Christmas Musicals

We really enjoyed today's Christmas musical produced by Ms. Fitzgerald's and Ms. Lane's Junior Infant classes.

You were just wonderful altogether.

Well done!

We were also treated to another superb musical from Ms. Connolly's class.

What great actors and musicians.

Well done to all!

Some Christmas Art

We had a wonderful art session today, making angels, Christmas tree decorations or cards and Nativity scenes.  We did a lovely job of all the Christmas artwork today.

Carol Service 2016

We had a beautiful Carol Service tonight in Renmore Church.

A huge "Well Done" to our singers, readers, recorder players, percussionists, and of course to our teachers and SNAs, our principal Mrs.Coleman, to Fr. Mulkerrins and Fr. Peter and to Ms. Cunningham and Ms. McGuire who organised all so superbly!

What a wonderful preparation for Christmas.

Advent wreaths

Advent is a time to prepare for the birth of Jesus.

We have an advent wreath in class.

It has 3 purple candles on it (for hope, love and peace) and a pink candle (for joy) and a white candle (for the birth of Jesus).

We light one candle a week until Christmas time.

Today we made some advent wreaths of our own.

They will look very nice when they are finished.

Wonderful Christmas plays

Our Carol Service

Songs for our carol service

Advent wreaths

Countdown to Christmas

Christmas sing along for children

Beginners Bible - The Nativity

Christmas plays

We went to the halla today to see two amazing Christmas plays.

Ms. Crotty's Junior Infants and Ms. Flaherty's Senior Infant classes each put on a Christmas play.

The plays were absolutely wonderful.  Such great actors, actresses and singers.

Well done to both classes.

We also listened to a story from Germany of the first Christmas tree.
What a great story.

Well done to Ms. Bohan's class for their wonderful play which we saw in the halla today.

Preparing for Christmas

Some nice winter and Christmas art:

We are learning all about the Christmas story. We are also rehearsing for our Christmas Play'Christmas with the Aliens', where the story of the First Christmas is explained to some aliens who have landed on earth, as their space ship has broken down. The children are rehearsing for their Christmas play and explain the true meaning of Christmas to them.

We also have both a Christmas calendar and an Advent calender in our class. The Christmas calendar helps us to count down the days until Santa comes (and teacher has put sweets in the calendar and a different person gets a sweet each day). The Advent Calendar helps us to get our hearts ready for the coming of Jesus. Each day we pray for different intentions on the Advent Calendar.

We have put up the nativity scene on our altar in class.

Baking gingerbread men!