Mr. Mills Blog

It has been a while since we have seen cold like that…not sure if I’m ready for it. Oh well…

The 3rd graders are in the middle of making their felt puppets. The puppets were sewed together this week and the students are cutting them out and adding yarn, felt, buttons, and other fabric pieces as decoration for their puppet. We will eventually be using these for small plays.

The 4th graders are just about finished learning about the greenhouse effect and global warming.Together with Ms. Walsh, we learned about how greenhouse gases get into the atmosphere, how greenhouse gases keep the Earth warm, and how global warming could affect our planet. They will be given a homework assignment today that will be on Wednesday for 203 and Thursday for 207. Next week, we will be looking at how they can help slow global warming. These ideas might form the basis for their global warming video.

The 5th graders will be done very soon with their foamcore houses. Students who finish them are allowed to take them home right away. Above, you will see some of the finished houses. I’ve been very proud of the students with this project. Using an X-Acto blade is not easy and while there might have been some growing pains along the way, I think the results have been excellent.

The 6th graders are in the middle of creating their stop animation videos. Most groups have started to take the photographs that will make up their animations. As I have told the students, the difficult part is coming up with the idea and getting all of the piece ready. Once you get that far, it becomes a little easier.

Tomorrow, Saturday Academy begins. I’m very excited to begin a video editing project with 17 of our 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. See you all tomorrow.

Until next week…