The Story of Alma

In a dull, old town on a cold, snowy evening, a young girl went skipping along down the street. Suddenly, she stopped and in front of her she saw a large chalkboard with hundreds of names written on it.

    She reached into her jacket pocket, and took out a piece of chalk. The little girl found an empty space and among the many names she wrote her name Alma.

Alma gawped at all the names, when suddenly, she heard a noise.

    Alma turned to see a big window with a doll inside. She walked over to get a closer look. It almost seemed like staring at her reflection. Alma rubbed her eyes. She looked back and the doll was gone. Alma thought this was very strange. She tried to open the door. It was locked.

    She got annoyed and threw a snowball at the door. She began to storm off, but she heard the door open. She went inside, she saw the doll that she had seen in the window on a large table. Alma began to walk over, when suddenly she knocked over a doll on a bicycle. She put him back up right. It began to cycle towards the door, when it got quite close the door slammed shut!

    He seemed to want to get out. Alma turned back around, the doll had moved again! This time it was on a tall shelf. She went and pulled over a chair. Alma stood up on the chair. She reached up for the doll. She was almost there. There was a flash. She seemed to be sitting on the shelf. She couldn’t move a muscle. It suddenly dawned on her, she had turned into a doll.

Google Street View

This video shows how Google collects images for street view. It shows you how they get to places where cars can't go.

A Ghost Story from Rome

Prepare to be scared!

Click on this link to read a Scary story called The Ghost of Beatrice Canci

When you have read the story go to this assignment and see how much you can recall

The Grasshopper and the Ants Animation

The Grashopper and the Ants was a Walt Disney animation made in the 1930s As in the classic fable, the grasshopper plays his fiddle and lives for the moment, while the industrious ants squirrel away massive amounts of food for the winter. With his song, he's able to convince at least one small ant until the queen arrives and scares him back to work. The queen warns the grasshopper of the trouble he'll be in, come winter. Winter comes, and the grasshopper, near starvation, stumbles across the ants, who are having a full-on feast in their snug little tree. They take him in and warm him up. The queen tells him only those who work can eat so he must play for them

If you would like to read more about the animation click on this link clicking on this link

Spiders

Spiders

More science videos on Insects at NeoK12.com  

I hope that you will have a greater appreciation of the significance of spiders in our environment after watching this movie.

Measuring the Rainfall September 2012

In September we measured the rainfall in Scoil Eoin.Everyday we put a glass container with a funnel on top outside to collect the rainfall overnight.In the morning we brought it in and measure the rainfall using a graduated cylinder.Then we put the information on a chart in the classroom and also saved the information on  the computer.
We had a class rota and two people were in charge each week.
The highest rainfall was on the 24th September when we got was 637mm. I had to run out several times to change the container.

September Rainfall Block Graph

I recorded the information on Excel and at the end of the month I changed it over to a block graph.The first block graph has all of the dates but they just show the highest days.In the second block graph i left out the 25th of September because as you can see it only goes up to one hundred and eighty and we got six hundred and seventy two so when we tried it it would not work.The first block graph goes up to eight hundred ml so we did not