Here is what we decided. We had great fun talking about how many liked each and how many more or less were in each group.
We made a square, cube, rectangle, cuboid, triangle, triangular prism, a pentagon and a hexagon. It wasn't possible to make a cylinder or sphere. We could see that the shapes made using triangles were the strongest - that's why you see so many triangle shapes in bridges and cranes. Next we made our own 3D shapes: with 3D jigsaw pieces, 
beads and connectors, flat triangles and squares,
flat window shapes 
and with magnetic pieces. 
Each group had a different activity, and we will swop around for the rest of the week. We managed to make squares, triangles, rectangles, cubes, cuboids, a pentagonal prism, triangular prisms, triangular pyramids and square pyramids. We really are good at making and naming shapes.
We played a good maths game where we had to match up numbers of spots with numerals and number words. Each table had to try and race the others. It was very exciting.
Here are the 2D shapes we know: square, rectangle, triangle, circle and hexagon (we also know ovals). 
The 3D shapes we know are: cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder, cone, triangular prism, hexagonal prism, square pyramid and triangular pyramid. We are now looking for these shapes all round us.
We made a data chart of the weather record. We looked at the days that were sunny, cloudy, windy, wet, snowy and cold. We counted how many of each kind of day there was, and we compared the number of each kind of day. From this data we decided that September was a nice month - mostly cloudy or sunny days.
Next time we organized them according to whether they are insects or not. We did this by counting their legs because we know that all insects have six legs.
Next we classified them into their colours,
and lastly we classified them according to whether they have one colour, two colours or many colours in them. 
We also talked about what they eat, where they live and whether they are good for plants or not. We know lots about minibeasts now.
We are practising our number work. Now that we are in Senior Infants we are good at our counting, and we are good as using our numbers. Today we played games where we compared cards, dice and dominoes to see who has the biggest number. 
The winner was the player with the biggest number. Other tables played number dominoes. They were great games.
Teacher would call out instructions like "find the number 6" or "find the number before/after 8" or "find the number between 2 and 4" or "find a number smaller/bigger than 5". We had to find a right number and then when teacher says "show me" we all show our numbers and we can check if we are right or not. It's fun playing with numbers!
We know all our colours in English and in Irish, and we know the names of squares, triangles, circles, rectangles, ovals and hexagons. 
We can say them for you at home if you like. We played a loop game with the shapes and colours. We tried to do it as fast as we could but we need to practise some more to be very fast at this loop game.
counters, 
pattern blocks and beads. 
We also used our digit cards and our counting stick. 
Our counting stick has no numbers on it but we know where the numbers are. We follow teacher (or one of the kids) as they move up and down the stick. We call out the numbers that her hand lands on. It is challenging but fun.
When teacher gives out the digit cards we have to make a human line from 0-9. Then teacher lets us swop round - she tells someone who is sitting down to go to "the number 6" or to "the number before/after 8" or to "the number between 2 and 4" and if we get it right we can swop with the person holding the number. That way we all get lots of turns.
Make or Break 3D block game 
and Number Rumba which focuses on colour and number patterns.
