St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We always share love and kindness in first class and we loved celebrating St. Valentines Day together in our classroom.

We made some lovely art work to let everyone know that it was St. Valentines day, take a look:

We then learnt about how people write cards and eat chocolate on the 14th of February so we had to join in!

In Junior Infants we love building. Whether it’s with Lego, wooden blocks or cups. Over the past few weeks we’ve had a number of building challenges in Aistear and SESE. Check out some of our constructions below

While learning about animals and the Zoo in Aistear, one of our stations was to build our our Zoo to house the animals using wooden blocks.

One book we read in class was Jack and the Beanstalk. This inspired us to try and build our own beanstalk out of Lego. We had a competition to see who could build the highest beanstalk that could stand on it’s own without being held for at least 10 seconds!

Finally inspired by our STEM for Fun day we had our own class task of building a wall made of cups. They were very impressive.

This month we have been learning all about writing procedures! We made smoothies and conducted STEM experiments, and then we wrote up procedures!

We also conducted research and wrote procedures about things we are interested in!

In maths, we were learning about length. We used meatre sticks, rulers and measuring tapes to measure the length of lots of different things in the classroom and around the school!

We have been focusing on procedure writing since January! We have baked, given directions around Bray and completed S.T.E.M activities. After each activity, we’ve written up the procedure. Here’s a look at how we got on.

First class have been learning loads about wind.

We drew excellent windmills and surrounded them with our facts we found out about windmills in Ireland!

We then tried to grind wheat into flour ourselves to test how a windmill works inside- we used a pestle and mortar to do this.

We also made our own windmills to test the speed of the wind. Take a look:

We have been working very hard on our procedural writing in 2nd class. The children worked in pairs to plan and make their healthy smoothies.

They were delicious!

This month in 4^th Class we have been researching and learning all about Italy.

We have been learning about Mount Vesuvius and the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.  For our STEM activity this month we made our own volcanoes.

As part of our procedural writing, we made our own delicious pizzas. We made a list of the equipment, ingredients and steps needed to make pitta pizzas🍕

For St Brigid’s day we learnt all about St Brigid’s life. We sequenced pictures of her life in teams.

After this we designed our own cloak. Take a look at some of our designs:

After our nice Christmas break, Senior Infants came back refreshed and ready for jam packed few weeks!

We started learning all about the airport and airplanes in Aistear. Our role play corner became an airplane which we made passports to board, of course. We discussed who a Pilot was and what there on the plane was.

We built airplanes in our construction corner and use small runway cut outs so that they could pick up speed before lift off.

In our Art area, we spent lots of time making a plane picture from clothes pegs, lollipop sticks. We painted our materials and glued them together. Then, we made clouds from cotton wool so it looked like our planes were flying in the air.

In Maths, we have started learning about weight. We weighed different items in the classroom, with a bucket balance, to find which were heavier and which were lighter. We have also been learning all about the number 8 this month!

Finally, we made our goals for 2022. We drew pictures of activities we wanted to start doing, things in school we wanted to get better at, and some even drew pictures helping out at home more!

This month we learning all about procedural writing. We have been reading lots of recipes and instructions on how to play board games to help us identify the different features of this genre.

Baking is one of our favourite activities and we took this as a great opportunity to make a delicious lemon drizzle cake and to write the recipe down so we can share it here with everyone 👍👩‍🍳 We hope you find it easy to follow and enjoy! Be sure to let us know if you try it! 🍰

Ingredients:

210g of self – raising flour

1/2 tsp of baking powder

200g of margarine/ butter

200g of caster sugar

3 eggs

1 lemon

100g icing sugar

1tsp water

Method:

1. Measure out 200g margarine/ butter and and 200g of caster sugar and mix together in a large bowl.
2. When the mixture is light and fluffy, add in the eggs, 1 at a time and keep mixing.
3. Lift the sieve up high and sift in the self – raising flour and baking powder.
4. Mix with a wooden spoon to keep it light and fluffy.
5. Juice and zest the lemon. Add in half the lemon juice and half the zest, reserving the rest for the icing.
6. Add your batter to a fully lined baking tin and oven bake at 180 degrees C for 40 minutes.
7. When cooled, squeeze some lemon over the cake.
8. To make the icing, sift icing sugar and mix with a teaspoon of water. Add in the remainder of your lemon juice and zest.
9. Drizzle the icing over the cake and wait until it sets before cutting.
10. Enjoy 😀

We hope you find this recipe easy to follow. We’d love to hear from you if you try it at home.

Here is our baking in action: