by Little Island National School | Feb 11, 2012 | Latest News
In Junior Infants we just love Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We have had such fun reading the book, and we have learned so many different things with some help from this story. We learned to sequence and order the days of the week, and even did this...
by Little Island National School | Feb 4, 2012 | Latest News
Over the month of January, we in Junior Infants enjoyed reading Oliver Jeffers’s book Lost and Found. It is a story of a boy and a penguin. We LOVED it! We wrote about the book in our own copies, we made our own sequencing cards, we learned about penguins and looked...
by Little Island National School | Dec 20, 2011 | Latest News, Uncategorized
Here in rang a hAon we recognise the importance that reindeer have to Santa and all the children around the world. Santa wouldn’t be able to get from house to house or even carry that sleigh with all those presents. So we decided to give the...
by Little Island National School | Dec 12, 2011 | Latest News
On Thursday next,15th December, we in Junior Infants are staging our nativity play. We have put in many hard hours of practise and are very excited about threading the boards! Check back here later in the week for an update on our Christmas Play.
by Little Island National School | Dec 12, 2011 | Fourth Class, Latest News
During the past number of weeks fourth class have expanded their understanding of making statements. Initially we explored the difference between knowing something and thinking something, based on factual and opinion based statements. We all agreed on the value of...
by Little Island National School | Dec 9, 2011 | Latest News, Third Class
Third class 2011 are wonderful mathematicians – each day, we L O V E to learn all about numbers, measures, shapes, etc. This week, we have been learning all about length – here are some pictures of 3rd class on a Maths Trail in our yard. We first estimated...
