Fighting With Words

The boys had a great time at Fighting with words on Thursday. They put all of their great ideas together to make a terrific story called 'Harry's Big Fear'.
The story is about Harry the Fishfinger and his best friend Super Egg. Harry's dream is to become a Gaelic football player, lets hope the evil fork referee doesn't put a stop to Harry's dream!
You will have to read one of the boy's books to find out what happens to Harry:)

Autumn Poems

The class wrote lovely Autumn poems in class today.
Here are a few of them for you to enjoy. Well done boys!

Autumn
Apples are falling from the trees,
The trees are losing there leaves,
The trees are losing there branches,
The roots have stopped growing,
The barks are falling off.
By Jake

Autumn
All the trees,
Underneath, the leaves,
The trees are
Big Big Big,
All the leaves are blowing,
The leaves on the tree are falling down,
The trees are falling down...Oh No!
By Justin

Autumn

Apples fall,
Under the tree,
The leaves are falling,
Under the trees squirrels run.
My ma will take nuts home,
Nothing was there any more.

By Ross

The boys spent the first week working on hand prints, drawings and paintings :)

Grúpa glas loved D.E.A.R time and playing football in the yard.

Grúpa Gorm

Grúpa Gorm really liked D.E.A.R. time, Golden time and going to the library.

Week One in Second Class

Second class have had a great first week in St. Laurence O'Tooles C.B.S. Here is what the boys have enjoyed so far....


Grúpa Dearg loved playing football out in the yard.

2nd Class are famous!

Last night 2nd Class were featured on RTÉ's Capital D programme. They were fantastic so if you missed it on TV you can check it out on RTÉ Player for the next 3 weeks.

http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1102064

Helen Keller

This week the class learned a little bit about the life of Helen Keller. Helen was both blind and deaf so with the help of her teacher she learned a unique way of communicating. By tracing the letters of words on her hand Helen was able to understand what her teacher was saying to her and in turn she was able to communicate with others. The boys had fun communicating with each other in this way!

Congratulations Brandon!

On Saturday May 21st Brandon Creane from 2nd Class made his First Holy Communion! He was brilliant in the church and enjoyed a lovely celebration with his family over the weekend. He looked great! Well done Brandon!

Fighting Words

On May 10th 2nd Class were lucky enough to attend the Fighting Words workshop where they wrote their own story and had an artist paint illustrations for it. They called their story The Drop-Kicking Monkey and it can be seen on the Fighting Words website - www.fightingwords.ie.

The Drop-Kicking Monkey

Once upon a time there was a man called Stewie and he ate too many pizzas.

One day, Stewie turned into a flying pizza. “Oh NO!” he said, “What’s happening to me on this very good day?”

Stewie’s dog Banjo tried to eat him. He shouted, “STOP Banjo!” and he flew up onto the table.

His wife, Lisa, saw him and decided to cook him an arm out of chips.

Stewie’s best friend, Orange the annoying monkey, kicked the door down and jumped into Stewie’s house. He shouted, “Stop eating my friend!”
Orange thought Lisa was going to eat Stewie.

“But I was only cooking arms for him,” Lisa told him.

Orange took Stewie out of the house and brought him to the doctor. The doctor told Stewie that he would be all right but that he needed to find 10,000 chocolate burgers to turn back into a human.
“I must warn you”, said the doctor. “The Crazy-Burger Superhero has all of the chocolate burgers and he won’t share them with anyone as he loves them too much.”

The story was continued by each boy in the class - ask nicely and they might read them to you!