Jack and the Beanstalk

Our first podcast

Today was a very exciting day in 'the smarties' classroom. We made our very first podcast!! Everybody got together today to make this recording but first we had each create a book review.
What we did?
Last week we all read at least one book. After we had read the book we wrote about it. Writing about a book after you have read it is called 'reviewing' a book. We 'reviewed' our books under the following headings.
1. Title;    the name of the book.
2.Author; the person who wrote the book.
3. Illustrator the person who drew the pictures for the book.
4. Characters;   the people who are in the book.
5. Setting the place the story happens.
6. Story;  here we write a little bit about the story, but we are careful not to say too much about the ending!!
7. Recommendation;   what did you think of the book? how many marks of ten would you give it?

 Here is the podcast!

You can also do a review on a panto, a film, a story, a video or even an event! If you have any suggestions for anything we could review in class please post a comment and share it with us!
If you would like to write a review up on your computer and post it there will be extra stars for your table after Christmas!

Carol Singing in Dunnes Stores 2010

Here you can see a video of our carol singing in Dunnes Stores. Thanks to all ther teachers and staff who helped out and a special thanks to all thoes who contributed to the appeal. The money will all go towards a great cause.

Chinese myths; dragons

This week we made dragons from clay. We rolled the clay into a ball and used our fingers to pinch out differen shaped dragons. We then made different types of dragons from by using various paints. Dragons come from Chinese history. The Chinese believed in a lot of different types of dragons. Each dragon had the body parts from different animals. Some had paws from a tiger, antlers from a deer, ears from an ox, scales and a tongue from a snake and many more.
Look at the different types of dragons we have created in our video below.

For more information on dragons open this slideshow that we have studied!!
http://presentations.pppst.com/dragons.ppt

Duilleoga

Duilleoga.

Duilleoga deasa, deasa,
Duilleoga deasa, buí.
Duilleoga deasa, deasa,
Ag damhsa ar an gcraobh.

Duilleoga deasa, deasa,
Duilleoga deasa, buí.
Duilleoga deasa, deasa,
Ag imeacht leis an ngaoth.

Duilleoga deasa, deasa,
Duilleoga deasa, buí.
Duilleoga deasa, deasa,
Ar an talamh, ina luí.

Féach ar an fiseán anseo........

The haka

Recently we learned the Haka in class. The Haka is a traditional dance from the Maóri of New Zealand, just like the way we have Irish dancing in Ireland. The dance is performed as a prayer to the Maóri gods. New Zealand danced the Haka just before they played Ireland in a rugby match lately. The 'all blacks' won so something must have done the trick!
Here is a link to the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vww5KLt7q6M&feature=related

Here is a video of our class performing the Haka at Edenderry rugby club!
Thanks to Ms. Karen Duffy, Patsy Gorman and everyone else who came on the day!

Poetry Corner

I Like Cabbage

I like eating cabbage ,turnip, beetroot, cress,

Very smelly foreign cheese and, best you’ll never guess!

It isn’t  chocolate or ice cream.

No, no it isn’t  custard

My very best, my favourite food,

Is sausages with mustard.

Uploaded by Charlie

Christmas Cake!!

Christmas Cake Instructions.

1. Mash the butter with a fork.

2. Sprinkle the icing powder over the butter.

3. Drop 3 drops  of food dye to  the mix.

4. Mash the mix again.

5. Cut the sponge into triangles.

6. Spread the icing on the sponge.

7. Decorate with smarties and sugar pearls.

8.  Finally push the flake into the bottom of the triangle and  serve.

If Mrs. Macdonnaghcertainly liked it, you might too? Try it again at home and impress your family with your christmas cooking!!

The Goose Who Laid Golden Eggs.

An old man and a old woman had a goose that laid golden  eggs. The goose laid seven eggs a week. The old man and woman sell the eggs from the house. They get lots of money for the eggs. The old man and the woman are very greedy.   One day they had an idea.   If they killed the Goose would there be gold inside the goose?  It turned out to  be like any ordinary goose.  The old man and woman were poor forever more.

The End. Aisling P

This story was originally  written by a man named Aesop. Aesop wrote many stories which had wise 'morals' or messages. We call Aesops stories Aesops FablesClick here to see more of Aesop's Fables http://www.happychild.org.uk/nvs/cont/stories/aesopsfables/page0002.htm

Volcanoes

Here are pictures from a volcano we made last month. After reading up on the lost city of Pompeii and acting out a play we decided we would make our own volcano.We used air baking soda and vinegar to create a reaction inside our volcano. We built our volcano out of clay. A useful tip is to build your volcano around a cup (to hold your vinegar). We used red paint to create the lava like colour. No cities were destroyed in the making of this experiment!!!

Did you know??
The liquid rock inside a volcano is called magma.
When this liquid rock explodes to the surface it is called lava.

An Aimsir

Feach ar ár fiseán nua...An Aimsir!!
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