School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)

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1. Local Games - Hopscotch (continued)

   

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   the squares facing them I have to turn my back to them and start throwing the stone over my head till I end at number ten, hopping backwards too and lifting the stone as I hop backwards.

   

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2. Local Games - Colours

   

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   The game, Colours, is played thus. First a number of girls come together. They all stand together in a row along a wall. Two girls A and B, stand out of the row. A comes back over and tells the rest of the girls the colours they are to have. When she comes back A, whom B has not heard telling the colours, says:- "All the birds in the air, All the fishes in the sea. Could not point me out who

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Berna Mathews

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Arthurstown, Co. Louth