For the month of February, our theme was Clothes . The children had lots of fun bringing in their favourite clothes from home and selling and buying them in the clothes shop. The shopkeepers were busy picking out clothes for the customers, showing them to the dressing room, using the till,, and helping the customers In the construction area and small world, the children were busy building various clothes shops, – sports shops, children’s clothes shops, department stores, boutiques and stocking them. Using play dough the children designed out fits for men and women and there was a great variety of fashion on display, In Junk Art, the children discovered a variety of fabrics, i.e wool, hessian, felt , curtain material, and created outfits using these materials. They also created Fabric Letters using their initials. Other activities this month included learning the names of clothes in Irish, discovering what materials are waterproof and which are not. We looked at clothes in other countries- kilts, stetson hats, flamingo dresses, sari,bowler hats and we also looked at how clothes have changed or stayed the same over time Aistear -...
Read MoreThere was an air of excitement in Kilchreest National school for the past few days as the children were busy preparing for World Book day 2017. The children were busy producing their costumes as they were dressing up as a character from their favourite book, Both staff and pupils alike really look forward to this day each year to see what costumes will appear in school and once again we were not disappointed. Well done to the pupils and parents on making such an effort again this year!!!Your effort is really appreciated! World Book Day 2017 World Book day...
Read MoreThe children of first and second got to use magnets of different shapes and sizes in purposeful play to explore their effects on different material. They followed up with designing and making a fishing game using a...
Read MoreOur theme for January was “Food and Healthy food”. This integrated well with our Active schools campaign which is currently underway. The children discussed the 5 food groups , healthy meals, unhealthy food ,created a healthy food book, discussed how to look after their bodies , read the story Handa’s surprise and discussed the nutrition in the fruit in Handa’s basket . They created their own healthy smoothies and wrote up the recipes for the smoothie. As part of play time, the children opened up a Restaurant in the play corner . In construction they created restaurants using large building blocks. In small world they built a drive through of various types of restaurants. Using play dough they created a healthy dinner plate , and as part of junk art they painted Fruit Bowls based on Picasso’s painting, created fruit and veg bowls from paper plates and made jewellery that the women in the Massai tribe (Handa’s surprise) in Kenya may have wore. Aistear -At the...
Read MoreThe children in Kilchreest N.S school took part in a very enjoyable maths week . The maths books were put away for the week and the children took part in a variety of maths activities including maths trails, making maths hats , making shape monsters, lego activities, number characters , the maths olympics and a host of other mathematical activities. A fun week was had by all!! Maths week...
Read MoreThe junior & senior infants took part in an Autumn trail last Wednesday. Armed with their clipboards and pencils, they took off on a walk of the immediate school environment and were busy looking out for signs of Autumn in plant and animal life in the immediate surroundings.They were also keeping a close eye out for any fairies, but unfortunately Junior& Senior Infant Autumn Trial 2016 there were none to be seen this...
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