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.