The Junior Infants went on a lovely Witches Walk around the block. We sang some Halloween songs and looked at the beautiful autumn trees.

For maths week art 6th class focused on symmetry. We wrote our name, mirrored it onto the opposite site of the page and created our own symmetry creatures..

We made numbers with our interlocking cubes in our maths lesson on Wednesday. The children loved this activity and were busy following the instructions and counting out their cubes to make the numbers.

6th class used our newly learned map reading skills today and did orienteering in the Castle Park. It was a fun and challenging day. Not even the morning rain could dampen our enthusiasm.

6th class learned the basics of map reading & how to understand a map key.

Lots of action in the classroom for maths activity week, today they are working on a Maths Trail doing lots of counting, jumping, bouncing the ball and enjoying working in pairs of two..

We are lucky to have Artie the Coding Robot in school. 4th class use left-brain skills such as basic programming, geometry and maths as they control Artie.

4th class worked out the symmetry of spiders and played a 3D shapes guessing game using marshmallows as vertices and toothpicks as edges.

4th class doing station activities in Maths Week ..

Second class are doing maths stations this week to celebrate maths week. We are also working on Halloween themed maths booklets and playing extra tables games   ..

1st class played 4 in a row using adding and subtraction ..

We have lots of maths activities integrated into our daily Aistear/ playtime in Junior Infants this week.