Our Beach Trip

We went to the beach today, the 21st June. It was a gorgeous day with the sun splitting the stones. It got a little chilly when a big mist cloud came in from the sea. We went on a scavenger hunt and had to find various beach things. We found seaweed, shells, crabs craws, feathers, smooth stones and lots more. Then we had a sandcastle competition. The castles were excellent and Ms Church picked them all as winners!! Then we had our lunch and played football and rolled down some hills. It was a really good day.

Our Visit to Swords Castle

We went to Swords Castle on Wednesday 16th June. Lots of parents came and drove us all to Swords. It was a really sunny day so we were very lucky. Our tour guide was named Helen and she told us all about the castle and showed us the restored chapel and tower. We all got to walk along the battlements and even saw a real dungeon!! We had a pop quiz when we got back to class and we learned quite a lot. It was great to step back into History.

Dancing!!

Robert's Mum was in our class helping for the week and she is an excellent dance teacher, so she did some hip hop dancing with us. It was good fun. The boys really enjoyed the Superman dance.

Our Trip To Malahide Castle

We went to Malahide Castle on Wednesday with our buddies from Ms Halpin's class and the sun was shining in the sky. We had a look around the castle grounds and talked about the Talbot family. We saw the old church and the graveyard and where the old curtain wall used to be. We had a picnic beside the castle in the sunshine and then played football, rounders and a few girls rolled down the hill.

OUR SCHOOL TOUR

We went to Newgrange farm today, Thursday 27th May 2010, on our first class school tour. Everyone was sooooooooo excited on the bus on the way! When we got there we went into a huge hay shed where we held lots of baby animals like chicks, kittens, puppies and rabbits.



It was really cool to hold all the cute little animals. They were so soft and tiny.



After petting the animals we visited a few adult animals too. We saw a horse that is 27 years old!! We saw cows and calves, pigs and piglets, goats and kids, sheep and lambs.

We even saw rabbits and a brand new baby rabbit who had no fur at all!

Next we went on a tractor trailer ride. It was the best!!! The man made us all help to push the tractor up the hill and then he told us we were going down a steep hill....everyone got a fright, but luckily he was only joking!!! We drove past lots more animals; sheep, cows, we even got to see a big brown bull, like the Brown Bull of Cooley. We got to see Newgrange the megalithic tomb. And we got to see a fairy ring and a tiny fairy fort. It was such good fun!



When we came back to the farm we got to feed lambs which was really good fun. We also got to feed goats, geese, hens and really fluffly hens called Silkie Hens.



Before lunch we got to play in the playground with giant tubes and in the sand pit. After that we all got a go of playing on mini tractors and trailers. We laughed so much that we ALMOST forgot about lunch. Then we played chasing in the Hay Maze!!



After our lunch at the picnic tables we all got a go of milking Daisy the very 'still' cow. She never moved an inch!!!! We all had such a super day and we will always remember it.