Halloween

Here's a spooky Halloween song to get you ready for what is sure to be a very spooky week in Room 5!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsyEX9iIN-I


Second class were working hard on a Halloween project this week - check out the school hall for the finished articles! We learned a lot about Halloween, including how it started, why we dress up, what we eat at Halloween, why we light bonfires, and where the name Jack O'Lantern came from!       

Here we are hard at work:

  

 

And here are the completed results:

 

 

 

 



 We have two Halloween poems this week, one in English agus ceann amháin as Gaeilge:

Oíche Shamhna

                                                     Oíche Shamhna , is maith liom í,

Ag gleasadh suas , sin spórt is spraoi,

                                                         Cailleach dubh is púca bán,

Cnónna, úlla, agus milseáin,

Ciseán lán i mo lámh,

Bí cúramach leis an tine chnámh!

Tinte ealaíne ag lasadh sa spéir,

Áthas ar na páistí go léir!

 

 

 

Swish goes the Broomstick

There was an old witch,

Believe it if you can,

She tapped at the window

And she ran, ran, ran.

She ran helter-skelter,

With her toes in the air,

Cornstalks flying

From her old witchy hair.

(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!)

 Swish! Goes her broomstick,

Meow! Goes her cat,

Plop! Goes her hop-toad

Sitting on her hat.

“Weee!” chuckled she,

“Hi-dee-ho-hi!

Hallowe’en night

When witches fly-y-y-y-y!”