Countdown to Christmas

Yesterday was our last day of school in 2013. We will be back again next year for more fun in Room 2! Look at some of the things we got up to on our last week of school before the holidays.

Shapes and More Shapes!

We hunted for shapes in the hall during PE time. We had to make sure to find the right shape of the right colour.

We all had a turn using shapes to make prints in the morning.

Here are some we made displayed on the wall.

We drew more shapes in our maths copies. Some of us even tried writing the names of the shapes!

We drew rectangles.

We drew triangles.

We drew squares.

Christmas Show

We performed some of our Christmas songs and rhymes for our mammies and daddies on Wednesday. We sang Waiting, Jog Along, Little Donkey to Bethlehem, Carol of the Journey, Here Comes Santa Claus and we recited When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney.

Here we are sitting on the steps in the hall. All three classes sang together.

Look at all the mammies and daddies that came. They gave us a big bualadh bos! Thanks for coming!

Magic of Music

Catherine came again this week and she brought us on an adventure around the world! We celebrated Christmas in Mexico, Hawaii and the Caribbean!

Here we are in Mexico wearing sombreros.

Here we are in Hawaii wearing hula skirts.

Here we are in the Caribbean with our long dread-locked hair.

Christmas Art

We used shapes to make the nativity scene. We put Jesus in the manger with Mary, Joseph, shepherds and the three Wise Men. Some of us have angels in our picture too. We all have a star at the top.

We made snowy Christmas trees by cutting out three green triangles.

Rhymes

We learned some Christmas rhymes. We can say Pull a Cracker, When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney, Little Jack Horner and the counting rhyme Five Mince Pies in a Baker's Shop.

We acted out the rhyme Little Jack Horner.

Writing

We were using our Christmas writing book all week. 

There are different Christmas pictures on each page. Here we are drawing the tinsel and colouring the Christmas tree.

Santa Claus Came to Visit.

On Thursday Santa Claus arrived at school. We dressed up to meet him. We went into the hall to greet Santa! We sang Here comes Santa Claus.

Some of us bought raffle tickets and the winners were called out when Santa was in school. We had three winners! The three lucky boys in our class had their photo taken with Santa Claus.

Carol Service

On Friday the whole school performed the Carol Service. We listened to the story of the birth of Jesus and we sang songs to accompany the story. All the Junior Infants sang Waiting, Mary and Carol of the Journey.

Class Raffle

Just before we went home on Friday we had a raffle in our classroom. We all had a turn pulling a name out of the box. We were all winners. Yippee! Some of us won the colour books we made and others won the big group collages we made at the start of the year using red paper and green paper.