"A Day at Comly School" stop motion animation

week of 4/16- stop motion!

This past week we made a switch in the schedule so that Ann Akif, the art teacher, and I could work on a stop motion animation video with the 3rd and 4th graders. We're using sculpture robot/characters the kids have been making with Ann over the past few weeks to act out "A Day at Comly School". The idea was sparked when she started lining up the bots in the hall to dry after painting, and they looked like an army ready to march down the hall. The kids learned about some video vocabulary, planned a storyboard, and have been stagehands moving the sculptures for each frame. The music teacher agreed to help out with our soundtrack as well, making this a truly interdisciplinary project.
The second graders have continued the life cycles painting project with a wet-into-wet watercolor landscape background.
The 5th graders missed out this week due to PSSA testing.

week of 3/26

2nd graders started learning about life cycles by viewing a few stop-motion growth videos like the one above.

3rd graders began coloring and painting their time story pictures for a crayon watercolor resist effect

4th graders completed their geometric form sculptures with added springs of paper and pipe cleaner and paper sculpture embellishments.

Some were more architectural, others animalistic.

some were just abstract.

5th graders had the honor of showing off their drawing machines to the crowd at the Comly Science night, Wednesday March 28th. We set up the spin art station, which was so successful we ran out of paper!

The spray bottle color mixing/op art station was very wet, but made beautiful art.

The marker pendulum was popular with the little kids.

We've been off from school for Spring break for a week now. When we get back there will be a change in the schedule so that Ann Akif (our art specialist) and I can work on a stop-motion animation project with the 3rd and 4th grades.