We are very excited about the project we have been working on with our Grade 5/6 Learning Buddies. We read a book together called There Was a Cold Lady who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro. If you have heard There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, you will be familiar with the main idea of this book. (Incidentally, if you are looking for an awesome version of the song, my personal favourite is sung by Cyndi Lauper).
When Mrs. Piquette and Mrs. Kelly-Miller got together to discuss how we would work as learning buddies this year, we were determined to include technology into the mix. This book provided the perfect opportunity to do just that. Our classes are interested in stop motion animation, and the iPads and Android devices that we have access to make it very easy to create stop motion animation. Even our kindergarten students are able to do this independently.
We are using an app called Stop Motion Studio (find it for free on the app store here) to create an animated version of this book. We will present the final film along with a performance of the song at our holiday assembly during the last week of school before winter break.
We started working on this project at the beginning of November, and have made some really excellent progress. Mrs. Piquette showed the grade 5/6 leaders a few videos about stop motion animation and how to make it work:
Last week we created our story boards.
We are really pleased with how well they came out.
We were so eager to get started with filming that some of the grade 5/6 girls came to visit our kindergarten class on Friday to get a head start on cutting out the materials needed to create our little film.
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