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:
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 😉
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.
Every month the whole school reviews a school rule:
The first school rule is
‘Respect: Kind hands. Kind feet. Kind words’.
We made posters for a school wide competition:
Posters on the theme of ‘Kind Words Make The World Go Round’:
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This week was Anti Bullying Week, Term One
We have renamed it, more positively:
‘Be A Good Friend Week’.
Teacher will give out Good Buddy Awards certificates
from Seomra Ranga
Best Buddy Award from seomraranga.com
Can you spot your masterpiece? on Photopeach. Adult supervision of children on the internet is always necessary.
Teacher found this useful website when she was preparing this theme:
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.
Teacher played us ‘March Past of the Kitchen Utensils’
by the English composer Vaughan Williams (1872-1958).
We drew the march as we imagined it.
Chloe drew the kitchen utensils looking strong, marching along with determination!
Ryan explained ‘The spatula is the commander!’
Patrick’s blender was a tank 🙂
You can see the work of the children who completed their pictures here on
PHOTOPEACH AS ALWAYS 🙂 Vaughan William’s piece is used as the sound
track on this slideshow.
Then we played along to the music using some kitchen utensils as percussion.
If you found this post interesting, this exhibit
Today we did art using brown paper bags and oil pastel crayons.
Foxes were a popular subject.
Face masks were too.
YOU CAN SEE MORE OF OUR WORK ON PHOTOPEACH BY CLICKING HERE.
Riona’s picture: A diluted paint ‘wash’ over oil pastel crayons.
You can see other class art work on the theme of Light in the Dark at;
‘Lights in the Dark’ on Photopeach.
This masterpiece was done by Vagif
You can see other class work on the theme of Winter at;
‘Coming soon to a place near you … Winter’ Our pictures on Photopeach.
We did art on the theme of Winter. The following link will show you this work on Photopeach.
‘Coming soon to a place near you … Winter’ Our pictures on Photopeach.
This is Micaela’s work:
and this one is Sinead’s
This one’s is Emily’s
You can find more of the art the children did last week at the following link:
Link for ‘Colour My World’ on Photopeach
The pictures are displayed as a ‘spiral’ on this link.
Click on ‘story’ at the bottom right hand corner of the screen to change to a slide show.
The following link contains some online art activities for children from the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.
Some online art activities for children
The children from Room 6 have found the following activities on that website interesting:
* Patterns of Infinity
* Kumasa’s World of Dots
* Justine Cooper’s ‘Call of the Wild’ – A memory game
You may have to scroll down that page to see them.
We made ‘Name Bugs or Aliens’ from our names.
You can see them at the link below:
This is our first slide show on the Photopeach website this year.
We hope there will be many more.