Merry Christmas!!!

 

Melting Snowmen

 Last week during our festive STEM stations, each pod had to create a coat to prevent their snowmen from melting. The children had a variety of different fabrics to choose from and worked together to create these special coats to keep their snowmen cold! Great job everyone! 

Nollaig Shona!

 

Christmas Post Office

We have been having a lot of fun in our Christmas Post Office Aistear this week! 

Table 1: Christmas Small World

Table 2: Art-paper plate Christmas trees and doing the art for our Sweden projects

Table 3: The Post Office- The children were very busy wrapping presents, writing letters and buying stamps to post them to the different addresses all around our classroom!

Table 4: The Theater- last week the children did the Nativity story and this week they were allowed to create their own Christmas stories. They had to make up the story, write the script, make the puppets and practice before they put on the show. The stories were brilliant-Why There Was a Llama on Santa's Sleigh, The Lost Christmas Tree, Frozen 3 and Santa's Worst Nightmare!

Aistear is a great way to use vocabulary, practice reading and writing, develop social skills and cover a lot of curriculum subjects in a fun and informal way!

Santa's Workshop

Have a look at the toys the construction elves have made for Santa! There was some great creative thinking, problem solving, spatial awareness and imagination happening in the Santa's Workshop! 

Data-Maths

We have been learning about Data in Maths this week. We know that Data is just a fancy name for collecting information and sharing it.

Here is a 3D chart and bar chart showing which Christmas song the children preferred- Jingle Bells or Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer:

On Tuesday we gathered Data about which job would be better-an elf or a reindeer and made a pictogram:

Today's Data involved a box of Celebrations! Everyone picked their favourite chocolate and helped to make our bar chart showing the data:

Then we counted how many of each chocolate there were and took note of the data. 

Guess Ms. Keane's Favourite! 😂

Christmas Fun before the Holidays!

Christmas Playtime

Have a look at our Christmas playtime this week. We have some Christmas-themed playdough boards for creative thinking, fine motor skills and oral language. There is also an Art station where the boys and girls are making Gingerbread Children! We have a Write the Room Christmas activity where the children go on a word hunt around the room. Finally, we have a North Pole role-play area. The children will be in role as elves, but also as different people who help us, e.g. doctors, nurses, vets, builders, mechanics etc., depending on what happens in their drama! 

The Gingerbread Man

We have been looking at The Gingerbread Man all week. After hearing the story we did a sequencing activity and built sentences during English stations. Bernie took groups during playtime down to the staff room to bake and decorate yummy gingerbread men. 

The children worked with their Junior and Senior Infant partners to design, source materials and build gingerbread houses. They look amazing!!!

Gingerbread Men

We had a lot of fun last week baking and decorating some gingerbread men! We learned about recipes, ingredients, following a method, sieves, spoons and more! The best part was decorating our treats Friday morning and eating our delicious gingerbread men before hometime! 

An Nollaig

Bainimid an taitneamh as an chlár Gaeilge nua, Bua na Cainte. Éist le hamhráin nua a rinneamar don Nollaig: 

Bualadh Bos

Ó bualadh bos, bualadh bos.

Buailimis go léir.

Tá Daidí na Nollag ag teacht anuas, 

Anuas on simléar.

Ó bualadh bos, bualadh bos.

Buailimis go léir.

Tá Daidí na Nollag ag teacht anuas, 

Anuas on simléar.

Daidí na Nollag

Tháinig Daidí na Nollag.

Ní fhaca mise é.

Fuair mé a lán bréagán.

Hip-hip-huré!

Seo é an Leanbh Íosa

Seo é an leanbh Íosa,

Sa mhainséar ina luí.

Tá Muire agus Íosaf

Agus aingeal ag guí.

Sneachta ar an talamh,

Is réaltaí sa spéir.

Is an leabh beag Íosa,

Ina luí sa mhainséar.