Today we just started doing our filming for immigration. We are filming in a way that is called stop motion animation. If you are wondering what that is stop motion animation is when you take loads of pictures. Then you will take your photos and put them together to make a animation. For the past two to four weeks we were working on our immigration research and scripts we chose the topic transportation. It was hard, we also had to make props and a green screen. Today we successfully to a lot of pictures and made a title animation where words appear on the screen. There were some arguments though in the process, it was also hard to get the camera’s angle perfect, but other than that today we had some great progress and a good learning experience.

We finally finished our whole rube Goldberg it took so long, it is really interesting check it out you should check it out here! https://wevideo-a.akamaihd.net/2018_01_31_05a53eff-83e3-415e-ab1f-24b75d2dd28e_360p?X-Amz-Security-Token=FQoDYXdzEH4aDD7IRcvY%2Fdx7Dh974yK3A74ZDl0%2BKpwCN4ImVNlOnAtajDgLWjHSieVak2y71frAmv7kWHmzu49Drrb7O4id1zp2Apdc8du9nHODXamgjtNuJzlxMTX9mNqGs2PapvEGmHagXj2KhFshhvKWrJrCEWddUC%2Fs39PwU6HiWypNi1bLnhN43DIMb%2FOiqhJ71QfVZMYjtetXT9I8SHXcNwNlX3%2BiK%2FctN1k%2FTRtPmwkVtx13GPUw7jmWnB3ydulG4cfycRdCL2RN9Wrr2IMUBLM4BMj4rSzH7eRySmv%2Bq6zDeGZCkxgbPx%2FhdeEpzh14kPV8WvOCGLd45lTLwrBOfcdWY6g%2B2hAzbazOtoEraX3VoRKqgWsVljgaIGlxGkLEFxPyXe%2BGMwGRCmk%2FpikVYvofShHspudMpc%2Fu9jG%2FK%2BhNVIQ6phG0d4FfXvBxaY%2FiC2EZfKzIxmTH4YV8js4%2FsNeR%2BlUGPLDqxc%2B%2FGyIQ0BzpRI3irhKuyGd%2FMcN6%2B0l%2BuG%2F7OWtP5JotrXcecb3zaSEZ8ubiSiWf3yC2g3i4tgbpxEl30Ch5iD81zkFXm1%2FeHdc8u%2FFexT2YhqEKTE06XnpyLOsQPWHIhkQoxs2S1AU%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20180214T215652Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=518400&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAIEI3O34D7AAQLNOQ%2F20180214%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=b8e48ee36c510fc9f6db72c762034077fde0f563668790cd69b8968e9e2d5329. It was tiring work, and the bad thing was we could rarely have playdates, but the end result was quite good. I hope you like it!

In rube Goldberg there is always a big chance that you will mess up. In the process of our rube Goldberg we messed up many times. For us we tried every step carefully before we put it all together so that it would be much easier at the end. But doing those steps took a long time and quite some hard work. A lot of our ideas were failures but we eventually managed to make some work. Rube Goldberg takes time and effort. You need to be very patient doing it.

We just finished our rube Goldberg now all we have to do is edit our videos. Our rube Goldberg is very cool in it first we roll a ball down a tube, it hits dominoes then hits a box. The box is on a table end then it falls down onto the floor, the box hits a domino and causes all the others to fall. Then one domino hits a mini catapult which rolls a ball off into a track, then the ball hits dominoes again and the dominoes fall which hits some stacked dominoes and those cause a domino to fall with a string attached to it and a pulley and the cage. Applying enough force the string pulls on the cage door and opens it. I think this rube Goldberg is very good.

Last week Mrs. Boyer talked about Rube Goldberg, I was very excited to hear about it. I decided to be partners with Max, the first half week we got nothing accomplished but now we are starting to build it! I am worried that it will take to many attempts to make it work but I hope not.

Me and Max are partners for the Rube Goldberg Project, we finished our sketch already and we are building it! It is so exciting. We will use dominoes tubes, magnets, metal balls, pulleys and more as a part of our project, but most interesting piece of it that we are going to use is a bunny. My family has a pet bunny, so I decided that I was going to use him as a part of our project by putting him in his cage and opening it as the goal! I can’t wait to see what will happen next!

This month and last month we have been working on stop motion animation. Stop motion animation is doing animation with photography, in example if you are working with Legos, you can move your character a step than take a photo once you have many photos you can create it into a film. In class me, Harry and Max, have been working on a short practice film that is about twenty seconds long, its a story with villains and a superhero. Right now we are working on editing the stop motion animation film with iMovie, we added some sounds and text to it, it looks quite nice. I think next we are going to add some more detail to the films.

This is the second day of our progress on our video. This video does not have any edits but I hope you enjoy it!.

Panyee FC

In life to achieve one’s goal, one has to work hard to accomplish it. In the short film Panyee FC, a group of young boys from the village work very hard to accomplish their goal while facing  many obstacles. They were so determined and never gave up throughout the whole story. They worked very hard to play the game, they kept practicing regardless of obstacles and they have never played the game before and no one in their village’s history has ever played before. These children work very hard through the beginning, middle, end of the story.

In the beginning of the story the young boys really wanted to play so they started a team in Panyee where they have never played soccer before. One villager said, “Look around you, look where you live.” The young boys knew that that meant there was no place to play soccer but the kids got a idea and took a lot of work and built a floating soccer pitch. They built it in the water because their village was a floating village with compact space so they had to make it on the water. The young boys made the pitch out of wood planks and fishing rafts. They used hammers and nails to put together the pitch, everyday after school they would go work on the pitch. After a very long time of hard work the young boys finally finished building the pitch even while villagers doubted and laughed at them. The boys would always ignore the villagers and never let the villagers put their feelings down they would always keep working. This shows the young boys’ hard work finally paid off when they finished the pitch, and they got a small pitch to play on, the boys were determined to play.

Another example is the young boys kept practicing on the small pitch they built regardless of obstacles. They had very little space to play on and the ball and themselves kept falling into the water, the pitch also had a very rough surface and had nails sticking out of it. It was uncomfortable but they kept practicing. Villagers would laugh and say, “ You won’t become champions on that thing!” this put their feelings down and discouraged them but they didn’t mind that and they kept practicing. Another thing that helped The boys were determined to get good at the game and they kept practicing and got good at the game because later on they went to the Pangha Cup and got second place, the practicing really had helped.

My last example of hard working can achieve your goal is that when the young boys had never played before but they got second place in the Pangha Cup, and not only that no one from their village had played before, they only watched the sport on TV. They learned how to play soccer on TV they learned the rules and they learned movements and tricks to on the TV, they had no experience absolutely. The young boys worked so hard they got second place in the tournament. At the tournament they won the quarterfinals easily than went on to the semifinals. The semifinals started badly because it was raining and the other team was really good and at half time they were down two to zero. The young boys decided to go barefoot and got the game tied with the score two to two. They were lighter and quicker on their bare feet, also they were used to barefeet on their pitch but a last minute score gave the other team a win. The young boys from Panyee did very well and got second place. This shows how their hard work paid off from not knowing how to play soccer at all to winning the Pangha Cup.

To conclude in life people have to keep trying in order to achieve their goal. The boys were very determined to play soccer and after hard work of practicing and building the pitch they got very good at soccer and got second place for the Pangha Cup. They never let the villagers bring their feelings down, they would just keep working hard to achieve their goal and they did. This shows how the boys kept trying to achieve their goal and they did.

We have written so many things this year. We have wrote articles, narratives and many other genres.

This year I have wrote many articles, personal narratives and other genres of writing. I also created a poster and made a slideshow for Projects. The genres I liked to write were personal narratives and journalism. I think since the start of the year I have improved in writing personal narratives by adding much more description to them and making them more interesting, mostly them and also other genres. We also wrote some articles on Patricia Polacco’s books. We also wrote a article on the video Panyee Fc which is about a group of young boys from their village who watch soccer on TV and are determined to play, they work hard and do many things to play. On Monday 12/18/17 we had a writing expedition, we put our work out and put it in museum style. Parents got to come in that day and see our work it was interesting seeing everybody’s work. I was proud of our work. This week we are writing a new article on two of Patricia Polacco’s books, and how they have related themes.