Hi my name is Meadhbh and I have worked in SET for the last two years and I’m moving to junior infants in September. My fun fact about space is that there is 293 moons in our solar system.
An enquiry based lesson that I would use in the Junior infant classroom would be based on Sound – this activity is based in exploring different sounds. The children would explore and identify a range of different sounds through a sounds investigation. I would use a mystery box as a stimulus to engage the students in the lesson. The box would be wrapped like a present and I would ask one student to shake the box. the aim of the lesson would be to discover what might be in the box that would be making the noise. The students would then each get their own wrapped box to discover what sounds they hear. Then they would engage in a matching activity and match pictures of items that might be in the box. Throughout the lesson I would encourage students to use vocabulary such as rattle, swish loud and soft. The children would also identify everyday sounds in their lives making a connection between their lives and the area of different sounds.