3rd Class

Deirdre, Graphic Designer Came to Our Room!

Yesterday, the 24th of November 2016 Deirdre visited our classroom. Deirdre’s job is a graphic designer. She is also a good friend of Ms. O’Doherty. She designs posters, book covers, logos and website designs. Deirdre told us about a regular day on her work shift. She would normally begin with meetings in the morning where her colleagues share their ideas. Then they would also do some sketches for their clients who want a logo or a website designs. Then they would present it to the client and then to the world! Right now Deirdre is working on Christmas eir DMs (daily mailings). Deirdre said that they used sharpies to do some sketches to see how they would plan it. Deirdre said that they do the final design on computer.

She joined our art lesson. We were doing winter pictures with our teacher Ms. Fenlon. She showed us how to work with chalk pastels and drew a house, a tree, a fence, some swirls to represent the wind and the sky as an example. Deirdre drew the lamp posts and gave the sky some finishing touches! When we started our winter pictures. Ms. Fenlon and Deirdre pointed out to us that we should start with the background using lighter colours and build up to the darker colours in the foreground. Every once in a while something would be added to the picture on the white board. Deirdre asked us if we would like to have her job as a Graphic Designer. Everybody put their hand up, and that’s twenty-eight kids! We all love art!

By Mark, 3rd Class and Eimear and Edel in 4th Class

 

K.N.S.: The Competitions We Are Entering

 In Kiltiernan N.S. we enter lots of competitions. The middle room competed in the Gort Credit Union’s poster competition. The theme was ‘dreams are made of this’. I drew a pig flying over a rainbow and a seal with a patterned ball on its nose.

 We also did the Ireland’s Own short story competition. It had a limit of 400 to 1,000 words. There were 5 topics. The topics were A Day Minding Grandad, Down the Back Of the Sofa, The Expensive Dress, A Letter from Mars and My School after Dark. I did A Day Minding Grandad. We all did it. We have until Halloween to finish. I have finished mine, but not everyone has.

 We also entered a school competition on Today FM’s Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show. It was to win €1,000 for your school. We had to write about why our school is so special and what we would use the money for. Unfortunately we didn’t win.

 Anyway, we entered the I.C.A. (Irish Countrywomen’s Association) Halloween short story competition. We had to make it spooky but not too spooky!

 We competed in athletics cross country competition. 2 of the 6 people we sent got near first place. The rest came around the middle. We do a lot of competitions in 2^nd 3^rd and 4^th class.

By Ellie Leyden

Third Class

 

 

 

All About The Science Of Sound!

Today, on the 22nd of November Dr Naomi Lavelle visited our school. She is a scientist and she told us all about the science of sound!

We hear sound with the inside of our ears. Sound travels through the air as something called ‘sound waves’. Dr Naomi taught us how different sounds can be used in different ways.

In her first experiment she had two balloons. Inside one there was a 1 cent coin. In the other there was a ‘hex nut’. It is the nut which you put on a screw. She spun the balloons round and round and they each created a different sound.  Although the hex nut was smaller it created a louder sound. Before we knew this we guessed which object would create the louder sound. I guessed the hex nut would make the noisier sound and I was right!

 

The next experiment was made using a plastic cup, a paperclip and a wet string. There was one small hole in the bottom of the cup which was there for the string to go through. The paperclip was outside the hole and stopped the string falling through the cup. When you squeezed down the string while it was wet it made a sound like a duck or even something very rude! This happened when the string was being pulled it made the cup, the paperclip and the sound waves vibrating in the air inside the cup shake which made the strange noise.

For the next experiment Naomi did the same thing but       with different sized containers. Six volunteers came up and took a container each and in turn they squeezed and pulled the string. We observed and listened to the sound each made. We decided which container made the lowest, deepest noise. We learned the deepest sound was made with a long container, better still with a bit of cardboard and a bit of wood. I think Liam won the ‘deepest sound’ with his but there were some very deep sounds!

 

We had a great visit from Dr Naomi and we learned lots about the science of sound from her! She’s so good and she even has her own website. Check her out on sciencewows.ie! My most interesting fact was that the science of sound could be used in wars as a weapon! I am really glad she came to visit!

By Erin Fahy

3^rd Class