Claymations Published!

Despite all the problems, most of the Frames Claymations survived and are now published on their own page. Look under our Blogging Along title to find the Claymations page tab.
I posted them there so that we could look at them at any time, rather than lose them in archive posts. I am sorry that Crystal and Jalecia's are not published, but I know Crystal will redo hers, and Jalecia's should be saved when they fix her laptop!

If you want to publish your Claymation in your own post on Kidblog, you can click on share and embed, then copy the code and paste it into your post when you have clicked on HTML instead of compose...otherwise just post the link, and people can visit YouTube.

Claymation Myth Project

Things are moving along well with our claymation my project! Below you'll see some photos Adany took of our work in progress. I also loaded a 5th grade class' animation of The Hare and the Tortoise. You can see that they don't animate every moment of the script, which is fine. They also use very simple sets, and are narrating the story, which is what we will be doing.

The link to the website Kids' Vid is also below the video, and it gives some good hints for writing a script, storyboard, and turning your animation into a video.

5th Grade Class, St, Joseph School
Patti Rose, Art Teacher, music by Jeremy Foutz, Music Teacher

For more ideas and tips, check out http://kidsvid.4teachers.org/
Happy animating!

Ratio and Scale Art Project!

This month we are studying Ancient Greece AND ratios and scale in math...so obviously an art project is the thing to do!
Here is the image of the god Zeus (modeled by Mr. Folkers at age 19) Our ratio is 1:6, so we should have a LARGE piece of artwork to display on our wall!
Check below for the completed project...

Here it is!!!!

Excellent work on scale and ratios!

Ancient Egyptian Museum Presentations

This was quite a day of presentations! Our class took turns either presenting the information they had learned, or walking around learning and questioning the exhibitors.
It was inspiring to see the intricate models, amazing posters, and Power Point Presentations people made. I appreciated the time many people had spent working on this assignment at home.
Check Elizabeth and Jason's song, some of our photos, and an Animoto of the presentations below. 
For more photos, visit our class Flickr page by clicking the word "Flickr."