One Book One Community - Once

We are reading the book Once by Morris Gleitzman. We are reading it because it is the book chosen for One Book, One Community. There are 16 school in the North Inner City reading the book. The book is based in Poland in 1942 during World War 2. The book is about a Jewish boy called Felix who escaped from an orphanage and met a girl called Zelda. They both tried to get to to the city when they were caught by Nazis. They thought the Nazis could help them find there parents but we know there parents are dead. But instead the Nazis brought them to a ghetto when they ran out of the line. They thought the Nazis were burning Jewish books until they saw a Jews person get shot. Then a man called Barney hid them in a cellar were he was hiding and feeding several other kids. I really like this book so far. We are learning all about World War 2 in history. By Josh Doran I would really recommend this book to others.

Indian in the Cupboard

Author: Lynn Reid Banks

    I have read the book, Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynn Reid Banks. It’s based in London. It mainly takes place in Omri’s, the main characters, bedroom and in a school.

   The characters are Omri, Patrick, Little bull and Boone. My favourite character is Little Bull he is bossy, dangerous and crazy. He wears moccasins and a chief hat with feathers. He is my favourite character because he is 7cm toy that had being changed from plastic to real life. He shot a cowboy called Boone in the chest with a bow and arrow.

     The plot begins with getting a cupboard for Omri’s birthday, he got the cupboard of his brother also he got a plastic Indian of his friend Patrick. In the night he put the Indian in the cupboard and locked it with the a key he got of his mam.

     The climax is when Omri bring the cowboy and Indian in to school. He gives them to Patrick. Then Patrick goes to the principal and showed them to him. The principal was so shocked he went home. Omri was very angry.

     The book is funny, gory, interesting also it was also to read.

     I like the book because there was a lot of magic in it. My favourite part about the book was when the chief Indian died over a heart attack.

    The book is easy to read.

    I would rate the book 10/10

 

Damien

Best Christmas Ever by William Mc Carthy

One cold Christmas morning… I heard something on the roof climbing down the chimney I snuck down the stairs I saw some fat fella in a bright red suit with a red hat and a white ball at the end. It was Santa Clause! He was putting two YZ 85 scramblers under the Christmas tree with the rest of my presents. He ate all the delicious Christmas cookies and drank an ice cold glass of Avonmore milk.  He took the orange carrot off the plate and he put in his pocket for Rudolph his reindeer with the very shiny nose . I ran up- stairs to wake my brother up. When he woke up, the two of us ran down stairs to see if he was still there. He was gone. The two of us took off our pj’s and put on some old clothes. Then we went back down stairs and opened the big front door very quietly then wheeled out our YZ 85s. The two YZ 85s started first kick!. The two of us went all over to look for Santa Cause. We looked up at the dark sky. There he was on his way back to the North pole. So then we knocked for my friend. My friend opened the door he was ready to come out on his KX 65. Just then he asked me for a race from Sheriffer up to the Sunset. I said yeah. He was winning at the start but when I got on a straight road my YZ 85 left him for dust. It was the best Christmas Ever.  

We are doing a project on the Rosie Hackett Bridge. We are going to be displaying our project in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS on the 9th of January. Seán Harrington, the architect who designed the bridge came in to speak to us this morning.

We sat around a big table. We had lots of questions for him which he answered and explained through drawings. He told us how the bridge was going to support the Luas and about it’s design. We don’t want to tell you about that now though, because it will ruin the surprise of our project!

Seán was really helpful. He gave us lots of ideas for our project. He was really interesting and it was a very different morning for us! He told us a funny story about why he wanted to be an architect and I think its given some of us ideas about being an architect or a designer when we're older.

1913 Lockout by Josh Doran

James Larkin was involved in the 1913 lockout. He organised the strikes and set up unions. Workers went on strike because they were working for too long and they were not getting paid enough. 20,000 people went on strike. Factory owners brought in scabs to take their jobs. On the forth of December 2013,sixth class in St Laurence O’Tooles C.B.S went down to Merchant Road. We went down because it was the one hundred year anniversary of people being evicted from their homes. When we were there we saw a mural painted from a photograph that was taken that day. The artist was there and he told us about the mural. Joe from the East Wall History Society gave us the talk. Only two families from the road were not evicted because they were too sick. They were later evicted in the new year.

An Cuisneoir Mór

Lá Amháin , chuáigh mé go dtí an cuisneoir. D’fheach mé sa cuisneoir. Chonaic mé glasraí, uachtar reoite agus feoil. D’fheach se go hiontach. Dith mé glasrai, feoil agus uachtar reoite. Dol mé uisce agus ith mé uachtar reoite. Bhí mé lon.

Leon Grant

6th Class learn to Rap!!

Our Dublin history Walk

An Cluiche Mór

Here is a video of our 'End of Year' memories - there are photographs from our science experiments, sports activities, our 'Localise' project, classroom and Confirmation and yep, our trip to the Aran Islands - all good times and great memories. We're gonna miss our days as Larrier legends (and of course our 'ham sandwich' of a teacher!!)

The Class of 2013!