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!
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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!
Recently, we learned about a new type of poetry: kennings. Kennings are like riddles. They describe something without ever saying what it is. Each line of the poem is made of a two-word phrase. The words are joined by a hyphen.The phrase is made up of noun + verb (–ing or –er). The two-word format for a kenning relates to the Old Norse tradition of naming things like weapons, e.g. Skull-Splitter or Blood-Taker. Kennings came into our language via the Anglo-Saxon and Norse cultures. These people came from what is now Scandinavia and northern Germany. The word ‘kenning’ derives from the Old Norse word ‘kenna eitt við’, which means ‘to express a thing in terms of another’.
We even use kennings in everyday language! Examples include sky-scraper and tear-jerker. Poetic devices like alliteration can be used in kennings. They’re best when you read them out loud so you can imagine the thing being described. We wrote kennings about ourselves and then tried to guess who had written them! Can you guess from reading below? Well done to Isabella and Phoenix for winning the Write-a-Book competition from fourth class with their books 'The Hulaballoos Roam Free' and 'The Gummy Bear Mystery'. They enjoyed the awards ceremony at the Inn at Dromoland last week, where they were presented with prizes. Well done also to the other winners from Knockanean and everyone who took part. Congratulations on a great achievement!
Having learned about one genre of persuasive writing, advertising, in the last few weeks we've moved on to discuss speeches and debates. We worked to prepare convincing arguments with strong introductions and conclusions to persuade our friends of our perspectives. We used techniques like rhetorical questions, statistics and emotive language to strengthen our arguments. We worked both individually and in groups to argue the following motions:
- Homework should be banned. - Children should be paid for going to school. - Children should only be allowed to play computer games for two hours per week. We learned that sometimes you have to put your personal feelings on a topic aside to present the best argument. Well done everyone! 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.
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