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Lives
of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of time.
'Psalm of Life' by H.W.Longfellow
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Down
Memory Lane12
History in the
classroom
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This is Mr.Crowley's small class museum in
Third class. The artefacts have been collected over a
number of years. The children also bring them in. The
artefacts are all Irish and help the children discover
what life was like in their grandparents time. The
children handle, feel,draw and discuss each artefact. The
museum is available to all classes in Scoil Mhuire. Items
include, flat iron with trivet, box iron, sad iron, last,
tilley lamp, cast iron kettle, stone jar or hot water
bottle (earthenware), clay pipes, candle holder and
snuffer, brownie camera, toaster, 'marble' bottle, bed
warmer, old ink wells, pens with nibs, washboard and lots
more.
On the wall can be seen the children's display on school
life when
their grandparents were young. The children gave the paper
a sepia effect by rubbing it with a wet tea bag. Some
included photos of their grandparents and they enjoyed the
work very much.
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This is Mr.Cadogan's 'bring and show'
display which his
second class have recently started up. One very
interesting item is the old rusty fork implement. This is how
Louise describes it:
'The object
that I brought in is called a spuddle. The spuddle is
over 70 years old and in olden days people used it to
dig potatoes. There is lots of rust on it because it is
very old. The person who made the spuddle was a
blacksmith' |
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