Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Aistear: Weather

During January our Aistear theme was The Weather. Junior and Senior Infants have been having great fun learning about different types of weather and learning all about the important work of a Meteorologist.
We read the book 'Whatever the Weather' and talked about the different types of weather we get at different times of the year. We decided what clothes would be suitable for each kind of weather also.

At our Aistear Stations the children took on the roles of meteorologists- looking at satellite images and using different instruments to predict the weather. We learned lots of new vocabulary too!
 Watch out Gerard Fleming!





At our Science Station we made windmills and learned how important wind is for creating energy and for sailing boats!





Our little artists learned what the term 'waterproof' means by making crayon resist pictures using the blow painting technique



In our construction area our builders set to work on building their own Weather station. They got very creative making radars and all sorts of equipment to predict and measure the weather. They were also sure to build a 'break room' as it's tiring work being a Meteorologist!






Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Bee Aware Workshop - January 31st

We had a fantastic day of excitement and exploring  around the grounds of the school. The pupils from 1st -6th class engaged a Bee Aware Workshop. We examined how bees play such an important part in the lives we live. We also came up with some wonderful ideas as to how we could attract more bees to our school. Thank you to Janet from Bee Aware for coming to visit Kilrickle. 










Saturday, 11 January 2020

Tuesday, 7 January 2020

Christmas Aistear




Junior and Senior Infants got into the Christmas spirit in Aistear during December .They wrote letters to Santa and  posted them in our special North Pole Post Box. We even wrote a few letters to Mrs Claus too!







 Our Little Elves were busy in Santa's Workshop designing, making and mending toys. They wrapped them all up and loaded them onto the sleigh to send them out to all the boys and girls.








We even made special Christmas play dough using salt, oil, water and flour and lots of glitter!!!!







We got creative and made some lovely decorations to bring home too!





We will be cleaning the glitter out of the carpet for weeks!