My name is Michael and my friends are Bobby and Louis. We are learning about Spain. We have learned about Christopher Columbus. Look at the blog post about him on our page.
Here are some facts about Spain . They say hola in Spain. They have paella in Spain. I went to Spain and Barcelona. Our friend is from Spain. His name is Alviro. He is in Ms. Gallagher's first class.
Post your sentences as a comment. We would love to hear them!
Look at the tagclouds below.
How many words or pictures about Spain can you put into sentences?
We are going to tell you about Christopher Columbus. He looks like this.
Lots of people think Columbus discovered America. Did you know the Vikings were actually the first? They went sailing around the year 1000 A.D.
Almost 500 years later Columbus found America by mistake. Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492 with three ships called the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina. We made these ships last week. Have a look at the blog post on our page.
Here is a video about Columbus that we watched in our class.
It will help you learn lots more! Comment with anything new you learned.
Hi our names are Rachel, Ruth and Sally and we are going to tell you about Spain.
Three countries border Spain. In the North East you find France and Andorra. To the west of Spain you find Portugal.
Find them on our map.
Read our facts about Spain.
1. In Spain there is a tooth mouse in stead of a tooth fairy .
2. In Spain they have bullfighting. In bullfighting when the bull gets tired the men have to kill it.
3. Spanish is not only spoken in Spain but across they hole wide world.
4. In Spain there are Flamenco dancing.
5. In Spain they have green light on the taxi's roof.
6. In Spain they have Siestas. Siesta is when you go to sleep and rest during the afternoon. They go inside because this is the hottest time of the day.
Hi it's Megan, Holly and Emily here and we are here to talk about Ireland and Australia.
Here are some differences .....
1. When it is morning in Ireland it is night in Australia. Ireland is in the northern hemisphere. Australia is in the southern hemisphere.
2. In Australia it is hot and in Ireland it is cold.
3. Australia and Ireland are two different countries. Australia is a bigger country than Ireland.
We are from Ireland and Holly is from Australia. We have another boy in the class from Australia and his name is Tom.
Look at the map below to learn more about Australia ....
Let's talk about school ....
We are going to talk about school in Australia. Holly thinks school is very different here in Ireland than it was when she was in Australia.
1. You only get homework on Monday and you have the whole week to get it finished. In Ireland we get homework every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We have to do it that night and bring it into teacher the next day.
2. In Australia we go to school when people in Ireland are asleep.
3. In Australia we go to school at 8.30am but in Ireland we go to school at 8.50am.
4. In Ireland we learn Irish but in Australia they only speak English.
If you know any other differences please let us know by posting a comment!
Lots of our international visitors to our blog have been asking us what G.A.A., hurling and Gaelic football are.
We decided we would write three blogs post about the G.A.A. this week. Here is the first about Gaelic football.
Hi my name is Matthew. My parthner's names are Gavin and Harry. Gaelic football is a sport by the G.A.A. They are the Gaelic Athletic Association. They look after all the sports in Ireland.
Gaelic football is played by using a ball. If you kick it into the goal you get 3 points. You can also kick the ball over the bar for 1 point.
Each team wears a jersey. On the field there will be two jerseys, one light and one dark colour.
Look below to see the crest of our local G.A.A. club St. Brigid's. This is the crest we have on our jerseys when we play a match.
Here is Croke Park. All the important matches are played here. It is in Dublin.
This is the Sam Maguire cup. You get the cup when you win the All Ireland football final. We won the Sam Maguire in 2014 in the final in Croke Park.
This is the Dublin crest. This is the symbol that the Dublin team wear on their jerseys.
Lots of our international visitors to our blog have been asking us what G.A.A., hurling and Gaelic football are.
We decided that we would write three blogs post about the G.A.A. this week. Here is the second about hurling.
Our names are Finn and Philip. Hurling is a sport only played in Ireland. You have a hurley and a helmet. You play with a really small ball. It's called a sliothar. Look down to see them all in the picture.
You play against your opponents. We do hurling at our club. Our team is called St. Brigid's. This is the crest.
In a hurling match you play for 70 minutes. We play for shorter because we are young. There are two halves in a match. We have a break between the halves. Our manager is called Ronan. We train during the week or in the mornings.
We play matches at the weekends. Here is a picture of a hurling match.
Like Gaelic football if you hit the ball into the goal for 3 points. If you hit it over the bar you get a point.
Lots of our international visitors to our blog have been asking us what G.A.A., hurling and Gaelic football are.
We decided we would write three blogs post about the G.A.A. this week. Here is the third about camogie.
Hi Amy here. Camogie is another Irish sport. Camogie is also part of the G.A.A. just like hurling and Gaelic football. Camogie is a great sport. It is just like hurling but it is for girls.
I will show you the logo for camogie. It is on the sliotar. This is a small ball we play with.
We need hurleys and helmets to play. Have a look at Philip and Finn's blog post on hurling and you will see photos of these.
I like camogie. Do you? I like playing matches at the weekends and training with my friends in Castleknock.
Have a look at this video of some girls playing camogie!
Hi I am Jessica. G.A.A. is not the only sport in our area.I like to play gymnastics. It is fun. Every Saturday I go to my classes. I like it. I go with my friends. I have learned lots of moves. I can split my legs and do lots of different types of rolls. What is your favourite sport?
This week's challenge is to tell everybody about the area we live in - our town, our county and our country.
1. Our town - Castleknock 2. Our county - Dublin 3. Our country - Ireland
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Have a look at this slideshow of photographs from Castleknock before reading what our class wrote.
Welcome to Castleknock, Dublin 15.
Hi Karl and Sasha here. We live in Castleknock. There is a golf club in Castleknock. We have a very nice hotel beside it. We often don't get nice weather in Dublin. Today it is 7 degress and rainy. Check out our weather widget.
Its Doireann and Luke. We are going to tell you about Castleknock. Castleknock is a very big place. We are going to talk about transport. You can get a train in Castleknock. It comes from Sligo and passes through Maynooth in County Kildare. The stop before Castleknock is Coolmine. I get on the train here when I am coming to school! The stop after Castleknock is Ashtown. Luke goes horse riding here at the weekends! You can also get a bus in Castleknock. The route 39 goes to the city centre.
Hi it's Harry and Jasmine. We love living in Dublin. We will write about five 'must see' places in our capital city!
1. Phoneix Park
2. Stephen's Green
3. Trinity College
4. Croke Park
5. Dublinia and Christchurch
Hi Darragh and Albina here. Ireland is a small country in Europe. We are an island. That means we don't touch any other countries. We are learning about Spain at the moment. It touches France, Portugal and Andorra.
There is 32 counties in Ireland. Dublin is in the east. It is also the capital city. It has the biggest airport in Ireland. In Ireland we speak English. Irish is our national language and we love learning it in school. Saint Patrick is our patron saint and we celebrated his feast day on March 17th.
P.S. Check out our previous blog posts on Seachtaine na Gaeilge and St. Patrick's Day!