29th June 2012
Today is our last day in school before the Summer holidays.
We are going to miss a few things;
- our teacher
- the classroom
- doing our blog
- our friends
- checking our emails
- Dee and Noeleen
We had such a fantastic year;
Here are some of our BEST BITs!!!
Colm's favourite memory is Baldonnell
Cameron's favourite memory is the BBQ.
Ross' favourite memory is Science and the Assembly.
Kelly's favourite memory is the Luas trip.
Martin's favourite memory is the trip to Baldonnell.
Ruth's favourite memory is Luas trip.
We just want to say a big thanks to everyone who made our year in school so great!!!
We are saying Goodbye to Teacher who has to leave but she will be visiting us for sure!!!!
Teacher is going to miss us a lot and she says we were the BEST class she ever had!!!!
28th June
Our year in Scoil Mochua is coming to an end.
In the last week we have done soooooooooo many things!!!!
BBQ
We had a BBQ on Tuesday which was great fun!
We got to see horses and cows and have a walk around the farm.
We ate sweets and chocolate and cakes and burgers and sausages and they were all YUMMY!
Sports Day
On Monday we had Sports Day.There were lots of different sports and activities set up all around the school garden and grounds. We got to move around and play all the games! We got loads of points and even got prizes at the end of the day!
Some of the fun games were sponge polo, soccer (a match between teachers and SNAs - teacher was not very good- don't tell anyone ;), target games, gunge games, catapults and lots more!
It was a great and an awesome day!
Art and Crafts Day
Yesterday was Art and Crafts Day. There were lots of different art activities set up in each Unit and we moved around to each Unit doing Art all day.
We made paintings using pointillism, potatoes, stickle bricks and sponges! It was great fun.
Teacher even got to ring the bell between each session. She loved it!
NEWSPAPER
Last week we made our very own Scoil Mochua newspaper called the 'Scoil Mochua Times'.
We had a number of sections;
1.Kelly K was the lady with the news of the day - she wrote all about the BBQ, the Arts and Crafts Day, the end of school and the Sports Day. She included a wonderful poem and really made a great reporter.
2. Marty L. was the Sports reporter. He wrote all about the Euro 2012, Sports day and a piece on sports in Scoil Mochua. He made some great reports about the soccer and got some great quotes about the Sports Day.
3. Ruthie B. was our Music woman! She was amazing - she even got an exclusive interview with a member of Aslan! She asked some great questions and she wrote about the very important Summer Assembly also.
4. Ross with the Goss! Ross was our celeb reporter. He got an interview with Jedward and also got the
exclusive low down on the famous superstar Eamonn Kilbane!!
5. Weatherman of the moment was Colm! He did great work on giving us the forecast for the final week in school. He even included a great map for us to look at.
6. Puzzle guru was Camy Drew! He got some fantastic jokes which made us all laugh and also created an unbelievable wordsearch which had words related to Scoil Mochua!
7. Finally all together we created the horoscopes at the back! They were very insightful and entertaining for everyone.
We created our paper using readwritethink.org where they gave us a cool template.
We printed and photocopied it and distributed it to everyone in Scoil Mochua.
They LOVED it!!!
We are sooooo great!! :)
OUR TRIP TO THE AIR CORPS IN THE CASEMENT AERODROME, BALDONNELL
Check out the cool pictures below..............
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We also got to ask lots of questions - check them out.............
Question
for Trip to Air Corps
19th
June
1.
How do they rescue people?
2.
Do you need to have a first aid
course?
3.
Can you do any tricks in the plane?
4.
Have you ever been abroad with the
Air Corps?
5.
How many people are in the Air Corps?
6.
Are there many women in the Air
Corps?
7.
How many people are training?
8.
How many airplanes and helicopters do
you have?
9.
Tell me about your uniform.
10.
How often do you train?
11.
What other skills do you need?
12.
How close can the helicopter get to
the ground for mountain rescues?
13.
What type of food is important for
the air corps?
14.
How many hours sleep do you get?
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Can you get called during the night?
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How many hours do you work?
17.
How many years training to become a
pilot?
18.
What age do you have to be to join?
19.
Could you join when you are older?
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Do they listen to music when flying?
21.
How often do you fly the airplanes?
22.
How long do you go flying for?
23.
When do you see your family? Do they
live on base?
14th June
Because we are so great and we are learning about writing reports - we decided to write a report on the Ireland match tonight.
Here it is...............
Come on the boys in green!
Tonight at 7.45pm Ireland will be playing Spain Ireland
The match is being played in Gdansk in Poland Spain
Robbie Keane has said
"People have probably written us off and not given us
any hope”, after their defeat against Croatia
He also comments that "After losing the other night
it is very important that we get something out of the game.”
The fans are waiting nervously to watch the match and
hoping for a good result. The thousands of fans who have made the journey to Poland
12th June
Kelly is back from her holidays!!!YAAAAY!! We missed her!
And she brought us some beautiful gifts! We love them!
We have a new friend in our class for a week or two. His name is Karl. He is going into sixth year and is sixteen years old. He is very helpful and kind and is doing all our work with us.
He used to be a student here 12 odd years ago and also made his Communion here. Everyone recognised him apart from his hair, which used to be blonde!
PHOTO STORY: We have been making our own photo story on the computer with Lorraine. We have all had a chance to say something and record it onto the pictures. We will all get a CD with this on it and add it to our scrapbook.
IRELAND: We created posters to support Ireland in the EURO 2012 soccer. We also listened to the Jedward song 'Get your green cape on' which is sung to the tune of 'Lipstick' and the official Irish song for EURO 2012 'Rocky Road to Poland'.
We were sad that Croatia bet Ireland in their first match but we have two more to go so fingers crossed!!
TROCAIRE: We got a letter from Trócaire which told us that we have not won the competition we entered!Oh mo Dhia!
But we all got badges and a certificate so we are still happy and we know that our poster was fantastic!!
6th June
We all got a huge shock this morning because....................................
CAMERON GOT HIS HAIR CUT!!!
Cameron has had long hair since he started school and now he looks sooo grown up!
We all love it!
Ruth thinks that you will start to think he looks like a handsome Prince!!!
Every cloud has a silver lining
We found out what this saying means - that if you have a problem or you make a mistake it will be ok because every cloud or bad thing has a silver lining or good side!
5th June
It was Colm's Birthday on Saturday June 2nd but we were not in school so we celebrated today (along with Abiola) and we had some yummy cake and marshmallows and cookies!
YUM YUM!!!
Colm had a great birthday and you can read about it all in his news!
We had a long weekend - both Friday and Monday off school! We are so lucky!
Last week before our long weekend, we learned lots!
MUSIC; We played a really fantastic game called 'Eurovision', where we looked at past Eurovision Irish songs such as Lipstick from Jedward, Terminal 3 by Linda Martin and Johnny Logan with Hold Me Now and we marked them out of 10.
Guess who won??? Jedward!!!!!
We also met a new friend, Ann, who helped us with our game and will be visiting more next year.
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ENGLISH: We have started learning about Report writing. We read some newspaper reports and looked at the 5 W's - Who,What,When,Where,Why?
We are going to be writing our own reports and creating our own newspaper as a whole class!
MATHS: We had great fun learning about capacity* and using water to fill and empty different size containers and measure litres and mililitres.
We also had a visitor for this lesson called Paula and she loved our lesson and how hard everyone in our class works, including Teacher!!!
*this means the ability of something to hold liquid (like volume)
30th May
ENGLISH:
We read another Mystery Mates book today - The Mystery Mates and the missing millions.
It was really funny.
We acted it out as a whole class and even made all the sound like alarms and ferrets!
We wrote book reviews also and most people thought the book was funny and exciting!
SCIENCE :
Today we did a really cool experiment!
Here it is if you would like to do it too - http://www.primaryscience.ie/media/pdfs/col/design_a_boat.pdf
We were learning about how boats float!
We used water and marla to figure it out!
We discovered that it is all to do with the shape of the boat - the weight and size does not matter!
Also we learned a new word - 'upthrust' which means how the water pushes against the object - we tried it with a balloon - it was very hard - try it yourself!
We had great fun!
Check out the pictures from our experiment....
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| We got them to float |
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| uh oh - this one sank |
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| What is going to happen? |
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| This was before we made the boat shapes |
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| The balls of marla just sank to the bottom |
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| Will they float? |
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| Yay - we got another one to float! |
And we totally forgot to tell you about the experiment we did about airplanes!
We learned about how airplanes fly also!
It is all to do with air pressure!
Check this link out to do the experiment yourself - http://www.primaryscience.ie/media/pdfs/col/Aeroplane_Activity.pdf
Both our experiments came from the website that we love - www.primaryscience.ie - it has lots of cool ideas on it!
22nd May
OUR TRIP TO DUBLIN CITY CENTRE
Here are all our pictures from our trip - please read the captions to follow our trip!!
We got the school bus to the Luas stop at Cheeverstown - we went with Gráinne!
1. We got on the Luas at Cheeverstown.
2. We were on the Luas for approximately 40 minutes.
3. We got off the Luas at Abbey Street.
4. We turned left and went onto O Connell Street and we saw two mime artists dressed as statues. They moved when we gave them some money!
5. We crossed over O Connell Bridge, over the River Liffey.
6. We walked up Westmoreland Street and College Green and saw Molly Malone at the bottom of Grafton Street.
7. We sang the song 'Molly Malone' with her and took some pictures with her.
8. Guess what else we saw at the bottom of Grafton Street? We'll give a clue...they have a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they dress in green, it begins with L....did you guess yet???
It was two Giant Leprachauns!!
9. Then we went into Trinity College.We took some photographs.
10. We went back down Westmoreland Street and crossed O Connell Bridge again and turned left
11. We walked down the Boardwalk along the Liffey and then turned right at the Ha'penney Bridge and walked up Liffey Street to get to Henry Street.
12. We went into MacDonald's on Mary Street and ate our lunch. We had Happy Meals and ice cream. It was delicious.
13. When we were finished eating, we left MacDonalds and turned right.
14. We walked up Henry Street. We saw some buskers who were singing and some people at stalls selling cherries.
15. We got to the top of Henry Street and we were at the Spire. We took some photographs and then walked down O Connell Street.
16. We saw the G.P.O. to our right on O Connell Street.
17. We went back to the Luas on Abbey Street.
18. We got off at Cheeverstown and Gráinne collected us there.
19. We were back at school just as the bell rang - lucky us!
It was a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day!!!!
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| The Luas |
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| the Luas map |
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| the mime artists on O Connell Street |
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| River Liffey |
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| lamp posts on O Connell Bridge |
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| Trinity College |
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| Molly Malone |
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| Leprachaun at bottom of Grafton Street |
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| Door into Trinity College |
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| arch in middle of Trinity College courtyard |
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| view O Connell Bridge and O Connell Street |
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| the Boardwalk |
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| O Connell Bridge |
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| the Liffey Cruiser boat |
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| Ronald MacDonald |
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| Food, glorious Food!!! |
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| finally we got our lunch |
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| ...and then dessert |
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| The Spire |
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| the buskers on Henry Street |
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| Moore Street |
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| the Spire |
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| it's so high!!! |
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| look at the design on the end.... |
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| the G.P.O. |
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| the front of the G.P.O. |
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| uh-oh hope we are not in trouble!!! |
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| O Connell Street |
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| the Luas stop |
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| the Luas |
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| Hueston Station - the main train station in Dublin |
SPHE; We released balloons in the garden with our goals inside them. We all came up with goals that we would like to achieve soon.
Ruth - to learn how to rollerskate.
Colm - to improve at Boccia.
Kelly - swim in the deep end.
Cameron - to improve at table tennis.
Martin - to learn woodwork.
Ross - to improve at football.
HISTORY; We finished our Viking display - we added our viking longships.
We also wrote our names in Rune lettering also - the viking alphabet!
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| Here you can see our Viking ship made from lollipop sticks and the Rune letters above it. |
14th - 18th May
This week we did loads!!
ENGLISH - We have started learning about Persuasive writing.
We came up with two ideas on how to improve school - 1. An Art/Crafts Day for the whole school and 2. Student Council. We have written persuasive letters to the Principal and we are giving them to her next week - We will let you know how it goes!!
SPHE - We learned the importance of good and bad choices and how all our decisions have consequences. We went through some fun scenarios and thought of the possible choices and consequences.
MATHS - We are still learning more about weight. We are adding weights together and we know that there are 1000 grams in a kilogram - this is important!
HISTORY - We learned more about the Vikings! We used the bbc website which has lots of cool pictures and resources - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/ - check it out!
We drew our own Viking ships using chalk on black paper!
They turned out really cool.
Check it out!
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| Ruth hard at work |
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| Viking long ships |
SCIENCE - We also had a visitor in our class today - it was a little frog and all his brothers and sisters who are still only tadpoles!
Wait until you see him...
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| Isn't he soooo cute? |
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| We are waiting for these guys to change... |
Well today we started to construct them!
They are already looking great and we haven't even finished!
Check out these pictures of how we are getting on - we will put up more pictures next week when we hope to finish them.
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| Ruth's bus |
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| Cameron's wheelchair |
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| Martin's campervan |
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| Kelly's tow truck |
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| Colm's train |
GEOGRAPHY In Geography this week we are also doing about transport.
We looked at all the different types of transport that there is all over the world and then we worked out the 'catchment area' for our class! We all travel far to get to school! Look at our drawing below!
Also we included a picture of it on google maps because you can really see how far some people have to travel every day!
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| Our drawing |
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| Google maps |
8th - 11th May
This week we learned loads in school, we even recapped on things we already knew!
We started learning about the Vikings. We watched some Horrible Histories videos about the Vikings also.
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We started learning about weight in maths! We know all about grammes and kilogrammes!
We baked some jam tarts too - 'Queen of Tarts'! It was great fun!
On Friday afternoon we went to the hall and played penalties in the afternoon.
We started our art projects on transport -
Ruth has decided she is going to construct a Dublin bus.
Cameron is making a wheelchair.
Ross is making a rocket ship.
Martin is making a camper van.
Kelly is making a tow truck.
Colm is making a train.
We must collect lots of waste materials from home to make this next Friday!
Don't worry we will put up lots of pictures of how we make it and the finished products!
Ruth helped me to introduce the Science lesson which was about movement. She did a great job.
We looked at how different things move - we used a marble and a pencil - and moved them all ways e.g. blowing,pushing,flicking and many more!
We concluded that it all depends on force and how much force is used in the movement.
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There is also the Graduation Ball for the four boys who are leaving Scoil Mochua this year.
Teacher and Dee and Noeleen are going and are very excited!
4th May
Today we celebrated teacher's birthday!She will be 26 tomorrow!She is so old!Here she is looking happy!!(just kidding)
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Teacher was so lucky to get two cards and a cake!
A card from her class with a lovely typed story from Ruth and a card from Eamonn's class which was also so fantastic!
The cake was chocolate - Ruth and Teacher's favourite!!
We all sang happy birthday and had a bit of a dance and fun.
Robert sang 'Edelweiss' for teacher from 'The Sound of Music' and Ruth sang 'Sixteen going on Seventeen' which is also from that film! Teacher was so impressed!
Today is Hazel's last day - we are going to miss her! She was a great help and great fun all week! :)
Music
In music yesterday we are continuing our Dublin city sounds song.
We had so much fun creating sounds from Moore Street in Dublin city centre.
We all said things like Ruth - 'roll up, roll up bunch of Parsley for a euro', Cameron 'fresh fish for a euro', Ross 'get your bananas, bunch of bananas for a euro', Teacher 'get your roses, bunch o' roses for a euro'.
We can't wait to put it all together!
Today we learned two new words - one was 'lederhosen' which is a type of trousers they wear in Austria and the other was 'acrostic' which is a type of poem!
We all wrote our own acrostic poems about our names!
Ruth is so brave and beautiful
Uses her musical gift and magical eyes
This girl is so friendly and kind
Has a very clever mind!
Ross is really clever
Often watches the news
Smiling all the time
Such a funny, kind boy!
Colm is clearly clever
Only ever helpful and friendly
Loves politics, Westlife and Fair City
Many great ideas and friends
Did you notice anything? The first letter of each line makes up our names!
Here is the poster we made from our poems.................
Art
Today we did some cool paintings where we used canvas and paint.
We were inspired by an artist called Jackson Pollock who is American and used paint dripping to create his paintings.
Here is an example of him working on one of his paintings;
Here we are working on our versions of these painting;
30th April
Today we have a new friend and S.N.A. Her name is Hazel. And she is here for one week She is from Firhouse. She is Sixteen going on Seventeen. We found out that one of the Vontrapp Children is the same age as our special guest.
We started a new science experiment today . We are growing mold on bread. We will be looking at them
daily.
27 April
We had a fantastic Friday!
You will never guess who we got an email from..........
Aras an Uachtaráin!!!!!where the President Michael D Higgins lives!!
Here is what they said..........
from: Webmaster@president.ie
to: Unit 3 <maireunit3@gmail.com>
date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:06 PM
subject: Request to visit Áras an Uachtaráin
Students
Scoil Mochua
Deansrath
Clondalkin
Dear Colm, Ross, Kelly, Ruth, Martin and Cameron ,
President Higgins has asked me to thank you for your kind email of 27
March, 2012 and your request to visit Áras an Uachtaráin.
We are keeping your request on file and will come back to you again on the
possibility of a visit if an opportunity arises.
The President sends his good wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Linda Hand
Secretariat
We had a birthday for Liam in Eamonn's class - it was great fun!
We did some drawings and colouring today that was inspired by the artist Andy Warhol.
This is a portrait by Andy Warhol
We all really enjoyed it.
Here are our Andy Warhol inspired portraits;
But we also made our own fairy cakes!
Here is the recipe if you would like to try this at home -
115g castor sugar
2 eggs
115g butter
115g flour
and lots of strong hands for stirring!
Here are some pictures to help you out!
26 April
You will never believe what we made yesterday in school - our own Butter!!
It was actually really simple - we used the primaryscience.ie website to help us.
All we did was put some cream in a sealed glass jar and shake it like crazy for about ten minutes - and guess what? the lump of butter just forms in it and you have some liquid left too which is buttermilk.
Check out the pictures of how we got on - we even ate it after that with some crackers!!
25 April 2012
Today we sent off our entry for the Trócaire box design competition.
We are so proud of it!
Here is a picture of our poster and the one page explanation which we wrote also.
We explained;
School: Scoil Mochua Special School
Class: Unit 3
Teacher: Máire Byrne
Title: The Change is in your hands!
Our design is inspired by the 28 countries that Trócaire work in.
We know that money goes from our hand to the hands of people that Trócaire help and we wanted to show this by showing two hands in our picture. We wanted to show people that when they give money they should think about it going to people and not just the organisation. We coloured the hands in multi coloured to represent diversity and in particular the diverse nature of the 28 countries supported by Trócaire. We learned the phrase helping others to help themselves and this was reinforced when we had someone come from Trócaire on a school visit recently. This really helped inspire us further and strengthened ideas for our design. We learned so much more about Uganda
24 April 2012
Our Special Guest
Our guest today was a lady called Lydia from Trócaire.
She came to teach us about Daniel and the work that Trócaire do.
We came up with loads of questions to ask her before she arrived!
Colm asked;
How do they do their work in school?
We learned that they work on the floor and have no seats or tables like we do.
What kind of transport do they use?
We found out that they use a bike which they share with the whole village.
What kind of toilets do they have?
They use a hole in the ground which they dig deep and cover when full. It smells really bad!
Martin asked;
Are the schools mixed?
Yes but often it is more boys than girls because girls are expected to do the housework.
Do they get lunch in school?
No they bring their own lunch which is usually corn on the cob.
How many days a week do they go to school?
They also go five days a week same as us but spend longer there from 8am to 5pm.
What is the weather like?
It is very hot and humid, often 30C and with very little rain.
Cameron asked;
What type of food do they have?
They eat lots of potatoes but they call them 'Irish'. We are going to call them this ourselves now! They eat bananas but before they ripen and turn yellow so they are still green - it is called Matoke and it tastes like turnip.
What type of games do they play?
They play football mostly just like us.
What do they sleep on?
They sleep on mats made from the leaves of the banana tree woven together. They have no pillows so just use their arms.
Kelly asked;
What subjects do they do in school?
They do the same as us but spend a lot of time on English.
How do they celebrate Christmas ?
They go to mass or prayers with the whole village. Then they cut up a goat for Christmas day just like our big Christmas dinner.
What do their homes look like inside?
They are round and they have just one room - they eat, sleep, cook and wash all in the one room!
They have no privacy.
Ross asked;
What are their breaktimes at school?
They get one hour off during the day for lunch but with no smaller breaks. They have an hour of play at the end of the day.
Where do they get their clothes?
They do not have as many clothes as us - Daniel has two tops and a jersey that Trócaire gave him. If they need more clothes they have to travel far to a market.
What holidays do they get from school?
They get the same as us but their summer holidays are later - October/November because of planting and crop seasons.
Ruth asked;
What kind of musical instruments are there?
They play a thumb piano.
Do they wear uniforms?
Yes they do - Daniel wears a green shirt and black pants but with no shoes.
How do they bathe?
They have to go to the water well and use a bucket to wash themselves and their clothes.
Do they have TVs?
No but sometimes they will listen to the battery operated radio.
Ruth's Birthday
We had the most AMAZING day today!
It is Ruth's birthday and she had such a special day - she got 3 cards and some lovely chocolates.
We had a great party with cake and chocolate and jellies - everyone was so happy.
We all sang Happy Birthday and For She's a Jolly Good Fellow!!It was so much fun!!
We found this Happy Birthday Ruth song online.
We looked up birthday stories and jokes.
Our favourite joke was;
How does Moby Dick celebrate his birthday?
He has a WHALE of a time!!
Hope you liked that joke! :)
Ruth also designed her own cake online! Do you like it? Doesn't it look delicious?
20 April 2012
Every week we read a book together and do our book reviews.
This week we read 'Magic Mates and the Holiday of Horrors'.
Overall we liked this book about friends going on a scary holiday but it all ends up being ok!
We had great fun acting out the book where we all took on the roles of some of the characters.
Today we went out to the greenhouse and checked on the herbs that we planted before Easter.
We were sooooo surprised and happy because guess what? They had grown a little!
Check out our picture!!
19 April 2012
Some of the pupils had to go to the nursing department. Because they had to get injections. There was also a breakfast club for pyjama day. We all brought in 1euro or 2euro or more to help the Debs committee in the Senior school.
At the breakfast there were so many nice things to eat, for example sausages, eggs, rashers, beans, toast, lots of different breads and so much more.
You could also buy bread and cakes.We ate loads of food and drank some orange juice. It was all so tasty and we had great fun!
We have some visitors in our class today - another teacher is out so Abiola, Robert and John are learning with us today. They are having great fun!
We had no soccer today because of the breakfast club and we do not know yet if we will have Music with Siobhan or Ruth's piano lesson - we really hope we do but if not we will see her next week and Ruth can always sing a song she knows by heart.
18 April 2012
Today we sent an e-card to President Michael D Higgins for his birthday.
We really hope that he really likes it and replies back!
We would love if we got to visit the Aras some day.
We now know that our visitor, Lydia from Trocaire, is coming next Tuesday at 11.00. It is also going to be Ruth's birthday that day too! We are so excited about celebrating this and cannot wait to meet our visitor.
We are having a pyjama day tomorrow on Thursday April 19th - we are excited about that.
We also have a lovely writing board. What do you think of our writing?
April 2012
For the next few weeks we will be learning about the Famine in History, about Africa, in particular Uganda in Geography and we hope to have a speaker coming in from Trócaire to tell us about their work and Uganda - we are very excited about this.
28th March
Today we found out the meaning and origins of all our names!
Ruth is Hebrew meaning friend.
Martin is Latin meaning from god Mars.
Cameron is Gaelic meaning crooked hill or stream.
Colm is Latin meaning Dove.
Ross is Gaelic meaning cliff.
Kelly is Gaelic meaning bright headed.
Our SNA's names Noeleen is Gaelic meaning Christmas and Deirdre is Irish meaning sorrow,
and teacher's name Máire is Irish meaning star of the sea.
Today we did a science experiment to test the strength of different types of paper.
The website http://www.primaryscience.ie/ helped us with this.
We used these items to do our experiment.
Here are the results from our experiment!
Date: 22 and 23rd of March 2012 Class: Unit 3
Science Experiment: Paper Strength
Aim: to find out which paper was the strongest
Results:
Types of paper.
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Predictions
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Number of marbles
1st try
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Number of marbles
2nd try
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Tissue paper
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2
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5
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6
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Paper towel
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5
Ruth (21)
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21
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23
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Printer paper
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20
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34
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40
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Card paper
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7
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Over 50
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Over 50
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Conclusions:
We discovered that the card paper was the strongest and the tissue paper was the weakest.
March 2012
We have been using http://www.08802815.blogspot.com/ to help teach us about human rights.
March 2012
We have been using http://www.08802815.blogspot.com/ to help teach us about human rights.
We also made a display about children's rights.
It is on the wall outside our classroom.
We made some really cool robots.
They helped us use 3D shapes like cubes!
We also played a cool game on the bbc website and we learned a new word 'recruit'.
We learned how to write instructions too and we now know the features of instructions are;
-numbered steps
-tools and equipment
-diagrams/ pictures
-bossy or imperative verbs
-aim
-finished product picture
We used this powerpoint presentation to help us learn about writing instructions.
We also wrote our own set of instructions for a game we play in P.E. called Boccia.
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