Tomato Recipes

Check out these links for some recipes for tomatoes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/pastawithtomatosauce_90243

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rawsalsa_81423

Our End-of-year Projects

This May, we researched, put together and presented projects on anything we wanted.
Here are some pictures of the ones that have been presented so far.

 Aideen's Project

 Jade made this bust of Martin Luther King for her project

Luke and Evan made these cars for their project

Danielle O'N's project

Sara and Dana brought in these to show us about their dancing

Hannah brought these in from her trip to Spain

Aideen made this ballerina

Ellen made this globe using Papier Maché

This is Ellen's project

Another picture of Ellen's project

Hannah's Project

Cian's Project

Jade's Project

Luke and Evan's Project

Sara and Dana's Project

Some more tomato news.

Some of the tomato plants have started to show signs of producing fruit. Keep an eye out here to see if we get any before the end of June.

Croke Park - Friday 27th May

Congratulations to all the boys in the class who got to the Cumann na mBunscoil Hurling Finals on Friday last. They played two great games, and unfortunately were narrowly beaten in the end. But everyone had a great day and they all did the school proud. Well done to all involved, and to their trainers: Mr. Ruane, Ms. McDermott and Ms. O'Brien. Well done to the camogie girls who did brilliantly this year too, and to Ms. McIntyre and Ms. Murray. Have a look at our photos from the day out!

Update on our Tomatoes

Over the Easter holidays we all brought our tomatoes home for two weeks. Sadly, Aideen's, Jade's and Thea's have all died but luckily we had spare tomato plants to give to them. We think they died because of green fly. Green flies are little flies that eat your tomato plant. They make the leaves turn brown and the leaves shrivell up and die. We bought a spray and it got rid of them.

After they got too big to be kept in the the yoghurt pots we transplanted them into 4 and a half inch pots. Some people's needed to be put into bigger pots than that. They have put theirs into 8 inch diameter pots. Most people have done that now. We have recently found out that our tomatoes might grow a couple of feet tall.

We have started giving our plants tomato food. Since then they have been growing well. Unfortunately one of them has died. The leaves have started to flatten out as they were curling up. They were curling up because they got too much water and they were too cold. We used to leave them in the tray full of water, but we found out that was not good for them, so we took off the tray and let the water drain off. We brought them in one weekend and that solved a lot of their problems too as they were warm. They also have not needed water in a while. Our plants used to have transparent dots on the leaves and white ones too, but now most of them have cleared up.

Kindly, Mr. Creaner gave us his tomato plant to mind that he bought in the shop. He has some tomatoes growing on his plant. Evan picked one off and ate the tomato. Some of our tomato plants have started to grow tomatoes, but they are not quite ripe or visible yet. We hope to have some before we leave school so we can eat them. We will be experimenting on some of the tomatoes.

Have a look at some of our tomato photos:

Here we are with our tomatoes.

Reading Month

We are trying to read 60 books between all of us this month. We have a chart in the classroom where we fill in the title of the book when we have read it. When we have finished the book, we leave a comment below saying:
1. The title of the book
2. The Author / Illustrator
3. A 7 sentence summary of the book (don't give away the ending!)
4. Who I would recommend this book for and why
5. Marks out of 10 and why

If you are not sure about which book to chose, check out these comments and see if any of them appeal to you. We have a similar one posted during April so you can get ideas from there too. Good Luck!

Signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic

Take a look at the photographs below of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. See if you can name each person and write some facts you have learned or researched about each one. Post them in a comment, saying which picture is matched to which name, and what facts you have learned.

Picture One:

Picture Two:

Picture Three:

Picture Four: 

Picture Five:

Picture Six:

Picture Seven: 

The signatories are:
a) Padraig Pearse,
b) Eamonn Ceannt,
c) Thomas Clarke,
d) James Conolly,
e) Joseph Mary Plunkett,
f) Thomas Mac Donagh and
g) Sean Mac Diarmada.

Best of luck with matching them up!

Reading Activities

We have been doing a lot of reading in Room 2 and now we are going to share what we have learned with each other. If you have read a book, please write
1. The name of the book
2. The author of the book
3. A brief summary (five sentences or so)
4. Who you think would like this book (e.g. people who like reading about history etc.)
5. How many marks out of ten and why.

That way, we can all find out a bit more about the books others have read so we don't miss out on any good books!

Some More Poetry !

Have a listen to some more of out poetry:)


Ben's Poem


Evan's poem


Cian M Poem


Danielle O'N's Poem



Jade's Poem


Nathan's Poem


Sara's Poem


Thea's Poem

Enjoy !!!

Europe Presentation

Take a look through this presentation that was made by everyone in our class. There are lots of facts in it. Tell us what you think and link to other websites where we can learn more if you can.

Poetry Corner

This week we read a poem by an 11 year old girl. It is called "I have a dream", and it comes from our Hello Universe. It tells us what she sees in her eyes is a perfect world. We decided to write our own poems and here are some of them :


 I have a dream
with a shining light,
where you and I
live in delight.

There is no Hunger
no pain or disease,
just a happy place
for you to see,

All War is ended
everyone feels ok,
which is how we should feel
at the end of the day.

The Rainforest is there
as full as can be,
not on fire and burning
making pollution, you see.

Family's are whole
and children are loved,
not helpless and threatened
an kicked or shoved.

In this world
we are all free,
but where this world is
is in my dreams.

By Aisling


I have a dream that there could be
a world, a world where we
could live, it is a world with no poverty
or even no controversy.

This world has no wars
or even any giant wild boars
if you have all the power
it might be good to water a flower.

My world has good politics, and leaders
who don't have to be very good readers
and the makers of papers
all look like shapers.

In my world there are no recessions and bees make money
from their honey and it all is really funny
there is no such thing as stress
and the country is not in a mess.

By Cian OB!


I have a dream
To share with you,
Of a better place
Even better than the Zoo!

This place that I
An dreaming of,
Its a wonderful place
To run and shout.

This place I dream
Has no disasters.
Like the earthquake in Japan
And the Tsunami after.

The seas are deep
And the leaves are green,
Everyones nice :)
And no ones mean

I have a dream
That the recession is ended
Everyones happy
And broken hearts are mended.

But in the place
We live today
The animals will soon
Have no where to play
By Sarah :)

I have a dream,
to have peace in the world,
I want you all to seize the day,
And hopefully keep it this way.

I have a dream that there will be no more poor,
I want to make this happen for sure,
I want people to share,
Because its not fair.

I have a dream that there will be no more crimes,
And I really hope this poem rhymes!
Please don't kill and kick,
Or you'll be sent to the nick!

I have a dream that the recession will end,
Because we have no money to spend,
My Mam and Dad said take care with the money,
Because we have none and its not funny.

That is what my dream is about,
It will happen I have no doubt,
This is my dream,
I want it to be seen! :)

By Danielle B :)

I have a dream about such a lovely place
Where  everyone has a smile across their face
this dream exists in my head
but comes alive when I go to bed

Streets are safe and sound
Happiness and laughter is all around
No fear of danger in the night
for this place is such a lovely sight

Disease and illness are a thing of the past
People could be healthy at last
Diseases cured and illnesses mended
Finally the suffering and hardship has ended

My dream has grassy plains bright and sunny
its not a world obsessed with bills and money
No need to tighten or loosen your belt
money problems will never be dealt

Towns and cities are beautiful and intact
Everyone is happy as a matter of fact
This dream is apart of my imagination
but stranger things have happened then my dreams creation.
Ellen

The Easter Rising 1916

Check out this link to learn more about the Easter Rising and those who were involved.

http://live.tg4.ie/main.aspx?level=1916

Ticéad ar an talamh Páirt 3

Éist agus freagair na ceisteanna:



1. Cén fáth go raibh na páistí ar bís?
2. Fíor nó bréagach: Ni raibh Aintín Máire in ann teacht abhaile don chomórtas.
3. An raibh éinne ag fanacht ag an aerfort le hAintín Máire?
4. Cén t-am a thosaigh an clár teilifíse?
5. Cé mhéad daoine a bhí ag dul chuig Euro Disney?

Crossword fun

Fancy making a crossword? Just click on the link below to make your own crosswords. Leave the settings as they are, just think of a title, and then be sure to enter the answer first, followed by a space, then your hint. Finally go on to a new line to start your next word. Print out or else copy and paste into a Word document or a Powerpoint so that others can use them! Good luck!

Crossword maker

Ticéad ar an talamh Páirt 2

Éist leis an scéal agus freagair ne ceisteanna:



1. Cá raibh an cárta lotto ar dtús?
2. Cé a scríob an cárta?
3. Cad a rinne Aintín Máire leis an cárta lotto?

Go néirí an t-ádh leat!

Europe

Click on these links to learn more about Europe.
If you come across any good websites for learning about Europe, be sure to leave the address in a comment for us all to use.

Countries game
Seas and oceans game
Mountains of Europe game
Some more Europe games These games are timed so let us know what your fastest time is!
Some quizzes based on Europe
CIA World Factbook
Some interesting facts about Europe

Good Luck!

Ticéad ar an talamh

Éist leis an scéal agus freagair na ceisteanna:

1. Cad a bhí ag rásaíocht suas síos an bóthar?
2. Cén fáth a bhí an seanfhear ag crith le heagla?
3. Cad a bhi ag lonradh?

Tomato Surprise

On Wednesday 16/03/11 we found about nine Tomato plants growing in our compost bag. It turns out that one of our classmates emptied the bag of Tomato seeds into the bag once we were finished planting. They grew well enough even without water and sunlight.They also were taller then any of our plants. Although these plants were taller they are also grew crooked. They don't stand as strong as ours.They also are not as green as ours because tomato plants have chlorophyll in them and chlorophyll makes the plant green but the plant also needs sunlight to gain colour. And because we have these few extra seedlings we have to decided to experiment we have put one in a cupboard but we are still going to water them, we took one out of the soil and we are now trying to grow it in cotton wool, we are going to leave one in the sunlight but we are not going to water it and we are going to leave one to grow as normal with the rest of ours.