6th Class

Asia Day 2016

We had an amazing day today in school. We have been preparing for Asia Day for a long time. In Geography, we drew the physical and political maps of Asia and we learned the position of the countries, rivers, mountains and seas. We did brilliant in our test on Asia before Easter. Ilike2learn.com really helped us to do well in our tests. In Art class, we decorated our classroom and turned it into an Asian restaurant for the day. In Music class, we listened to Asian music.

We were busy as beavers all day cooking rice, noodles, spring rolls, curries, Kormas, samosas etc. We had our food first and then we invited 2nd, 3rd and 4th class to our Asian restaurant! We served Asian snacks to 1st class in their classroom and we gave mini buns to Junior and senior Infants.

Asia Day 2016 was a huge success thanks to the generosity of the wonderful parents of Newcastle. Thank you very much for all the food you sent in today.

Thanks to Mrs Magnier who was busy in the kitchen all day cooking rice, noodles, spring rolls etc. Asia Day would not have been possible without her so a sincere thank you Mrs Magnier. As Thomas would say "Three cheers for Mrs Magnier!" Thank you to Teresa Hann who worked like a trooper all day to help us enjoy Asia day. Thank you to Ms Giblin who gave us a talk about her Asian items that she brought in to decorate our classroom. Thanks to Annemarie Murphy, Ebe Pate and Maria and John Langan who sent in fantastic Asian objects to help us learn more about Asia.

Our Asian display created a lovely atmosphere in our Asian restaurant!

We made Asian people in Art class.

We made Asian fans.

Asian flags.

Thank you to Sabina and Orla for baking these fabulous buns and thank you to Olwen for helping with the cleaning up!

Look at the amazing Asian flags that decorated the buns.

We ate coconut, pineapple, mango and bananas.

We had an Indian, Thai and Chinese table.

We had prawn crackers,sesame sticks and sweet chilli crisps.

We enjoyed Poppadoms and Naan bread.

We served Thai food.

Yummy!

This is thirsty work!

We tried Japanese sushi.

Thank you to Teresa for helping us enjoy our day.

I am not so sure about this sushi!

I made delicious prawn toast.

The bar tenders!

What a great robe. Thank you Ms Giblin!

How impressive is this Asian costume? I made the hat out of rushes I collected in Achill over Easter.

This food is delicious!

My chopsticks keep falling out!

6th class enjoying Asia Day.

A great Asian waiter looks after 2nd class.

We brightened up Junior Infants day when we gave them a mini bun each. We decorated the buns with Asian flags that we made.

Thank you 5th and 6th class.

What a great surprise!

Senior Infants got a bun each too! Yummy!

Mr O' Connor got buns in the Mayo colours!!!!

I gave a presentation to the class and showed the children fantastic Asian items. This is a picture of different sands and it is really cool to see the different coloured sand move and not get mixed up.