The animated classroom

 Becky came back to see how we got on making our own animation so we showed her our video.

Becky shows us her animations.

We watched a new animation she had made with lots of different materials. She had made the sound effects from fabric, a sewing machine, poppers and a zip! Then we looked at some other films which she had found which used fruit and vegetables and even cupcakes!

This is one of our favourite animations by Becky.

Our link school has also made their own animations for a competition. We got some ideas from watching what they did. You can have a look at them here:

http://www.r2rfestival.org/node/1042


http://www.r2rfestival.org/node/953

http://www.r2rfestival.org/node/415

We made some flick books with Becky. Some of them are really work well and the fish looks like it is jumping or blowing bubbles. This is an easy and fun way to make your own animation.

An important message about marine litter

We are not happy about the damage marine litter does, so we worked with Ms Mackay to make an animation to tell you about it.



An animation by Class 3/4 to tell people about the dangers of marine litter


Do you know how we made it?

First we had to plan the story and make the creatures.

  

Next we recorded the animation.

 

Then we had to decide which instruments to use for each creature.

We rehearsed ...

and then Mr Geddes recorded us.

We hope you enjoyed learning about our animation - and that you learn from the important message in it.

First week of last term

Time is flying and we're already into the last term!

We had an exciting start to the week when the Stunt Riderz came to our school on the first day of term. They did lots of stunts to show us and had a high jump competition.

We started our new topic which is coasts. We are finding out about marine litter and we're learning how to make an animation about some marine wildlife. Here we are planning our first characters.

Here we are looking at some photos of wildlife which has been killed by marine litter. We are very angry that this happens.

Mrs Whitworth told us that a fulmar can have about 60 pieces of plastic in its stomach. Yuk. We don't fancy eating plastic for our tea!

In maths we practised multiplying and dividing. We enjoy playing games to practise our times tables.

We made our own 'canoe families' because we have a link with the Kwu'sukna?qink Canoe Family in Pentiction in the Okanagan region of British Columbia as well as with Outma Sqilx Cultural school there.

We had to make banners for our canoe families.

We did football twice this week (twice in class - some people play it every day in the playground too!) - we're doing a few weeks of football for PE with Mrs MacNab and we also had Highland Football Academy on Friday with a coach from Ross County! He taught us some ball skills and we did some team games to practise our skills and fitness.

 

It's been a good start to the last term.