There once was a woman
John Of Arc
But back then
life wasn’t a walk in the park
She lead the French
into a battle of war
a vision from God
She did not ignore
But later in life
she was burned on a stake
for the thought of being a witch
But they made a mistake .
By Adam D
We are delighted again this week to have another Special Showcase in our class. This week Rachel B. won the award. This is a second award for Rachel! There were over 1,300 entries into the 100 Word Challenge this week. Well done Rachel, great work.
This is Rachel’s entry:
I ran and ran, birds swooping and howling above me. Suddenly I felt a violent thug on my shirt. All of a sudden I felt myself being lifted up into the air by my red hair. I was lifted above all the trees and the clouds until all I could see was dots.
Finally I was dropped onto a stump of a tree. I looked up, scared of what I might see. Seeing a giant bird, made me feel dizzy. I fell. The bird made me feel so small. I felt like one of the lego pieces my little brother used to play with.
All of a sudden the sky started spinning….
We created optical illusion artwork this week. 
We have been working very hard preparing for our summer tests. Today we took a small break and made some Horrid Henry jigsaws! Aaron and Dylan have there’s finished! Ethan , Erinn , Adam and Tori are still working away. Their jigsaws have 250 pieces!
A big thank you to the Transition Year Students from Loreto School Balbriggan. They have helped our class teachers over the last few months. Below are some photos of their final day in our school.
Muffins
Last Thursday my two friends Sandra and Lauren and I made muffins with Ms. Hegarty. Nicole, Brenda and Ciara from sixth class helped us too. We made muffins in the staff room after big yard. We made the muffins because we had looked at the recipe.
First:
We cleaned the table and the counter. We got all the ingredients we needed to make the choc chip banana muffins. Before we got started we preheated the oven to 210 degrees Celsius.
Then:
We took a bowl and put in all our dry ingredients. We sieved the flour into the bowl and added sugar and chocolate chips. We mixed it all up.
Next:
We melted margarine in a microwave-safe jug and we added vanilla essence, three eggs and milk to the jug. We mashed bananas in a bowl and added them to the jug as well.
After that:
We added our wet ingredients to our dry ingredients and stirred. We greased the flat tray and put our mixture in. We put our cases into the muffin tray. We spooned our mixture into the cases. Ms. Hegarty put them in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes
At the end:
Ms Hegarty removed the muffins from the oven. We all took home 2 muffins . TINA BO$$
Here are some maths activities we did in Maths when we were learning about Symmetry and Weight in Maths.
We completed pictures with a line of symmetry….
And we each weighed our school bags with a bag scales and recorded the data on a bar chart.
This week in Art we used various types of fabric and fibre to create masks of our choice. Some of us decided to make our masks scary, while others went for Ninja’s and brides!!
Here are some snaps of the final produce!
Our pen pals in Prague sent us a box of goodies which arrived today. We were very excited to see the box arriving and could hardly wait to open it.
It was full of crisps, chocolate, biscuits, loom bands, toys and letters! Thank you to Ms. Lenko’s class.
We had a busy week this week with our Mystery Skyping. We had three different calls! We only managed to guess where one of them were before they guessed where we were.
Goldilocks was an evil partier. She went from house to house planning parties in order to wreck the home. One day she was wandering through the woods and she spotted a small cottage. It looked like a good place for a party.
She couldn’t see any activity inside so she stepped closer. Once she was sure it was empty she bashed in the door. She set up a disco, drinks, some music, food and a phone. She called up all of her friends and they came over. When the party was in full swing, a bear busted the door open and stormed in.
That night the bear had a barbecue and Goldilocks never partied ever again.
The old castle bell struck midnight
Out jumped Cinderella, her face full of fright
She bounded downstairs, the Prince on her tail
Attempting a jump that turned into a fail
She wobbled she wibbled, fell flat on her face
Spilling red blood all over the place
She had one tooth left, it hanging by a thread
The Prince went white then went red
‘This isn’t my love!’ shouted the Prince in rage
‘Look her up’, he demanded
‘Into a cage!’
While Cinderella sat in her prison room
The Prince went off and found a groom
Soon the castle was filled with laughter
As for Cinderella her story never came close to happy ever after……..