Christmas Activities- Art, baking, karaoke and Santa

We did lots of fun activities in preparation for Christmas. We made lovely 3D paper decorations and clay decorations for our tree. We really enjoyed making and decorating them. We loved working with clay so much that we also made clay tea light holders.

Everyone was very happy with the finished products.

We also made some yummy brownies which we decorated with Christmas themed toppings. 

We are so grateful for everything Crona does for us. She bakes with us, teaches us how to crochet, looks after us and helps us with our work. To show our appreciation we wrote notes and drew pictures, Ms. Fahy made them into a book and we surprised Crona with our gift. She was really happy and told us that she's very lucky to work with such a wonderful class.

SANTA came to visit.

Ms. Murphy surprised us with a visit from Santa, he heard what a wonderful class we are and wanted to meet us himself. 

Christmas Karaoke

We got into the holiday spirit with some Christmas karaoke. We performed Christmas songs in groups. Some of us dressed up for our performance. It was loads of fun.

  

Christmas is here

We started decorating the classroom for Christmas today. We took turns putting decorations on the tree and helped Ms. Fahy put stickers on the windows. It's really starting to feel festive now.

Drama

We have been studying traditional tales in literacy lessons. In drama we chose a traditional tale and mimed an important scene from the story. The rest of the class had to guess what story we were acting out. We had loads of fun.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Three Little Pigs

The Three Little Pigs

Little Red Riding Hood

Snow White

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

A visit from the army

Three members of the army presented our school with a Proclamation of Independence and an Irish flag to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Rising. We loved meeting them and hearing about their peacekeeping missions abroad.
We sang Amhrán na bhFiann after the presentation.

December Fun

Environmental Art

Playing with 'snow'

Building army barracks

Scríobh Workshop

Javi and Niall from Scríobh came to work with us. They wanted to write stories with 1st, 2nd and 3rd class. They work in a publishing house but their boss, Mrs. McClonkey doesn't think that children can be authors. She thinks children have no imaginations. She is wrong! We created a super story with Niall and Javi. Ms. Fahy printed them out and we illustrated our work. We are super authors.

Brainstorming