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 Do you know the meaning of the word graffiti ?         What do you know of its historical background ?             As an artistic expression graffiti has its own vocabulary known as GRAFFITI LINGO                    Use the info in the video to connect the different CONCEPTS and DEFINITIONS in  the following class task.                         

 Have you ever heard the concept OP ART? ... not Pop Art but OP ART.     OP ART is the art of creating illusions so people think what they are seeing is actually real.          OP ART was created by Victor Vasarely from his scientific training.            His black and white Zebras (1938) create an optical effect not ever seen before.               Contrary to what it seemscreating OP ART is not difficult.                   Here you are two examples:                                        PATTERNS ON THE SPHERE                                     ...

 Happy St. Patrick´s day.     St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. So today we´ll be making two symbols of Ireland.         Follow the steps on these two videos. It´s going to be sooooo easy!!!!                     Children in year 3 we´ll be making a SHAMROCK .                               The LEPRECHAUN will be for their year four schoolmates.                                        Have a very merry St. Patrick´s day!!!!!

  Do you know who Vincent Van Gogh was?     Watch this video and you´ll get to know something about him.                 Now you can paint Van Gogh´s Sunflowers following these steps .          

 Do you like reading comics? Do you know when comics were created? Watch this and you´ll go back in time to sort it out. Did you know that in Spain we differentiate between comic and tebeo ? We all know films based on comics are big blockbusters nowadays. Examples as  Marvel´s  or DC .  However, there are also examples of Spanish tebeos brought into the screen. Probably the  most famous is ... I hope after this short intro you are going to be able to create your own comic.

 Do you know who Chilly Willy is?     Well... he´s a very funny animal. He´s black and white. Lives in a very cold place. He´s a bird but he can´t fly. He walks both to the sides and the front at the same time ...     Did you guess? Not yet ?     Wacth this and it will help you.      Do you know now?. YES, it´s a ....     Know you are going to give a bit of colour and texture to Chilly Willy´s family photo.     First, cover Chilly, Mom and Dad body with plasticiline: black for their body, brown for their beaks and feet as in the cartoons.     Then cover their chest with cotton, use the TEMPLATES (Baby for Chilly, then Mom and Dad)  to cut the correct size.      Thirdly, colour the background with wax crayons or water colours.     Now you are going to make the trees using TEMPLATES again (1, 2 and 3)    Then use more cotton for the snowground and the snowflakes falling...

 Do you know what board game tic-tac-toe is?    You´ve played it sometimes very surely.       It actually is one of the oldest and simplest board games in history.              Read the following information to discover the basic facts of its history.    THE ORIGIN OF TIC-TAC-TOE The origin of this game dates back to ancient Egypt. However the more recorded versión comes from ancient Rome where people played a game called TERNI LAPILLI  using three pebbles at a time.    Thousands of years later, Britain 1858, the first ever recorded mention of the game as we know it today came in a British tabloid. The game there was called KNOTS (0) and CROSSES (X)      About 30 years later, 1891, an American magazine referred to it as a children´s game known as TIC-TAC-TOE, TIT-TAT-TOE in England: where TIT is a slap, TAT is retribution an...

     "La Catrina" has become one of the most distinctive symbols of Mexican art and culture.          But, do you know anything about its origin.                  Read the following text, watch the videos and then copy the text at the back of the Catrina you´ll make in class.                          HISTORY OF "LA CATRINA"  In Mexico people celebrate the “day of the dead” (“día de los muertos”) on the first days of November. People display altars in their home to remember their dead loved ones and to show appreciation for our lives. They also decorate their homes with skeletions and sugar skulls. The most distinctive symbol of this festivity is “La Catrina” which symbolizes equality between people. The artista and carica...