Christmas preparations in Second Class

We have been learning about Advent.  We are busy getting ready for Christmas.  We have made a class Advent Calendar and are counting the days until Christmas.  We have begun decorating our classroom and have posted letters to Santa.  We are also practicing for the Carol Service. 

Room 1 Junior infant preparations

We are getting very excited about Christmas. We have a Christmas Tree in our classroom and we all helped to decorate it today. It was great fun. Look how nice our tree looks when we all worked together to decorate it.
It's beginning to feel alot like Christmas......

Getting ready in Junior Infants

Through out Advent we will have a student of the day.

Student of the Day, 1st December

Student of the Day, 2nd of December

Our Advent Calendar.  It helps us with the countdown to Christmas

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 Some of the Fantastic Christmas art we have made.  These are Santas toy sacks.
We had great fun decorating the Christmas tree today. We think it looks magical!

Getting ready for Christmas in Junior infants

Advent: A time of preparation

We are learning about Advent at present and we made these Advent Wreaths yesterday.

• We are busy preparing for Christmas in Room 3. As well as getting ready for Santa's visit and counting down the days to Christmas on our Christmas calendar we are also preparing in a very special way for the birth of Jesus. This morning we all worked together and put up our crib on the altar in our classroom. It looks great! We also put up our Advent Wreath and Advent Calendar. We will be praying for a special intention for each day of Avent and we will try to be extra good, kind and helpful to everyone we meet as a special birthday present to Jesus.
  
• Advent Wreath

The candles are lit to symbolise the light of God coming into the world through the birth of Christ. On the first, second and fourth Sundays of Advent a purple candle is lit (each sunday the candle from the previous sunday is re-lit). The colour purple as used during the period of lent, reminds us to prepare a welcome for Jesus during the Advent season. On the third Sunday of Advent a pink candle is lit. Pink is the colour of joy to remind us that we should be ready to welcome Jesus at Christmas. On christmas Eve the white candle is lit to celebrate the birth of Christ - The light of the World.

Celebrating Advent in school