The last two days have been quite eventful for me at Scoil Mhuire. Over the weekend, the school was vandalized, so Monday morning there were several classrooms with broken windows and one in particular that was unusable because of shattered glass. The vandals didn't take anything; it appeared to be purely an act of malice. So the sixth class had to double up for the day so that the jr. infants (four- and five-year-olds) could have their own classroom.
Then the jr. infants' teacher had to go somewhere, and they called me in to mind the class. (I'm kind of the do-everything girl; I get volunteered to help out wherever and whenever they need me.) Here they are.
Then yesterday I went with the 3rd class to another local school called Rathdown, where an artist has come in the past couple weeks to work with the kids in making mosaics. They have hundreds of pieces of colored tile, and a picture of a sea scene was drawn onto a sheet of paper. The paper was then divided up and each group worked on a section of the mosaic separately, cutting and fitting the pieces of tile until they fit without touching. It is going in the train station when it's finished; I just hope they finish it before I leave so I can get a picture. Here we are working on the parts.
