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.