16 February, 2010

Our trip to the library

On our trip to the library we met a woman who helped us . She showed us all the different kinds of books like history , art , geography , science and so many more. She helped us find books for our projects on famous buildings in Dublin like the G.P.O, Trinity College, Connolly Station .
The second time we went up to the library we picked out our own books
and Miss Wrynne got a few flyers about Dublin zoo and tourist hot spots.
We got lots of French books to learn off for when we go to France.
When we were walking home we saw a frozen sheet of ice covering the canal, There were builders working on the canal cleaning it. In the library we had to be very quiet because other people were there reading the newspaper and fiction books .We all picked out our books and Miss Wrynne checked them out for us. We all picked brilliant books like "Twilight"(for Leroy) Tyler and Brendan got the "B F G", Dion got Georges marvellous medicine, Dylan s got "Ghosts for sale", and Robert got a great war book about trouble up the north.
At the end we all went home and read our books.

By Robert McCann & Tyler O'Reilly

Trip to the Hugh Lane gallery.

On Thursday the 21st of January, my class and I went on a trip to the art gallery. We went with two girls from the teachers college. A week before we went to the gallery the two girls were in our class and they helped us draw portraits. I drew one of Killian. On the day when we were going to the gallery it was raining, but we still walked up .When we got there we met our tour guide, her name was Olive. The first painting she showed us was a painting by Ciaran Lennon, he painted stuff on copper. One of them looked like a water fall and the other one looks like lava. Both of them were excellent. Then we went to see paintings of Francis Bacon’s family. When Francis Bacon was a child he had asthma. His dad had alot of animals so that was very bad for his asthma but finally when he was sixteen he moved out. He had about three houses they were all very nice. Then
We moved to see the studio. After that we saw a few more paintings but then it was time to go so we all said thank you to Olive and headed home. I really enjoyed it!
By Robert McCann.