Christmas story competition

We did some Christmas story writing in class and put our knowledge of adjectives and descriptive writing to the test!

We would like to share one of these stories with you.

 

Christmas Eve

By Conor Watts

 

The clock struck midnight and all the lights went off. Nobody was around. All the blinds of the houses were shut. All the children were dreaming of Santa Claus coming into their houses and filling their stockings.

 

Then, Santa's sleigh whizzed onto a roof. This was the first house and he was worried that any children would wake up. He didn't have much luck in the 16th house he went to. When he was in the room where a child was sleeping, he tripped over a toy car and fell onto the floor! The child heard the noise and woke up. He looked around the room. He was very frightened. Then he saw a polished black boot behind his bed. "Santa!" the child shouted.

 

The child flung the sheets off him. He jumped on top of Santa. "Santa!" the child shouted again. The child squeezed Santa.

"Ho Hack H..." Santa was choking! The child got off Santa with an eager face. Santa got up and filled the child's stocking up to the wooly brim. He held the child's hand softly and brought the child downstairs.

 

Santa sat down on a comfy brown chair where a tray of mince pies, a gleaming orange, a carrot and some shiney white milk were laid out on a beautiful Christmassy white table. Santa reached out and took a mince pie and bit it. "Yummy," said he, "this is the best mince pie yet." Santa gobbled up the pie. He grabbed another and put the whole pie in his mouth. "I'd better give you the presents now." Santa gave him the presents. "Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas!"

 

Santa flew up the chimney and got into his sleigh. Rudolph's nose started to sparkle and they flew off.

 

The end.

 

Well done Conor, you're now a published author!!

 

 

 



Christmas Windows and Art

Our Christmas classroom windows are brightening up the yard! We love them! Have a look at our snowman and penguin themed doors too!

Alien Adjectives

Have a look at some of our alien adjective pictures! We are going to try our best to use more adjectives in our writing. An adjective describes a noun.

Christmas Carol Service

Christmas Carol Service at 1pm in Ballyroan Church this Thursday! All welcome to come and celebrate this special time with us. For anyone that can't make it, there's a video link below to watch!

http://www.ballyroanparish.ie/ballyroan-parish-live-video-link/

Ms.Fannin's Christmas reading challenge

Ms.McDonagh's class have just finished a reading challenge and the boys have done so well and have really improved their reading skills.

Ms.Fannin's class are going to do the same thing over the Christmas break. Like Ms.McDonagh's class, we will all set our own target with our parents and try our best to reach that. It is important to remember that we all have different targets.

We will have a record sheet with which we must record the books we read. An adult must sign it to say it has been read.

I'm so looking forward to seeing what books have been read when we come back in January.

 

Projects

Well done to the boys for all the hard work they put into their nocturnal animals projects. We learned some really interesting facts about nocturnal animals and the boys had great fun presenting their projects to the class. It was also a great learning experience to see the different ways that projects can be put together. We had PowerPoint presentations, booklets, posters, interactive storyboards and lots more!!! See below for some photos of the projects that were brought in! They are all hanging up outside of our rooms if you want to have a look at the projects.

Nocturnal Animals Project

We are learning about nocturnal animals and birds! We came across some nocturnal animals in the novel we are reading called 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark' by Jill Tomlinson.