Adam's Starling: Synopsis Part 2

Adam's Starling is a novel we are reading in 3rd and 4th class. It is written by Gillian Perdue. This is a synopsis of Chapters 1-8 in our own words. We love this book!

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Visit from Mr. Sheehan (Part 2)

Mr. Sheehan came to visit us yesterday in Kilvemnon for our second History lesson on teh parish of Mullinahone. We looked at our Family Trees again and we have found out the names of our Grandparents, Great Grandparents and soem of us were even able to go as far as Great Great Grandparents.
We also talked about the meanings of place names in the area. Did you know that Boherboy means 'An Bothar Bui' (The Yellow Road) and is called this because when it rained teh water flowed yellow down the road?

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Cathal o Connell came to our school.

Cathal with Piggley our school mascot

Last Friday Cathal O Connell came to our school. Cathal is the Project Coordinator if Empowering Minds in Ireland.
When Cathal came he helped us with our lego and we had a good time. Cathal helped us a lot. The name of our model is the trap doors . There are two of them E built one and of them and C built the other one. I helped on the wall for them so they can stay steady. Thank you Cathal for coming to our school.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Pavel

In the boy in the Striped Pyjamas there is a waiter called Pavel. He is a Jew and he lives in Out-With. He never says much. Once when Bruno made a swing he fell off. He thought that he might have bled to death. But then Pavel came to help him. He got a first-aid kit and he cleaned up Bruno's knee. Pavel told Bruno that he was a doctor. But now he's not.
At dinner Pavel was serving it. He was bringing the wine over to Kotler. But he dropped it on Kotler's lap. No-one knows what happened after that. We think that Kotler killed him because Pavel is not mentioned again in the book.
Pavel was very kind to Bruno and it is sad what we think has happened.
By Bubbles

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Father

Bruno's father is a Commandent and when they lived in Berlin, The Fury asked them to moved to Out-With. When they did father was in charge of the Concentration camp
called Out-With. His mother hated what he was doing but his father is proud. He had an Office of his own that was Out Of Bounds-No Exceptions. At the end when Bruno went missing it was too late when they found where he went. Every morning and night when Father woke up or went to bed he thought of Bruno and what they are doing to the Jewish families. But he carried on his job until the Americans burned it down.
By Ronaldo

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Grandparents

5th and 6th class are reading the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.
We have written Character Profiles on all of the characters in the book and we are going to post them on the blog. We will start today with Bruno's Grandparents. Bruno is the main character in the book and the book is written from his point of view.

Bruno's grandparents live in a flat by the fruit and vegetable stalls in Berlin. Bruno's Grandad is very proud of his son Ralf who is a Commandent in the Nazi Party. But Bruno's grandmother thinks she brought him up the wrong way with the plays she
wrote when he was a boy. This shows that she doesn't like that Father is a Nazi and what he has to do for a living. At a party at their house she leaves the house shouting that she is ashamed.
Bruno's grandmother died at the age 63 Bruno finally worked it out. At the funeral The Fury sent flowers, but mother said that she would turn in her grave if she knew they were there.

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Lieutenant Kotler

Kotler is a young soldier who we met when Bruno was about to move to Out-With. It was like he was one of the soldiers that Bruno's father really liked. Bruno doesn't like Kotler much because he has an attitude and he calls him `little man` because Bruno is small. He makes Bruno feel cold. Like at one part of the book Bruno asked Kotler a favour for a spare tyre to make a swing. Bruno's sister Gretel liked Kotler so she flirted with him a lot. So Gretel was with Kotler in Bruno's garden ans when Bruno asked the favour from Kotler he got very sarcastic and said and he carries it on him!" Kotler is also a mean man. He likes to hurt people like Pavel (the waiter.) He accidentally spilled wine over his lap and he got very mad and he hurt him. He also shot a dog for barking! He is only 19 years old and he is flirting with Bruno's mother! He is a very strange and mean man but he is a very good character in the book.
By B612

Learning about John F.Kennedy.

John F.Kennedy
One of our pupils 007 brought in a newspaper dated the day after J.F.K. was killed
We got this information from it. John F. Kennedy was killed on Friday 22nd November 1963.
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President at the age of 46. He was shot in the brain,
temple and neck at 2:00pm outside the Park Land hospital. He was shot by a rifle
and the guy that was driving was wounded. Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in at 3:30pm.
He was flown from Love Field Airfield, Dallas. They said he felt no pain and died in 40 minutes. He was a PT boat Commandant in the war. He was president for 2 years 10 months and 2 days. In the first car there was Kennedy and in the 2nd, the secret service and in the 3rd the Johnsons. New York listened in silence to the news and turned away sad. They said they should get on with it as Mr.Kennedy would.

Friday 22th November 1963.

by: Ronaldo.

Congratulations to past pupil Paul Curran

CONGRATULATIONS TO PAST PUPIL OF KILVEMNON NS; PAUL CURRAN

'The Nationalist' South Tipperary GAA Player of the Year Awards
HURLER OF THE YEAR
Paul Curran (Mullinahone)

Grandson of Rody Curran who played on Mullinahone's first hurling championship winning team in 1940 and a member of a family which continues to give tremendous service to club and county, he was a fine underage footballer and hurler winning numerous championships. He was a member of the only South Tipperary under 16 hurling team ever to win the Munster (A) championship in 1987 and he won a Munster minor medal with Tipperary in 1999 before progressing to the under 21 side.

He made the Fitzgibbon Cup winning Waterford I.T. team as a "fresher" in 2000 and captained them to victory in 2003. He played his first senior championship game against Offaly in 2002 having part of the extended panel All-Ireland winning panel of 2001. Last year he played a major role in Tipperary's National League and Munster Championship successes and his consistently outstanding performances had him on the short list for an all-Star award. At club level he has great memories of 2002 when in the space of eight days leading up to his 21st birthday he was one of the heroes of the Mullinahone team which captured county senior honours when defeating Thurles Sarsfields in a replay.

Also a fine footballer, Paul Curran has been a wonderful servant to club and county and perhaps the best days are yet to come from a man who now joins the illustrious company of John Leahy, Brian O'Meara, Eoin Kelly and Paul Kelly as Mullinahone winners of this award.

Visit from Mr. Sheehan

Mr.Sheehan came to our school today. He was talking about history. It was very interesting. He told us all the names of places and how they got them. He told us that people say they have been every where but not Mullinahone. Then he told us a poem about 'The Two Travellers' written by CJ Boland and one of them was a show off.
"And The man that was never in Mullinahone
Shouldn't say he had travelled at all."

He told us about CJ Kickham. CJ made up the Slievenamon song.He told us about Michaelangelo and then he told us about how Leonardo da Vinci got his name. He came from the village of Vinci.

Mr. Sheehan taught in our school and he also was a pupil here when he was young. The Irish name for Kilvemnon back then was called Cill Maighidne adn it means the Church of the Virgin Mary. Now people believe that it means the Church of St. Mheamnain. He told us how Cloneen got its name from 'Little Meadow.'
Mr. Sheehan is a really nice man and I can't wait to see him again next week for our next lesson on Mullinahone's history.
by Sparky

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Adam's Starling: Synopsis Part 1

Adam's Starling is a novel we are reading in 3rd and 4th class. It is written by Gillian Perdue. This is a synopsis of Chapters 1-8 in our own words. We love this book!

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Numbers in Latin

1=I
2=II
3=III
4=IV
5=V
6=VI
7=VII
8=VIII
9=IX
10=X
11=XI
12=XII
13=XIII
14=XIV
15=XV
16=XVI
17=XVII
18=XVIII
19=XIX
20=XX
50=L
100=C
200=CC
500=D
1000=M

Research on Rome

Time in Rome;
Telling time in Rome was a vauge business. Romans rely on sundials and water clocks to tell the time,but neither are very accurate. Days last as long as the daylight and divided into twelve hours.
Who went to school in Roman time?
Boys and girls from far off places came to school at the age of seven. But poor children had to stay at home. Some of them ran errands for their parents or looked for work. Others played on the street and got into trouble.
What did the children play with?
Roman children played with lots of odds and evens. If they could not afford glass or pottery, marbles, they used little round nuts instead. They also threw dice made of bones. They even used pig's bladders to make balloons to play football with.
By Gabby.

The Extreme Photographer Carsen Peter

Carsen Peter said this about his adventure on the Stromboli volcano in Italy. He is a photographer and I read about him in a magazine called National Geographic Kids.

"When I was 17,a friend and I climed the Stromboli volcano in Italy to capture its eruption on film. We set up our cameras on the very rim of the crater.Suddenly an explosion erupted from the volcano!. Giant bombs flaming rocks up to 60cm wide began spitting into the air . We started running and trying to dodge them,we forgot to turn on the cameras!. It really frightened me,but that was when I realised I had magma in my blood and taking awesome photos of extreme nature is what I wanted to do with my life".
By Smiley