Welcome to Junior 1.
The pupils in our class are Sean, Brandon, Sergejs, Ben and Hanzala.
Our teacher is Geraldine and our Sna's are Deirdre,Carmel and Maretha.

Due to Covid 19 all schools are closed. To help keep in touch with all our pupils we will update our website regularly.
We hope everyone stays safe and healthy in this difficult time. We will post pictures of activities they were involved in over the last few months. The boys enjoy looking at pictures of their friends and talking about what they are doing.

Home Activities:

We can continue to practice our dressing skill's while we are at home.
Opening and closing our buttons. 
Putting on and off our shoes.
Opening and closing the zip on our coat.

Sensory Activities:

Here are just a few more activities that we have enjoy doing when we are in class. we might enjoy doing them at home.
Play-doh , Kinetic sand, Pasta and rice. We like feeling, squishing, pouring, scooping and moulding different shapes.

Birthdays:
Two pupils from our class will be celebrating their birthday this month.
We wish them a very Happy Birthday and we will celebrate when we get back to school.

Sensory Activities:
Here are just some activities that we enjoy doing in class.,
Exploring sensory toys.
Blowing bubbles, watching them go up,up,up and come down, down, down and then we go POP. 
Free Painting, hand prints, finger dots, choosing a colour using brushes and sponges to create our own unique picture.

Making bubbles.
What you need: washing up liquid, bowl, water and a straw.
Add few drops of washing liquid to a bowl of water. Place straw in bowl and simply blow. Watch your bubbles grow.

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Shaving Foam.
Messy, sensory play at its best!
In class we use shaving foam as one of our sensory activities. We can squish it through our hands, rub it up our arms, draw squiggly lines and practice writing our letters and numbers.

Songs and stories pupils enjoy. 
Barefoot books: Driving my tractor, If your happy and you know it, We all go travelling by, Owl Babies and The Animal Boogie.
Songs: Super Simple Songs and The Learning Station.

Hand washing:

When we are not at school we have to continue to practice good hand washing skills .

Pancake Tuesday:

We really enjoyed making pancakes in class. We all helped to measure the flour, crack the egg, add milk and mix it all in a bowl, then we poured the mixture into a very hot pancake maker and waited for them to cook.

Here we are enjoying our pancakes.

Full and Empty.

In class we are learning about Full and Empty. We looked and felt a milk carton one that was full and one that was empty. We looked and felt a full cup of water and an empty cup of water.

Owl Babies.

Teddy Bears Hospital.

We had a visit from some lovely doctors to help mend our teddy bears.

Christmas Art:

Have a look at our Christmas Art .

Santa came to visit and he brought presents for us. 

We were so excited opening our presents.

Here we are having our Christmas dinner.

Science Week:

 We used milk, food colouring and washing up liquid to make magic milk.

Sports:

The Galway Camoige Champions came to visit us with the winning O' Duffy cup .

Halloween:

To celebrate Halloween we all dressed up in our costumes, had a party and played lots of party games.

Our class pumpkin.

We were very busy doing lots of art for Halloween.

Playing together:

In class we sit to do our individual work, counting, matching,cutting, sticking, building.

Nature walk:
We went on a nature walk and gathered leaves that had fallen from the trees. We also found mushrooms growing on our school grounds.

 Art: