Ms. Connolly's & Mr. Carleton's class explored our community

We went on walk last week to explore our community. Our community is called Renmore. We saw lots of interesting places, buildings and people. Check them out!

The Church-St. Oliver Plunkett.

The Hospital-Doctors and Nurses work here,

The Vet Clinic- if your pet is sick you can bring them here.

The Pharmacy. After you visit the Doctor, you can buy medicine here,

Duggan's shop. You can buy your groceries here.

Tangles Hairdresser. You can get your hair cut here.

The bus brings people from Renmore to town and around Galway.

We saw a builder driving a forklift. He is building this house,

McSully's Butcher, Meat is sold here.

Another Pharmacy.

The Florist. You can buy flowers here for your friends and family.

Lough Atáilia

Garrison Church Renmore

We saw the train tracks, The train brings people from Galway all over Ireland.

Renmore Barracks . We saw a soldier here.

Ballyloughane Beach

GAA clubhouse

The Kingfisher Club

Renmore Scout Den

We arrived back at school.

Check out Mr. Carleton's photos with this link

Dental Hygiene for 2nd Classes

We had a wonderful learning experience last week.

We thoroughly enjoyed learning all about how to look after our teeth.

There were four zones;

Zone 1: Function of Teeth

Zone 2: Sugar Detectives

Zone 3: Disclosing/brushing area (max of ten pupils at a time; to ensure each child is shown how to brush correctly).

Zone 4: Quiz

Thanks to Helen Murphy and Kate for such a wonderful workshop!

Food dudes

We are doing the Food Dudes programme in school to encourage us all to eat more fruit and vegetables every day, especially for lunch.

 

We love trying new fruits and vegetables, we love the prizes and we love the videos.

We will try our best to eat lots of fruit and vegetables every day.

Stay Safe Programme

In our class we will be working on the Stay Safe Programme for the next six weeks or so.

This programme is designed to help your child stay safe in various situations.

Please take a moment to see what it is all about and please discuss with your child what they are learning about on this programme.

Junior Dina school

Meet Wally. Wally visits our class every Tuesday as part of the Junior Dina School Programme. Currently, in our school, all the Senior Infant classes are participating.Sometimes Dina (the Principal of Dina School!!!) also comes along to visit us. She helps to encourage us to try our best at all times and teaches us about some very important school and classroom rules. Sometimes Wally has a problem and we have to help him to solve it. We are learning so much and we love Dina School.We also use the Green Patrol. The Green Patrol is a great incentive for us to try our best. Each day, everyone starts out in the green, and if we try our best and are very good,we remain in the green and we then get a tick at the end of each day. When we get ten ticks we can pick a treasure from teacher's treasure box.We are always so excited when we get to pick our treasure. Then we begin all over again We have earned so many treasures thus far and teacher says that we are simply AMAZING!!. Last week Wally brought us some sweets, as a treat for being so good, and as a gift for Christmas. Thank you SO much Wally!! In Last week's lesson we learned all about concentrating. We know that it is very important to concentrate in school and teacher explained that good concentrating involves LISTENING FOR INSTRUCTIONS AND HAVING YOUR EYES ON YOUR WORK OR ON TEACHER. We also helped Wally to concentrate, as he was finding it difficult to do so initially, but now he is much better at it. Merry Christmas Wally and Dina and see you after Christmas!

Old and new toys

Santa's toy sacks got mixed up.

We sorted the toys again for him into old and new toys.

We loved helping Santa.
Here's how we got on.

Green school committee

Frankie from our class is on our green school committee.

Here is what he said in his interview about the meeting today: