En La Clase Espanola- América latina

En el momento en clase de español , estamos aprendiendo sobre América latina. Hemos estado aprendiendo todos los países de América Latina y también de su capital y posición.Hemos tenido una prueba pequena, donde nos dieron el mapa de América del sur. Los países en el mapa fueron numerados del uno al diez. Tuvimos que elegir diez de los países, ponerles nombre y el nombre de su capital. He podido nombre catorce de los países que significó que no tuve que rehacer la prueba. También investigó en diferentes maravillas naturales en América del sur.
Aquí hay unos ejemplos y alguna información sobre ellos:

El glaciar Perito Moreno

El glaciar Perito Moreno es un glaciar situado en el Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, en el suroeste de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Es uno de los más importantes atractivos turísticos en la Patagonia Argentina.

 

 

Las Pampas:

Las Pampas son fértiles llanuras de América del sur, que cubre más de 750.000 km2, que incluyen las provincias argentinas de Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos y Córdoba, Chubut, la mayor parte de Uruguay y el estado brasileño más al sur, Rio Grande do Sul.

 

 

Machu Picchu:

Machu Picchu es que un sitio precolombino de Inca del siglo XV situado a 2.430 metros sobre el nivel del mar. Machu Picchu se encuentra en la región de Cusco, en Perú, América del sur.

 

 

 

las Cataratas del Iguazú :

las Cataratas del Iguazú son Cataratas del río Iguazú en la frontera del estado brasileño de Paraná y la provincia Argentina de Misiones. Las cataratas dividen el río en el Iguazú superior e inferior. El río Iguazú se levanta cerca de la ciudad de Curitiba. Fluye a través de Brasil durante la mayor parte de su curso. Por debajo de su confluencia con el río San Antonio, el río Iguazú forma el límite entre Argentina y Brasil.

Germs, germs everywhere!

In geography at the moment, we are studying medical geography! Medical geography is the study of the diseases in the world and where abouts they occur! We have all been given a disease to research and have made leaflets with information about the disease! We have also started watching the film 'contagion'. The movie is about a highly contagious disease that is unknown to top scientists, which is quickly spreading around the world! After watching some of it everyone became very paranoid about germs! It was very funny actually!:D The film highlights how fast germs can travel and how they are passed from person to person!

 

 

 

Cassette Tape portraits

At the moment in art, We ask doing portraits of famous people. However they arent normal portraits. Mrs O S asked us if we would like to use cassette tapes to make our portraits different. We all jumped for the idea and were really excited about it. The first thing that we need to do was get a picture of our chosen celebrity. The celebrity that I chose to do is Olly Murs because he is one of my favorite singers. We went to the computer room to select our images from google and then used a site called pixlr to make the picture black and white (the black would be cassette tapes). We each printed of one picture and went back to the art room.
We were then given the choice whether we wanted to do the portrait on an A2 or A3 page. I chose A3 because I thought that A2 was a bit big! We then had to draw the outline of our person and shade in the black parts of the picture. Once this was finished, we had to get the 2 cassette tapes that all of us had collected and use them to fill in the shaded areas in the picture. This is the stage that I am at now! I find it quite difficult to decide which way the tapes look best but I am getting there!
Here are a few examples of what we are trying to achieve:

James Taylor

Bob Marley

The Beatles

Gaisce- the presidents award!:)

Gaisce – The President's Award, is an award in Ireland, earned by young people between the ages of 15 and 25 for participating in several activities for a certain Amount of time. There are three awards; bronze, silver and gold. Myself and other TYs are currently working on the bronze award, on which you must take part in a physical activity for 13 weeks, a personal skill for 13 weeks and community service for 13 weeks! You then must choose one to do for an extra 13 weeks! For my physical activity,i chooses to do badminton, for my skill I have chosen piano and I am helping out with the celbridge brownies for my community service! In April we will be going on a hike to complete the bronze award!

Good news all around

I have a good bit of news to tell everyone! Firstly, in relation to the briary gap competition. We have all been waiting patiently to hear if either of the dramas had gotten through to the final in cork! Today in religion, Mrs G walked in with a face that was difficult to read! I couldn't tell if she had good or bad news for us. This was probably because she had both! Unfortunately my group will not progress any further in the competition, however I didn't really mind about the is because the other group did get through! I'm happy that there will be one group representing the class and the school in the finals and I know that they will do so fantastically!:D
That's not all the good news I have......There's more!

On the 21st on January, two judges from the enterprise board came to the school to judge our mini-company projects! Four groups were short listed for the possibility of progressing in the Kildare county final! One of the groups was " Williams words" , a group from my class! Since then everyone had been waiting anxiously to hear the news! Fortunately, on Tuesday, Mrs P gave them the good news that they had been waiting for! I'm really happy that a group will be there to represent the class and also two groups to represent the school! (Hair couture also got through to the competition!)

Williams words- Shakesphere dictionary

Hair Couture

                                



And Finally….…………OUR F1 CAR DESIGN IS FINALLY FINISHED! It was sent off to our make centre today! Now all that is left to do is the portfolio and sponsorship and we will be all set for the comp on the 8th of march!Eilise:Dxx

Teddy Bears in the making......

At the moment in Home Ec, we have started making teddies. We were given the list of materials before Christmas so that we would have everything that we needed when we came back after the Christmas holidays! The material that I chose is denim! We also had to get brown embroidery thread and eyes!
Since we do cookery in our Tuesday double class, Ms M told us that we would be sewing in our Friday double class! So far i have drawn our teddy bear patterns, pinned them to our fabric, cut the pieces out and started my teddy's arms, legs and ears. For the arms,legs and ears, you have to tack two pieces together before using the sewing machine! This is what I did in class today! I had finished the tacking in the class last Friday so Ms M brought some sewing machines into the kitchen so that myself and other people who were finished could sew the limbs together properly! I then removed the tacking from the pieces, except for one arm which chose not to cooperate and had to be
ripped back and started again! After all of the tacking was removed I started tacking the ears onto the back of the head! I will post pictures next week!
Eilise :Dxx

Movie time!:)

Since finishing our dramas for the briary gap competition, we have started watching The pursuit of happiness, as it links in with the topic of poverty.The movie, starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith, tells the story about a man named Christopher Gardner. Chris has invested in a device known as a "Bone Density scanner".  However, they do not sell as they are marginally better than the current technology at a much higher price. As Chris tries to figure out how to sell them, his wife leaves him, he loses his house, his bank account, and credit cards. Forced to live out in the streets with his son, Chris is now desperate to find a steady job; he takes on a job as a stockbroker, but before he can receive pay, he needs to go through 6 months of training.
I am really enjoying watching the movie, and I think that it conveys a very good message of how homelessness and poverty can affect anybody!
Eilíse :D