Busy Red Hens

October was a busy month in aistear.  We read and acted out the story of the Little Red Hen.     We played with the farm set and created our own small world story. We learned about procedural writing.  We read the recipe for making bread, checked our ingredients and then baked bread in school, yum Read More …

Autumn harvesting

Our sunflowers were gigantic when we came back to school in September.  They inspired us to create our own works of art.   We looked at some of Andy Goldsworthy’s photographs, he uses objects from nature to create art.  We used leaves, seeds, cones, beans, flowers and apples.

Autumn aistear

We have been busy in aistear learning about autumn.  What do you feel, hear, see, taste and smell in autumn?  We crunched through the autumn leaves, we felt the cool air in the morning and tasted some of the lovely fruits and vegetables which we harvested in autumn.  We learned about animals getting ready for Read More …