The work, rants, and ideas from room 231!
This one comes from Mr. Altamirano.
The Present from Jacob Frey on Vimeo.
Who wants to be an artist? How about and ocularist?
The Ocularist: Restoring Windows to the Soul from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
This guy obviously listened to Steve Jobs’s speech:
I want to be this guy…
A Modern Day Warrior: Mastering Mounted Archery from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
This one is just for a little fun.
Voltige from Léo Brunel on Vimeo.
Fun:
FUEL from JALABERT Camille on Vimeo.
The BFG
The Secret Life of Pets
Captain America: Civil War
Angry Birds
SOAR: An Animated Short from Alyce Tzue on Vimeo.
Room 231 watching the premier of “The Chase”.
Some of my awesome students wrote, performed, and edited a silent movie. They read the book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” and watched the silent movies mentioned in the book. The book is written as a silent movie, a detail I kept hidden from them until the end of the book. The book follows Hugo through a train station in Paris as he tries to rebuild an automaton that his father was working on at the time of his death. Hugo, an orphan, is forced to steal the parts he needs from a toy shop owner that turns out to be the famous (and real) filmmaker George Melies. During the book my students came across the names of some of the earliest silent movies. I had my students watch the movies that were mentioned in the story to gain background knowledge about the time period in which this story was set. The movies are quite different from the movies that they see now.
The best find this year was the video about Buster Keaton. The video highlights his career in silent movies. He was definitely the master of the “gag”. My students’s final video was definitely influenced by how Buster Keaton made movies. I have included the videos that we watched while reading the book below.
I always try to end the novels we read with a creative challenge. For Hugo, I challenged my students to create a silent movie that told a story in the style of the movies that we watched and the book we read. Below is their final product. Enjoy THE CHASE!
The Chase from Frank Fitzpatrick on Vimeo.
A Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon from Dr. Meeuf on Vimeo.
Safety Last:
The 5th graders at Daly studied force, motion, friction, gravity, and the relationships between these terms. They also went through the RFP (Request For Proposal) process. Their goal was to sell an original roller coaster to Daly Elementary. This roller coaster needed to be powered by an alternative energy source. The video below shows some of the activities we did during this process.
2015 Coasters from Frank Fitzpatrick on Vimeo.
Ok, I found this video online today at lunch. I’m not lying when I say I watched it 4 times in a row. Even on the 4th view, I still found something new. It makes me wonder what else I’m missing. I know this is a video, but it all started out with a idea. Someone took that and wrote out the story. These are the same steps we should be using with our writing. So….. I want you to watch the video, maybe even watch it twice. I don’t want you to discuss it with anyone in the class. I want you to leave a comment below on just your gut reaction, your first thoughts on watching the video. Once your classmates start to post, then you can discuss on their comments.
Enjoy!
INPUT/OUTPUT from Terri Timely on Vimeo.
The 5th grade team is always trying to keep our parties entertaining for our 5th graders. At Halloween the kids had to move as many candy corns from one cup to another with chopsticks. For Valentine’s day, the kids had to move candy hearts from one cup to another but sucking them up with straws. The competition was friendly but intense. After the top relays from each class met up, Ms. Pinckney’s class were crowned the champs.
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