Dear Parents/ Guardians,
This week the children have 3 or 4 spellings every night from page 2 of the Phonics Spelling book and Mental Maths – Week 2. They do 10 sums every night. So tonight they will do questions 1 to 10 on Monday and the problem solving sum for Monday. Then tomorrow night they will do all the Tuesday sums and so on.
Some children may find it quite hard or may need a lot of help. The Mental Maths book introduces new Maths concepts every week. Sometimes we will not have covered them in class until later on during the year.
Please encourage your child to try their best and to do as many as they can!
From Ms. Hennessy, Ms. Kenny and Ms. Curran.

Welcome to the Cherry Blossoms blog page!

We are in Junior Infants.

​Ms Mellett is our teacher and Sinéad works in our class too!

One of our favourite times of the day in The Cherry Blossoms is when we do Aistear! Aistear is learning through play and we have a different theme every few weeks. 

So far this year our themes have been:
-The Clothes Shop
-The Witches' Cave
-The Camp Site

This week our new theme is the Toy Hospital and it might be our favourite theme yet!!

During Aistear we do many different activities and each day, each groups gets a chance to do a different activity. 

We do lots of different activities such as role play, small world play, cutting and pasting, play dough, sand and water play, jig saws, junk art and much more.

Aistear helps us with areas such as oral language, social skills and problem solving.

Check out the pictures below of our work on the Toy Hospital.

We have been learning about patterns in room 2. 

Check out our slide show below to see the great patterns we have been making!

We have been working very hard since we started school on the 30th of August. We have learnt lots of new things.

We have been doing lots of work on our fine motor skills. Our fine motor skills help us to hold a pencil, use a scissors and lots more!

We use stations to help us practise our fine motor skills. We use playdough, sand, whiteboards and chalk boards in our stations. We have practised drawing straight lines, wavy lines, lines going down and zig-zag lines. We love doing stations!

We had a fantastic time on our school tour to Lilliput Adventure Centre. There was loads of fun things to do such as Archery, Canoeing and Capture the flag but the highlight was definitely the bog hopping. Take a look at the photos from our day out below.

Today was the school's Sports Day and we had a great time taking part in all the activities that were planned for us. We played rounders, soccer, unihoc, basketball, dodgeball and lots more. Check out some of our photos below.

Ourselves and The Daffodils were invited to the open day at the Curragh Racecourse on 13th April. We were brought to a number of different stations where we learned a lot of interesting facts on what exactly is involved in getting ready for a race day. We met a horse trainer, a jockey, their valet and a farrier, who has the tough task of making the horse-shoes. We were presented with one to take back to our classroom. We had a fantastic day out and thoroughly enjoyed the trip. Take a look at some of our photographs from the day below.

Well done to Tammy & Abi on their recent successes. Tammy won first place in her jumping and musical ride tournaments while Abi won first place in her jumping competition. Well done girls, keep up the great work!

Over the last number of weeks we have been working very hard on our Fairy Houses. Joe gave us about the many myths that are associated with fairies. He then showed us some examples that he made himself. We then set about making our own. It was tough work but interesting work and with the help of Joe we were very happy with the end product. We used a number of different materials such as clay, tree bark, moss, string, twigs, paint to name but a few. Take a look at our slideshow and see for yourself.

Over the last number of weeks we have been collecting all our 1 & 2 cent coins. Mr. O Toole challenged us to fill it and if we managed it he promised to give us no homework. We have managed to fill our container and Mr. O Toole kept his word!

Now that the container is full we are having another competition to see who can guess how much money is in the container. The closest person to the actual amount will get homework off and a little surprise.

Can you guess how much is in it? Leave a comment below with your guess!

Congratulations to Leanna Connors who won the Michael Andrews Title over the weekend. Keep up the great work!