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When
our teacher told us we were starting a Lego Project we were really excited
and had loads of qustions to ask about it.The Lego arrived before Christmas
and we started straight away fixing everything in its correct place. We
decided to do Lego on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1.30 to 3.00 pm, so
as not to interfere with other activities the school was involved with.
We started by building something easy like a house or a car that would
move when you pushed it, but little did we know that things would get
harder, much harder!! After about a month we went to Kilkenny and spent
the day with two other schools, Ballyadams NS and Clontubrid NS, in the
Educaton Centre. Before Christmas we had to make an animal. my partner
was Fiona, and we made a dog. We called it Space Dog.We had regular visits
from the Lego co-ordinator Deirdre Butler, and she helped us a lot. During
the year we visited the Young Scientist Exhibition in Dublin. We spent
a lot of time looking at the exhibits, and we learned a lot of new things
from the Lego there.
Then one day we were told we had to do a big Lego Project. We decided
we would do the project about Mullinahone, the 'Little Village' that we
live in. We thought of some important things to make, split into groups,
and made what we were assigned to. Fiona and Niamh were in my group. We
were making Killaghy Castle. First Fiona made the ca and Niamh and I started
to build the gate. After that I helped Laura to build her boat. Then I
built the church and made the cross on top move around. The last thing
I made was a rubbish truck.
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