Despite feeling like a giant, today went really well out in Muckalee NS. Our first subject of the day was Irish so I was thrown into the thick of things pretty quickly. I was put amongst fifth class at a table with Helena and Denis on either side of me, and we were tested on Irish verbs by adding them into sentences... that was ok but I was glad of the prompter words in the notebook!
Mr Cummins then moved onto English, where we were doing the 'ough' and 'augh' words, like 'enough', 'laugh', 'plough' and 'though', which all, confusingly, have different sounds. Our task was to put as many of the words into a sentence as we could. Our sentence at the table was 'I thought my mother was distraught, as I was naughty and coughed on the cookie dough, just for the laugh' - so that's six of those words altogether when you count them up.
Maths next, we had a tables test, where the girls were pitted against the boys. I got to the final, but was beaten by Maths whizz Sophie who is a pretty keen multiplier. She got 50 points for her table so I missed out there.
We had an incident which involved a wild creature finding his way into the school... some of the girls were heroic in dealing with it - listen to Beat Breakfast tomorrow morning to hear all!
All in all I enjoyed my day, but the highlight for me was history, after the little break, when we learned the story of how the Normans came to Ireland and then we were divided into groups of four to act it out in a play. I played the part of one of the defeated Irish in the army who was slain by a ruthless Norman. Mel Gibson eat your heart out!
Check out the pics from today's classroom, and a big thanks to Mr Cummins and all the pupils and staff at St Brendans NS Muckalee for making us feel so welcome.
Right, I'm off to do my homework....
lol see how bad school can be?
ReplyDeletemine is a uniform school but we shouldn't have to wear a uniform because we go to school to get an education and uniforms don't help you get an education
Blathnaid Byrne
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