JINGLE BELLS

The children in room 11 have been learning to play the recorder. We started playing in November and this week we have been learning to play 'Jingle Bells'!

Jingle Bells: Ellen, Tia, Lauren, Jack, Martin and Cassandra.

Jingle Bells: Ciaran, Leah, Rasaq, Conor D., Gemma G., Ryan and Gemma F.

Jingle Bells: Alice, Eamon, Kellie and Koby

Jingle Bells: Dayna, John. Megan, Nicola, Manasse and Tara

Jingle Bells: Gearoid,Conor F. and Rachel

                  MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL IN ROOM 11!

St Catherine's Welcomes the Sam Maguire Cup!

St Catherine's National School were thrilled to welcome the Sam Maguire Cup to Rush on Monday the 21st of November. Everyone gave the two Dublin players a very warm welcome!

SKYDOME PLANETARIUM

MY TRIP

 Today my class and I all went to the sky dome it was fun .When we went in to the sky dome it was dark then we learned all about the moon. Mars moves slower then the other planets. Then we saw pictures in the stars. He showed us the Earth from the moon. Then we saw the North Star and all stars are not white they could be brown and when it was over when we got out and we went back to school. It was fun.       By Rachel.

Skydome

We all went to the Skydome on the 27^th of October 2011. It was in the G.A.A. club in Rush because our hall was not big enough. We walked down at 10 o’ clock and we arrived just on time. After a few minutes we went inside the dome and sat down. First we looked at a group of stars called the Ursa Major. This group of stars looked like a bear. People a long time ago looked up at the stars and could tell when summer and winter were coming. The people in Egypt would look up to the stars and they would know when or when not the River Nile would burst open on top of the land. That is why Egypt became rich because the water would make the farmers crops grow and then they would sell it for gold. After that we learned about the sun and places in the sky it would be at certain times of the year. The last part that we did had to be quick because the next class had to come. The last thing was on the planets and their real size compared to the sun. Then sadly we had to go back to school but I would have loved to stay and learn more.

By Lauren

Trip to Rush Library

On Monday 17 of October we went to the Rush Library to learn about the Titanic. An author taught us about it. Her name was Nicola Pearse. She wrote a book called ‘The Spirit of the Titanic’. She taught us about the crew and passengers. She showed us pictures of the Titanic and crew and the people who made the ship. There were pictures of the captains of the Titanic and Carpathia. It was really fun.

BY Conor D

Fifth Class enjoying the talk!

Nicola Pearse telling us about the Titanic and her inspiration for her novel.

 

Many thanks to Rush Library and Nicola Pearse for a wonderful talk!

Poetry

Halloween night

All my friends are dressed up right

Loom of the moon, shimmering down

Lots of clowns, with their disturbing frowns

Out in the night, trick or treating

Werewolf’s howling, witches creaking

Eating sweets all night long

Enjoying singing Halloween songs

Not so scared in the night

Not so bothered by the fright

In the day so excited

Getting ready to be frightend

Howling of the spooky castle “BOO”

The night goes on, hope the monsters get “YOU”

By:DAYNA

 Horrid Halloween

 Amazing costumes

Lots of frights

Listen to the howls

Obviously scary

Wickedly cool

Encountering hazards

Eating sweets

Nice and horrid

Night time

Inky rain

Great fun

House full of fireworks

Time of your life

By CONOR F.

 Halloween   night

A   ghost ran past me

Loud noises around me

Little kids knocking on doors

October the night of fun

Witches everywhere 

Everyone laughing

Everyone having fun

Neighbours having fun

Now it’s nearly over

I see a witch

Go and say 

Happy Halloween

Then I had to go home.

By  Megan

Halloween Night

Always is so fun

Lots of sweets

Lots of scary people

October is the night of spook

Worlds collide HELL and Earth

Everyone is out

Eating sweets all night long

None of us are scared

Night is when we all come out

I got lots of sweets

Good costumes everywhere

Happy Halloween

Tara wrote this poem

By Tara
  

Halloween night can give you a fright

After school I saw a witch take flight

Licking lots of lollypops

Looking at fireworks all night long

October is the month of Halloween

Windows broken monsters break in

Everyone is looking scary

Everyone is eating sweets

Night is scary on Halloween night.

By Aaron

Halloween night

All are on the street at night

Licking sweets

Lighting up fireworks

October the night of fun

We all have sweets

Everyone is dressed up

Everyone is eating sweets

Night and day

Nobody is hurt

It’s nice to share

Giving people scare

Having lots of sweets

Tonight everyone’s out on Halloween night.

By Tia B.

Harvesting and Tasting

On Monday we went out to the school garden to look at all the vegetables the children had grown over the past year. Mary showed us all the vegetables and we discussed the different parts of the plants that we eat.  With carrots we eat the root of the plant, cabbage we eat the leaves of the plant and broccoli we eat the flowers of the plant.

We then got the chance to taste the vegetables. They were cooked in various ways. We tasted carrot and coriander soup, turnip puree,stir-fired white cabbage and rosemary roasted potatoes. All the recipes are on the cookery blog for us to try at home!

Tour Report

 Kayla took a notebook with her on the school tour. She wrote down the things we did. Here is her report.

Tour Report

We’re on the bus. We’re singing. We’re exited. We’re going over lots of hills. We’re nearly there. We’re here. There’s a wishing well. It’s fun. We’re having lunch. We’re about to go look at stuff. We’re starting. We’re on a bug hunt. Rachel caught a cricket. James caught a fly. We’re at an apple tree. There’s a lot of stuff. There has been a crime scene. We heard a curlew. There are badgers. There are otters here. We are going on a crime scene trail. This is fun. We’re looking at sheep skulls. We’ve done a scavenger hunt. On the bus again going back it was fun.

By Kayla

Kayla taking notes on the tour.