Christmas elves come visiting

Today we had a big surprise!Some elves took a break from making toys to come and say hello.Their names were Elfie,Minzie and Tiny.They played Christmas songs for us and joined in our dance.Elfie was very greedy and wanted to eat our lunches.

Christmas tree decorations

Look at the fabulous paper decorations we made in class.  We got some help:- from our class artist, Calin, who regularly shows us how to make some lovely crafts.

Fiddle players in Senior infants

Teacher is learning the fiddle and brought in her fiddle to show the class today.They all had a go at holding it and bowing.They were naturals!

Sticklebricks and clay

The story of the First Christmas Tree

Teacher told us the story of the first Christmas tree.

It happened when a man from Germany got lost in a forest late one winter's night.

He lit some candles and put them on a tree to keep him from feeling lonely and frightened.

At drama time, the man from the forest came to visit us, and we were able to ask him lots of questions about his frightening experience, and about what the forest was like on the cold dark winter's night.

We also heard how he chose the perfect Christmas tree.

We really enjoyed this story.  We will remember it whenever we look at our own Christmas trees.

Printing trees and The Gruffalo: Senior infants

Christmas cribs in Senior infants

Jack Frost art in Junior Infants

Winter is here now and gone are the Autumn Colours. The colours of Winter are black, blue, white and silver. We did some colour mixing and mixed up all the cold colours and look at the results. So many colours.