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? We've been doing some work recently on writing reports. We chose topics we have an interest in, did the necessary research and wrote our reports in our copies. Then we typed them up on our netbooks. This is the second post where we will share some of our reports with you. We hope you enjoy them! In Part 4 you can read:
We've been doing some work recently on writing reports. We chose topics we have an interest in, did the necessary research and wrote our reports in our copies. Then we typed them up on our netbooks. This is the second post where we will share some of our reports with you. We hope you enjoy them! In Part 3 you can read:
We've been doing some work recently on writing reports. We chose topics we have an interest in, did the necessary research and wrote our reports in our copies. Then we typed them up on our netbooks. This is the second post where we will share some of our reports with you. We hope you enjoy them! In Part 2 you can read:
We've been doing some work recently on writing reports. We chose topics we have an interest in, did the necessary research and wrote our reports in our copies. Then we typed them up on our netbooks. This is the first post where we will share some of our reports with you. We hope you enjoy them! In Part 1 you can read:
Following on from Paddy's excellent Halloween acrostic poem earlier this week, here are some more that we have created and shared on our Kidblog pages.
Spiders by Dónal Scary monsters come out, Pumpkins are all about, Its Halloween night, Designed to give you fright, Eerie and creepy, Really, really, creepy, Spooky, spooky, spooky. *** Halloween by Luke Halloween is here! A wind is blowing Lots of tricks Lots of treats Owls howling Werewolves hunting Evil monsters everywhere Eerie sounds in the dark Nothing boring going on here. *** Ghosts by Sam Ghosts come out to play. Hello by the way. Oh these soul sucking things. Souls expired aren’t really tasty thought one ghost. These thinking scary thingy mabobs. Scary wonderful things and ghosts can be dangerous. *** Halloween by Jamie O Having fun while tick or treating with All our friends tonight Lots of costumes everywhere and Look at all Our sweets We will Eat after we Enter a haunted house Nothing like Halloween *** Witches by Ayo With all my friend on halloween night. I’m having lots of fun. Theres lots of sweets. Caring and loves my family. Having and sharing sweets. Eating sweets yum,yum. Sharing and loving and that’s all about halloween. |