School: Mercy Convent
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: The Sisters
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- The games I play are Tig, Hide-and-go-Seek, Colours, Clock, I Spy, Tip the Finger, Ghost in the garden, Four Corners, Snakes and ladders, Draughts, Two Jolly Welshmen and Mickey mouse. In Autumn I pick
blackberries and in Spring I skip and play ball.
This is the way we play "Steps". A few children stand at al wall. One child stands in front at a certain distance from the others. Then she calls out to the first child. "Take a giant's step". (A giant's step is the biggest step one can take.) She tells the next child to take another kind of a step(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sadie Herron
- Gender
- Female