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Riddles
Riddles!!!
1. There was a bald man and all his belongings were pink. Why didn’t the man accept the yellow comb?
Because he had no hair.
2. An old lady was walking across the road. She had dark clothes on and the moon was not out and a car was coming. It didn’t have its lights on how did the driver know to stop?
It was daytime.
3. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river.
4. You are in a concrete room with a table and a mirror and no windows or doors. How will you get out?
You look in your mirror and see what you saw; you take the saw and cut the table in half. Two halves make a (w)hole. Jump through the hole to escape.
5. I live above a star and yet I never burn. I have 11 neighbours and yet none of them turn. I am visited in sequence first last or in between. PQRS are my initials. Now, tell me what I mean?
The “7” on the telephone keypad.
6. What King can you make if you take the head of a lamb, the middle of a pig, the hind of a buffalo and the tail of a dragon?
A lion, King of the jungle! (Head of a Lamb, middle of a pIg, the hind of a buffalO, and the tail of a dragoN.)
7. A farmer brings his fox and his goose into town. When he is in town he buys a bag of corn. On the way back he has to cross the river. But he can only bring one thing over at a time. If he brings the fox over first the goose will eat the corn. If he brings the corn over the fox will eat the goose. What will he do?
He brings the goose over first. Then he brings the fox over and brings the goose back and then he brings the corn over and then brings the goose over.
8. A man went up a mountain on his horse on Friday he came back the next day on Friday. How did he do it?
The horse’s name was Friday.
9. Decapitate me and all becomes equal. Then truncate me and I become second, cut me front and back and I become two less than I started, what am I?
The word seven. Seven, Even (equal), Eve (2nd person according to the bible), V Roman numeral for number 5 – two less than seven.
10. There were 15 birds sitting on a wall. A farmer shot 1. How many are left?
None they all flew away.
Aimee Neary and Darragh McGuire
Gigglers
Gigglers
Q. What would you get if cows could fly?
A. A pat on the head.
Q. Why does the sky never end?
A. So birds don’t bump their heads.
John: I think the teacher loves me.
Lucy: How can you tell?
John: She keeps putting kiss marks on my sums.
Q. What did the judge say to the dentist?
A. Do you swear to pull the tooth the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth.
Sam: I’ll cook you a meal tomorrow. What would you like?
Simon: I’d like to take out life insurance.
Jane: Is it true that you only married Jonathan for the money his granddad left him?
Janice: Certainly not. I would have married him no matter who left him the money.
Mr. Grumble: This stew is half cold.
Mrs. Grumble: Well eat the half that’s hot then.
Clive: Do you think I’m handsome?
Claire: ‘Mmm’ in a way.
Clive: ‘what way?’
Claire: ‘as far away as possible!’
Q. Mummy, mummy why can’t we have a dustbin like everyone else?
A. Just stop talking and start chewing!
Q. Why are goldfish gold?
A. So they don’t go rusty.
Darragh McGuire
Stories
Haiti
Haiti
Haiti is in the Caribbean Sea. It is beside Jamaica, Cuba and The Dominican Rep. It’s main religion is Roman Catholicism. Port-au-Prince is the largest city and the capital.
Over 90% of the people are descended from Africans brought to Haiti as slaves. Haiti is the second oldest independent country in the western hemisphere (The U.S.A. is first). Haiti is an Indian name meaning mountains. Nearly 80% of people in Haiti are farmers. France once controlled Haiti and the main language spoken is French. Haiti has been called “Land of 10,000 small farms”. The people of Haiti are known as Haitians. The population is 5,400,000. Haiti is a very poor country. It is over populated.
Haiti had an earthquake recently. No-one knows how many people died. People are stealing from other people. Some people have lost their families. Many people have been killed by falling buildings. I’m so glad that Ireland doesn’t lie on a fault line! The other side of the Haitian island is the Dominican Rep. It wasn’t affected by the earthquake! Hundreds of millions of people live in earthquake zones throughout the world, many of them in major cities such as San Francisco, Tokyo and Istanbul. Our school is fundraising at the moment for the victims of the Haitian earthquake. The disaster there makes us all realize how lucky we are here in Ireland and how little we should complain!
Aimee Neary, Lauren Bloor, Chloe Kelly, Jonathon Toolan and Megan Nugent
Winter 2009-2010
Winter 2009-2010
It started in November 2009. It was bad. Floods caused millions of euro’s worth of damage. Periods of heavy rain soaked hillsides and caused landslides that destroyed peoples and other property. When too much underground water is used up the ground may sink, or holes may open. The floods were so bad here this winter that cars were covered. Trees fell. It was horrible! Some people still haven’t returned to their homes. Perhaps this flooding could have been prevented if global warming was slowed down. Farmers lost a lot of their crops this year due to flooding. Some people didn’t have water to drink despite all the flooding – because the water was polluted.
We had lots of snow this winter too. Snow forms from moisture in the atmosphere. There was loads of snow in some places in Ireland, and hardly any snow in some other places in Ireland. There was up to 7ft. of snow in the mountains in Wicklow. Snow starts off on the ground; most of the moisture comes from the surface waters of the earth – its oceans, rivers and lakes. When the clouds gather too much moisture it can’t hold it all and it comes down as rain. But the cold air turns it into snow. The snow was compacted by cars and it turned into ice. A man skidded on the ice in his van and hit a lump of clay, and the van flipped over and landed upside-down in a river near my house. The man got out the back doors of the van. Daddy helped pull the van out with his tractor. My daddy, mammy, sister, cousin and I were going up a hill. Our car skidded back ways at the top of the hill and then skidded sideways. Then it turned and we were facing down the hill. We had to drive down the hill and go a different way. We were like stuntmen.
This winter there was so much ice! One of our neighbours skidded into a ditch. We couldn’t go anywhere. My mum was very scared bringing my friend home. My sisters and I were sliding on the ice. It was like the programme “Dancing on Ice”. The ice was so bad we had to get milk from our neighbour Teresa. Our mum said a man fell on ice and broke his skull. The ice was so thick in some places.
It was 40 years since we had a winter like that and I hope that it will be another 40 years until it happens again!
Darragh McGuire, Kate Lawe ,
Ciara Lawe
Secondary School
Secondary School
My brother’s name is Brendan. He went to Scoil Mhuire secondary school in Strokestown last year. Brendan has long hair and he has to wear it in a ponytail. There are different things in secondary school like a shop and a café. Some of Brendan’s friends from his old school Whitehall are there at the same school. Brendan likes to do metal-work and art. Brendan’s bag is really heavy. I nearly broke my back trying to lift it. Brendan likes secondary school. There are 417 people in the school. Brendan has more friends now but I only know one of their names. Jack is his name and he’s a funny person. Brendan is 13 and and he will be 14 in August. His homework looks hard. I think Business Studies is the hardest. But I don’t mind doing hard work and so I can’t wait to go to secondary school! Brendan has adjusted so well, and so can I.
By: Jonathan Toolan
Strokestown
Srokestown
My name is Andrew. I play for Strokestown. People on my team say I am good at Gaelic. My friends at school play for Kilglass. Last year Strokestown beat all the other teams and got trophies. Our coach Declan Kavanagh brought us out for dinner. Every time we win a final we get pizza. The colours of Strokestown are black and amber. I now play for the U-11 and U-12 teams. Without our coach we wouldn’t have got this far. I play as a forward. My favourite team to play against is Kilglass. I do not like Kilglass teams. Kilglass is in the country-side. It has a nice view. I practice every day for soccer and Gaelic. I play indoor soccer too. I play indoor soccer every Monday. Soon indoor soccer will be over and we will play outside instead.
Andrew Fahy
Music
Music
In Slatta School we do tin-whistle. It is a wind instrument. It is a lovely instrument to be able to play. We love tin-whistle. 2nd-6th classes do tin-whistle. We also have a singing teacher called “Brian”. He teaches us how to sing songs. He also plays music for Slatta Church. He is a very talented man. He got the Swine Flu injection and had a reaction. He is okay now so that’s great. He brings in DVD’s of orchestras and other musical DVD’s.
I play three instruments. I play the accordion tin-whistle and piano. My favourite one is the accordion. My brother Daniel is trying to learn the guitar, and Kate is also learning to play the guitar. I think they will turn out to be very good. I also do Irish dancing and so do Niamh, Georgia and Kate. Niamh, Georgia and I do commission dancing. Kate does Cumann Rince Náisiúnta (CRN) dancing. Niamh, Georgia and I went to our class feis. We all did very well. I won all my dances. When you win a dance you don’t do it again, but the class feis isn’t graded. That means you have to do it again. I won my dances again in Ballinagh. I got lovely prizes. Megan, Becky, Kate and Niamh did figure dancing. Unfortunately they didn’t get through. Chloe, Aisling, Niamh, Ciara and I entered our ballad group. In our competition there were loads of groups. We got through and that competition was for people in Secondary school, so we did well! Chloe, Aisling, Niamh, Ciara and I sang in the singing group. We really enjoyed ourselves. Mabye we will win this year.
Lauren Bloor
Manchester City
Manchester city is my favourite club. I have supported Man. City from the second I was born because my Dad was in Manchester. He was brought up in Stockport. My family have always judged their teams from where they were born. Not a lot of people do that, they mostly judge by how many games the teams win and follow the most successful team.
History of Man. City
Man. City was founded in 1851 and their first ever stadium was Maine Road and it lasted them for years. But it was a great stadium to them. Luckily I did get to go to their last match there and at the end of the match we all jumped on the pitch. It was emotional but it was great because Man. City were getting a bigger and better stadium.
Managers
The manager now is Roberto Manchini and he’s really good. Our last manager was Mark Hughes and he was not very good.
Situatation Now
Man. City is now fifth in the League and one point behind Tottenham with two games in hand. One of the Man. City players called Adebayor was in Africa in his bus and somebody took a machine gun out and shot the bus driver dead. We have put one of our strikers on loan back to Brazil. He is called Robinho, a bit like my nickname Caminho.
Favourite Players and moments
My favourite player is Shaun Wright Philips because I play in his position and he is small and fast like me. My favourite moment was when we played Man. United and Ronaldo got sent offand we won 3-1. My Dad and I were season ticket holders for years and we have been to more than 50 games.
Cameron Helliwell
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