This is what I think God looks like …
This is what I think God looks like! by the children in 2nd Class Room 6 Always remember to supervise your child when they are online. What do you think God looks like? Print Friendly
View ArticleAnswerGarden: Give some examples of ‘kind’ words.
We are doing a whole school poster competition. We have to design a poster about good behaviour in school. The theme is: Respect: Kind Hands Kind Feet and Kind Words. As part of Anti Bullying Week...
View ArticleAre you brave enough to look at our Halloween pictures?
We are looking forward to Halloween: Halloween: Are you brave enough to look at our pictures? on PhotoPeach Please supervise your child when they are online. Print Friendly
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Visualizing ‘It Was A Dark And Stormy Night’ by Allan Ahlberg
We are working on comprehension strategies in reading, following the ‘Building Bridges of Understanding’ programme. We spent the first six weeks of the school term predicting what was going to happen...
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Art Activity: Turning our names into aliens!
See how we did this on this slideshow… Name Aliens on PhotoPeach See some on Animoto… Please remember: As entertaining as the internet can be please do not let your child explore the internet...
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Visualizing scenes from ‘The Hodgeheg’ by Dick King Smith
We are following the programme in comprehension: ‘Building Bridges of Understanding’. We are learning comprehension strategies. As a whole-school, we concentrated on ‘prediction’ in September and...
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Junior Art Gallery Competition
Children from 2nd Class Room 6 entered this competition: Junior Art Gallery’s ‘Favourite Christmas Food’ Art Competition from Junior Art Gallery We received a very nice email and some entries were on...
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Visualizing ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’
We visualized what happens in the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ Here is a detail from Shauna’s visualization: Here is JC’s very detailed visualization: Double click on JC’s picture to see the...
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A Visualization based on ‘Winter Song’ by by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid...
Today we listened to a beautiful song: ‘Winter Song’ by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson This is what Matthew drew. ‘Winter Song’ was familiar to many of the students because it is currently...
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Moments in the Sun – Being Successful – Taking Turns
We were talking in class about ‘moments in the sun’, how every now and then some one has a day where their talents are celebrated. The children who took part in the Kilcoole Feis had this ‘moment in...
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Inspired by Van Gogh and Mondrian: ‘Trees’ by 2nd Class Room 6
When our friend at Junior Art Gallery posted this link on their blog… encouraging us to do the interesting art, that is on this link in turn 2nd Class, Room 6 didn’t need to be asked twice. We chose to...
View ArticleSpirits of Trees – An Art Project on the Theme of Trees
2nd Class Room 6 are continuing with their art project on tree paintings. Follow this link to see the first part of our project on trees. We looked at some other famous pictures of trees. We loved...
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‘Leaping Greenly Spirits of Trees’– Art Project – Part 3
We spent the past few weeks looking at masterpieces of trees: Van Gogh’s ‘The Mulberry Tree’ Mondrian’s ‘Gray Tree’ and Emily Carr’s ‘Forest’ Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘The Lawrence Tree’ and Klimt’s ‘Tree...
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‘I dream my painting and then paint my dream’. – Vincent Van Gogh
These are some of our pictures of trees. Before we did our project we often drew trees that looked like lollipops We learnt about colour, shape and angle, looking at masterpieces by a variety of...
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Seeing Pictures in Pictures: Emily Carr’s ‘Forest’
When 2nd Class, Room 6 were studying the very beautiful painting ‘Forest’ by Emily Carr, they were fascinated by pictures they could see in the picture. The students of 2nd Class, Room 6 said this...
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Inspired by the Chinese Willow Pattern
Soon it will be Chinese New Year We listened to the story of the Chinese Willow Pattern. Inspired by the Willow Pattern, we made our own patterns on paper plates. Just in case the slideshow above...
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Art Activity: Aliens in their habitat
Earlier in the year we turned our names into aliens. Art Activity: Turning our names into aliens. Now we have given them a habitat. Print Friendly
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A Famous American artist – Georgia O’ Keeffe (1887-1986) and her flower...
Georgia O’Keeffe was a famous American artist, who specialized in painting large, colourful drawings of flowers up close. Photo Credit: Bob Marquart via Compfight She was born in 1887 in Wisconsin in...
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We are learning about a famous artist: Picasso
Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk via Compfight We are learning about a famous artist. His name is Picasso. He broke the rules. He experimented. We like to experiment too. We like his paintings. They are...
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Recommended Website (4th-6th class): ‘Colours in Motion’
Photo Credit: @Doug88888 via Compfight If covering the topic of colour in class, this website has great potential for encouraging learning and discussion. It is called Colours in Motion and was...
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Seanfhocail: Bíonn chuile dhuine lách go dtéann bó ina gharraí
We used pho.to.com to turn an old photograph of a painting into an ‘oilpainting’, the photo editor befunky.com to add the graphics of the apples and the worm and also the graphic design website...
View ArticleArt – The Stained Glass Window Effect
Our class made stained glass windows with Ms. Kelly. The equipment we needed was an A4 acetate sheet, permanent markers: black and other colours, and A4 sheet of paper on which to make a design. Here...
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