May: Finish your Teddy

The project for the month of May will be to finish your knitted teddy.

We'll be stitching the parts in the last week of May.

Here's the pattern for those who haven't finished yet:



BODY: 20 stitches            
100-130 rows

2 LEGS: 20 stitches each
              40 rows each

2 ARMS: 15 stitches each
               32 rows each

April Project- Who Did You Know One Hundred Years Ago?

Sunday April 10th is Census Night, so our project this month relates to the Census National Archives.

The 1911 Census is available on-line and are very interesting to view. You will definitely need a parent and probably a grandparent to help you with this project.

For your project you need to:

1. Get the surname, area and  townland of a member of your family who was alive in 1911 (probably a great-grandparent, or great-great grandparent)
2. Go to http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
3. Click on SEARCH THE CENSUS RECORDS FOR IRELAND 1901 AND 1911
4. Click on BROWSE BY PLACE (do not use the form for searching by  name etc- it is not very useful)
5. Choose 1911
6. Select county
7. Select DED (general area)
8. Select townland
9. Select family name

Record your findings on the record sheet I have provided.
You have 8 great-grandparents, so you might want to look up more than one.
If you are interested in your family history, and have someone to help you, you could do the exact same for the 1901 census.
Good luck!

The Titanic under construction in Belfast, May 1911

March Project Results

Great job on the cooking project for March.

Dara cooked Macaroni and Cheese with delicious bacony bits. mmm



Conor made tasty Spaghetti Bolognese for his family.

Bella Cucina



Miss McVeety will be doing a study of Italy when she comes back at the end of March, so our project of the Month for March will be to cook an Italian meal for your family.

To complete this project, you will have to find a recipe, shop for the ingredients, cook the meal, serve it to your family and clean up afterwards.The only thing your parents will have to do is sit back and enjoy the meal! (and fill in a short review afterwards)



Take some pictures and email them to me so we can put them up on the blog. mwhite@killygarryns.ie

Book Launch

Today was World Book Day and we formally launched our books. We had a reception and prize-giving ceremony in the class room and the winners were:

1st Place: "Revenge is Not So Sweet" by Ciara Finan

2nd Place: "One Last Wish" by Rachael Smith

3rd Place: "Wedding Disaster" by Carla Reilly

Highly commended were: Enya O Brien (Best Friends)

                                       Nicole Reilly  (How to Make Fame and Friends)
                               and  Padraig Keady (The Diamond Gift)
Well done to everyone. Thank you very much to our adjudicator Peter Sexton. He was impressed with the standard of writing in general and in particular with the winners and  the highly commended books.

January-February

Write-a-Book

The project for this month and for next month will be to write your own book. You're going to plan it, write it, edit it and publish it yourself and the finished book will be entered into a Write-a-book competition.

WRITE - A - BOOK PROJECT

CALENDAR

            WEEK 1:                    10-16 Jan

                                                Begin Draft 1.

            WEEK 2:                    17-23 Jan

                                                Continue Draft 1

            WEEK 3:                    24-30 Jan

                                                Finish Draft 1

                                                Writers’ Circles

            WEEK 4:                    31 Jan-6 Feb

                                                Main Editing

                                                Spelling / Grammar

                                                Vocabulary / Presentation

            WEEK 5:                    7-13 Feb

                                                Begin Final Draft

                                                Illustrations

            WEEK 6:                    14-20 Feb

                                                Continue Final Draft

                                                Finish Illustrations and Design

                                                Binding / Cover

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21-27 February

 BOOKS READY FOR PUBLICATION

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Arts and Crafts Projects

The arts and crafts projects were all excellent. Well done to all, especially to ORLA CAHILL who came first, RACHAEL SMITH who came second and NICOLE REILLY who came third.