We had time to draw one of Alan's favourite characters, Ollie the dog, and we got to finish a comic that Alan had started. It was a great day and when we got back to class we raffled a copy of Alan's latest book, "Fintan's Fifteen". Guess who won? Fintan!! Weird, huh?
Today we visited Barker & Jones bookshop for a workshop with the author and illustrator Alan Nolan. Alan told us about his fascination with comics when he was younger and how they inspired him and his friend to write and sell their own. We had time to draw one of Alan's favourite characters, Ollie the dog, and we got to finish a comic that Alan had started. It was a great day and when we got back to class we raffled a copy of Alan's latest book, "Fintan's Fifteen". Guess who won? Fintan!! Weird, huh? Last week was Maths Week. Throughout the week we enjoyed some maths related activities. On Thursday we did a maths table quiz from Seomra Ranga.
Last week we followed this lesson from Seomra Ranga to create some Initial Art! Here we are busy at work... And here is a video of the finished products. We hope you like them. This is our first blog post of the year, we've been a bit slow off the mark! We did art last week and had a go at drawing our runners, let us know what you think. We didn't get to photograph everyone's work this time but we will as the year goes on!
For art last week we drew portraits of Abraham Lincoln. Some of us decided to put our own spin on things! Let us know what you think! "Flight of the Bumblebee" is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. (Wikipedia) In class we listened to this wonderful piece of music, but Mr. Lane didn't tell us what it was called. We had to draw a picture to represent what we could see in our minds' eyes when we heard the music.
Afterwards, Mr. Lane told us it was called "Flight Of The Bumblebee" and we discussed how the music reflected the way a bee flies. Finally we drew a second picture! One way to draw triangles involves using a compass. Given the lengths of the three sides you can draw the base and then draw arcs (with your compass) using the other sides' lengths. The point at which the two arcs meet becomes one vertex of your triangle. Then just join that vertex to the two ends of your base line!
Have a look at Mark's excellent work in the picture below. We're doing lots of Christmas art this week! On Monday we created these Christmas scenes with chalk on black sugar paper. Merry Christmas everyone!
After learning a lot about money recently in maths with Ms. Ryan, we got to design our own currencies. Have a look at (and listen to) our Fotobabbles below. Fotobabble is an app we use to take pictures and describe them.
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