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.

Christmas Reindeer and Angels in Junior infants

Handa's Surprise and Fruit printing

After hearing about life in Chad, we read a lovely story called Handa's Surprise where we saw pictures of delicious fruit that grows in Africa.Then we did prints with fruit like pineapple,bananas,apples and passion fruit.

Rockets in fabric and fibre: Senior infants

After our rockets experiment, we read a story about a little bear who flies to the moon in a home made rocket.Then we made our own rockets using sparkly crepe paper  and felt.

Bird Watching in 2nd Class

These are our drawings of birds. Tom from Birdwatch Ireland told us all about birds, and showed how to draw birds,and how to make a bird using paper folding- origami.

Russian Dolls in Second class

We looked at Russian dolls today, Denis brought in his set of 5, and Ms.Keenan had a set of 7. We coloured our own Russian dolls.

Our Santa Masks are finished in Senior Infants

Junior infant art work

We have been learning about the artist Kandinsky. We loved his work called
Farbstudie Quadrante and so we decided to make our own version!




Felt Rockets in Senior infants

Guessing time

Papier mache masks in Senior infants

Waterproof umbrellas in Senior infants

An owl in a tree (Based on the Owl Babies)

We have been doing the Big Book 'Owl Babies' in English and for art this week we finger painted this entire forest scene of an owl in a tree at night. First we wet the entire page with water and we finger painted the background using orange and yellow paint. When the background was dry we finger painted the tree, bushes and the owl using black paint. When that was dry we added two large white eyes with black pupils. We added stars and the moon. They turned out great - have a look!!!