk, danced to Zumba in our classroom and did our exercises in the yard every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Last Friday it was announced that Room 2 came 3rd in the whole school and we get to keep the flip flop in our classroom! Teacher is so so proud of all the boys and girls in Room 2.

Santa's Visit to Scoil Mhuire

On the very last day of term before Christmas Holidays we had a very very special visitor to Scoil Mhuire- Santa!! We all gathered in the hall, just as we were sitting down we could hear the sound of the bells and Santa's Sleigh landing on the roof of the hall. This was so exciting!! A few minutes later Santa arrived in to the hall with a bag full of sweets and presents on his back. Each class sang Santa different Christmas songs, Junior Infants sang ' Here comes Santa Claus'. Santa gave us a bag of jellies each. We had such a lovely day.

Here are some pictures of us wearing our lovely Christmas Jumpers in the hall for Santa's Visit.

Christmas in Room 2

December was a very busy month for us in Room 2!! We spent most of the month practising for our very own Nativity Play - The Sleepy Shepherd. We had such fun learning all the different songs and lines for our play. We worked so hard every day and we finally performed the play for our parents and the whole school during the last week of school. Teacher was so proud of us and said that we were brilliant!!

Here are some pictures of us during the dress rehearsal for our Christmas Play.

The day after the play we all watched our selves on the whiteboard in Room 3. We had such fun looking at everyone singing all the songs and saying all their lines.

As part of our Christmas Art we made some Christmas Trees and Rudolph by cutting out triangles and cutting and pasting them on to pages. We used glitter to decorate our Christmas trees and we all got to pick a star to put on top too. Take a look at our wonderful Art from December!

December in Room 2

Our school got a very special visit from the RSA in December. Two people who work for the RSA came in and spoke to us about Road Safety. They laid out a big road in the hall. Each class got their turn to go down to the hall. We learned all about where it is safe and unsafe to cross the road. We know that we should only cross the road at traffic lights when the light is green and at the zebra crossing. We also learned that we should never cross the road at corners or at red lights. Here are some pictures of us practicing our safe cross code skills in the hall. We all took turns at being pedestrians, cyclists and even the bus!! It was such good fun.

At the end of the lesson we all got our very  own licence to bring home and show our mammies and daddies!

Planting Onions

Since our theme was Food in November. We all went out to the garden to plant our very own onions. Teacher handed us our own bulb that we had to plant in the soil. John Kelly, our caretaker,  was very kind and helped dig each patch of soil for us to put our onion in to. We then learned that the onions need water, soil and sunshine to grow. We hope to come back out to the garden in May or June to bring our very own onions home to our Mammies and Daddies. 

Here are some pictures of us planting our onions :)

November in Room 2

Our theme for the month of November was Food. We learned all about the different types of food we have in our world and learned about healthy and unhealthy food. As part of our theme teacher decided to bring in loads of fruit for us to try, we tried pineapples, grapes, berries, apples, oranges and strawberries! We used words like juicy, sour and sweet to describe the food we were eating! We really loved this day as we got to try fruit we have never tried before. Teacher is also very impressed because some of us are starting to bring in loads of fruit as part of our lunches each day. Here are some pictures of us trying some fruit in Room 2.

As part of our Aistear this month we went to visit the Cafe in the leisure centre in preparation for setting up our own Cafe in Room 2's role play area. We each had to bring in 2 euro and we got to order a drink and snack each at the counter. We learned to say please and thank you to the lady working in the cafe. We had great fun in the cafe and are looking forward to returning again.

Here are some pictures of us working away in our very own Cafe in Room 2

Halloween in Room 2

This week was a very exciting week in school! It was the week before our halloween holidays and we had really good fun in Room 2. We had our green school fashion show on Thursday. Every class in the school had to make a costume out of recycled materials, we chose to make capes in our class! We all got a sheet of plastic each and we got to stick on paper, glitter, materials and fabric. We had great fun making these and teacher thought we all did an amazing job!!Here we are in our classroom before the fashion show in the hall. Don't we look fantastic!!

On Friday we were allowed to dress up in our own costumes! Teacher was so impressed with all the different costumes. We had spider-man, superman, princesses , firemen, skeletons, vampires, devils, witches and even pirates!! Here are some pictures of us in our costumes.

We also made a witches potion in our class. Teacher brought in a cauldron, ingredients and a magic wand. We all got the chance to stir our magic potion. We decided to cast a magic spell that teacher would give us sweets at the end of the day, our spell came true!! We threw frogs legs, pumpkin juice and witches blood in to our potion. We watched it bubble and change colour as we stirred it. Here are some pictures of us with the magic witches potion!

During the week we made pumpkin masks as part of our Art Station in Aistear. We coloured them green, orange and black and cut them out. We decided that we would wear these on our way home on Friday after school to try and scare our Mammies and Daddies! Try and find us in the picture! Teacher thinks we look really scary!!

Happy Halloween from teacher and all the boys and girls in Room 2!!