Stop Motion Coding

During our coding elective our animation group has been working on creating dialogue using stop motion technology and coding.  This takes a lot of perseverance and troubleshooting.  Often students will need to work together to find out the reason glitches are occurring and form solutions.  I am proud of how hard they have worked to overcome these obstacles and make a final product.  Please take time to check out a few of our creations.

Carter's Project

Cody's Project

Emi's Project

Criss-Anna's Project

Annie's Project

Author Highlights

 

The Trillium have been gaining expertise in identifying influential authors and illustrators in children's literature.





Can you name these well known authors and/or illustrators?

We have explored Bill Martin, Jr, Eric Carle, Dr. Seuss, Lois Ehlert, and Mo Willems' works of art.  

 Much to our delight Lois Ehlert, uses nature collage to form her illustrations.  In, "Boo To You" many of her artwork include gourds!  Something the Trillium know about from our school garden.  We look forward to expanding our knowledge in finding other talented authors and illustrators. 

Migration Of Fables

                  

The Huckleberry classes have been deep in exploring the habits of migration.  If you have not seen their work on their salmon pillows it is a "must see".  One of the things I love about our school is that we carry our themes throughout all subject areas.  Our library, music, and PE classes work hard to make our students' learning relevant to what they are immersed at the time.  With that focus we discovered that folktales also have migrated across cultures, time, and space.  We learned that Little Red Riding Hood was first developed somewhere between Asia and Europe.  There were and are many different versions of the famous fairy tale.  We learned that Goldilocks and the Three Bears most likely came from Britain although the first story most likely had a "silvered haired" woman as Goldilocks.  Rapunzel is a herb grown over the country of Italy where, most likely this story originated.  We learned that the original story had a lot of differences compared to the recent Disney movie, Tangled.


Folktales are an important part of our culture.  I would encourage you to revisit these well-known stories with your children.  Here are some of my favorites: