Tall twins in Junior infants

We have been learning about tall, taller and tallest. We decided to check out which twin was taller......

Heavy and light in Junior infants

This week we were weighing objects with a balance. We predicted first which object would be heavy and which would be light. Then we weighed them. We had great fun investigating which objects were heavy and which were light.

Long and short in Junior Infants

Maths: Comparing lengths in Senior Infants

We have been talking about different measures: Long and short, deep and shallow, wide and narrow, big and small, full and empty.  We used children in our class to demonstrate long-longer-longest, short-shorter-shortest.  Can you figure out which is which?

Patterns in Junior Infants

We are noticing that alot of things have patterns on them, carpets, tiles, clothes, shoes, toys, wallpaper and lots more.  We had great fun with patterns.  Teacher made a pattern and put it under the visualiser and we tried to copy the pattern. We started with some very simple patterns and then they became more difficult.  We were very good at it but we had to concentrate very hard to get some of them.

Measuring in Senior Infants

We have been busy measuring in Maths over the past few days with informal units of measurement (such as measuring with cubes, lollipop sticks and handspans). An important part of this activity is estimating first what we think the answer is going to be. It was great fun guessing beforehand and it didn't matter if our guess was right or wrong. We did our best to make a sensible guess. Once we made our guess and recorded it we then measured the object to see if our answer was correct. We worked individually at times and we also worked with a partner. Have a look at us at busy at work!!!

Spring data chart in Senior Infants

We are talking a lot about Spring: baby animals, flowers, longer days, the sights, sounds and tastes of Spring.  Today we made a data chart of our favourite Spring things.  It looks like this: