Autumn Scarecrows

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Room 5
We have been talking about scarecrows, and making them too. We know they are used by farmers to keep birds (not just crows) away from the crops. Scarecrows are usually made from real old clothes, and straw,

but we made our scarecrows by colouring in a picture of a scarecrow, then cutting it out and sticking it with glue, hessian patches and paper straw onto coloured paper. They look great.

Autumn Art

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Sarah brought us in some wonderful autumn leaves today. We love their colours - red, yellow, green, red and black. Mercy brought in some brown ones yesterday. We based our art on these autumn leaves. We made an autumn tree by painting the trunk and using a collage of crepe paper for the leaves. We also made some nice leaf rubbings using the side of crayons. We could really see the veins of each leaf when we rubbed over them with our crayons.

Bark Rubbings

Monday, September 14th, 2009
Senior infants, Room 5
After our bug hunting we had a look at the bark of the trees at the back of the senior school.
The patterns on the bark are interesting so we took some bark rubbings - we rubbed crayons over the pages we held against the bark of the trees. The rubbings we got are very interesting. We hope to make rubbings of trees near our homes too.

September Art

Senior Infants
We have been busy in Room 5. We have a lot of budding artists in this class. So far this month we have made and dressed teddy bears (we had to colour, cut and stick the bears) and Autumn Trees (we had to paint the trees, then make leaves by drawing around leaf templates and finally stick the leaves on our trees). Don't they look wonderful when they are finished?

Summer Art

Len (our sets and props expert) has very kindly given us a bag of used lighting acetates which we can use for art - don't you just love recycling? Today we made really nice paintings of beach scenes. We used the acetates as sails for our boats, as sun umbrellas, and even as an ice-cream. We wanted the sand in our pictures to look and feel like sand so we mixed white, orange, and yellow paint with sand from our sand pit. The sand on our pictures is perfect!

There will be a nice surprise for our Dads when they see their Father's Day cards on Sunday. Have a great weekend Dads.

Under the Sea

Now that the summer has come, we are looking forward to spending time on the beach. We know lots of animals and fish that live in the seas. Look at the lovely finger and sponge printed pictures we made of "under the sea".

Volvo Ocean Race

The Volvo Ocean Race is set to arrive in Galway this weekend. We are so excited. We are following it on the internet, and seeing the sailors at sea. We even saw teddy steering a yacht. We painted our own Green Dragon yachts in class. We hope that the Green Dragon does very well in the race.

Worm-eaten Apples

Staying with our topic of mini-beasts, we made some delicious apples. We thought that worms might like them too so we let them eat through the apple (rather like the way the hungry caterpillar ate through all the food). They look great but we wouldn't like to eat them now!