Hi, I’m Ryan Cullen from Ms Duggan’s Fifth Class. For around a month, we have been learning about the Great Famine and reading the novel ”Under The Hawthorn Tree”. We have been typing, learning and researching about the Great Famine
and everyonegot great work done! Our Famine project included interesting facts about the Great Famine. Each group in 5A has a booklet with the groups work in it.

”Under The Hawthorn Tree” was a great book! We answered quiz questions and we did worksheets for our display. ”Under The Hawthorn Tree” is about three childen who must find their great-aunts when their parents dissappear. Along the way, there are lots of obstacles. In my opinion, ”Under The Hawthorn Tree” is a great book! We hope you like our Famine display!!!

Last week our class made butter in Science class. We really enjoyed the lesson and it was super fantastic.

This is how we made it.

Materials needed:

1.Heavy cream at room temperature.

2.A jar with a lid.

Instructions:

1.Put some heavy cream into a jar with a lid.

2.Screw the lid on tight and begin to shake it.

3.The cream has little globs of fat and protein. When you shake the jar, you get the fat and

the protein that are moving around in the cream to stick together.

4.Keep shaking the cream back and forth until it thickens. In about 10 minutes, it will turn to butter.

5.When you shake the jar, the little fat and protein globs in the cream hit each other and stick together, forming a larger and larger glob.

6.The glob is butter! The liquid that’s leftover is buttermilk.

The most interesting thing we learned in this lesson was how whipped cream suddenly looked like scrambled egg.

We didn’t like when the lesson was over because it was fun.

The lesson could have been better if we didn’t have to shake the jar so much, but that is the only thing we didn’t like because our arms got sore.

By Adam Nugent and Cían Kelly.

A Poem For Mr Malone

Although we know that you must go,

(It has brought our spirits down quite low),

I have written on this very page ,

The story of the ‘ Malone Age’.

You practiced sing-song with our wonderous choir,

And made us sing our hearts out when we met Sam Maguire.

Then, when 4 Joeys students made it into the C.U. quiz,

You trained them until they were the smartest kids.

Even your daughter has your flair,

She taught us to dance so debonair.

So though it’s sad to say goodbye,

We hope your retirement you enjoy.

For in a suit or in a dress,

You’ll always be ‘Simply The Best’.

By Emmet McDonald 5B Mr FitzGerald’s class

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Hi everyone, we are training to use the school blog today.

Ryan Cullen and Emmet McDonald

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