School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cinn Mhara

Location:
Kinvarra, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0049, Page 0165

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  1. Games are played throughout every district in Ireland. There are numerous games which I play. I play different games for the different times of the year.
    In Spring I play skipping, hide and seek and many other games. The games we play in Spring keep our feet very warm. In Summer the most common of our games is swimming, because it keeps us cool. We also play tennis in the evening because the evening because is the coolest time for tennis and because it is a very warm game. On Sundays we hardly ever play games, we either go for a long walk or if the Sunday happens to be calm we go for a cycle.
    Autumn is the time that children play the most games. The games we like best in Autumn are nut-picking, berry-picking and apple-picking. We spend hours cracking nuts and eating them. The part we like best about apple-picking is, climbing up the trees to get the apples and when we come down we see which of us has gathered the most apples. An other game we play most time of the year is the "hop scotch". When we are playing
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Fallon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kinvarra, Co. Galway