Parents: your children should have brought home their art from the year in the last few days. Hope you enjoy looking at all the masterpieces they have created all year!
Our art lesson last week was inspired by the work of Rosalie Gascoigne and her 'Tiger Tiger' collage, which was created from chopped up road signs arranged in deliberate collage patterns. Everyone decided on a theme for their collage, from typography to celebrities, brands, animals, eyes and mouths, toys, patterns and colours! We collected a wide range of magazines and flicked through them to find images and text related to our theme. Everyone got a small square of thick card which they then traced around and then cut out the pieces. We aimed for a 7x7 collage (with 49 squares), though some people made ones a little smaller. They turned out very well, colourful and exciting!
Parents: your children should have brought home their art from the year in the last few days. Hope you enjoy looking at all the masterpieces they have created all year!
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In keeping with the Active Schools Week theme (and the theme of our current project, Sport and Health for Life), we worked on paintings of sports balls this week in art. We discussed how to create form and a 3D effect by using light and shade. We built up colours and mixed to create the 3D spheres. Then we discussed how best to display them in the classroom.
Recently, we made tinfoil sculptures in art. First, we sketched gesture drawings to decide the positions our sculptures would be in. Then, we divided a piece of tinfoil into several sections with a marker, to help us see which part would make the head, torso, arms and legs. Moulding the tinfoil into little people was difficult, as the tinfoil proved very delicate. However, we all succeeded in the end! Then, we created a shadow for our tinfoil people, and finally Ms. Kirby adhered them onto a coloured background with the glue gun. What do you think?
Continuing our musical theme after the projects, we created guitars last week. We were inspired by the colourful cubism of Picasso, and explored warm and cool colours. First, we sponge painted a background of either warm or cool colours. When dry, we cut out guitar shapes and then swapped our scraps with another who had painted with different colours. We then created a sound hole and bridge for the guitars using the opposite colour scheme. Finally, we added buttons and gold ribbon for the strings. They look amazing and really brighten up our noticeboard!
Having learned about famous female pilot Amelia Earhart recently, we had great fun experimenting with some paper folding (origami) on Thursday to make paper planes. We realised that sharp, accurate folds are most important to create an effective plane... And then we had to test them out of course! It was great fun!
An seachtain seo, léamar dán le Uinsionn Ó Domhnaill, 'An Deoch Is Fearr'. Bhíomar ag caint faoi na deochanna is maith linn agus d'fhoghlaimíomar an dán véarsa ar véarsa. Féach ar an dán thíos:
Cupán tae Is maith liom é, Am ar bith I rith an lae. Cupán caife I ndiaidh a deich, Is tá mise réidh Do rud ar bith. Cupán bainne Le mo lón Am ar bith Thart fá nóin. Cupán cócó, Roimh am luí, Codail go sámh Ar feadh na hoíche. Ansin, ar an Déardaoin, rinneamar ealaín bunaithe ar an dán. Tharraing gach duine cupáin agus ansin, chuireamar dath orthu le péint. Bhaineamar úsáid as marcóir chun iad a chríochnú inniu. Cad a cheapann tú? Nach bhfuil siad go hálainn?! This week, we learned about Vincent Van Gogh, a famous Dutch artist that lived from 1853 to 1890. He was a Post-Impressionist artist and used line, colour and emotion in his paintings. He is most famous for masterpieces like ‘Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers’, ‘Starry Night’ and lots of ‘Self-Portraits’. We examined many of his paintings and discussed our favourites, giving justification for our preferences. We also liked 'Café Terrace at Night' and 'The Night Café in the Place Lamartine in Arles'. Van Gogh was a sick man throughout his life. He is also famous for chopping off part of his ear! During his life he painted about 900 paintings, but only ever sold 1. This week, our art was inspired by the above painting by Van Gogh. This still life painting is entitled 'The Chair and the Pipe', and we decided to create our own modern versions. We used card to create a box fold that would be the structure of our 3D chair. We then decorated the chairs, as well as the floor and wall in the background. They turned out very well as you can see above and below! So colourful and each one is completely different.
Every now and again, we take on a big project for art - something that involves lots of effort, is linked with other subjects that we study, and takes more than a single class. These 3D maps of Co. Clare were an example of this! We started working on these maps last week as we had been learning about our home county of Clare and researching its history, geography, famous people, tourist attractions etc. The first step in creating these masterpieces was drawing our maps onto large sheets of card (which was kindly donated by lots of parents - thanks so much to all!). We used a map with a grid over the top and then divided our card into nine squares with careful measurement and maths skills. Then, each pair drew the map square by square. The next step was to make our salt dough...the messy part! We used a simple recipe, mixing together 4 cups of flour, 2 cups of salt and 1-2 cups of water. We stirred until a stiff dough formed, using our hands to bring it together. We then filled in our maps carefully with the salt dough, making sure we filled every inlet and headland. We then examined a physical map of Clare to see where the highland and mountainous areas are. We made sure to build up the dough into peaks at these areas. Then it was a matter of patience, as we left our maps for a week to dry in the classroom. Finally, we worked on finishing our maps. We painted them according to the colours of physical maps and included a legend to explain the colour coding. We labelled the neighbouring counties and other details, and the maps were complete. They are amazing! It was a fun way to mix Geography and Art together. Come and have a look at them in our classroom if you'd like to see!
March is the perfect month to base our learning around the beautiful yellow daffodil. The flowers are blooming in gardens and parks everywhere heralding the arrival of Spring, and Daffodil Day in aid of the Irish Cancer Society is on this coming Friday March 27th. In English, we read the classic poem 'Daffodils', by William Wordsworth. It was inspired Wordsworth seeing 'a host of golden daffodils' in a park in 1802. How old does that make this poem? 213 years!! We analysed the language, personification, description and some of the old English words that we don't use today, such as jocund. Have a read of the poem below and see what you think: Daffodils BY William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. Inspired by the poem, we also created some daffodil artwork. We made pinwheels with coloured paper, then cut and folded and attached the petals using a split pin. We painted and outlined a colourful background - they turned out lovely and really brighten up our classroom. What do you think? Stop by our classroom and have a look!
Tá Seachtain (nó coicís!) na Gaeilge againn anois agus táimid go léir ag céiliúradh ar scoil. Le linn na seachtaine, d'imríomar cluichí Gaeilge agus rinneamar iarracht níos mó Gaeilge a labhairt. Táimid ag tnúth go mór leis an tráth na gceist, an céilí mór sa chlós agus an Réaltóg (comórtas speisialta). Anuas air sin, tá Lá 'le Pádraig ag teacht ar an 17ú lá de mhí Márta. Ar an Déardaoin, tharraing gach duine pictiúr de leipreachán le seamróg, bogha báistí agus pota óir! Bhí an-craic againn agus ceapaimid go bhfuil na pictiúir go hiontach!! Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh :)
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