We have had such a fun time in March and are so excited to be back to school after the lockdown. We have settled back in really well and are being so well behaved. We had a lot of fun celebrating St. Patrick's Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge. We had a parade around the school yard and dressed up in green!
​We are very excited for the Easter Bunny to arrive... He left us treats in Room 10!!

We have had a great first week in February here in The Snowdrops! Even though we are all still learning at home, the boys and girls celebrated St. Brigid's Day by learning about the story of Brigid, how she was a kind & caring person, and doing lots of beautiful Art for Brigid and Spring! We learned about Length and Height in Maths and how to measure things at home. We sorted our toys from shortest to tallest and other fun Maths challenges like measuring our beds and tables to see which was longer! We also learned about Electricity and found things in our homes which use electricity. 
Our class is also doing a 'February Fitness' Challenge. Teacher has challenged us to try to get outside once a day for some fresh air. We can take part in the challenge by getting out to play, going for a walk, or going on our scooter or bike for a few minutes. Taking a break from school work is important and getting fresh air and exercise helps our brains & bodies to grow stronger and healthier! Take a look at some of our wonderful work... 

Well done to all of the boys and girl in The Snowdrops for another week of super hard work. This week we all worked particularly hard on our Cursive Writing, and everyone is getting better and better each day! We also learned about Lá Sneachta in Irish, celebrated Grandparents Day at home, and made some beautiful art ahead of St. Brigid's Day which is coming up on Monday. 
Lots of you are making sure to get outside for some fresh air which is so important too. Keep up the amazing work guys!!
​Ms. McDermott 

Well done to all of the boys & girls from Room 10, who have been working so hard doing their school work at home this January. Ms. McDermott is so proud of you and misses you all so much! 
I know you miss all of your friends in Senior Infants and wish we could be back in school. Right now, it is important we stay at home and stay safe. 
Keep up all of your super hard work! I can't believe the super cursive writing I have seen, people are getting so clever at their maths and becoming super strong readers too! Here are some photos of your friends working hard at home too... 

Our class elf 'Jingle Bell' has been up to lots of tricks. Every morning the boys & girls love coming in to school to see where he is hiding and what he has been up to! It is getting so close to Christmas... We can't wait!! 

A special delivery landed in Room 10 on Tuesday 1st December... All the way from the North Pole! There was huge excitement, and the children are so happy to welcome our class elf 'Jingle Bell' for the month of December. Jingle Bell will use his magic to report back to Mr & Mrs Claus every night on whether we are being naughty or nice here in school each day. Jingle Bell also has his own Magical Elf Door where he lives, and we think this could be how he travels back and forth to the North Pole so quickly!
He has told us he loves drawings and notes, if any one would like to leave him one or make something at home! 
We will be busy this month getting prepared to celebrate Jesus' birthday, getting excited for Christmas, and of course having lots of fun in school. HO HO HO! Let the fun begin!

The boys & girls in Room 10 have been working so hard already this year! One of our favourite things to do in school is going outside and to the playground!
We love having fun and playing together.
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This month, in November, we are learning about 'Growth Mindset'- this means believing that your brain can grow and learn anything that you want it to. The opposite is a fixed mindset – if you believe that you are not able to learn new things and you are going to stay the same as you are right now.

We are learning that it is OK to make mistakes and that...
I can achieve anything if I keep trying and practicing!

Hello everyone! Take a look at some of the wonderful things we have learned about from September to Halloween! We learned all about Construction and Building in September. We learned about what happens on a building site, what materials and clothes you need to be a builder, and we also did some designing and building of our own with Junk Art, blocks and lego. One of our favourite stories we have read so far is 'The Little Red Hen' and we made some Little Red Hen Art too. We LOVE reading in Room 10 and practice reading every day. We have DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) Time once a week and we get to explore lots of lovely new books. Practice at home is very important too! 

Have a look at what some of your friends have been up to!

Hello to one and all!

What a week of glorious sunshine! I know lots of boys and girls from The Snowdrops had great fun in their gardens and paddling pools with their families! Let’s hope we get lots more Mr. Sun over the next few months!

This week our theme was ‘The Farm’. I grew up on a farm in Co. Galway so it is one of my favourite themes! The Spring is my favourite time of the year on a farm as the little baby lambs are born. They are so cute, gentle and playful! One of our friends Conor visited a pet farm last week! He was petting a lamb so gently and he saw a goat too! What is your favourite farm animal? I saw some wonderful drawing and colouring in of farm pictures!

The boys and girls were also busy learning about the life cycle of a butterfly, writing their letter ‘h’, ordering numbers and reading their Oxford Tree books!

It was so nice to hear about some of the other lovely activities the children got upto this week:

• Conor visited a pet farm and drew a lovely picture of his visit!
• Hayley is having lots of fun with Eddie the Explorer at home!
• Eoghan designed and made a boat using a plastic bottle with his sister! Then he brought it to the river to test how far it could travel!
• Sofia is doing a new challenge where she cycles 5kms a day on her new bicycle. She is also doing ballet lessons online and this week she focused on the plie!
• Lara wrote me a letter all by herself and is reading the ‘Ladybird Read it Yourself’ books on her own every night!
• Cíara is writing lots of words for our daily sounds and read the book ‘Peck Peck’!
• Haripranav has been busy playing with his sister and doing all of his work!

It is so nice to see and hear all the stories and pictures of what all the children are getting up to! You all look so happy, healthy and grown up!

I hope you enjoy having a look at this week’s slideshow! See how many of your friends or their names on their work that you recognise!
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That’s all for now!
Take good care,
Ms. Earley XXX

Hello to all the Snowdrops!
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You have all been busy bees again this week! Ms. Earley is so proud of you all for doing your work, staying so active and for always having your beautiful smiles on your faces!

It was another busy week for birthdays in our class too! Happy Birthday to Cíara! Happy Birthday to Roman! Happy Birthday to Haripranav!

This was week 2 of writing out your own news in cursive writing! Well, all I can say is you are fantastic! I see some lovely tracing, writing it in a copy all on your own and writing it on little whiteboards! Brilliant! Keep trying, keep practising and it will get easier for you. Remember that you will be doing lots of more work and practice on it when you go into Senior Infants!

Our theme this week was The Classroom! I know it was probably a little difficult too as you all miss school, your classroom and friends so much. However, it looks like everyone really enjoyed doing all the lovely activities around it! Some children set up a classroom at home with their brothers and sisters! I got beautiful drawings of our classroom which had some super details in them! Ms. Earley was really impressed with them!

You have all been busy doing other exciting things too! Sofia cycled 5km on her new green bike! Eoghan spent lots of time making up his new lego set! Chloe had a sleepover in her sister’s room and baked scones! Conor helped celebrate his little sister’s birthday! Roman got lots of new toys for his birthday! Kevinas has been keeping his bicycle really clean! Cíara has been busy writing lots of words for her sounds! Iga has been busy helping her mammy look after her beautiful new baby sister Veronica!

That’s all for now folks!
Stay happy, keep smiling!
Ms. Earley x