St. Brigit's Garden

Friday, 17th October, 2008
Today Senior Infants Rooms 5 and 7 went on tour to St. Brigit's garden. The weather was nice and we had a wonderful day.
When we got to the garden we split up into two groups. Our class was shown around the garden by a very nice guide called Will. Will told us all about sunflowers, sunflower seeds and the woodland animals that eat the seeds - robins, squirrels and field mice.
Next we went through a willow walk, past the sandpit and into a crannóg.

We talked about what shape the crannóg is, and what it would have been like to have lived there with no window, no electricity, no toilets and maybe having to share our home with our animals.
After being inside a little while, we went outside to search for nuts and other autumn treasures. We found lots of hazel nuts, lovely coloured leaves, mushrooms, and even a huge slug! We went inside another crannóg and made a lovely autumn collage with the treasures we had found, then played a great woodland creature game with a parachute and some balls (which we pretended were nuts). After being outside so long we each had a quick turn on the basket swings and then went inside for our lunch.
After lunch we went searching for minibeasts in the pond. We used nets to fish for the minibeasts and used magnifying glasses and keys to identify what we found.
We finished up our tour by using musical instruments to summon the Autumn Queen (who looked a bit like Ms. Gordon from Room 7). The queen led a parade to her throne where she sat and admired her loyal subjects!!!

Our tour was great fun and we learned lots. We can't wait to go back there again.