Stop Motion Animation

In school we started a stop motion project. It is about immigration. Our topic is the Journey Over to America. For the past week, Samantha, Rehma, Audrey and I have prepared our sets and written our scripts so that today we could begin to film.

Rehma, Samantha, Audrey and I decided that our movie would be based on a letter that we had written with all of our research. We would have a voice over (reading the letter) and images will slide in to show what we are talking about. We made wood panels out of popsicle sticks and painted a pizza box green so we would have a green screen. We have been working very, very hard.

From Bryan Smith on Twitter

Rube Goldberg Pt. 6

Of all our fails one of them was definitely the most disappointing. That’s because it wasn’t actually a fail. We got all the way to the end, but then, when the music didn’t play right away, we turned of the camera. As Audrey, Samantha and I were setting our project up again the music started playing!!!

We were using this kind of radio and it didn’t play right away because the radio used a CD. The CD had to get to the right song and them play it. It took a while. Now that I think about it, we should have tested this part a little bit more.

This photo is from www.bigbang.si

 

Welcome to 2016-2017!

It’s a brand new school year! I’m so excited for fourth grade because this year we have Colonial Day. Colonial Day is where you dress up and do fun things people did when there was no electricity. I am also excited about our own chrome books. Last year we all had to share laptops. Laptops are so heavy and chrome books are light. Also we have reading partners this year. Some people had reading partners last year but I did not. We change partners when we change genre. I am also excited for Toy Theater.