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Hair tips from an expert!

Junior Infants love learning all about people who work in the local community.   So we were delighted to welcome Kate-Anne to our classroom in January to tell us all about her work as a hairdresser.

She answered lots of questions we had about her work and showed us some of the equipment she uses on a daily basis.  This included rollers, hair straighteners, hair dryers, and a wide selection of combs and brushes.  She showed us sample books of all the different colours of hair dye!   She even brought in a practice head, which is used by trainee hairdressers.  It was great fun trying this out.

After Kate-Anne’s visit, we had some great ideas for our own hair salon!  Thanks a million Kate-Anne for taking the time to visit and chat with us about your work!

Kate-Anne with the Junior Infants.

Kate-Anne with the Junior Infants.

Just some of the equipment a hairdresser uses!

Just some of the equipment a hairdresser uses!

We loved all these bright colours!

We loved all these bright colours!

We had fun trying to put rollers on the doll's head!

We had fun trying to put rollers on the doll’s head!

We put some of Kate-Anne's words of wisdom into practice in our own salon!

We put some of Kate-Anne’s words of wisdom into practice in our own salon!

Hair extensions were popular!

Hair extensions were popular!

Hard at work!

Hard at work!

Can you tell who this customer is?

Can you tell who this customer is?

All hands on deck!

All hands on deck!

Something for poor Biddy…..

Having fun with our Brideog dolls!

Having fun with our Brideog dolls!

Junior infants made Brideog dolls for St Brigid’s Day.  Long ago, on the eve of St Brigid’s Day, “Biddie Boys” would travel from house to house with a doll dressed in white called the Brideog, to represent St Brigid.  Householders would welcome the Biddie Boys with bread and butter.  They liked to see the Brideog dolls coming, as it was supposed to bring St Brigid’s blessing to the house.

The Biddie boys would say something like this as they went from house to house:

Something for poor Biddy! Her clothes are torn.

Her Shoes are worn.

Something for poor Biddy!

Our Christmas Drawings

After reading the book Mouse’s Christmas by Alan Baker, Junior Infants drew some fantastic pictures based on their favourite parts of the story using chalk pastels and black paper!  We used the pastels like pencils and also smudged and shaded with them to get some great effects!  See for yourself……

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Happy Christmas from Junior Infants!

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas from all the junior infants!

We have  been very busy preparing for Christmas in our classroom.

During role play, we acted out the Nativity and made up our own Christmas stories, lots of which included Santa!

The Nativity

The Nativity

Christmas just isn't Christmas without Santa and a Christmas tree!

Christmas just isn’t Christmas without Santa and a Christmas tree!

At the creative table, we made snowmen, Christmas wreaths and paper chains.

We also made Christmas tree ornaments from clay and painted them beautifully!

Painting our snowmen!

Painting our snowmen!

We had to give them two coats of paint!

We had to give them two coats of paint!

We were very happy with the results!

We were very happy with the results!

We made a winter wonderland full of snowmen on the windowsill!

We made a winter wonderland full of snowmen on the windowsill!

Making paper chains!

Making paper chains!

We used glue to stick the hoops together for the chains!

We used glue to stick the hoops together for the chains!

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Making a Christmas wreath!

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Some of our clay ornaments!

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We mixed paint to create nice colours for our ornaments!

They will look great on the Christmas tree!

They will look great on the Christmas tree!

We really enjoyed the Christmas disco as we love to dance!

Disco dancing!

Disco dancing!

The disco was great fun!

The disco was great fun!

Nollaig Shona agus  Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir!

Christmas Carol Service

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Children from Scoil Mhuire NS performed at the carol service

A beautiful rendition of Silent Night on the recorder!

A beautiful rendition of Silent Night on the recorder!