About: Ciara Mooney

We explored the theme of The Farm in Small world this month. The children had lots of fun sorting the animals into fields and pens. They demonstrated great imaginative play and practised using the vocabulary of farm animals in this area. In construction we used the big wooden blocks this month to create buildings and…

This month we have been learning about homes. We have spoken about our own individual homes during language lessons. We made homes in art and craft, played homes in role play, learned about the Three Little Pigs story and constructed homes from wooden bricks and lego. We also learning some great cleaning skills which we…

The children were very excited to go on their first nature walks of primary school. We looked at the trees in the school grounds, counted them, collected fallen leaves and completed an orienteering activity in our class pods. We read the story 'Stuck' by Oliver Jeffers and created very funny pictures in our copies as…

This month we are practising counting forwards and backwards. We like to line up our objects and count slowly, touching each object as we go. We are getting very good at sorting sets by colour, shape and height. We made fantastic pictures using coloured sticks. We have started to use dice during maths time so…

The children have been getting used to the materials and Aistear spaces. They have created fantastic structures in construction and made lovely picnics in the kitchen.