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What is Aistear? 

Aistear is the early childhood curriculum framework for all children from birth to six years in Ireland. - See more at: http://www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Early_Childhood_and_Primary_Education/Early_Childhood_Education/#sthash.obOVC1ek.dpuf

Autumn

Houses

The children had great fun playing in our class kitchen, bedroom, and playroom this month. Small world also proved to be a big hit!
The children proved to be very competent builders!!
The children loved building houses for the three little pigs!
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The Cafe

Spring

The children enjoyed searching for signs of Spring and planting flowers, cress, carrots and turnips.

We made Easter chicks and decorated Easter eggs.

We had Easter egg hunts and made Easter Buns.

The Toy Hospital

The children have been busy fixing up all the ill toys in Cloontuskert N.S.!
The children were also busy making playdough patients, doctor's bags, Get Well Soon cards and building hospitals!

School

The children were brushing up on their teaching skills this month!
They taught Gaeilge, Reading,  P.E., Music, Maths, Science and Art! 

The Dentist

The children learned all about how to keep their teeth healthy this month. During our science experiments, they were shocked to see how much sugar is in some of their favourite treats and the effect of this sugar on our teeth . They also really enjoyed their visit  from 'The Tooth Fairy'. 
 

Under the Sea

Space Travel

Look who we met!!

This is how we got there!

Eabha's Constellation!

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The Post Office

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The children were very busy posting letters, cards, postcards and parcels in the Post Office this month. They put on puppet shows, Postman Pat had the lead role of course!!  They built their own Post Office and made playdough postmen! The children learned lots about the history of the Post Office, in particular the G.P.O.

The G.P.O.

A visit from our local post lady

The children got a great surprise today when Aileen, our local post lady popped in with some letters for the children! She talked to the class about her job and what it's like to work in An Post. The children really enjoyed the visit! 

The Vet

The children visited the vets with their pets this month. I'm happy to say that all animals made a full recovery thanks to the wonderful care they received!

The children spoiled their pets in the pet shop!

They also made animal jigsaws & playdough or junk art animals.

The Airport

The children were busy getting ready to jet off to Italy during play time this month! The learned so much about airports, aeroplanes and Italy. They also made some wonderful things associated with the theme.
We had a visit from Sandra an Aer Lingus Air Hostess this morning. Luckily all of our passports and tickets were in date!

Trip to Knock Airport

​Children in the Infant Room enjoyed a trip to Knock Airport recently as part of their Aistear theme 'The Airport'. Airport staff took excellent care of the group and ensured a very memorable day was had by all.

Transport

We took a ride on the Polar Express this month!
Our engineers were hard at work building bridges and other forms of transport.
 The children enjoyed  making transport jigsaws, play dough and junk art vehicles.

Autumn is here!

The children were busy learning all about autumn during Aistear this month.

They made machines, ranging from combine harvesters and tractors to forage harvesters, during construction. 
Bears were preparing to hibernate!
Our little artists painted autumn trees and made oak leaf hedgehogs.
​The play dough, sand and small world stations were a hive of activity too!

                          The Fire Station

The emergency services were quick to attend the scene of a fire in Cloontuskert N.S.!

The Doctors

There were lots of bumps and bruises in Cloontuskert N.S. this month but luckily there were also plenty of doctors at hand to help!

The Engineers were also on hand!

Even the playdough and puppets were sick this month!

Luckily Kevin was on hand to offer advice!

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                         The Supermarket
The children on a recent trip to Super Valu, Lanesboro

Cloontuskert Super Store!

The children had lots of fun during our Supermarket theme. They engaged in varied activities such as writing shopping lists, gathering items and creating receipts for a customers on line shop, hide and seek sand games, making items that can be found in a shop and constructing shops themselves. The children's role play in the class supermarket and during their puppet shows was particularly entertaining!!

          Our house theme was a great success!​

    Hard at work on the Construction Site!

Look what we made!

The future of constructionlooks bright!!


​Our Winter Wonderland​


The Travel Agents

The children loved the Travel Agents theme. They flew all over the world on the class Aer Lingus jet visiting many fantastic places like the Sahara Desert, the Statue of Liberty, the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal! The children packed their bags carefully, making sure they didn't exceed their luggage allowance!! They brought their tickets, passports and the correct currency for the country they were visiting. Although their holidays were action packed, they didn't forget to write home so you can expect your postcard any day now!

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The Chinese Restaurant

Our chefs are busy in the kitchen!

There's a full house tonight!

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The phone is hopping!
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Our Chinese Dragons

The Great Wall of China

Our Weather Theme

Martin King eat your heart out!

Our Weather Station

The children enjoyed testing out our anemometers from the weather station. We had a surprisingly dry week and didn't collect much rain in our rain gauge. Shauna made her own anemometer and snow flake.

The Water Cycle

                             Farmers of the Future!

Another hard day in the bog...

Mean while, back in the farm house kitchen..

Principal: Padraig Connerton  |      Email: cloontuskertns63@gmail.com |     Tel: 043 3321817 |     © Scoil Na Mainistreach, Cloontuskert.