My Colour Poem: Red

By Luke Murphy

Red is the colour blood,
An a sack
And an old, raggy sock.
There’s love and fun
But there was a gun,
Then it was the end for them.
There was anger and violence
All over the world.
Then it was time to say ‘bye bye’.

Our Poetry

What is Red?

By James McCarthy

Red is the colour of my bed
And a head too.
A flamingo reminds me of bingo,
An angry, red fire extinguisher.
A red Christmas bow.
A hard-working pencil or crayon,
Complimenting a copy.
A robin red breast sitting in a tree
Over a couple kissing
A lovely ladybird living on a leaf.
A juicy red apple.
This is red to me.

Our Stories

The Day We Won in Croke Park

By Evan Pierce

On Saturday, we had to meet at the school at 11:30 then we walked up the Croke Park.
When we got there, we ran down to the dressing room and saw a huge big hurley. When we got changed, we had to stand in the tunnel for ages, then we walked out to the pitch and warmed up.
When the match kicked off, we won the throw in and we got a goal and a few points but by the second half, we were drawing.
The game went into extra time and Nato scored a goal but soon after, the Brunners got a penalty.
I thought it was all over, but after a while in extra time, we managed a win thanks to Nato and Jake.
Phew!

Our Stories

The Match

By Jordan Sunner

When the match started, Evan got the ball and sprinted up to the half way line.
He took a shot. Then the other team digged it. They ran up and took a shot.
Soon, they scored and it was a nice goal.
So that made it 1-0.

Eventually, Nathan Barrett managed to score for the Larriers, making the score 1-1.
I was delighted.
Towards the end of the game, the teams were drawing, so the match had to go to extra time.
We were able to beat the opposition by two goals!
It was such an exciting day!

Our Stories

The Big Game

By Alex Byrne

One day in Old Trafford, United were playing against Liverpool.
In the first minute, Ryan Giggs scored top corner.
Eventually, Liverpool scored and Alex Fergusson was very annoyed.
Suddenly, Michael Owen came on in the forty-fourth minute and soon after he came on, he had his hat-trick and Alex Fergusson was jumping up and down with joy and only five minutes to go!!

Then Torres scored his hat-trick and Alex flipped – he was so angry his face was bright red.
The game went into penalties and Alex became really anxious.
Torres was taking his penalty and he shot a great ball.
VanderSar went top corner and it was a beautiful save.

Ryan Giggs took his penalty and because the keeper was confused by his angle, he managed to SCORE!

Alex said “We Won! We Won!” and the cup went to United.

By Alex Byrne.

The Leaves have Fallen

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An Siopa

Seainin

Found - Red Box

On the 16th October some of 4th class were tidying up conkers in the 2nd class yard and there was a red box open at the green container. We want to know the owner because it was old.


Contact : Leroy, Jordan S, Pierre, Jordan D, Patryk, and Paul in 4th class

My Weekend!

On Sunday morning, I woke up.
After I woke up, I eventually got out of bed to watch Kung Fu Panda on my computer.
Every Sunday, I drive to Polish school.
There, I start to do my work. I do Polish Maths and History.
Soon after Polish school, I came home, jumped into my bed and fell sound asleep.

My Weekend!

First, I got up to wish my dad a Happy Birthday.
Then, me and my mom went up to Dunnes Stores and I saw Aaron wearing a Burger King crown.
Soon, I went to get my dad a birthday present.
After, I went to Marks and Spencer's to get a cake. So my brother went to Limerick and when he was coming back he stopped near my cousin's house in Roscrea. Lastly, my dad went to collect him from school.

My Weekend!

We have been writing about our weekends using some really good openers. Openers are words that are used at the start of each sentence. Instead of using 'then', 'I' and 'my' to start each sentence, we have begun to use words such as 'first', 'soon', ;next', 'after', 'so', 'last' and 'eventually'.

Shapes and Angles

Damhan alla sa Chlos

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The Counties of Ireland

Friday's Tangrams!

Tangrams
by James Hayes

On Friday, Andy made shapes on pages using tangrams and we had to fill in the shapes. The shapes were of rockets, houses and people.
It took us a little while but eventually we got the hang of it.
Me and Jordan D worked together. It was fun.

Our Artefacts

The Typewriter

By Jordan Delaney

The first thing our class noticed about typewriters is that they do not have a screen.
Typewriters were out before laptops or computers.

Our Artefacts

The Tape Recorder
By Patrick Harford

Those who could afford one would have used it years ago. It is a bit like a radio.

The Tape Recorder

By Patrick Harford

Those who could afford one would have used it years ago. It is a bit like a radio.

Our Artefacts

The Candlestick Holder
By Luke Murphy

This is a family heirloom.
It was my great great Granma’s and then it was passed on to my Great Granma. It was then given to her daughter, my Grandmother.
It has since been given to my dad and hopefully, one day, it will be mine.

Our Stories

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Gorilla Island

Gorilla island

long ago there was a writer called david on his way to a signing convention.

When the helicopter went threw thunder'The driver wanted to pull away but david said no!!i need to get thier so the pilot went straight threw and his roders got melted by the thunder.

The pilot shouted threw the mic on his head,may day may day were going a crash.

The helicopter flew down and was about to crash into the lake until the pilot pressed the eject button and him and the passanger parachuted up into the air while the helicopter exploded into the lake.When the passanger got to the ground he saw a gorilla he looked like a friendly gorilla,so david called him over and tried to rub him when the gorilla snatched him and put david on his sholder running to an nearby cave.The pilot followed them to the cave and when he was standing out side he heard an echo,the echo was screaming and saying help.So the pilot ran into the cave and the cave start to darker and darker until it was pitch black.then the pilot got a match from his bag and when he swiped his match he could see a big gorilla sitting on a chair with david in his hand so the pilot got a tranculizing gun from his bag and shot the big beast.

then the gorilla got drowsey and dropped david,David ran for it and when he got out of the cave the gorilla woke up and start to chase david david got a head start but the gorilla was still fast and when david got on the beach he start to swim to new york and the gorilla tried to swim across but a great big kiler whale bit his hand and the gorilla drownded straight to the bottom and died.then david and the pilot made it to new york and told there whole story to the cops but they didnt believe him so the cops brought them to the fbi and they told them the whole,so the fbi called the navy and asked them to search the waters to find the beast.But the next day the navy called him back and said sorry sure there is no sign of the gorilla,and the FBI told david and david walked away in rage

The End

The Bronze Age

How the Bronze Age people built their houses.

Tools the Bronze Age people used to hunt for food and to fight their enemies.

What their houses looked like.

In school we learned about the bronze age ,we learned how to make their houses and we know how they make their weapons and what they use to kill the deers and animals and some keep the animals if they catch them by bare hand.During the winter the families bring the animals in and snuggle with them to keep warm.The bronze age people make jewellery out of tin and copper they make weapons out of tin and copper also.They make weapons such as daggers shields swords spheres,bow and arrows,and axes to chop their wood and fight with enemies.And when the builders were making a road they discovered a big round village that appears to be a bronze age village they also found some weapons and tools . By Tyler

Long ago in the bronze age the people use to hunt their food, some went to the sea and caught big fish,but the bronze age people would get there spheres and daggers and go out to sea,then catch them when they wanted to catch them they would jump into the shallow end and wait till the fish swam threw their legs and the person would get their sphere and stick it right into the back of the fish,when they wanted to catch food in the inland they would get a bow and arrow and a sphere and hide behind a tree until a wild boar or pig went past and hit them with the bow.

When they caught thier fish or pig the would bring it around the back to the cooking spot,they would light a fire,put stones into it and then put the stones into the water, lots of steam will come up and they will drop thier meat into the water. When it would be done they would take it out and eat it all up.

By Tyler

Puzzle Time

We decided to make puzzles based on the books that we were reading in the classroom. The boys really enjoyed making the puzzles.

Here are some of our masterpieces.

Our Newspapers

Newspapers........

The boys in 4th Class are reading newspapers. We decided to make our own version of the paper. Below are some of the boys work.

Pen Pals

Today we did a pen pal activity with children in Canada. I am writing to caroline, Jason, kevin and Usaamah .They all had a lot of news for us. I got 4 letters and they all sounded great Usaamah told me that she has three sisters, a mam and dad. Two of her sisters always pick on her and the other one helps her do her homework. Caroline told me tat she likes her school and likes doing french maths , science and also gym. She likes climbing the rope because she was the only one to get to the top. Jason Briggs told me tat they have got the c.n tower it is the biggest tower in the world. kevin told me that he is doing a pen pal on the internet with some one from China. I am writing back to each of them. I like this idea. by Tyler

National College of Ireland Table Quiz

As part of our ongoing relationship with the National College of Ireland the boys in fourth class took part in a table quiz against other local schools on Thursday 5th of March. The boys won the prize for the best competitive team there. They had a great time there.

My Night at the Quiz by Tyler

Last night was great, we were really excited and loved it.

We were called the Quiz Masters it was me (Tyler) Conor Dylan S, Dylan K and Dean M. were on a team in the first round. We got eight answers right ,and were really delighted .

Then we got eight on the next round and got excited. There was nice people there and the adults the blue tops and yellow tops were were so so nice to us.

Then we all started round three we got one wrong. Then my ma brought me over a big bottle of water ,so we started round four and got one wrong again where the question was what is the smallest continent ,we said South America but it was Australia. Then it was the final round and we got one wrong again. So are final total was 37 but we got most competitive team in it. I started jumping up and down like a mad scientist.

My Experience by Dean

We have been practicing for a few week's for the big quiz at the NCI.It was happening on the 5 of March.Most of the question's were based on who want's to be a Millionaire.Are team name was the quiz master's.It was a week before the quiz.we were studying and practicing hard.

My Lenten Promise

I leroy promise to do my best in school. To give up sweets. I promise to make my bed every day. I will promise to be nice to other people. I will take my sister out more often. And thats my promise to god.

I Eric promise to help my mam to clean the kitchen and wash the glasses and plates. When she tells me to go down to the shop to get a long pan and a drum of milk I will go. Iwill help make the bed and do the best I can.


I Dillon K promise to be good in school and do my homework. And always do nice things for my mam and be good at home. I will clean my bedroom all the time.

St Brigid's Crosses

On St. Brigid's Day the children learned how to make crosses. It was

hard work, however with a lot of effort the boys finally made one cross each.

Character Traits.

During reading the children are learning to analyze characters and character traits. After the children decided to draw the main character from their story and write a little about the story.

Characters drawn by Conor, Jake, Killian, Tyler, and Dillon S. during reading. The Characters are taken from the book: Half Price Hero and I Wish, I Wish.

The FAI Leinster Schools' U10 Indoor Final

Last Tuesday morning we got on Terry's bus out to the National Basketball Arena. We were on the first match and only had five minutes to get ready. We were playing against a Wicklow team. While we were playing Evan scored a goal and played the rest of the match. The score was one nil to us. Then we had to wait one hour till are next match . When that match was up we all ran down the stair's and the starting five went on ,and the subs sat on the bench . We were playing St. Joseph's boys from county Kilkenny. Evan and Brando scored in that game. When that match was over the score came to (two nil to us) we were waiting for an hour and fifteen minutes to the next match. We were playing with Evan right back, Brandon left back, Dylan in the middle,

Connor up front and Johnny in goal. We won in that match. After the game we had our lunch and the sir gave us oranges. Then we waited forty minutes for the next match. When we played the next game Dylan scored two, Connor scored one and Evan scored one. We all went the toilets because we were bursting. Then when we played the final we got bet two nil. We were all sulking however we were not crying, because crying is for babies. By Tyler

A big thanks to Barry and Thomas who took this team all the way in the FAI primary schools U10 Indoor Soccer 5-a-side competition. A big thanks also to all the boys' parents, football clubs and coaches. The standard of football played by the lads in the North Dublin section, Dublin finals and Leinster finals was really excellent for small men! Many thanks also to Christy Lockheed and all the other FAI coaches who organised this super competition. Our congratulations to Pope John Paul II National School, Malahide who won the competition, beating us 2-0 in the final. My greatest praise is reserved for the twelve Larriers - strong and proud - who made up this 5-a-side squad. You guys went three competitions and a total of twelve games undefeated in this tournament, not even conceding a goal in the rounds matches of the Leinster play offs. That is awesome and you guys played some beautiful football on the way. You ran out of gas in your last match, unlucky match number 13!!

Yiz are Larriers legends already! We are all very proud of you. By Mark

Valentine's Poems

To celebrate Valentine's Day the boys have been writing love poems and what they believe love means. Here are a few of the boy's poems.

You are so fine you are my beautiful valentine,
You make me laugh my heart stops,
You make me laugh my legs hop,
You make me drop.
by Dean M

I love you
It is true
Your my valentine
For ever it will be
Us kissing in a tree
I will get on my knee
And say it will be..
by Jake


Oh hunny
You are my bunny
You made me money
But most of all
You are my hunny

By Taddas

The Strange Princess

Once apon a time a princess was going through the garden with all the flowers . She looked at the clock and it was time to pick apples from the apple tree . She picked an apple and looked at it close with a magnifinglass . That night she left the apple on her table. By magic it blew into flames and the princes got out just in time . Then she woke up, she thought it was just a dream but she looked on her table and the apple was still there . She got up and threw the apple away. She never heard of it again and she chopped the tree down.

THE END, BY ROBERT

Chinese New Year Celebrations

In celebration of Chinese New Year the boys went on a trip to the library to create kites. The boys listened to the history of Chinese New Year and learned a lot about China.

I really like making kites, it is a lot of fun.

I had a good time and learned a lot there.

Conor

It is very easy once you concentrate

on making them and now I know how to make a kite.

Brandon

The man who was learning us he was very funny.

I like making kites, after I showed my brother how to make one.

Jake

If We Met Jack Frost........

The Pupils in our class wrote creative stories about meeting Jack Frost. Read our creative stories below.

Leroy
One day I was walking down the street. I saw a blue man and it was Jack Frost. I said hello . He said hello back. I asked him "Do you want to go to the pictures to see Yes Man" .
We went to see it. It was gas. So after that we went to Funderland. We went on every ride. They were fantasic. Then we went back to my place and played some games. Then Jack had to go. I said bye Jack, KEEP COOL ...

Brandon
"Hello Jack Frost. How is the weather like up there because it is freezing down here. Come on and we will go to Noctors for a few points of Guinness and then we will go to Chartbusters for a few minutes of sunbeds". Then we will get a few films to watch in my house. We got Hot Fuzz, Norbet, Longest Yard, Mean Machine and Green Street. So when we got home my ma was in bed so I stuck on the films and me and Jack lied on the chairs and watched all of the films until we fell asleep.

The Weather....

Everyone wants to know what the weather will be like. The pupils in our room are learning about different types of weather. There are many ways to find out about the weather. We have learned that you can listen to the weather forecast by listening to the radio, by watching TV and most of all by looking up at the sky.

My New Year's Resolution

This year I am planning to be better at football and better at break dancing.
I am going to give up toffee, being cheeky to me ma and da.
I am going to improve at maths, history and irish as well as spellings.
I am going to get fitter, faster, calmer and a lot more responsible around the house.
Im going to be a footballer when I grow up.
THE END
BY TYLER

New Year's Resolutions by 4th Class

Here are some of our resolutions for the new year...

... 2009

This year I am going to go on jogs. Brandon and Robert is going with me too. I am going to give up sweets but just have two a day for a treat. I will do better this year in school. And play better this year at football .I am going to help my ma in the house by cleaning up, washing the delph and make my ma rice crispies in the morning for breakfast. By Dylan G.

Im going to help my mam more than I did last year.
Im going to be nice to people.
Im going be as best as I can be in school every day.
Im going to make my writing a lot better than it was and stop rushing and Im going to stop drinking coke becaues it will rot my teeth. By Dean
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I am giving up chocolate
In the morning I will make the bed
I am giving up club orange
I will help my mam around the house
I will stop moaning at school
I will start going on jogs to stay fit
I will practice playing football By Dylan S.
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Read our Christmas Stories

On Christmas Eve my family were very busy. I helped wrap the presents. I went to bed early. In the morning I got up for all my presents. I got a green machine, playstation games, a remote control car, two footballs, and money. Then after a few days we went to the RDS
BY Conor.