Using our instruments

We were in a very musical mood this morning.

We played our instruments to the sound of some great kids songs.

Everyone could choose the instrument they wanted to play and then we swapped round lots.

We are proud of the music we can play!

Messy the Dragon

We heard a lovely story about "The Lonely Dragon".
We drew our dragon, did some drama based on our story and made a Voki avatar about our dragon.
We will probably do some artwork based on our dragon story too.

Amazing day!

Bhí an-lá againn in Indreabhán inniu.

Bhí na haisteoirí har bharr ar fad.

Tá an múinteoir har a bheith bródúil astibh go léir.

Maith sibh!!

We had a wonderful day at the Féile Scoildrámaíochta.

Teacher is so proud of all of us.  We were on our best behaviour, we did our best and we had a lot of fun.

We especially enjoyed our make-up session this morning, our bus journey, our lunch in a room beside the stage and above all  WE  LOVE  OUR  PLAY!

Acrobatic clowns

Keeper of the keys

We played a great drama game called "Keeper of the Keys".

In our version, one of the children is as the keeper of the keys and sits on a chair with the keys beneath him/her.  Another child steals the keys then rushes back to their own place and hides the keys.  Then our keeper can turn around and try and guess who has the keys.  This is a fun game.  We really enjoyed playing it.

Other versions of Keeper of the Keys:

We painted our clay snakes

Logic trail

These bears have been sorted so that each bear differs from the one before in one way only (either colour or size).  Can you figure out our sorting?

Bible stories

We have been reading some bible stories.

Here you can watch videos of the stories we have read.

Oisín in Tír na nÓg

We have been learning about the story of Oisin in Tir na nÓg.

You can watch the story here:

We acted out our own story.

Each team acted a little piece of the story.

You can see us in action here:

Mornings

We had free play this morning.

These are the activities with which we chose to play.

Fantastic News: Junior Spider Awards

Our class blog has been shortlisted for a 

Junior Spider Award.

We are so proud of all our pictures, work, videos, avatars and links to great educational sites.

The awards take place on March 5th in the RDS in Dublin.

Find out all about the awards on

Well done to all who update our blog on a regular basis!

Dress rehearsal

"Banríon Cliste"  Ms. McLoughlin's Senior infants, Room 5

Learning about Post

Check out this amazing link:

From seed to tree

We are learning all about LifeCycles.

Today we read a book called "Acorn to Oak Tree".

We went outside to see and compare the buds from the Horse Chestnut tree with the buds from the Ash tree.

We noticed that Horse Chestnut buds are big, brown and very sticky, where as the buds from the Ash tree are small, black and very pointy.

Outdoors PE

It was such a lovely day.

We had PE outside in the clós.

We also noticed the flags on the flagpoles.

Our class love flags!

Making clay snakes

Look at our finished snakes!

Vote for Laura!

Laura from our class has been selected as one of the 15 infant finalists in this year's

Doodle4Google My Invention competition.

Now it goes to public vote so please please vote for Laura and encourage all your friends and family to vote for Laura too.

Here's the link:

Ag cleachtadh an dráma

Bhain muid an-taitneamh as an cleachtadh a bhí againn inniu.

Seo muid ag cleachtadh "Banríon Cliste"

agus seo "Na Trí Mhuca" ar an stáise!

A Castle Fit for Royalty!

 Look at the wonderful castle we have for our production of The Princess and the Pea.

We have some great weather effects too!

Many many thanks to Len Wright and his wife Val who cheerfully make and decorate the sets and props for us each year.  We couldn't do it without you!

Spring is here!

 Look at the lovely snowdrops, narcissi and crocuses growing beside our front door.

 Seeing the new flowers remind us that Spring is really here!