Sight Words 2

We have learned more sight words.

Note: We have not learned "we" yet.

To introduce each word I read a story which contains the word on each page.

You can read these stories with your children. Ask your child to find the words they know.
Some stories are a pdf file from mothershubbard.com, others are in powerpoint.

make



not



one



play



red



said




the



up



we



yellow

St. Patrick's Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge

Every year we enjoy a fortnight in school where we celebrate all things Irish! We call it Seachtain na Gaeilge. We make an effort to speak as Gaeilge (in Irish) and have a number of special events taking place. Have a look at what we did in Room 2.

 We made St. Patrick's Day headbands in the lead up to the Special Day. We coloured in Shamrocks and cut them out. The shamrocks were then stapled to a band of paper. Teacher had to measure around our heads to make sure they fit. Don't they look fantastic!

On Friday we wore green. We had a special dance in the hall called a Ceili. During PE we learned an Irish dance. We performed the dance on the hall in front of the whole school. We were fantastic!

We watched the other classes perform too. We had a great day!

Earlier in the day we found a picture. It fell out of teacher's Leabhar Rolla. We didn't know where it came from. We had a think and realised that the Leprechauns must have put it there! They sent us on a treasure hunt around the classroom.

We needed some special magic to open the box. We used a magic Irish wand and our Irish phrase, Oscail é más é do thoil é, (open it, please) to finally unlock the box. Inside the box we found the leprechaun's gold coins!

We took part in an art competition. The competition was based on a seanfhocal (an Irish proverb). The proverb is "Giorraíonn beirt bóthar." This means that two people shorten the road i.e. two is company. Here are some of our drawings.

And here is our winner! Well done Sophie!

We learned about Irish instruments. We listened to Irish music and played instruments to the beat. Then we put down the instrument and did some 1,2,3s! 

We Are A Box Of Crayons...

This week is European Week Against Racism. All the children in the Junior Infant classes listened to the story "The Crayon Box That Talked." This is a book that promotes working together, tolerance and respect. Listen to the story here.

We each painted a crayon and now all the children in Junior Infants are in the big crayon box! We are all so different but we get along with everyone in our class. We are all at our best when we work together and play with each other!

World Book Day

We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday, the 5th March. We didn't have to wear our uniforms. Some of us brought in our favourite book. We told the rest of the class about our favourite part of the book.

Teacher read her favourite story, "A Squash and a Squeeze" by Julia Donaldson.

Have a listen.

Happy Mother's Day!

We love to make our mammies feel special. This Mother's Day we had two presents for our mammies.

We walked to Newlands Garden Centre last Thursday. We walked in twos. We walked up through the top yard and through the grounds of Scoil Íde to get to the main road. We walked on the path.

When we got to the garden centre we wrote our names on little cards. We went out to the back and planted primroses and daffodils into a little basket. We carried the baskets back to school. That evening we gave the flower baskets to our mammies for mother's day.

We also made a beautiful tulip picture. Earlier in the week we used our handprint to make the flower and painted a green stem underneath.

On Friday we coloured the "Happy Mother's Day" that is written on top of the page.

We read the story "I Love My Mummy" before we went home that evening.

We hope all the mammies had a great day on Sunday.

Corfhéile Performance

Last Wednesday we went to the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght to perform at the Corfhéile Concert.

We travelled there on the bus.

When we got there we sat in our seats to listen to other classes perform.

When it was our turn we sang "Listen Here", "Lámha Suas, An Feidir Leat?" and "Listen."

It was so much fun!

Some mammies and daddies made it to the show. Thanks for coming!

The judges gave us great feedback.

Travel and Transport

We learned all about Travel and Transport during February.

We drew some vehicles. We talked about where they travel and the different parts of the vehicles.

We drew cars. A car travels on the road.

We drew trains. A train travels on the tracks.

We drew boats. A boat travels on the sea.

We drew airplanes. An airplane flies in the sky.

When we had the writing box in the morning we drew more vehicles!

We sorted vehicles into air, water and land vehicles.

We matched vehicles to where they travel.

We sorted old and new vehicles.

This is our journey from home to school. We drew the things we see on our way.

We sequenced going on a bus.

We acted it out too!

We learned the rhyme Here comes the big red bus.


During Aistear we played with the cars and we played in the travel agents shop. We used a lot of language to do with travel and vehicles.

We learned the rhyme There Was an Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe. We drew shoe houses. Here they are up on the wall.