A Trip to the Ark

Before the Christmas holidays we took a trip to the Ark in Temple Bar to see A Christmas Carol.
We really enjoyed the trip and were very impressed by the actors performance.

Winter Trees

We were inspired by the birch tree for our Winter art.
We used masking tape to create the shape of the birch tree.
We then painted over the tape with pink and purple water colours.
While the paint was still wet we sprinkled some salt to give the picture more texture.
When it dried we peeled away the tape and used black crayon to fill in the details of the tree.
We really enjoyed the proccess.
     

                            
                               Step one

                            
                               Step two

                           
                               Step three

                            
                                Step four
       
                            
                              Finished product
                             

The National Museum of Ireland

                                 The Stone Age
We have been doing a lot of work learning about the stone age.
A few weeks ago we went on a trip to the National Museum of Ireland to see some artefacts from this period.
We really enjoyed seeing the tools and pottery that they made.
We saw a passage tomb that was created from stones of this period.
We discovered more about the food they ate and what type of transport they used.
We would highly recommend taking a trip to the museum.
Keep an eye on our blog for more work on this topic.

             National Museum of Ireland

                                  Flint

                            Pottery

                      Decorated stone

                               passage tomb

Instructional writing

                         Chocolate apples
Before the mid term break we were learning about instructional writing in literacy.
We read different recipes and instructions that we might come across in our everyday life.
We wrote out instructions together and went to the staff room to make our chocolate apples.
We used Apples, cooking chocolate and sprinkles.

 Here we are breaking the chocolate.

 Next we put the broken chocolate into the microwave.

 After 30 seconds we took it out to give it a stir.

 we put our apples on sticks before we covered them with chocolate.

 Next we dipped the apples into the chocolate.

Last but not least we enjoyed our chocolate apples.