Venetian Masks!

The children created papier mâché masks, inspired by carnivale in Venice!

A reminder of our stimulus:

We know what we’re doing with papier mâché, so with the help of the Irish Times, we got stripping and gluing!

We got out the big guns and painted with our acrylic paints!
Stage three- decorative elements.
We used Reilly’s mask and our work to date as a stimulus
Celtic spirals
Eye see you!!!
Silver and gold dots
A single jewel!
A slow, steady, textured piece- gorgeous
Adding feathered pieces
Bejewelled and feathered

Welcome to Carnivale!

The Merchant of Venice

Since we’ve studied Italy, we thought we’d give another Shakespeare drama a whirl.

We used a drama box – who might own these items and why?

We made frozen and moving images. And attempted some thought-tracking in our groups in the GP space.
Thanks to the Reilly Family who sent this amazing Venetian mask into school!
We used the mask as a stimulus for some more papier mâché inspiration! More to follow next week here! Standby and be ready to be wowed!!!

We explored the drama box items and we delved into the three caskets. Finally, the children wrote an ending to the play!

Easter Eggs!

We’ve made papier mâché eggs!

Drying!

We wrote our steps as Gaeilge too!

We used curtain hooks and ribbons to create the perfect finishing touch, and hung our eggs from a forsythia clipping!

Physical Mapping

We make super use out of our fairytale natural environment!

We watched a video from the Heritage Council – Úna Halpin brings us on an adventure making physical representations of what’s around us in our physical world.

This ties into our recent engineering work making town maps.

We hit off with metre stings and our clipboards.

We gathered samples, and took measurements. We integrated with our Gaeilge freisin.

When we got back to school, we created physical maps with found objects.

The older folks used a scale (1cm=1m) to create accurate physical maps.

We finished our mapping journey at Hoban’s tree.
Check out the green burst now!