Spring, Spring upon our door,

The sun came knocking on our floor,

Daisies, Daisies are so blue,

Making art with PVA glue.

Tinkle, tinkle little rain,

drop down into the silver drain.

Easter, Easter,

Easter food.

Pancakes, ice-cream

And chocolate cake!

SPRING by Shane Morrow

Spring, Spring is what a great thing.

The children play and the animals lay.

The frogs eat and the children have big feet.

The buzzing bee works all day

to make his honey and his money.

The flowers are bright and what a sight,

but these shorts are too tight!

Today is very sunny

and the bunnies are very funny.

The lamb is looking for her mom,

but she is going craz,y she needs to calm.

The trees are filled with bees

and I fell on my knees.

There are flowers on top of towers

and I have super powers.

The birds are singing and the bell is ringing.

SPRING by Dylan Fassnidge

Swallows go, swallows come home

for the great Spring.

Birds sing sweetly and softly,

so do grasshoppers in the green grass.

Buzzing, buzzing, busy bees,

making honey in the trees.

Hey, this is Ryan Cullen, Emmet McDonald and Zak O’Neill. This is the first diary entry on the construction on our new hall/classroom.

Today we observed the builders work on the foundations. George explained to us that the huge hole outside Ms Durkan’s and Ms Duggan’s classrooms, was going to be filled with ready-mix cement. But first, the builders had to make sure the hole was completely level.

Yellow Clay & Leveling

Day 2: 6th March 2012, Entry 2

Hey, this is Ryan Cullen, Emmet McDonald and Zak O’Neill. This is the second diary entry on the construction on our new hall/classroom.

Today we observed the blockwork. The builders were using high density blocks (Very Heavy Blocks). They used a mortar mix to lay the blocks.

The builder who lays the blocks is known as a blocklayer, he is a tradesman.

High Density Block

He uses a level, a line, a trowel, and a tape for measuring and straightening all the blocks. He also uses a large lump hammer to break the blocks.

Day 3: 9th March 2012, Entry 3

Hey, this is Ryan Cullen, Emmet McDonald and Zak O’Neill. This is the third diary entry on the construction on our new hall/classroom.

Today, we observed the strengthening of the  main wall, this was done by placing steel girders down and weilding them to the ground. We also observed the layout of the floor, this was done by laying down loads of rocks/stones and (eventually) making them rigid.

Day 4 : 11th May 2012 Entry 4

Hey, this is Ryan Cullen, Emmet McDonald and Zak O’Neill. This is the fourth diary entry on the construction on our new hall/classroom.

You can almost picture the new extension now, the scaffolding is now in place for the brick layers, and the wall & floor insulation is also ready. Most of the brickwork has been completed, and the steel ties are there too. The girders and steel lentals are ready to support the roof and – Wait a second! Half of you don’t even know what I’m typing about.

Anyway I’ll speed type in brief about it. The steel ties are those weird plastic crosses in the wall and they prevent water from getting into the walls, the lentals are those thingymabobs above the windows and the insulation keeps the whole place warm.

One of our bloggers tries out for Building Matierials Limited Magizine as their new model!!!

Steel Tie & Lental

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8

6:15 pm

First Confession is on the 8th of March at 6.30.

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!!!

By Zak , Ryan and Jason

6th Classes

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.

Third/Fourth Class celebrated the Chinese New Year with the Visual Arts!

First they looked at and talked about dragons with respect to size, shape, colour and pattern. Then they constructed their own dragons using collage and created the flame effect using the action painting technique called blow painting.

Henry Matisse (using collage)

Jackson Pollock (action paint effect)