Today Edward the Elf hid Christmas crackers around the classroom with the boys’ names on them.  The boys had great fun looking for their cracker and discovering their present.

We had such a fun Christmas filled day today!

We wore our Christmas jumpers, sang Christmas carols with the local garda band and had a surprise visit from Santa and his gift bearing elves. Can you see our smiles from ear to ear?

Yesterday we had a very special visit from a very successful artist who is also a past student. He had a lovely chat with the boys and we discussed his amazing paintings.

He displayed a collection of his work in our school yard called ‘Dhá Mhilseáin’ and we loved it! His work can be seen in the Draíocht in Blanchardstown where he is the artist in residence.

Today we had our Christmas play and the boys were wonderful! We loved narrating the nativity story through song singing!

Here are a few pictures of us practicing❄

We’ve really enjoyed our Christmas STEM activities from creating snowflakes out of lollipops and buttons, Christmas trees out of plastic cups, chimneys out of building blocks and paper chains using the candy cane design. It’s been so fun working as a team too!

Seeing as Christmas is only 20 days away, we decided to embrace our Christmas history showing off our favourite toys received during Christmas!

We’ve also started practicing for our play and Edward the Elf has made his presence known in our class; Ms Marica is not impressed.

Because Ms Marica’s First Class sure have!

We are so excited that there are 29 more sleeps til Christmas! Confession: Maybe teacher is more excited than the boys if not equally excited! Can you see our excitement through our decorations? Don’t worry, there’s more where that came from❤☃️❄