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Tongue Twisters

 

Try to say these Tongue Twisters as fast as possible,
without making a mistake. 

She sells seashells on the sea shore.

Mrs. Smith’s Fish Sauce Shop.

Six short slow shepherds.

Black bug’s blood.

Chicks with bricks come, chicks with blocks come, chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.

No nose knows like a gnome’s nose knows!

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Stad!

Dráma ar ‘Anti-bullying’

Inné, tháinig an ‘Stop agus Stare Production’ go dtí Scoil na mBuachaillí in Áth Trasna. Bhí sé bunaithe ar mhaistíneacht. Bhí drámaíocht, damhsa agus scréadaíl sa dráma. Bhí Liam Ó Dochartaigh i gceannas air. Bhí Katie agus John ag cuidiú leis. Chuaigh na ranganna eile isteach sa halla agus tháinig tuismitheoirí isteach freisin.
I mo thuairim bhí sé go hiontach. Bhain gach duine taitneamh as. Tháinig na múinteoirí isteach ar a dó a chlog chun an drama a fheiceáil. Ní dhéanfaidh mé dearmad ar an lá sin go deo na ndeor.

Jamie Ó Cionnaolaidh, Rang 5

Inné

Inné tháinig Liam Ó Dochartaigh go dtí an scoil agus bhí Katie agus John in éineacht le Liam. Bhí siad ag cuidiú le Liam. Bhí sceitch bunaithe ar mhaistíneacht ar siúl. Bhí Liam í bhfeighil an seisiúin. Chuaigh rang a cheathair, cúig agus rang a sé go dtí an seisiúin. Rinne gach duine dráma. Bhí Katie ag damhsa le na páistí. Nuair a chonaic Ben agus Dylan an chliseadh, thosaigh siad ag screadaíl. Nuair a bhí an chleachtadh críochnaithe acu, tháinig na tuismitheoirí agus ranganna eile go dtí an halla. Bhí siad ag féachaint ar an drámaíocht agus bhain gach duine taitneamh as.
I mo thuairim, bhí sé go hiontach. Bhí an-spórt againn agus ní dhéanfaidh mé dearmad ar an lá sin go deo na ndeor.

 J.J. Ó Croinín, Rang 5

Dráma

Dé Luain a bhí ann. Bhí ‘Stop agus Stare’ ar siúl. Bhí Liam Ó Dochartaigh i gceannas air. Bhí Katie agus John ag cuidiú leis. Bhí mé ag damhsa agus ag déanamh dráma. Bhí an dráma fada. Dúirt Liam go raibh mé go maith ag an damsha. Chuaigh na tuismitheoirí go dtí an dráma. Bhí mé ag screadaíl in éineacht le Ben. Is maith liom an drámaíocht. Bhí an-spórt agam. Tar éis an dráma, bhí an múinteoir ag caint le Liam. Ní dhéanfaidh mé dearmad ar an lá sin go deo na ndeor.

Cian Ó Crualaoi,  Rang 6

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St. Brigid’s Crosses

St. Brigid’s Day, 1st February

St. Brigid’s Day is celebrated as part of Primary Catholic Schools Week. We usually go to mass and celebrate Grandparents’ Day. Cian’s, Ben’s and Dara’s Nana, Nora O’Doherty, comes every year to help make St. Brigid’s Crosses with the boys. We are extremely grateful to her. There’s no limit to her patience, kind-heartedness and generosity-of-help towards the boys, each of whom goes home with a treasured St. Brigid’s Cross.
 

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Engineering Day

Kinetic Energy -with Scott

We had fun at engineering day making roller coasters. We made a good one – we put the pipe onto the edge of the chair and when the marble went down the roller coaster, it rolled very fast and went into the cup!

Anthony O’Donovan, Senior Infants

With Scott, we made a roller coaster. We had tape and a cup and the outside spongy part of a pipe. We put the tape onto the spongy part to make the roller coaster.

Colin O’Leary, Senior Infants

 

Engineering Day

Engineering Day 05/02/2013

 

Engineering Day

We learned a lot on Engineering Day

 

Engineering Day

Best day ever!

 

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Writing Stations

We did writing stations in our classroom for 5 weeks. There were five different stations and we stayed at each station for 8 minutes. Some Moms and Dads came to help us with the writing stations. They helped us every day and we learned how to hold a scissors the right way & practise our cutting. We cut out shapes to make flowers, cars, angels, boats, snails etc. At station 2, we threaded shapes with laces, and we used playdough to make letters. Múinteoir Christine taught us how to write letters the correct way. She had lots of small white boards and we got to practice our letters on them. Sometimes M. Christine called out words and we had to write them on the boards. We were writing stories with Múinteoir Nóirin. When we were writing our stories we used the 5 Ws – who, what, where, when and why. We wrote stories about mice, turtles, birds, caterpillars and frogs. We did rainbow writing with Múinteoir Jennifer; we had to write over a word lots of times with different colours and we were learning how to spell words. Sometimes words were mixed up in sentences and we had to write the words in the right order. We learned about capital letters and full stops as well.

The writing stations were fun!

Infant Classroom

The writing stations are fun. We get to play with play dough and shapes, and we cut out paper to make pictures. I don’t find cutting hard anymore! M. Christine is teaching us how to write our letters the right way. We are writing capital letters. We sometimes do rainbow writing; you have to write over a word 5 times using different colours. It helps us to spell words.

Gavin Fleming,  Senior Infants

I like the writing stations, especially when we get to write on the whiteboards. We write different letters and we must make sure they are on the line. M. Jennifer is teaching us about capital letters and full stops. M. Nóirin is helping us to make stories. We wrote a story about birds. They can fly and they eat worms. I drew a blackbird for my story. I like writing and I am getting really good at it!

Colin O’Leary, Senior infants

  • Writing station - story structure
  • Fine motor muscle development
  • Writing station - letter formation
  • Story structure, stage 2
  • Cutting station - mine motor control
  • Fine motor development
  • Letter development

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