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 is a slideshow of our work:
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 canva.com to create the cow from different shapes and a background with text. We enjoyed doing this.
In class we NEVER EVER translate Irish into English and perhaps the picture could help you guess what this proverbs means, but as we are doing this for our friends in New Zealand, we will tell you that it means ‘Everyone is good humoured until a cow gets into their orchard.’ Many Irish proverbs come from a time when raising animals and growing your own food was very important.
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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 created by Maria Claudia Cortes
It is interactive and animated
and deals with the symbolism of colour.
There are also opportunities
to experiment with digital art.
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 unusual.
Click on this link and you can experiment
with creating pictures like Picasso’s.
And if you would like to read about
other artists we have studied,
take a look at these pages about
Georgia O’Keeffe
was a famous American artist,
who specialized in painting
large, colourful drawings of flowers up close.
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She was born in 1887
in Wisconsin in the USA.
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She lived on a farm,
with nature all around.
As a child she didn’t like school,
but she loved art
and by the age of ten
she knew she wanted to be an artist.
She moved to Virginia
when she started secondary school.
Her drawings were greatly admired
by her friends and her teachers.
After leaving school,
Georgia went to art college in Chicago.
But she got seriously ill with typhoid.
When she recovered, over a year later,
she went to study art in New York.
In 1912, she returned to Virginia
to continue with her studies
Georgia became an art teacher.
She experimented with painting
in many different ways
before she developed her
own special way of painting.
In 1916, a photographer named Alfred Stieglitz
put some of her paintings in his gallery without telling her.
At first Georgia was upset, but she forgave him.
Alfred Stieglitz helped make Georgia’s paintings famous.
They got married.
They bought a house on a lake
They lived there during the summers.
It was here that Georgia began painting
the close-ups of flowers in bright, bold colors
that she is now most famous for.
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This was new. We see lots of pictures like this now.
But at the time, only photographers had taken pictures like this.
No-one had ever painted such detailed close-ups of flowers before
In her later life Georgia moved to New Mexico.
She painted the desert,
the mountains,
and the adobe houses.
She especially loved to paint pictures
of desert landscape and animal skulls.
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She continued to paint until she lost her eyesight.
She was ninety-eight years old when she died in 1986.
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We first learned about Georgia O’Keeffe’s
when we saw her famous painting, ‘The Lawrence Tree’.
We painted our own trees inspired by her’s HERE.
Earlier in the year we turned our names into aliens.
Art Activity: Turning our names into aliens.
Now we have given them a habitat.
Soon it will be Chinese New Year
We listened to the story of the
Chinese Willow Pattern.
Then we acted out the story.
To finish we made ‘statues’
of that dramatic point in the story
where Li Chi’s Father tells Chang he must leave
and Li Chi begs her father to let her marry Chang.
We would love to hear what you think of our art.
A Song for Chinese New Year from ‘Children’s Music’ by Nancy Stewart.
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A Reminder:
Please don’t leave your child to explore online unattended
The internet is a portal to the world outside.
Children should be accompanied on this journey 😉
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 was like finding pictures in the clouds in the sky.
Here are some of the images they could see in the original work.
A dragon
A Pirate
A Horse
What can you see in the picture?
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 artists.
These included Vincent Van Gogh
and Georgia O’Keeffe .
These are some of the trees we drew today
at the end of our project on the theme of trees.
‘I found I could say things with color and shapes
that I couldn’t say any other way
– things I had no words for’.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Thanks again to Junior Art Gallery
whose link suggested this project to us.
We always appreciate feedback on our work 🙂
We would love you to comment!
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 of Life’.
You can see more of this work on other posts
Now having studied these works of art and trees ‘in real life’,
we will draw our own trees.
Before this project the most popular way
of drawing trees in the class was often like this:
However take a look at this slideshow
of the trees we drew since:
Perhaps after looking at our trees you might guess
which artist’s work we liked the best.
Was it Van Gogh’s colourful ‘Mulberry Tree?’
or Emily Carr’s ‘Forest’.
In fact as you can see from the graph below,
one artist’s work was a runaway success.
The children explained their choice by saying that
there seemed to be something ‘magical’
about Klimt’s ‘Tree of Life’
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 Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘The Lawrence Tree’
We loved the strong colour of the trunk,
the unusual angle of the painting
and the tiny stars in the sky.
We admired Emily Carr’s ‘Forest’
We were fascinated by
all the different colours of Emily Carr’s Forest.
We expected there might be green and brown.
But when we enlarged the painting on the whiteboard,
we could see blues, purples, yellows and lots of other colours.
Painting the sky and the grass is not like
painting a wall of our house or the kitchen door.
They are not all one colour blue or green.
Then we looked at Klimt’s wonderful ‘Tree of Life’.
We loved the bright colours, the branches
that curled round and round
and the little details among the branches.
To complete our project we are going to think about
colour, angle and shapes
and then draw our own trees.
“i thank You God for most this amazing day:
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;”
from a poem by ee cummings
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 begin with
Van Gogh’s ‘The Mulberry Tree’
and the very different ‘Gray Tree’ by Mondrian
and tried to create our own versions.
The Mulberry Tree is colourful
and not surprisingly The Gray Tree is very grey.
Over the next few weeks
we will take a look at the other trees on this link:
‘Lawrence Tree’ by Georgia O’Keeffe,
‘Forest’ by Emily Carr,
‘Pine Tree Screen’ by Hasegawa Tohaku
and ‘The Tree of Life’ by Gustav Klimt.
We are working towards then, drawing
our own trees experimenting with
colour, shape, and angle as these
artists have done.
‘Trees’ by 2nd Class Room 6 on PhotoPeach
Many thanks to Junior Art Gallery for pointing us in the direction of this great idea.
DLTK Kids Artwork Ideas (Arbor Day)
This is the link to the 2nd part of this project 🙂
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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 the sun’.
Mark and Fiona had their most recent moment
when they got prizes in the art competition
organised by Junior Art Gallery.
More success will occur when the class enter
the Write A Book competition.
Winners and runners up will be picked from each class.
We will also enter the Junior Spiders Awards
and the Texaco Art competition
and who knows what might happen.
We talked about how we can’t expect
to climb to the top of the mountain
and be successful every day.
Being successful takes hard work.
Being successful also takes good luck.
If the weather was sunny every day
we would take it for granted.
The children in 2nd Class, Room 6
agreed that they all love snow days
but if it snowed everyday
they would eventually find this tedious.
Winning the Lotto would be
a dream come true
for many people,
but if it happened every day
we might say:
‘Oh No, not another
Lotto win’ 😉
We can take it in turns to be successful
and have our ‘moments in the sun’.
We can congratulate friends
who are successful
and enjoy their success
with them.
Today Nicole was successful.
Her lovely picture received praise
from Junior Art Gallery:
Nicole’s picture on Junior Art Gallery.com
Well done Nicole 🙂
This link will bring you to other successes 2nd Class Room 6 have had.
Today we listened to a beautiful song:
‘Winter Song’ by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson
‘Winter Song’ was familiar to many of the students
because it is currently being used in an often repeated
advertisement on the television.
We studied the lyrics.
We used our imagination
and we sketched some pictures
that the lyrics put into our heads.
Then we took a look at a
wonderful animation on Vimeo
to inspire us even further.
‘Winter Song’ by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson
Initially we used white chalk
on black sugar paper.
Then we added colour.
This is what we did:
These are the results:
Winter Pictures in Chalk on PhotoPeach
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The internet is a portal to the world outside. Children should be supervised.
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 Twitter.
Favourite Christmas Food – Some entries
to see the thirteen entries from 2nd class Room 6
in Junior Art Gallery’s
‘Favourite Food Competition’
on display in ‘The Happy Pear’.
Patrons are invited to vote for their favourite.
I love them all 😉
UPDATE: Happy News for Fiona and Mark
who received their prizes today in school.
Thank you to Junior Art Gallery for this opportunity and your kindness.
Fiona’s and Mark’s pictures are on this link: Junior Art Gallery
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 October.
Now we are practising ‘visualization’.
We are reading ‘The Hodgeheg’ by Dick King Smith.
We are also learning a lot about hedgehogs and road safety in class too.
Nicole drew this one:
We drew lots of pictures to illustrate The Hedgehog Family:
Ma, Pa, Peony, Petunia, Pansy and Max.
This is Owen’s one to show you the family…
‘… sitting in a flower-bed at their home,
the garden of Number 5A
of a row of semi-detached houses
in a suburban street.‘
This is Julia’s
Some other children also drew what they could visualize when we read:
‘On the other side of the road was a Park,
very popular with the local hedgehogs
on account of the good hunting it offered.
As well as worms and slugs and snails,
which they could find in their own gardens,
there were special attractions in the Park.
Mice lived under the Bandstand,
feasting on the crumbs
dropped from listeners’ sandwiches;
frogs dwelt in the Lily-Pond,
and in the Ornamental Gardens
grass-snakes slithered through the shrubbery’.
JC included all these special features.
Here are our visualizations:
Visualizing ‘The Hodgeheg’ by Dick King Smith on PhotoPeach
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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 next
in the stories we read.
Now we are adding ‘visualization’ to our skill set.
Teacher has read six short novels in class this year.
This one is our favourite by far.
“…Outside a light wind was blowing
the last of the storm clouds away.
In the east there was a glow,
and streaks of pink and violet
and duck-egg green tinged
the darker edge of the sky”.
From: ‘It Was A Dark And Stormy Night’
by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Teacher thinks Nicole has visualized the sky at dawn, very well:
We all worked hard on ‘visualizing’ as you will see:
‘It Was A Dark And Stormy Night’ by Allan Ahlberg
As always I would remind you to supervise your child when they are online.
Jake visualizes ‘The Pirate Ship’.
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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
a.k.a ‘Be Kind and Be a Good Friend Week’,
we were talking in school about kind words.
These are the ones we thought of.
John Paul did very well.
He thought of five phrases
and John Paul’s first language is Spanish.
Well done John Paul!
We used ‘Answer Garden’ to record the words we thought of.