Easter

Easter Crafts

Soccer

This week one of the parents from Junior Infants came in to the school to teach us some soccer skills.

FairTrade Fortnight

Last week we learned all about FairTrade Fortnight. We learned about how the Banana and Chocolate are grown and sold as Fair Trade Products.

 We made Posters promoting FairTrade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thai Folk Tale "Ta-in and Ta-na"

 

This month we are learning about Thailand. Our teacher read us a Thai Folk Tale Called "Ta-in and Ta-na". As we listened to the story we had to create mental images in our heads and then we  had to create pictures based on the tale.

Ta-in and Ta-na

Here is the tale our teacher read

Once upon a time there were two men who lived in the same coastal village in Thailand. One was named Ta-in and the other was named Ta-na. They became good friends and liked to do things together. Ta-in and Ta-na were very good fishermen so they decided to fish together in the bay. They built a small boat and caught lots of fish in the following days. They shared their catches and cooked them for their evening meal. After many months, their luck changed, and they caught fewer and fewer fish.

One day the two men had tried every place they knew to find fish but had no luck. Finally, Ta-in caught one fish, which they brought home. Since Ta-na had not caught a fish, Ta-in said that he would take the head and middle part of the fish and Ta-na could have the tail part. Ta-na did not like this: he also wanted the head and middle of the fish. But Ta-in shouted that it was not fair as he was the real owner of the fish since he caught it. He deserved the head and middle, and Ta-na should be happy to take the tail. They could not agree. In fact, they became angrier and angrier and finally started to fight with each other. Their swinging blows at one another and their loud shouts brought the villagers running.

A village elder called Ta-yoo came by and also heard them fighting. He pulled the men apart saying, `Stop fighting!' Ta-in and Ta-na calmed down and agreed to let the elder solve their problem. They were afraid that otherwise they might hurt each other seriously. Ta-yoo thought about the problem for a long time. The villagers waited in silence for his decision. Finally he spoke.

`Ta-in, you caught the fish so you take the head. Ta-na, you did not catch any fish so you take the tail part. Because I have had to solve the problem for you, I will take the middle part of the fish.'

The two men were stunned but could not think of any other solution, so they agreed. Ta-in then took the head, Ta-na took the tail part and Ta-yoo took the biggest and best part of the fish. The villagers thought that it was a fair solution and walked away.

Both Ta-in and Ta-na were very sad. `How foolish we were', said Ta-in. `I caught the fish, and Ta-yoo got the best part. I should not have been so selfish.' `No, I was the selfish one', said Ta-na. `I didn't catch a fish, so I should have been happy to take the tail part.' The two men looked at each other. They finally realised that they had both been greedy. Because of this, they were both losers that day, but they had learned a valuable lesson.

From that day on, they worked together and helped one another. They shared their catches, no matter who had caught the most fish. In time the fish returned again in great numbers, and Ta-in and Ta-na caught so many fish that they could sell most of them. They even hired other men to help them with their fishing. They not only had become good friends again, they had also become wealthy.



Tongue Twisters

This week we tried writing our own tongue twisters, heres some we wrote.

Haiku's

Today we finished writing our Haiku's.

• Haiku is usually written in the present tense and focuses on nature (seasons).
• A Haiku is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all.
• The 5/7/5 rule was made up for school children to understand and learn this type of poetry.
• We wrote our Haiku poems about nature.

St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patick's Day from 6th Class Ennis Educate Together.

Here's some of the art we made this week.

Writing Reports

We are learning about Report Writing this month. Last week, we wrote a report about an Accident.First we had to make a plan then we had to write a draft in our copybooks and then our teacher had to read them. Our teacher pretended to be an editor of a newspaper and she said she would only publish our reports if they had a good story and if we had;

1. Title
2. Opening Introduction Paragraph
3. Sub Headings
4. Paragraphs
5. Conclusion

in our reports. If we did we were allowed type it up for the newspaper. Heres our reports.

Creating Images

In English we are learning to create images in our minds. Our teacher Kelly read us a story about a Magicians Elephant and we made a story wheel of pictures about the story. We also worked with a partner to creat images on frames.

Limerick's

This week in school we learned about Limerick's and then we wrote our own ones. They took us ages to do as we had to make sure they were funny and Limerick's have a syllable pattern which we had to follow. It took us a few days but we finally finished them and here they are.

Shape Poems

In English this week we learned about Shape Poems and Calligrams and then we wrote our own ones.

Science- Heart Dissection

Last Thursday in class our teacher surprised us by bringing in sheeps hearts to dissect for our science lesson. We were learning about The Aztecs for the month of February and we learnt that The Aztecs used to sacrifice hearts to the sun god to make the sun rise up as they believed the sun died at night time. We had never seen a heart before. We prepared for the lesson by cleaning our tables, putting out books under our tables, covering our desks in newspapers and putting on old t-shirts to protect our clothes. Our teacher Kelly showed us how to look at a heart and told us what she wanted us to do. We were all so excited to touch the hearts. We were given small knives, gloves and paper plates and the the hearts. We had to work in groups on the hearts. We had two hearts per group so everyone got a chance to hold one and cut it open. We first had to find the aorta and the vena cava of the heart which was easy to find. You could put your finger into the aorta which felt funny. Next we had to cut the heart and show our teacher the 4 chambers of the heart. After that we were allowed to cut the heart and explore it. Some of us found veins and vessels in the heart. It was such a cool day getting to cut open hearts. Have a look at some of our photos.