We returned to school for our final term of Junior Infants on Monday and we have been making the most of the beautiful weather ever since. We have been playing lots of new games in PE: cups and saucers, find the cone, Glas agus Dearg and Flush the Toilet. We also went on a nature walk around the school looking at the lovely trees, flowers and insects that are growing around us.
We had a lovely run up to the Easter holidays in our class. We used clay for the first time and created Easter pots, which we later painted and placed our own chicks inside. We painted our own Easter chicks hatching out of an Easter egg too. We had an Easter Egg hunt in the pre-school garden which was very fun and exciting, we found lots of chocolate eggs. We had a party in our class too, played musical statues, pass the parcel and watched an Easter movie!
We have been celebrating St. Patrick and Ireland for the month of March. We have learned all about who St. Patrick was and why he is so special to Ireland. We also have been using lots of words we know in Irish for Seachtain na Gaeilge, as well as songs and dancing. We have created our own Irish flags and we had a lovely party too. We had a big Céilí in the yard with the other classes in the school where we showed our moves to our dance "Cuir bróg ar an asal."
We had a brilliant day for Sports Day! We got involved in lots of activities including: the egg and spoon race, an obstacle course, basketba...
