St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

First Class have been having great fun programming Bee-Bots over the past few days. Bee-Bots are floor robots that we can code to move around. We have been using them to practice our tables and number work in maths. These number lines have also been useful when practicing counting in Irish.         We have also been building mazes for Bee-Bot. We love challenging each other when building mazes. We think they are a-MAZE-ing 🙂         We have been practicing using a Bee-Bot mat. We use challenge cards which show us pictures of where we want Bee-Bot to start and where we want Bee-Bot... 

First Class have been learning all about hot air balloons in SESE. Firstly we all shared what we know about hot air balloons already and looked at pictures of different hot air balloons. We then watched videos of hot air balloons in action and were all amazed at how they moved through the sky. We began asking lots of questions about hot air balloons such as ‘Why are they called hot air balloons?’ and ‘How do hot air balloons float in the sky?’. From watching the videos we were very interested in the use of fire to heat the air in the envelope of the hot air balloon. We decided... 

Second and Fifth class decided to join together to celebrate Engineers Week on Wednesday and had lots of fun completing a STEM challenge. We worked together in small groups to try to build a structure that was strong and tall. We had to build using either a square or rectangular shape because we wanted to see if this would make any difference to how strong and tall our structures would be. Teamwork was also very important! We used plasticine and and small match sticks to create our structures. Check out some of our photographs below to see us in action!     We worked really well... 

The hairdressers/barbers/beauticians in Aistear in senior infants pic.twitter.com/VQtYl0YvwZ — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 5, 2019 We dont mind getting our hands wet! Hairdressers in aistear. pic.twitter.com/GzIAwfc1K4 — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) February 5, 2019  

Senior infants had great fun inventing games on yard today for PE. We got to choose which games we wanted to participate in. Keeping fit can be so much fun! pic.twitter.com/nbKr3AGl8y — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 23, 2019  

Inspired by our visit from ‘Sam’ the puppet today, Senior Infants decided that we would like to learn more about how to use puppets.  Our friend in 5th class has kindly offered to pay us a few more visits to help us out.  We are looking forward to introducing our own puppets to ‘Sam’ over the coming weeks and we hope to create a puppet show for other classes to show off our skills. This afternoon senior infants were visited by ‘Sam’ the puppet. We had a great laugh speaking with him and listening to his interesting stories. Many thanks to our friend in 5th... 

Today one of our classmates in senior infants brought in a pepper plant they grew at home. They taught us all about peppers. We opened the pepper, tasted it and we all got some seeds to take home to grow our own pepper plants. What a fun day we had! pic.twitter.com/zF7GssdgTY — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) January 11, 2019  

Today in senior infants we did secret Santa! We put all of our names in a bowl. We then picked a name of out of the bowl before making some toys/games for the person we picked. We had great fun in junk art! Finally we wrapped our presents and teacher gave them out to us. pic.twitter.com/jtWCbgTd5C — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) December 19, 2018  

Senior Infants working on the post office! Here with our letters ready to post. pic.twitter.com/3glYz552J6 — St. Peter's Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2018  

Ready Set Go Maths in senior infants. Today we explored the properties of 3d shapes during aistear before sorting the shapes and discussing their characteristics during stations! pic.twitter.com/Mglfcagl3X — St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) November 27, 2018