Thursday, 7 February 2013

A Dark Night

Koby has written a story for us.



A Dark Night by Koby Asante

One weekend I went camping with my friends and of course the camp leader. The camp leader counted all of us to make sure everyone is here. I felt really excited, my first time going camping. We were going to a magnificent place with tall trees where we will be camping.
When we went on the big bus, the camp leader again counted us to make sure if anyone was behind. It took almost 2 hours to get there. When we got out of the bus the trees were so tall that I can’t reach them.
We went to our camping base where we were going to sleep for the night. The camp leader said we should look for wood to light up the fire and she said don’t go too far from the camp.
That night we sang some songs, we read scary stories and lit the fire. The next day everyone was gone. My friends were gone including the camp. I felt very scared and surprised. I went to search for everyone but they weren’t there. Maybe they went far.
Suddenly I saw a dangerous grass snake who bit everywhere. Then I managed to escape. Then next was the big vicious bear. I ran as fast as the wind. The bear also followed me but I went to hide behind the rock. The bear couldn’t find me so it ran away. 
Back at the camp the leader realised I was gone so she called the police. The policeman came and said we are going to call the reinforcement because the forest is huge.
After a while one of the policemen saw me walking hurt and so tired. The leader said “thanks God you’re safe.” Then the ambulance came to take me to the hospital. I felt really happy to be safe.

SNOW

Wow! Coming to school on Tuesday was an adventure. There was no snow in Swords when I left home but when I came into St Catherine's it was a different story.


 
The chidlren all had fun coming into school. In face they wanted to stay outside and play.

 
Unfortunately the snow had melted by the time they were going home.

Spring

The boys were out again last Thursday 31 January to see the Ash tree,


Horse Chestnut tree

 
and the pond.





There was not any sign of Spring just yet.
We didn't get out today as it was very wet. Maybe there may be more changes next week.

Monday, 28 January 2013

Spring

Leah and Aaron went around the school today to see more signs of Spring.
The temperature was 9 degrees.

Leah's crocus is the first to flower.

Leah checking the Horse Chestnut. The bud is sticky.

These daffodils are the first to flower. They are beside the polytunnel.


Spring

Koby. Dylan and Martin are exploring nature looking for signs of Spring.
They will look at the pond, a horse chestnut and ash tree to look for changes to show Spring is coming.
Horse Chestnut

Ash

The Pond

We will take a photo of the same spot every week on a Thursday to see the changes.
We will also watch the birds and identify some of them.

Signs of Spring

On Wednesday 23/1/13, Aaron went around the school grounds looking for signs that Spring is on its way. He and the other children will record their findings on the blog as well as on the www.greenwave.ie website. The website is where schools all around Ireland can show the coming of Spring. We are looking at the temperature, the ash and horse chestnut trees and frog spawn.

Aaron asked Mary about signs of Spring.

It was 0 degrees in St Catherine's.

The snowdrop is the first flower we see in Spring.

Our bulbs are starting to grow.

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Happy Christmas


We hope you all had a lovely Christmas holiday. Before the holidays we made a picture of the town of Bethlehem.