Sixth class have been studying the Pop Art movement. Pop Art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the USA. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising and news. Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. One of its
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Senior Infants are learning about autumn and harvest time. In art, we made these scarecrows to scare away birds from the crops! We gave our scarecrows names and had great fun making them. We learned a song called Dingle Dangle Scarecrow. Here is a link to our song and some photos of us!
During Circle Time we discussed what makes each of us special. We talked about how we all look different and unique. During Art we then used torn coloured paper, crayons and googly eyes to create self-portraits.
Senior Infants made bird nests, we painted the nest brown and cut out circles for the fledglings. We think they are great
Some weeks back 1st class made beautiful snowflakes with the help of 6th Class. They created these using just paper, scissors and sellotape. 6th Class helped them cut, fold and stick in the correct places for the first few sections, and by the end of the lesson, 1st Class were able to do it on their own! Thank you 6th Class for your wonderful
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In art we drew snails and decorated their shells. We stuck them up and added shiny trails.
Snowmen During art we made clay snowmen. We waited a week for the clay to dry then painted them and added eyes, noses, mouths and buttons. Some of us then added a scarf. This is a video of what our snowmen looked like when they were finished:
1st Class have been very busy making beautiful art pieces for the Christmas season. They created a winter scene using crepe paper and paint, Santa and his reindeer flying over a moonlit sky using paint, and they also made some clay ornaments for their Christmas tree. Their snow globes can be seen on a previous post https://ransboro.ie/2014/12/12/trapped-in-a-snow-globe-1st-class/ Kathleen added to our Christmas spirit
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The green school committee organised a competition in November where children had to come up with a slogan to promote biodiversity. The entries were to be in by the 12th of December. We received a great response and we got many great slogans and also great artwork. It was very difficult to pick a winner but the winners were Junior/senior infants: Finn McD 1st/2nd:
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Sixth class constructed a model Christmas village as our Art lesson over the last few weeks. First we constructed different shaped buildings from cardboard, paying particular attention to features like windows, doors, roofs and chimneys. Next we covered our structures with papier-mâché. When the papier-mâché dried, we designed shop-fronts for our buildings and painted them accordingly. Finally we added festive effects such as snow
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