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December 2004 Nollaig 2004

I love Christmas

I love Christmas Day. I get to open up my presents and this is the first Christmas Day at home because every Christmas I always go to my nana’s house. Sometimes we sleep the night and play with my cousins. They are only babies two feet tall. This Christmas won’t be the same, but I don’t care because I love them.

Nicola, 2nd Class

Recipe for A Great Christmas

Ingredients...

Christmas
Pudding
Crib
Lights
Music

Children
Turkey
Presents
Cake
Santa

Decorate the tree. Make the pudding. Put up the crib. Get the lights up on the house. Put on the music. Calm down the children. Stuff the turkey. Wrap the presents. Ice the cake. Go to bed and wait for Santa. And that will be your best Christmas.

by Heather, 4th Class.

Santa is out and about,

So you better be good,

Or else he’ll rip your hood

And you better leave out Bud.

And you’ll wake up

And you’ll see coal in a bowl.

By Robert

Pigs are pink,

Pigs are fat,

Pigs are big,

Pigs are small,

Pigs are dumb,

Pigs are smelly,

Pigs have a tail,

I like pigs.

By Micheál

Horses are brown,

Horses frown,

Horses go down,

I like horses.

By Shane, 2^nd Class

About a Pigmy Shrew

A pigmy shrew is the smallest mammal in Ireland. The gestation period is 21-22 days. The pigmy shrew feeds continually through day and night. It’s preyed on by Owls, Foxes and Stoats. It eats insects such as woodlice and beetles. Its muzzle is long with whiskers. A Pigmy Shrew has very poor eye sight. It has a good sense of smell. If two Pigmy Shrews were in a tin one of them would eat the other one. A mouse looks like it but it isn’t a mouse. It has long sharp nails. You can tell if it’s a baby by checking if it has hairy tail. The Pigmy Shrew died in our chicken’s water trough. A Pigmy Shrew lives in old grass and leaves.

by Tom

A Christmas Story

Once upon a time a billion years ago (This is a true story … really!) in some place there was a big monster who ate Santa Clauses (approximately zero a year). The monster was always giving Santa a hard time. But each year Santa managed to get away. The monster usually only got in the way since it wasn’t very clever, but for the last couple of years it had given Santa a run for his money and Santa was very worried. Anyway it was Christmas Eve and Mr. L was eating his breakfast. Mr. L was a really very fat and lazy man who never worked out, and he was so puffed from getting up that morning that his cheeks had gone a rosy red colour. Mr. L's breakfast was 5 mars bars, 3 sandwiches, beans on toast and 63 bowls of cornflakes and krispies- an average breakfast for men his size. (Mr. L knew that because the club he was involved in, which was called BMW-Big Men Walking, had done a survey). Just then he noticed a face looking at him from outside the window. It was big, green, stupid and wearing a Santa hat… the perfect Christmas monster. Mr. L didn’t know this though; he thought it was just your average old monster, so he continued eating his breakfast. The monster, on the other hand, thought it was Santa Claus, so in it popped, and with great difficulty ate Mr. L. Thinking that it had finally got Santa, the monster went for a long nap. Nobody noticed Mr. L was missing until Christmas night, because he was supposed to have a Christmas party and the door was locked.

Santa thought he had made it when no monster chased him half way around the world. Unfortunately the monster's brother which lived in Jamaica jumped 10,000 foot up into the air and ate most of Santa’s presents, so Santa had to go back up to the North Pole and refill the sleigh. While they were up there, half of the reindeer went on strike. So the jolly fat man used the clever polar bears that you can see in the Coca Cola ads instead. By the time he had all of the presents delivered, all of Ireland, half of Jamaica, China, Japan, Mexico and three quarters of Russia (Santa has a very strange route) had all seen him. And everybody was happy. Nothing else happens in this story.

So the moral is:

There’s no point in reading pointless stories like this.

By Kevin, 5th Class

Greece Police

Two people from Greece,

Joined the police,

They chased robber all day,

Till they came home for tae,

They loved to eat,

And enjoyed their meat,

They became very fat,

And lived with a rat,

Soon they got tired,

And so they got fired,

They went back to Greece,

And now there deceased,

May they rest in peace,

Long live the police.

By Stephen

Jokes

Why did the dog have its puppy’s in a dustbin?

It said, “PLACE YOUR LITTER HERE”!!!

What part of a clock is always old?

The second hand

What do you call a sleeping bull?

A Bulldozer

Why was the 14th century known as the Dark Ages?

Because there were so many knights

Which two words have the most letters?

Post Office

Where do wasps come from?

Stingapore

What can cut waves?

A sea-saw

Did you hear about the plant in maths class?

It grew square roots?

Why can’t you depend on parachutes?

Because they always let you down.

By Brendan

From the "Biggest Joke Book Ever"

Strange Sports

Elephant Polo!

This bizarre game of polo developed in India. There are four elephants and their riders per team. The game is played on a field like a soccer pitch. There are two goals either end of the field. However, it is foul play for an elephant to pick up the ball with its trunk!

Yukigassen!

This is a snowball game which is hugely popular in Finland, Norway and Japan. It is played by two teams on a court that has huge chunks of snow called ‘castles’ that you can hide behind. Each team has a flag that the other team has to capture by snowballing them out of the way!

Footbag!

Footbag is a mixture of soccer and gymnastics. The aim of the game is to keep a small beanbag from touching the ground using only your feet. Freestyle footbag is the most popular. Players stand in a circle, do tricks with a footbag, and pass it to each other. Freestyle footbag is a great chance to show off. You can even do it to music! Footbag net involves two teams volleying a footbag over a five-foot-high net!

DOGS

Stevie and George are the name of my dogs,

they like to run in the woods and around the logs,

in the evening they have lots of delicious food for dinner,

With plenty of exercise they get thinner.

DESERTS

There are five types of Desert.

Sand desert
Stony desert
Rock desert
Plateau desert
Mountain desert

They can be either hot or cold deserts. More than a 5th of the worlds land surface is so dry that it is known as desert. Most deserts get less than 10 inches of rain each year. Only 15% of all deserts are pure sand. Deserts form if the land is to hot, such as the Kalahari and Sahara deserts. Deserts form if the land is to dry, such as the cold Gobi desert because it is to far from the sea’s moist winds. Other deserts such as the Atacama lie behind high mountains which block the rainbearing winds.

by Tom

The Mill

My name is Joseph and I live in Ballinacourty. There is a river in Ballinacourty. It is called the river Douglas. There was a mill built there but all that is left of it is the store house. The mill was opened and built in 1730. It was owned by Maura Cushion. She got Married to Michael Hurley and the mill was passed down generation by generation. There was another mill built in Coolananve. That’s just up the road. The mill closed because it was an old mill and the newer and better mills started to come in.

Joseph, 5th Class

The Oystercatcher

The oystercatcher is usually found near water where it can be seen opening shells by hammering them or prising them open with its bill. To build a nest the female lines a shape in the sand, gravel or grass with shells and pebbles. If danger approaches the nest and young the oystercatcher flies around drawing attention to itself by calling loudly to distract the predator away. Colour: Black and white plumage, pink legs, long orange bill, red eyes with an orange ring around them.

by Kealan.

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