Planting onions!

Today we went to visit the school garden.
The gardener was there to show us around and point out all the different plants.
The gardener asked if we could help her with the very important job of planting onions.
We listened carefully when she showed us how to plant an onion bulb just right in the soil.

 

We planted 23 onion bulbs that we are hoping will grow into plants.





                           

We will visit the garden again over the next few months to see if our onion plants are growing.

We really enjoyed planting!!!

Colours!

We are learning the colours in school.

We had so much fun sorting our toys into different colours.

We worked in groups and sorted teddies, shapes, clips and animals into red, green, blue and red groups.

We did a great job working together!

Welcome to Junior Infants 2015/2016

Welcome to Ms. Gilligan's Junior Infants class 2015.
There are 23 children in our class, 11 girls and 12 boys.
We were all really excited for our very first day of Primary School this year.
We took these lovely photos to remember the fun we had on our first day at school.

At the end of the year we will look at these photos to see how much we have grown!

Learning about air experiment2!!!

We are learning about how hot air rises.

We looked at how a hot air balloon rises up and down.

We used spiral snakes to look at the hot air rising in our own classroom.

We hung some snakes over the radiator. We hung the other snakes over the round table.

We saw that the snakes over the radiator danced when the hot air from the radiator rose up.

Our snakes look lovely and colourful hanging in our classroom now.

Learning about air!!!

We are learning about air. We looked at balloons. When we let air out of a balloon it moved across the room. The air coming out the bottom of the balloon pushed the balloon around all over the place.

Next we made balloon rockets. We were able to control the balloon and get it to travel in a straight line by using string and a straw.

We had balloon rocket races in our classroom. It was so much fun. The rockets moved really fast!

Finger prints!

In science we looked at our fingerprints and handprints. We used bright paint to make our hand prints. It was messy and we had lots of fun! We used ink to look at our finger prints!

Did you know that everybody has a different finger print! Even identical twins have different finger prints!!

Our spring scene!!

As winter is over, we changed our winter scene to show the changes spring brings!!!!

You can see the snow is gone.

The grass and flowers are starting to grow!!

We made lovely 3-D daffodils!!!!

We used a toilet roll snd crepe paper!!