The Circus 2009

INTEGRITY – what does it mean?  Is it something that you are born with, or can it be something that is learnt?  We’ve been exploring the meaning of the word, finding synonyms, and discussing it in different situations.  One of the aspects we’ve been talking about is ‘Integrity in Sports’.  This is a clip we found on youtube – take a look at it and think about the issues it raises… We’ve got plenty of points of view, we’d love to hear yours too!

Look at this fabulous retelling of a fairytale.  Believe it or not, creating movies like these requires a lot of planning, patience and persistence, collaboration, creativity and concentration!  I’m sure you will enjoy watching this movie as much as the group enjoyed making it!

Our claymation movie making is coming to an end!  We’ve been busy recording the animation, and most of us are up to adding sound and titles before publishing.  Have a look at the two movies below.  The first one is just a little clip that shows a snippet of the recording process.  It was long and tedious at times, but we know that perseverance, persistence and patience pays off!  The second movie is one of the final products.

We’d love your feedback, please tell us what we have done well and what it is we could do better.  We will be discussing this as a class – your feedback will be discussed too!

WOW!  The show was awesome!  A fantastic show proving that patience, practice and persistence pays off.  We have yet to see the final DVD but we know that what we did see was a success.  Here is a small snippet of our final show (thanks for the photo’s Graeme!)

To add to the atmosphere of our item for our production, we are going to use dry ice.  As most of us hadn’t used it before, or seen it working, Deb decided to let us have time to ‘explore’.  We decided to call it ‘Discovery Time’.  We learnt that dry ice is so cold, -70˚C, it can burn you.

First we added it to warm water.  It frothed and mist poured out of the ice-cream container.  It sounded like a bubbling stream.  Next we added it to boiling hot water.  The mist it made went shooting up quite high then poured over the edges.  It was very exciting!!  Check out our photo’s!

We have been working hard to make our costumes for Russling Pages.  It’s been fun and challenging and required us to use patience and persistence!!  Look at the slideshow.  Can you guess what we’re going to be?  Can you guess what book our item is based upon?

Each month we write a report to the BoT….  Shalini and Jasmine wrote this one.  Thanks girls!

Well this term we are making claymation movies and we are having lots of fun making the claymation people.  We have almost finished the Claymation movies.  We can’t wait to start recording.

We had a shared lunch because Megan and Nick are leaving our school, Nick is going to Ashurst and Megan is going to CANADA, I know it’s cool isn’t it?  Bede came back from Australia but he’s going back in a week. We are very happy to have Bede back.

We have a new class blog http://fatflower.edublogs.org Check it out, we’d love to get your comments.

We’ve nearly learnt our dance for the Russling Pages fluidly.  Next week we are starting to make our costumes which should be awesome.

Deb is going to be learning something new on the computers with some others teachers and she gets to take 2 children with her…we want to know what she’s going to learn.

We are starting to get really good at fractions.  We’ve been enjoying mathletics on the computers.

Check out these characters we have been making for our claymation movies. We are learning to retell a fairy tale as a movie.  This has meant that we’ve had to storyboard our fairy tales, create the backgrounds, characters and any other props we need.  We are really looking forward to the filming part but need to make sure everything else is sorted first!

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