December 21, 2010

We are finshing the entire project of clay animation! We are having a Holiday Sing Along tommorow at 10 am! COME AND HELP US SPRED THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH EVERYONE!

Dec. 17

Today we are finally editing our clay animation we had trouble yesterday. Remember band students bring your band instruments Friday!

Dec. 16 2010

Today we are editing our animations. Then we have to do scratch (link below).
                                                                       http://scratch.mit.edu/

dec.13 2010

Today is the big day, we all plan to work on our pictures for our clay animations. We have all worked so hard on our clay figures, backdrops, and story boards. Rmember the sub on wed. and thurs. Rmember the bribe.

December 4th - Insect Fair at the University of Minnesota

Ms. Moran blogging today! Many students in all three 6th grade classes attended the Insect Fair at the University of Minnesota today. It was a fantastic day full of fun and learning. The photos below show some shots of the students presenting, and some of the projects we saw. 

Good job, Weaver Lake Scientists!

December 2

We started building our  clay figures today. Using armature, we are creating a 'skeleton' for the figures, and will move on to tin foil, 'dirty' clay, and clean clay! Stay tuned to see the progress!

December 1 2010

Today we learned how to make clay people for clay animation. We added bulk to our people with tin foil. We worked on our storyboards for our animations. We all practised on our insect investigations for Saturday at the U of M.

November 30 2010

We just finished our demo clay animation projects. Today we are working on our story boards for our clay animations (starting tomorrow). We are finishing our science assessments today.

Shooting Star Lizzie De'Vonna Anna Sarah

November 29

Everyone had just come back from the long 4 day weekend and, is ready to start learning again!

November 23rd

Today we all worked on our first "claymation" project.

We all got to make a sample project with groups.

We learned more about story boards, when we watched the Shrek story boards.

Uploding photos

Creating the figures

November 22nd

Clay animation demo was so interesting!!

November 19th

PB and J gone wrong

Today, Ms. Moran got creative with our Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Recipes. She messed everything, fed Carter a plate, taught us that 'take out' could mean a date and not to remove, dropped jars and picked apart our excellent directions. See an example of her wacky cooking skills above.

November 18th

Today is the day everyone is waiting for, the day to find out if all the hard work on our Insect Investigations paid off!

A group explains their investigation to the visiting judge.

Practicing for the judges

Answering questions

November 17th

  We're starting clay animation! To start learning about animation we watched Shrek and made flipbooks on our iPod touches. Today we'll be practicing presenting our Insect Investigations for U of M and the school Insect Fair!