Killeeneen N.S.

Welcome to Third Class
We hope you enjoy looking at the work which we have put on our website so that you can get a taste of some of what we do in Third Class.

Renoir The Unbrellas
The Umbrellas was painted between 1881 and 1886. Renoirs Umbrellas shows a nustling Paris street in the rain. The composition of the painting does not focus on the centre of the picture which is a tangle of hands. It even cuts off figures at either edge like a photographic snapshot. The painting shows Renoir at two seperate points in his career, the second of which was a moment of crisis as he fundamenatlly reconsidered his painting style. When he began The Umbrellas in 1880 - 1, Renoir was still using the typically loose brushwork and bright, pure colours of the Impressionist movement. during the 1880s he became increasingly disillusioned with the Impressionist technique. He began to look to look back to more traditional art. Returning to The Umbrellas, he repainted the figure on the left in a crisper style using a more muted palette. The rapid changes in womens fashions allow us to date the second stage of the painting to 1885 - 6.
In our interpretation of this painting, rather than a bustling Paris street, we decided to paint a modern scene on a rainy day. We reflected on modern fashions to show the dramatic change in fashions since then just as Renoir showed the change in womens fashions from when he began the painting to when he returned to it and finished it.

The Two Cyclists Mother and Child
by Fernand Leger
Fernand Leger came from Normandy in France. He was inspired by The Machine Age that created such an exciting and hopeful atmosphere in the Early 20th Century. When Leger went to New York, he liked the flashing neon lights and their brilliant colours that illuminated people and things at random. He tried to recreate this effect by using blocks of colour and drawing freely on top with black lines. The strong blocks of colour cut across the simple lines of the picture providing a bold contrast (an obvious difference).
Leger himself wrote The more contrasts there are in a painting, the stronger the work is.
His painting The Two Cyclists, Mother and Child posed almost as is if in a holiday shot out cycling. We took Legers idea and tried to recreate the effect using blocks of coloured tissue paper and strips of black paper. Wer reflected on our recent team and recreated different forms of transport in our pieces.

The Weather
We learned all about the weather and various weather instruments and put together a project board on the weather in both English and Irish. We hope you enjoy it. We certainly did.

Meet Our Superstars!

Ourselves (as Gaeilge)

We wrote all about ourselves as Gaeilge and drew pictures for a finishing touch.

Autumn

Leaf Prints

With leaves falling from the trees and the Autumn weather upon us, we have been busy working around the theme of Autumn.
Have a look at some of our leaf prints which we did in Art Class. We used autumn colours so they would look like the real thing.

Acrostic Poems

We also wrote some Acrostic Poems in English around the theme of Autumn. Have a look.

Science (Leaves, trees and seeds)

We were not happy with just leaf prints in our classroom, we wanted the real thing! In Science, we have been studying the leaves and seeds of various trees. Look how different each of them are.

Oisin in Tir na nOg

We studied the story of Oisin in Tir na nOg in History and English. We transferred this story to a story-board in Art Class. Have a look.

Trip to Rahasane Turlough
3rd Class also took a trip to Rahasane Turlough recently. 5th Class joined us on our trip to the turlough, as we set off on a beautiful October day. Mrs Browne shared lots of information with us about the turlough and the surrounding area.

We looked at the type of vegitation or plants that were surrounding the turlough and realised that we had learned about some of them in Science Class.

We observed the colour of moss on the rocks. Did you know it can show where has and has not been?

What is this?
This is algal paper. It is what remains of the algae when the water of the turlough seeps underground. We found a lot of this.

We observed the limestone rocks and how water can erode or wear it away. We could even put our hands into the cracks where the rock had been eroded.

We even saw some swallow holes on our trip. We were very careful around these. The water of the turlough disappears underground through these swallow holes.

The weather was on our side for the trip and we managed to take some fabulous photos of the scenery.

The horses wanted to join us on our trip.

We tried not to scare the birds away.

Everyone was exhausted after all our walking for the day, but it was well worth it.