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Our Texaco Art Competition entries
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Project Work in History.
Maks’s illustrations really brought his project to life. Projects about people in history. Now we are doing projects about people. Our first project was about Isambard Kingdom Brunel who was born in...
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A Collage Like Nia’s
When we read ‘Emlyn’s Moon’ by Jenny Nimmo, one of the characters, Nia made a collage. We thought this was a good idea and decided to make one too. A Collage Like Nia’s This one is Aoibhin’s to see the...
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Inspired by the art work in the Disney Classic: ‘The Jungle Book’.
We watched the Elephant March from the Disney Classic ‘The Jungle Book’ paying careful attention to the artwork and then we did our own jungle pictures. This one is Sinead’s: This one is Mak’s: You can...
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Our Town: Congratulations to Mrs.Mooney’s Sweetshop
Toward the end of June the children in Room 6 answered an invitation issued by The Irish Times newspaper to nominate their favourite shop. The children nominated Mrs. Mooney’s Sweetshop. 24 Reasons...
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First Portraits on PhotoPeach The internet is a portal to the outside world. Please remember to supervise your child’s activities when they are online.
View ArticleThis 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?
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October Updates
Kila’s ‘Kind Words’ 1.1 1st October : Paired Reading is entering its second week. It may make better sense time wise if Paired Reading is done as Bedtime Reading rather than as part of homework time....
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Signs of Autumn Twitter Project
We are taking part in a collaborative project about the signs of Autumn on Twitter during this first week of October. Get your own Poll! We are tweeting photos and comments about signs of Autumn that...
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.
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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: Construction: Our names in ‘found objects’.
This one is Tom’s. Click on the link below to see all our names on ‘Can you see my name?’ on PhotoPeach Photopeach is used by teachers and students in hundreds of schools world wide, for example...
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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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Halloween Guess Who? on PhotoPeach Please remember to supervise your child when they are online.
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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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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...
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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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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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‘Signs of Spring’ Twitter Project
Following the fun we had during the first week of October when we took part in a Signs of Autumn Twitter Project Click here to read about Signs of Autumn Twitter Project this week we are taking part...
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Student Blogging Challenge 2013 continued. Week 5; A Secret in the Forest.
We are continuing with the Student Blogging Challenge. This is Challenge 5. We were asked to write a story based on an image of a forest where there was a signpost saying: A Secret Hides In This...
View ArticleIrish Proverbs Illustrated (Whole School Project)
‘Irish Proverbs Illustrated’ on PhotoPeach In this school we have an annual competition to remember a much loved teacher who encouraged children to be the best they can be. This year we held a...
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A Tour of Our School on Photopeach.
We enjoyed looking at the slideshows Room 5, Melville School, Hamilton, New Zealand did which let us see what their school looked like. We were amazed to see blue skies and sunshine there during what...
View ArticleSt.Peter’s Polar Bear, Polly comes to visit Brigid the Biodiversity Bee and...
Polly the Polar Bear is going to teach us all about Polar Bears and how they are endangered. Brigid, our Biodiversity Bee is going to teach Polly all about bees and why they are threatened. If the...
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