Algerian Display

Algerian display

Monday, 15th December 2008

Lisa’s Dad, Mustapha is from Algeria.
He came to our class today and told us lots about Algeria. He showed us his flag, a map of his country, Algerian jewellery, dates (which we tried eating — they were delicious) and a traditional Algerian guitar. Mustapha sang us two Algerian songs. He is a great singer. We really enjoyed hearing all about Algeria today.

All about Poland

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Marta in our class has parents and grandparents that come from Poland. Today her mum Joanna came to visit our class to tell us all about Poland.Joanna showed us the flag of Poland, and she taught us how to say Hello and Goodbye in Polish. She had a lot of lovely pictures of Polish scenery, winter in Poland (snow angels, bonfires, ice sculptures), Christmas in Poland (wafers, food, Santa), Easter in Poland (Easter eggs, baskets, hare hunts), handcrafts, pottery, traditional costumes and dancing, paper cut outs, Knights and Castles. Joanna brought sweets and biscuits from Poland, for us to try. They were delicious.A big Thank you to Marta and her mum for such a wonderful presentation, and for telling us so much about Poland. We had a great time, and we learned a lot. Now we all hope to visitPoland some day.

All About Vietnam

All About Vietnam

Wednesday, 10th December, 2008

Lisa’s Mum Hau came to visit our class and tell us all about Vietnam. She wore a very pretty Vietnamese dress. Hau had a great presentation for us on the whiteboard. She showed us pictures of Vietnamese food, map, flag, clothes, instruments and festivals.

Hau sang us a Vietnamese children’s song, with her daughters Lisa and Laura. It was so different from the English and Irish songs that we know.
She showed us prawn crackers and let us taste them and she taught us some Vietnamese sayings and numbers. Vietnamese is very hard. Thank you so much Hau.

The Ukraine

Room 5, Senior Infants
Friday, December 5th, 2008

One of the boys in our class has parents and grandparents that come from the Ukraine. He goes there on his holidays and knows lots about the Ukraine. Today his mum came to our class to tell us a little about his country.

We learned lots and lots about the Ukraine from Iryna. She showed us a map, the flag and symbol of her country, and also some money. She taught us some Ukrainian words and letters and showed us the alphabet.

She had a wonderful presentation which she showed us on the whiteboard about the food, countryside, festivals, clothes, toys, Easter and Christmas in the Ukraine.

Iryna brought lots of things to show us. She had clothes, toys, decorations, Easter Eggs and lots and lots more. We all got to taste Ukrainian biscuits. We really loved hearing about the Ukraine and now we all want to visit the Ukraine. Thanks to Iryna for such a wonderful presentation.

When I was a baby

Room 5, Senior Infants
Wednesday 10th September 2008
We asked at home about the day each of us was born. We found out about the day, date, time and place of our births. We even brought some baby toys, a baby bottle, baby clothes and photographs from when we were babies.

New Fish in Scoil Chaitriona Junior

We have a new salt water Aquarium. It was given to us by the Atlantiquarium. Miss O'Connor will be looking after it. The kids just love looking at the fish. We have a Hermit crab, an Edible crab ,a Starfish, a Sea Anemone, a Plaice, a Blenny, and a Rock goby.It is near the Halla.

UGANDA

Ms. Tierney's Junior Infants:
We watched videos of our link school in Uganda .We saw them singing a song in English and doing a traditional dance.


We looked at pictures of them in school and at pictures of Ugandan food.


Some of us tried on the skirts they wear for special ceremonies and tried dancing in them!Other people tried out the little drum and tried on the lovely bright fabrics they use for clothes.


We saw pictures of Ugandan food and held millet baskets that a teacher called Gertrude made for us.