The fox: Junior infants

We learned all about the fox.

Some facts we can tell you;

Male fox - dog fox

Femal fox - vixen

Baby - cubs.

The foxes home is called a den.

The fox eats rabbits, frogs, chickens, mice.  We think the gingerbread man had a close escape from the fox!!!

Day and Night in Junior infants

We discussed the difference between day and night.   We talked about why we only do certain things during the  and the reasons we dont do alot of things after dark.  

We learned the world spins on it axis and turns once to make day time and night time.  We had a sun the earth and a moon.  When the part of the earth was looking at the sun, and the sun's light was shining on the earth it is day time and the part of the world the sun can not see is in darkness, it is night time.  Some of the earth has day time and some of the earth has night time.  We learned when it is day time in Ireland, it is night time the other side of the world in Australia.   

Our senses: Listening

We've been learning about our senses and we know that some people in the world can not hear or see.  Using blind fold we examined how we use each sense.  We took turns with a partner, one was the leader and the other the listener.  The partner carefully guided their friend our obstacle course using their listening skills.

Making jelly in Junior infants

Last few weeks we have been talking about materials. Today we were talkin about jelly-different flavours, what we eat it with, when we eat it, where we can get jelly. Then teacher showed us the jelly. It was in shapes of cubes. Ms.Crotty asked us if we knew how to make jelly- and we told her how. Teacher boiled the kettle and we talked about how dangerous boiling water is and how only adults should touch a kettle and boiling water. We heard the kettle boil and watched the steam. We placed the jelly in the bowl and added the water to it. We watched the jelly dissolve and we stirred it and the water turned red and all the jelly melted / dissolved. We placed in the fridge and we hope tomorrow that we will have wibbly wobbly jelly.

JELLY IS SET

Today we went to the fridge and we discovered our jelly had set. It was not watery anymore. Instead it was wobbly and jiggly. The bowl felt very cold as well. The cold fridge helped the jelly to set. Yummy, yummy strawberry jelly.

Sense of Touch in Junior Infants

Design a bridge in Junior Infants

Today we looked at different kinds of bridges, some have wires, some have arches and some have towers. We tried to make a bridge using a sheet of paper between towers of blocks. We discovered that the bridge was too weak with just paper so somebody decided that we needed to use something stronger as the road over the bridge. Here are the things we tried and the results we got:

The lid of the block container............................ very strong

Paper by itself....................................................very weak

Paper with the sides turned up........................... very strong

Paper with an arch under it.................................very strong

Card .................................................................weak

Move the tower blocks a little closer and use the card................................strong

Have a look at the photos to see our results

Engineering with LEGO in Senior infants