Our Class

Here is the group of superheroes in Junior 3 

Music: The African Drum

Pride Flag 

Working Hard!

Out on a walk to Dangan Nurseries

On Thursday some of us went on a walk up to Dangan Nurseries; not alone did we get to see some lovely flowers but we got to see some animals too- the hens were a firm favourite!

Taking a rest whilst out for our walk!

Music

Seesaw

Bye Bye Butterfly!

The Glockenspiel 

Our Butterflies!

Giant Numbers and Letters Puzzle

Music

Our band has really come together; we will be ready to play at all the Summer Festivals!

Writing

We have Butterflies!

​Mr Whippy!

Festival in a Van

Story Time: Driving My Tractor

This story is a firm favourite in Junior 3, we love the song too- check it out below!

Butterfly Lifecycle Update

Our caterpillars were in their cocoons and it looks like they are nearly ready to transform into butterflies... we are so excited!

Music- The Bongo Drums

Teamwork

Music

Water Play

Aistear: The Farm

Music

Playing the African Drum

Sponsored Walk

The Hobbit House

Junior 3 had a farm E-I-E-I-O...

Our New Theme for May: The Farm

Here are some baby lambs from a farm in County Galway.

Here is a little calf, soon he will grow into a big cow.

Caterpillar Update

Our caterpillars are now in their cocoons and we have placed them in the butterfly garden, we can't wait to see what happens next!

Caterpillar Update

Our caterpillars have grown very big over the last few days, they are very hungry too! But they don't eat ice-creams like in our story this week of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. We sent our caterpillars off on holidays for the week today; we hope that they will start to make their cocoon homes soon; we can't wait for them to turn into 'big beautiful butterflies'.  

Music with the famous Tracy

If you are looking for new band members Tracy make sure to keep us in mind, our vocals and instrument playing is top class!

Practicing our Baseball in Physical Education

The Bonding Blanket

​Creativity in Junior 3

Using the balance beam to make a seesaw. how clever are we?

Colour Matching & Athletics in Physical Education

Story Time: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We are learning all about the lifecycle of a butterfly, the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' helps us to understand how our caterpillars will grow and hopefully become beautiful butterflies, check out the story below

The Lifecycle of a Frog

​​There was great excitement in our class this week when we got to take a trip up to the office to watch the tadpoles eating breakfast

Caterpillar Update From Junior 3

Our caterpillars are getting really big, take a look at the picture below to see how big they've grown!

The Lifecycle of a Butterfly Songs

We really hope our caterpillars will grow into beautiful butterflies

Music

Visiting the School Sensory Garden

Bus Outing to the Playground

Following the Hula Hoop Path

Art

Physical Education

Chill Out Zone

Some Very Hungry Caterpillars arrived in Junior 3 this week

Colour Sorting

Using the Interactive Whiteboard to play Easter games

The Playground

The Easter Bunny came to visit us!

The Great Junior 3 Bake Off

We had a great afternoon practicing our culinary skills in the classroom; we made chocolate nests with mini-eggs, sampling our delicacies was the best part!... We weren't so keen on the tidy up though

Our first task was to break up the chocolate so it would melt easy in the microwave... some of us tested out the chocolate to make sure it was up to standard!

Next we had to shred our shredded wheat to make it look like straw from a nest... this was so much fun!

Teresa melted the chocolate in the microwave for us... Thanks Teresa!

Then we mixed the melted chocolate in with our shredded wheat!

Then it was time to scoop our mixture into the cupcake cases, this was a messy task and we had to be so careful not to spill any of our precious goods!

Then it was time to decorate our nests with eggs... not real ones though we prefer the chocolate kind!

Let's have an Easter Disco...

Ribbon Dancing 

A Dinosaur in our classroom

Balancing on the big ball

Look how strong we are...

Physical Education

Practicing our Balance

Physical Education with Karen

Using our iPads to learn

Spring Art

Friday 26th February 2021 brought an end to 'Remote Learning in Junior 3'. It will be so lovely to see everyone back together in school on Monday!

Physical Education with Karen

Working on our Fine Motor Skills

​Arts & Crafts we can do at home

Sweet Treats!

There's some chocoholics among us in Junior 3... Why not channel your inner Gordon Ramsay and get baking? Get the whole family involved and happy baking!!

Happy Mid-Term Break Everyone! Michelle, Lisa, Teresa, Stella and Jenna are so proud of the work we have done over the last few weeks at home and in school! We had loads of fun seeing our friends on Zoom and it was lovely to come back to school to see our new playground- thanks Sarah and everyone that made it happen! We are having so much fun! 

 Saying 'Hello' to our friends and staff on Zoom

Modelling our new Interactive Whiteboard

Happy Birthday... Another Junior 3 birthday this week! 

Pancake Tuesday

Exploring our new playground!

Bus Outing to Barna Playground

'Love Bugs'

Some fun things to do in the snow

Snow in our new playground

Some fun activities to do at home

Happy Birthday... Party Time!

There's a very big birthday in Junior 3 today! We can't wait to get back to have a party and celebrate in school!

Keep Calm and Dance!

We had such fun with Blaithin on our Zoom Dance class. Check out the songs below and dance along with us!

Here are some activities we can do at home

Who wants to be a Millionaire?.... We Do!!

We had so much fun with Grace and our friends on zoom this week! Our brilliant teamwork meant we got all the questions right. We are expecting our cheque in the post any day now!

Just Dance

We had great fun on Zoom with Blaithin and our friends from school. Below are some of the dances we did. 

Arts & Crafts

Some Winter arts & crafts that we can try at home! Have lots of fun!

STEM Challenges

 Junior 3 is full of great scientists, engineers, mathematicians. Try out some of these challenges at home.

Hide & Seek/ Scavenger Hunt

We love finding things that are hiding in the classroom! Have some fun looking for these things around the house- maybe ask some family members to help!

Winter

Our theme for the month of January is Winter. Use the video below to practice your Lámh signs for Winter.  

 Barefoot Books & Songs

Barefoot books are our all time favourite in Junior 3! We listen to them and read along on the interactive whiteboard. Some of us enjoy listening to the stories through our headphones and reading along with the book too. 

Let's Dance

We love nothing more than to dance in Junior 3. Check out some of our disco moves! We are practicing these dances on our whole school zoom meetings on Wednesday's with our dance teacher Blaithin!

Yoga

Here are some Yoga poses to practice!

Circle Time Songs

We begin every morning in school with Circle Time. We say 'Hello' to each other and discuss the day, the month, the year and the weather. We love singing and practicing our Lámh signs. 

Playdoh

We all got playdoh from Santa when he visited the school. Here are some fun things we can do with our playdoh!

Musical Instruments

Gather some materials from around the house and have fun making some musical instruments. Pour rice, lentils, pasta into a jar or bottle and shake! Or maybe have a 'Drum Disco' with some pots and pans in the kitchen!

Everyone in Junior 3 would like to wish all their friends and family a Happy New Year! We can't wait to get back to our classroom and have fun together learning with all our friends!

Unwrapping our presents

Presents under the tree

Santa

Christmas Jumper Day

We all loved wearing our Christmas jumpers to help raise funds for Crumlin Children's Hospital.

Our Trip to Cappagh Park Playground

We were all so excited on Tuesday last as we got to visit a new playground on our bus outing, we had so much fun on the swings, slides and climbing frame. Check out our lovely pictures below- Spidermen in training!

Mr Piano Man

Sing us a song Mr Piano Man, 
Sing us a song tonight,
We're all in the mood for a melody....

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Volcanoes

The Magic Glove

Making Playdough

This experiment involved some good clean fun... what a mess! We absolutely loved it. Our consistencies were a little off but like every good scientist it's all about trial and error.

Science Week

An exciting delivery arrived on Monday morning for the boys in Junior 3; we can't wait to see what's inside and have lots of fun with our Science experiments during the week. Little Einsteins in the making!

Three wise men sitting on a bench

Our new swings!

Music

Our band is coming together nicely. We should be ready to hit the charts any day now!

Halloween 

We had such fun at our Halloween fancy dress! We dressed up as pirates, witches, skeletons and we even had a certain Tony Holohan in the classroom for the day! We had a nice little party at the end of the day to round off our first half-term back to school!

Film Stars on RTÉ News

We had great fun being filmed during our Baboro Show. ​

Baboro

 For Culture Night in Galway this year, Phillida Eves and her team from Baboro brought their show "Hear Our Voice" to the school. Junior 3 and some friends from Junior 2 had great fun collecting pine cones, making a campfire, lying on blankets listening to music while shadow puppets cavorted above. It was a magical, multisensory experience for all the boys!

Bus Outing to Barna Woods 

Fine Motor Skills

Story-time

We had a new teacher when reading our story this week.

Music

Here we are setting up our own band. we would love for you to listen to our music. Here is one of our band members playing the glockenspiel!

Play Time

After all our hard work, we love to go outside to the playground for some fresh air and meet our other friends from the Junior school bubble.

Bus Outing

Once a fortnight we get to go on the school bus to see new places. This week we got to go to Dangan sports complex to run around on the pitches and running track. 

Mathematics

We are mathematicians in Junior 3. We absolutely love working with numicon. Numicon helps us to learn our numbers.