Christmas Poem by Jack

Go Slow Santa

When Santa got lazy,

His vision got hazy.

When he got up he was very slow,

So all the elves said Go Go Go

The 5 Lamps by Jordan and Jonathan!

The five lamps on the north strand mean five streets which are Portland Row, Strand road, Seville place, Amiens street and Killarney street. The five lamps were put up around 1880 as a memorial to general Herny Hall from Galway who had served with the British army in India. When the Germans bombed The Nort hStrand the five lamps survived!!!and is still here to this day!

We got this information on this website:

www.dublincitypubliclibraries.com/dublin-buildings

Peiladóirí

1. Cé atá ag rith?
2. Cé atá ag ithe?
3. Cé atá ag ól?
4. Cé atá ag rothaíocht?
5. Cé atá ag snámh?
6. Cé atá ag dornálaíocht?
7. Cé atá ag siúl?

Newspaper collages by Jonathan, Jordan, Patrick and Noel

Lego

Mr. Brennan's mother kindly donated 3 new buckets of great Lego. Here are some of the boys playing with one of the buckets.

Don't trash it, Bin it!

The world belongs to all it's plants and animals as well as us. We should keep the world clean and not drop litter on the street. Some of the boys went out to take pictures of rubbish on our street. Here are the pictures they came back with and a poster that the class made.

Autumn Trees

2 weeks ago we made Autumn trees with the help of Niall. We made a mound with some clay. Then we used broken lolly pop sticks for a fence. We painted it all and then put in a small branch to make it look like a tree. We also sprinkled small twigs on the mound to make it look more real. Here is one of our trees.

Draughts

Last week we made Draughts pieces. We cut out clay with our pencil sharpeners. Then we painted them with glue and paint. Here are some pictures of us playing with them this week.

One Halloween by James

On the interactive whiteboard the boys chose 4 picures from the group below and wrote Halloween stories based on them. Here is James' story typed by Luke. The four words they had to use are in the cross.

One Halloween I was walking down the street when I saw Mr. Brennan. He was on his motor bike and I thought that was funny. After that I went to cut out my pumpkin and I thought I would make it look like Mr.Brennan. I knew this would scare all the kids. I hoped the kids will stay in their houses. That would mean more sweets for me. THE END.

Irish Legend meets the Larrier Legends!

Yesterday we were delighted to welcome Alan Kelly into our classroom. He was a great player for Ireland and is now the coach - helping Shay Given make the saves!
It was great to have Alan Kelly in the classroom and it was nice for him to meet the Larriers Legends! From one legend to another in fifth class we reckon!!

"My Poem" by James H

Here's another Autumn Poem by James

An Scoil

Cá bhfuil Lampard?

Tá Lampard sa halla.

Family Crests

This week we are looking at our family crests. Everything in the crests mean something. This one is the family crest of our SNA Niall. The stag meant a "lover of harmony" Niall's ancestors' might have been a very peaceful family.

Autumn Poems

Autumn (by 5th class)

The squirrel lives in a tree.

Every day he has a cup of tea.

Autumn comes with bad weather.

He hides some nuts in his sweater.

The Nut (by Jordan)

I saw a nut on a tree

When I was havin' a wee.

I swapped it for a leaf.

The squrrel called me a thief.

The Grizzly Bear (by James)

Autumn comes every year

With a big Grizzly Bear.

Winter is coming very soon

So I will get ready this afternoon.

Switzerland by Patrick

We will be having a Swiss teacher during the year so we learned some facts about Switzerland.

The country is very mountainous. The mountains are called the Alps. People ski in them.

Yodeling is an old type of singing popular in Switzerland but the young people don't really like it.

Switzerland are famous for making chocolates, K-Swiss, Swiss Army knives, clocks, cheese and watches.

The Larriers are back!

What do you reckon? Fifth fit for France?!!

Fifth class Larrier legend Jordan forms the Larriers Trinty of Legends with his bro's!

France 2010

France 2010

Our cookery class

Today we made rice krispies cakes in school. We melted the chocolate first and then we mixed it with the rice krispies. After we had to wait until they cooled down. The best part was when we tasted them and they were fantastico!!

Trinity College

Trinity College

Last Monday, the first day back after our Easter holidays was difficult for us as we hadn’t been in school in three weeks. We all walked into our class and the Miss said “We are all going to Trinity College today!”
At half nine we left the school and walked to Trinity.
We were met by a girl who I named Lucinda Cobweb. She took us into the lecture theatre and there was another boy’s school in there from James Street. A boy called Alistair gave us a bar and some orange juice. We were delighted because we were thirsty from the walk.
We were divided into two groups and Alistair was with us. He brought us to the zoology department. The other school got to go and do maths roulette. A man was waiting there to tell us all about extinct, endangered and vulnerable animals in the world.
It was very interesting especially when he showed us the huge elephant tooth.
The man in charge divided the class into three groups and each group went to the different sections of the room. The first group learned about animal teeth, another group got to make a chimpanzee skeleton and the last group did a quiz on animals.
After all our hard work, we rushed down to the canteen and got lots of lovely food.
Both schools were brought outside and split up into groups to do a scavenger hunt. We had to go and find different areas of the college to answer the questions. We saw the book of kells, the old library, statues and sculptures there. Finally we all met back together and got a special stamp which means we are trinity citizens.
Overall it was a great day which we weren’t expecting.

By fifth class.

Trip to Imma

Our visit to the modern art gallery

Last Thursday, we visited the Irish museum of modern art. We went on the luas to Hueston station and then walked up to the museum. The luas cost us one euro fifty for a return ticket.
When we got there we were split into two groups and shown around by two guides.
We saw a lot of different types of modern art and sculptures. I loved the moving curtain. It was made of silk and a motor twirled it around. You could go inside and feel the breeze. I thought the sculpture with the crystals and the coals was the best. It was like a river flowing out of a box.
Afterwards, they gave us some art materials so that we could make our own sculptures. Mine looked like the world cup.
I really enjoyed this trip. It was brilliant. I’d go back there again.

By Killian McKenna.

Trip to Bull Island

Trip to Bull Island

Our trip to Bull Island

Yesterday our class went on a trip to the North Bull Island. Our whole class, Ms. Wrynne, Mr. Bailey and Niall went aswell. We were going there to find out about the wildlife there and about renewable energy.
We got the 130 bus at the North Strand clinic. It didn’t leave us right at the centre and we had to walk for about twenty minutes. When we got to the interpretive centre, Pat talked to us about the different habitats, wildlife and endangered species living on the island.
After the talk he got us to work on solar powered fans. This was deadly. Then we headed for the beach to have some fun.
We walked along the beach on our way back to catch the bus. We collected all sorts of things. Dion found a sword that made sounds. Robert found a builders hat and Brandon found a dead starfish. We found plenty of shells and stones too.
We had to run to catch the bus back to school. We all had a great time on the trip. I can’t wait for the next one!

By Dean Murray.

Our trip to the library

On our trip to the library we met a woman who helped us . She showed us all the different kinds of books like history , art , geography , science and so many more. She helped us find books for our projects on famous buildings in Dublin like the G.P.O, Trinity College, Connolly Station .
The second time we went up to the library we picked out our own books
and Miss Wrynne got a few flyers about Dublin zoo and tourist hot spots.
We got lots of French books to learn off for when we go to France.
When we were walking home we saw a frozen sheet of ice covering the canal, There were builders working on the canal cleaning it. In the library we had to be very quiet because other people were there reading the newspaper and fiction books .We all picked out our books and Miss Wrynne checked them out for us. We all picked brilliant books like "Twilight"(for Leroy) Tyler and Brendan got the "B F G", Dion got Georges marvellous medicine, Dylan s got "Ghosts for sale", and Robert got a great war book about trouble up the north.
At the end we all went home and read our books.

By Robert McCann & Tyler O'Reilly

Trip to the Hugh Lane gallery.

On Thursday the 21st of January, my class and I went on a trip to the art gallery. We went with two girls from the teachers college. A week before we went to the gallery the two girls were in our class and they helped us draw portraits. I drew one of Killian. On the day when we were going to the gallery it was raining, but we still walked up .When we got there we met our tour guide, her name was Olive. The first painting she showed us was a painting by Ciaran Lennon, he painted stuff on copper. One of them looked like a water fall and the other one looks like lava. Both of them were excellent. Then we went to see paintings of Francis Bacon’s family. When Francis Bacon was a child he had asthma. His dad had alot of animals so that was very bad for his asthma but finally when he was sixteen he moved out. He had about three houses they were all very nice. Then
We moved to see the studio. After that we saw a few more paintings but then it was time to go so we all said thank you to Olive and headed home. I really enjoyed it!
By Robert McCann.

Helicopters experiments