On Tuesday our teacher gave us a picture by Paul Klee. It was called “Woman in a Native Costume”. We had until Friday to colour it in. Then we went on to the internet to look at the real painting. The real one had four colours – brown, orange, yellow and white. Most people, when they were colouring the picture, used lots of colours.
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Yesterday we looked at a website about games people played in Roman times. We tried to play one of the games called knucklebones using cubes. Originally the games was played with ankle bones of a sheep or goat. Today on Twitter we looked at our mentions and @fboss told us that he had seen a picture of children playing knucklebones. We found the picture,
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Yesterday we went to Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery. An archaeologist called Gretta showed us around. Our favourite part was when we went into a tomb. We did rubbings on the tombs. Colm, Cliodhna & Ríon The largest tomb we visited in Carrowmore is called Listoghil. It is covered by a huge 4 metre cairn like the cairn that is on the top of
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In geography we were learning about our county – Sligo. We had to answer twelve questions about our county. Our county is particularly good at Gaelic and soccer. Our county is in Connacht. Two counties that border our county are Mayo and Roscommon. Two rivers in our county are Owenmore and the Garavogue. Two mountains are Ben Bulben and Ox Mountains. Famous attractions in
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Picture by Ciara L. Our class listened to the story of the salmon of knowledge.Heres what it was about.Fionn Mac Cumhail was only a young boy when his father was killed in battle. His mother sent him to be reared by 2 wise women who lived in the woods in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in county Laois. The wise women taught him how to hunt
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For homework we interviewed our mum, dad, aunt or grandparents to find out what their life was like when they were younger. We found out lots of interesting facts about their life. Here are some of the things that we discovered: My granny told me about boxty which was a type of food treat (Leah) My granny’s favourite thing to do was cycle (Joshua) My
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We did work in class on history timelines. Mr Quinn brought in old and new cameras. We worked out which one was the oldest and which one was the newest. He also brought in old records and CD’s. We had to work out which was the oldest and which was the newest. It was fun doing this type of history. By Sarah and Caoimhe
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Art Work by Eva (Rang I) We read a legend called the Giant from Scotland. This is the story. Once there were two giants. Their names were Una and Fionn and they were from Co. Antrim. They lived in a castle. One day a messenger arrived to talk to Fionn. “Are you willing to fight Angus?” said the messenger. “I will challenge him” said
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Art Work by Caoimhe O’ Queen Maeve and Ailill lived in Connacht. One night Maeve and Ailill started to boast about their riches. But then Ailill then remembered his white bull Finnbhennach. Maeve was silent because she had no bull in her herd like this one. Maeve sent for her druid immediately! “Tell me”, she demanded, “where in Ireland will I find a bull
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