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Advent wreaths.

Yesterday in religion we made a wreath for advent. It was only a small wreath and it had one candle in it. It is meant to be used an s a centre piece on a table. They were easy to make. We had to bring in all the things that we needed our self’s. It was easy to get them and we didn’t need that much anyway. All we needed was some oasis a candle and holder and then some greenery. We had them all finished in one class apart from the cleaning. A few of us stayed back for a few minutes to help sweep up the floor. Once we had them made we left them on the window sill until the end of the day when we had to come back to get them. Someone took a picture of them all on the window sill. It was really easy to make. All you had to do was put the candle in the oasis and then start to put all of the greenery into it. You have to soak the oasis the night before but I don’t know why. It was kind of fun making them. I have never made anything like that before so that was my first time.

Band Pratice... :)

Yesterday we had music. In music class on a Wednesday we do some work in our groups. The group that I am working in is singing the song “the man who can’t be moved” by the script. So far is coming along great. We have a bit of guitar in it and we also have some harmonies in it as well. Some of the other groups sound really good and are really loud. It is very hard to practice in class with everybody because it is so loud with all the different groups but its kind of fun. You get to hear everybaody else and nobody is just focusing all of their attention onto your group. Next week I think that we will be starting to perform in front of the other T.Y music class .I really don’t want to do that. It’s ok at the moment signing with the group that I’m in but in front of another class. It seems kind of scary I guess. But at the end of the day it’s all a bit of fun. I am kind of looking forward to getting it done and over with though. I would prefer to be one of the first groups so that I don’

Dissapoinment for Green Hero.

Well yesterday we were meant to be getting all of our magazines from the printer and well we didn't. Our managing director was in contact with the printer during the week while the magazines were being printed. We had made arrangements for the entire group to go to Louise's house on Friday after school to receive the delivery and get our pictures taken. We had arranged to get time off school on Monday to go and give the magazines to the schools. We had also gotten permission from or year head and everything was very organized. At lunch time it was getting closer to the end of school and we were all getting really excited to see the final product of all our hard work. We have spent the last few weeks working very hard on this. In school and out of school. At lunch time I left art in a very positive and good mood. I made my way up to the lunch room and was telling everybody how exciting it was to be able to see th e final magazine in only a few hours. Then Louise stood up an

Dance.... :)

Today we had double P.E. We were again doing dance. For the first week that we started dance it was really fun and exciting. This week I didn’t find it as much fun as the last week. This week we learned a new routine. I really like the first routine that we learned. I don’t like this routine as much as the first one. We started off with a bit of a warm up. We were just doing some dancing and stretching for the warm ups. After we had done so warm ups and we were all ready and set to do some dancing we started with the routine from the last week. We went through it slowly so that we would all remember it and it was also to show the people who didn’t know it. After we went through it slowly we then put some more music on and began to do it fast. It was really fun and everybody seemed to be really enjoying it. After we done the old routine for a bit we then got to learn a new one. I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first one but it was still goo

Mini company workshop...... 3

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So today was our first day back to school after our week of work experience and it is good to be back. We set off form school at nine o'clock and headed to Naas. We arrived a bit late but everything was ok once we got there. Today we talked about product that we are making and the different things that people are doing. Orla seemed very impressed with our sample magazine tat we had printed off to show her. She passed it around the room and the whole group felt very proud that people really liked our magazine. Our magazine is comming along very well. We have sent it off to the printer and it is in the process of being printed. We are getting 2500 copies printed. The mini company is very good and we have even made a profit. Today we also learned about writing up our business report and what we have to put into it. We were also told about how the judges will mark it and that it doesn't need to be very long. After we were given a break we were then shown a video of people actini

Green Hero

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So our magazine is starting to take shape. We have so far got enough money to print our first issue as well as having a profit. We have decided that we are going to get some of the pages designed professionally with the money from our profits. We had double mini company class toddy where we got some more work done on the magazine. We also decided that we would all meet u after school to dome more work on our magazine. There is a lot of work to be done and I think that in the beginning I under estimated the amount of work that needed to be done. We have all ready done so much work and we still have a lot more work to do. Out of all of the projects that we have to do the one taking up most of my time is Mini Company. I do enjoy doing all the Work and it is good fun spending time with the people in my group we get some good laughs while we’re doing the work. But it is just some much work and takes up so much time. It’s like all we think abo