Welcome to Junior 4!
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A big 'welcome' from Harry, Darragh, Sean, Leo, Aidan, Tom and Patrick to the Junior 4 class webpage.
We are all delighted to be back in school for another academic year. We will work really well in our new class under the guidance of our teacher Patrick and assistants Bernie and Karen. Together, we will make a superb team! Stay tuned for updates on our fun learning activities throughout the year. |
March & April 2022
Lots of exciting events happened in March and April! St. Patrick's Day, Mother's Day, First Holy Communion, Easter Bunny Visit & of course, Easter Holidays!
Check out some of the great photos below capturing all those special events.
Check out some of the great photos below capturing all those special events.
February 2022
Spring has arrived! We all waved 'goodbye' to Winter and welcomed the new season of Spring. We are looking forward to seeing new life in this season - buds on the trees, watching daffodils and tulips bring colour to our gardens, and lots of baby birds on the trees. We will also enjoy celebrating this season - Birthdays in class, St. Patrick's Day in March & Easter in April!
Valentine's Day Art & Crafts
We've been very busy making cards and posters for Valentine's Day which falls on February 14th. Check out our wonderful work below.
Pottery Class with Tatiana
Junior 4 on the move!
This week, we moved classrooms! We will miss our old classroom but we are loving all the space in our new room!
February Birthdays!
Happy Birthday to Aidan & Darragh who celebrate their 10th & 11th birthdays in February!
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Our Spring Word Wall
St. Brigid's Day Crosses
On February 1st, the first day of Spring, we learned about St. Brigid. Instead of using rushes from the field, we used recycled strips of green paper. How clever! We think they turned out wonderful!
January 2022
Happy New Year from all in Junior 4! Check out our artwork which we displayed on the corridor outside our classroom to wish everyone a 'Happy 2022'!
New beginnings in January!
Lots of new things in 2022 - a new month, a new year & now a new school logo! We were all very excited to see the new design of our school logo. To mark the event, we made our own display featuring all the colours that are in our logo. Hope you enjoy our 'puzzle wall'!
New Year, new door display!
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Since we have a new year, we decided we should give our classroom door a new look! We said farewell to our spaceship display to make way for our jigsaw puzzle, where we all fitted together! We are all very pleased with the finished product! |
Puzzle fun in Junior 4!
December 2021
Christmas Greetings from all in Junior 4!
It's Christmas tree time!
Look at the time of year it is again! Hasn't this first term just flown by so quickly! We are all delighted that December has arrived - it means we are getting close to the date when Santa arrives! How exciting!
Christmas Arts & Crafts
Junior 4 & 'The Snowman'
This week, we read the story of 'The Snowman' by Raymond Briggs. We also made our own snowmen for our Christmas displays. Great work by all!
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Santa Claus Visits!
We were all excited on the 15th when Santa Claus popped by to visit us in school. What lovely gifts he brought too! He said he'll see us all fast asleep again on Christmas Eve! Oh the excitement!!!!
Christmas Lunch Treat!
We had our annual Christmas Lunch on the 15th - Yum yum! In preparation for the big event, we created and decorated our very own table-mat. It was delicious!
It was also our annual Christmas Jumper Day - we think you'll all agree that we looked 'super' in our Christmas jumpers!
It was also our annual Christmas Jumper Day - we think you'll all agree that we looked 'super' in our Christmas jumpers!
November 2021
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A new season & a new month! Winter has arrived and after our Hallowe'en Mid-Term Break, we have noticed it has gotten rather cold! The leaves have all fallen off their trees - everywhere looks very bare! We have a busy few weeks ahead before the next big event - Christmas!! Our favourite time of year!! Keep an eye on our webpage to see all the fun activities we will be engaging in over the next few weeks.
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'We all go travelling by'!
One of our favourite songs is called 'We all go travelling by' - a perfect song for our theme this fortnight on 'Transport'.
Check out our new addition to the classroom displays - see can you spot some familiar looking drivers, sailors, pilots and hot air balloon operators!
Check out our new addition to the classroom displays - see can you spot some familiar looking drivers, sailors, pilots and hot air balloon operators!
S.E.S.E & Visual Arts
Creating an 'Eskimo City'.
Continuing with our Winter theme we thought it would be a clever idea to create an 'eskimo city'. A lovely activity which got us all engaged, working with various materials which resulted in a wonderful display for the corridor outside our classroom.
Guitar lessons with Cormac!
Library Area Makeover!
Our beautiful library got a lovely makeover during the week - some beautiful areas for 'pretend play' while also linking in with S.E.S.E and S.P.H.E. We love it and give the 'new look' 10/10!
October 2021
October is here - the last month of Autumn. Soon we will be learning all about 'Winter'. Brrrr!
Lots of fun activities planned for October - Hallowe'en fancy dress, Mid-Term Break, parties. We are all so excited! Check out some of the great work & fun activities in our photographs below.
Lots of fun activities planned for October - Hallowe'en fancy dress, Mid-Term Break, parties. We are all so excited! Check out some of the great work & fun activities in our photographs below.
Desktop Activities
Sensory Room Fun!
Safety Week
To mark national 'Safety Week', we all received some safety jackets. These will come in very useful when we are out for our walks as we will be clearly visible. Check us out sporting our new gear!
Playground Additions!
We were all delighted to hear we were getting yet more equipment for our beautiful playground. Such a fun place to play and learn with our friends! Check out our wheelchair accessible carousel & our new sandpit area!
Hallowe'en & Music combined!
Cormac treated us to some spooky Hallowe'en music on the same very day that we were all dressed up in our Hallowe'en costumes!
September 2021
We have a busy schedule in Junior 4 so below you will see a visual schedule of some of our favourite activities. Highlights of our week include spending time in the sensory room, our 'Chill Zone' and also our sensory garden.
Autumn Art!
We've been learning all about the seasons - Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. We all love autumn - lots of lovely colours on the trees outside as the leaves begin to fall from the trees.
P.E. & Numeracy combined!
This week in our numeracy lessons, we were focusing on categorizing - matching and sorting colours. What a perfect opportunity in P.E. class to put all our learning into practice.
Budding Musicians in Junior 4!
We all LOVE music in our class and one of the highlights of our week is our lovely music classes with Cormac.
Check out some photos of us enjoying our music lessons.
Check out some photos of us enjoying our music lessons.
Numeracy, Visual Arts & S.E.S.E.
This week, our class has been learning all about shapes - circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. We learned a song about shapes and later in craft class, we made some lovely Autumn Owls using various materials. Great fun and our display looks brilliant!
Visual Arts, S.P.H.E. & S.E.S.E.
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We all know that we are different - some of us have dark hair, some of us have blue eyes, some of us are very tall - this is what makes us unique! This week, we learned about seasonal changes and noticed that the trees outside are beginning to lose their leaves! We used our arms and hands to make some Autumn trees - an outline of our arm made up the trunk of the tree and the outline of our hands made up the branches! And guess what? They are all different sizes! How clever! To make our trees even more impressive, we added some triangle shaped leaves of all the different colours of Autumn.
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Bike Week 2021
Some of the photographs captured at our exciting 'Bike Week'!
S.P.H.E. & Visual Arts
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This week, we made some lovely displays for the corridor - using our hand prints. We all learned that everyone has a different sized hands. Check out our lovely display below.
We also discovered that we are all different ages! As well as that, we all chose different patterned papers for our hand-print display. |
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Numeracy, S.E.S.E. & Visual Arts
We continued with our 'shape' theme this week and made some lovely rockets to match the big rocket on our classroom door! We hope you like our masterpieces!
