Sixth Class Holy Family- Mr. O' Neill

The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas is a novel written by John Boyne that our class is reading. It is set during World War 2. It is about a spoilt nine year old boy called Bruno who lives in Berlin.  His father is in Hitler’s army. He has a big house with five floors and three best friends for life. He thinks his life is perfect untill the Furhre comes for dinner. Then everything changes, and he and whole family moves to a sad and lonely place, and they have to live in a house with only three floors. The only interesting thing about the house, is what he can see when he looks out the window. There are thousands of people, behind a huge barbed wire fence, all wearing striped pyjamas.

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Fill two clear glasses with lukewarm water. Pour 1 tbsp. of salt into one glass, and stir until the salt dissolves. Gently drop a fresh egg into the plain water. The egg will sink to the bottom. Remove the egg and place it in the saltwater. The egg will float.

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Cornflour and water mixture – No precise amounts, just mixed together in a bowl until it thickened enough to show the non-newtonian properties. It’s weird stuff, once thickened it’s strength is related to how much pressure you put upon it – under no pressure it behaves much the same as single cream; you can swill it around and pour it, but under stress it becomes hard like it has set; it fractures when scraped looking like a blomonge briefly before becoming liquid again.

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Yesterday we learned how to make a mug stand. Assembling a mug stand is quite easy. There is seven steps to make a mug stand.

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Lá breá brothallach a bhí ann.  An samradh a bhí ann.  Bhí an ghrian ag taitneamh.  Chuamar cois farraige sa charr. Chuir mé bia, culaith snamha buicéad agus spáid sa charr. Shroicheamar an trá ar a haon a chlog. Bhí sceitimíní áthas orm. Chuaigh me ag snámh le mo chara. Bhí picnic againn. D’ith mé ceapaire agus cáca milis. D’ól mé sú oráiste. Rinne mé caisláin gaineamh. Bhí an lá  go hiontach. Chuaigh mé abhaile ar a sé  a chlog. Bhi me tuirseach traochta.

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Today we learned about procedural writing. The aim was how to make a stool. A stool is a handy item of furniture , it is  used as seating in kitchens , cafes and classrooms. A stool is a very handy and easy thing  to make. A stool is used for many things during the day. We enjoyed todays lesson in class !!!!!!!!!

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An t-earrach=                             An Samhradh=

Feabhra                                        Bealtaine
Márta                                              Meitheamh
Aibreán                                         Iúil

An Fómhar=                                  An Geimhreadh=

Lúnasa                                              Samhain
Meán Fómhair                              Nollaig
Deireadh Fómhair                       Eanair

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In 1932 , the nationalist Socialist Party ( Nazis) won the most seats in the elections . The leader of the Nazis was Adolf Hitler . Hitler held extreme racist views . He blamed the Jews for most of the country’s  problems . In 1938 , Hitler invaded Austria and Czechoslovia.  On the 1st of September 1939 ,  The Nazis invaded Poland . Britian and France declared war on Germany on the 3rd of September . On the 22nd of Jume 1941 , The Germans invaded Russia . Hitler believed that if he invaded Russia , most of Europe would be under German control . But , the Germans weren’t ready for the winter in Russia. Oil in tanks engines turned to Jelly. German soliders froze to death. On April the 29th Hitler married his girlfriend , Eva Braun. The next day , they both committed suicide. The Germans surrendered on May the 7th. World War 2 officially ended on the 8th of  May 1945 at midnight.

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Today we learned about the surrealist painter Salvador Dali in class. He was born in a town called Figueres in north-east Spain. He was intelligent in school but he daydreamed and doodled istead of doing his work. In 1922 Dali went to Madrid to study art. His first exhibition was in Barcelona and his work was well received by the critics. Dali called his paintings “hand-painted dream photographs”. In 1960 Dali was asked to donate a painting to his home town but instead he decided to design a museum of his work instead. It was finished in 1974 and had a very strange design with the walls being bright terracotta and it also had giant eggs and gold statues on the roof. It was named the Theatre-Museum. Salvador Dali died in 1989 and he is buried beneath the Theatre-Museum.

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