Fruit Kebabs!

Today we made fruit kebabs at school. They were very tasty. We are learning about healthy eating. It is important to eat 5 portions of fruit or vegetables every day.

We all brought in different fruits to share at school. Miss Lardner brought in some extra ones like watermelon, mango and pineapple. We also had pears, kiwis, strawberries, apples, oranges and grapefruit. Some people ate raw carrots too.

Miss Lardner bought skewer sticks and we made our own kebabs. We mixed up all the different fruits and they looked great.

Fr. Charlie visited while we were making them. He had one too.

Potato Plant Progress

Look at our potato plant! It is flowering really well! We have started to leave it outside for a couple of hours each day.

GAA is 125 years old!

Today we celebrated 125 years of the GAA. We made posters and decorated the class windows. We learned about the first GAA games played and how Croke Park developed. The GAA plays a very important part in our local community.

Local GAA stars such as Billy Caulfield, Eamonn Keogh, PJ Molloy, Cathal Moran and Joe Rabbitte came to the school today and helped us train and learn the skills of hurling.

See our photos for what happened...

We all wore our GAA jerseys to school today.

We went down to the pitch to meet Joe Rabbitte and Billy Caulfield and Cathal Moore.

Billy really is a great trainer. He put us through lots of training.

We practising our ball skills.

We practised our running skills.
We prastised our sprinting skills.

It is important to have a good grip of the hurley.

Billy was very organised. Thank you Billy!

It was a fun day out! And even the rain stayed away!

We did some warm ups while we were waiting for our GAA stars.

It is important to stretch our muscles before we exercise.

Team photo with our GAA jerseys!

Thank you to all our local GAA heroes for giving their time and effort today. We had a brilliant time!

Music Workshop

Last Wednesday we attended a music workshop in Castlebar. Our instructor was a lady called Mary Curran. It was very enjoyable and we made lots of noise!
The cymbals were useful to make a big impact or crashing noise.

This rainstick made the sound of rain.

There were different instruments for everyone to try out.

We had to concentrate on our own parts to keep the music rhythm going.

We used a lot of wood instruments also.

We were split into different musical instrument groups.

This is the guiro.

This is a type of drum. We could make very loud music on it. Some of us had a go to keep with the rhythm.
Playing the tube was difficult. You have to vibrate your lips while you blow through the tube.

This is a French Horn. It is made up of 7m of tubing.

The French Horn is said to have first started out as a way to call the animals. It has changed a lot since what it looked like first.

The French Horn makes a very loud sound. Mary, who was our leader in the workshop plays the French Horn. She was very good at it.

We learned about how they used to fish in the past.

The is a fishing boat called a Currach. About 3-6 people could fit in a currach depending on its size.
Our music guide Mary was very helpful and was lots of fun too.