Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Naomh Brid 7 - Art
















Naomh Brid 7 - 4th class recently studied the life and work of Edvard Munch. We looked at photos of his paintings in the Munch Museum in Oslo. Here are some of our artistic responses to his painting, 'The Scream' and some of our comments.....










Edvard Munch’s art was some of the most fascinating art I have seen. His life story is kind of sad. Katie

Edvard Munch’s paintings are really sad. They made us think of sad things, such as death and illness. Laura

My three favourite Edvard Munch paintings were ‘The Scream’, ‘The Vampire’ and ‘Madonna’ because they were very emotional. Cillian

The part where he said that death, insanity and disease were the angels at his cradle felt sad to me. Meadhbh

Judging by his paintings, you could see he had a very sad life. Luke

Edvard Munch did not lead a very happy childhood as his mother died when he was very young. Caoimhe

‘Insanity, illness and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life.’ Edvard Munch said this about the death of his Mum and his siblings. Anna

I think the scream is an emotional painting and has its meaning. He was terrified of something and couldn’t explain so he painted it. Joy

Edvard Munch’s mother and sister died when he was very young and this inspired some of his paintings. Micheál

A few of Edvard Munch’s paintings have curvy, wavy lines. Mark

Some of Edvard Munch’s paintings are colourful and others are black and white. I liked the curves in them. Laura

I think that when his mother and sister died, it made him sad. He really showed his feelings in his paintings Jessica

Most of his paintings are sad and they make people think of illness. Lucy

I like Edvard Munch because his paintings are really interesting. I liked ‘The Scream’ and ‘The Vampire’. Cathal

I think he started art when his mother died because he was so sad and lonely. My favourites were ‘The Vampire’ and ‘The Scream’, in colour. Padraig

I think when his mother died, he started painting to show his emotions and a lot of his pictures show this emotion as if he was remembering his mother as he painted. I like ‘The Scream’ in colour and ‘The Ashes’. Sam

I think Edvard Munch had a sad childhood but he grew up to be a great artist. My favourite painting was ‘The Scream’ in colour. Eoin

I think most of his paintings were sad because his mom and sister died when he was young. My favourite picture is ‘The Scream’ in colour. Órla

I think his paintings were filled with sadness. When he painted he remembered his mom and his sister. I liked ‘The Scream’ in black and white. Rachel

Friday, December 17, 2010

Thursday, December 16, 2010

An Nollaig
















Sna pictiurí seo tá na Trí Rí, Realta, na hAoirí, an t-Aingeal Gaibréal, asal, bó, lao, caora, uan, Muire, Iosaf agus an Leanbh Íosa

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Monday, November 15, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Maths and Astronomy!!




Today we went to Blackrock Observatory. We learned about the Planets, Our Solar system and The Milky Way. Frances, our guide talked about, how far planets are away from eachother and other galaxies. The Solar system books are wrong! The space between the planets are different. Uranus is half-way between the Sun and the Kuiper belt. We made our mini Solar system, using a long a strip of paper. The Hubble deep field is the furthest galaxy we can see through a special telescope. It takes 13.7 billion light years to get there. Travelling at the speed of light, you can go around the Earth, 7 times in one second. WOW! that is along way away.




By, Odhrán Murphy

Friday, October 8, 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Building Bridges
















Check out these pics of the cool bridges we designed and built in science class.

Thunder in 4th Class!!!

Jessica and Katie showed us how to recreate a storm using body precussion. To get the full effect- turn up the sound and close your eyes!!! Mr. Walsh was very scared!

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Romans in 4th Class!!!

Today Aisling's dad came in and told us about the Romans and how they fight. He also told us what weapons they had. It was very interesting. The Romans used daggers, javelins, swords and they had helmets too. A centurion had a red plume made of horse hair. A centurion was a man who owned a hundred soldiers. Aisling's dad, Joe and the other man, Noel were wearing the full Roman armour. Noel was wearing chainmail. Bernice dressed as a rich Roman noblewoman. She wore a white stola because white signifies wealth and nobility. "Salve" meant "hello" or "greetings". You raised your right hand while you said "salve". "Attente" meant "attention". The Romans told it really well. It was very good fun.
By Georgia Moore

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Fifth Class

Watch this place for fifth class notices and pictures.