Friday, August 2, 2013

Moving Pictures

Today we did a strange exercise, but we really impressed our teachers with how good we were at it!  It started out like normal charades.  We were divided into two teams, and then our teachers would put four pictures on the screen, like this:




One member from a team would select a picture (in their mind of course) and would then have to act that picture out somehow.  It started out easy, but it got kind of hard when we got to pictures like this:





We had to act like we were stripes and shapes and things like that!  We even did it for some of our own pictures, like these:










 




It was a challenge but we proved up to it.  Here is a video of the whole class being water, photo #3 from the grid above.



Thursday, August 1, 2013

Two Become One

Today our teachers gave us a big challenge.  In two groups of 5, we had to choose two of the stories we created yesterday and write one play that combines both of the stories!  Then we had to take photographs to be the backdrops for the settings in our play.  On top of it all, we were only allowed to use one prop.  It wasn't easy but by the end of the day we were performing our plays for the whole class!  One group even made a musical and the other group hand-made their own prop.  It was pretty cool.  Check out our scripts, backdrops, and videos of our performance.

Billy and the Pizza Dimension
(created from "Billy and the Old Lady" and "Dimension Travel is Not My Favorite")
by The Mindcraft Mustaches (Kobe, Anna, Jim, Connor, and Garrett)

Cast of Characters:
Billy - Kobe Germain
Bill - Garrett Zwall
Dr. Fidget - Connor Reynoso
General Salami (bad pizza alien) - Anna Ravine
Bob (good pizza alien) - Jim Ravine

Billy walks into a pizza restaurant



Billy:  I would like the new special, Planet-X Pizza.
Bill:  That will be 5 dollars.
Billy starts to eat the pizza.  FREEZE
Dr. Fidget:  Here we see Bill who suffers from a personality disorder.  It is constantly changing!
Bill's personality changes and he grabs the pizza from Billy and starts eating it also.
Bill:  I want pizza!
They both eat pizza and teleport into the pizza dimension.


Dr. Fidget:  Now they travel through space and time.
They arrive on the Pizza Planet.


Bob:  Please help!  I'm running from General Salami!
General Salami:  Why do you trespass on my pizza?!
Billy:  What?  I thought this was Earth.
General Salami:  Do you dare insult the great General Salami?!
Bob:  Follow me to my secret bunker!  Dr. Fidget is there.
Bill and Billy:  Ok.
They arrive at the secret bunker.


Dr. Fidget:  This is where I come in...
Bob:  Hey Dr. Fidget I found some humans.
Bill:  Where is Dr. Digit?
Dr. Fidget:  It's actually Dr. Fidget.
Bill:  Digit, Fidget, whatever.  Potato, potato.
Bob:  Billy, Bill, will you help us in your revolution?
Bill and Billy:  No, we just want to go home.
Dr. Fidget:  The only way to get home is to eat General Salami.
Bill and Billy:  Anything to get home.
They arrive at the Pizza Planet battlefield.


General Salami: You insulted  Pizza Planet, now you shall die!
General Salami shoots his pizza gun at Bill and Billy and they catch the pizza bullets in their mouths.
Bill and Billy:  Wait, we can eat them!
CUE MUSIC
Bill and Billy start eating General Salami.  Then they teleport back to Earth.  


Dr. Fidget:  Well that's the end of my story.  Just make sure you don't end up like this guy.

 
link to video of Billy and the Pizza Dimension

20 Monkeys
(created from "20 Monkeys and a Shiny Banana" and "Working Hard")
by The Pegacorns (Katy, Izzy, Zachary, Toby, and Aiden)

Cast of Characters:
Narrator/Zookeeper/Monkey - Zachary Banner
Tom - Aiden Molter
Mr. Bubbleface/Monkey - Toby Dresslar
Izzy/Monkey - Izzy Fitzgerald
Katy/Monkey - Katy Dawson

Narrator:  At the zoo, the zookeeper gave Tom 20 monkeys to get to the Tilly's and Panera Bread.
Zookeeper:  Tom, can you get the monkeys to Tilly's and Panera Bread?


Tom:  Sure can!


Narrator:  The monkeys did not want to go and caused mayhem.
The monkeys go wild.  Tom pulls out a banana.  All the monkeys follow.


Mr. Bubbleface:  Do you want a taxi ride?


Tom:  Sure.
Mr. Bubbleface:  To the Old Spaghetti Factory!


Narrator:  After lunch he got his monkeys and went to Tilly's and Panera Bread.
Izzy and Katy:  Are our monkeys here?
Tom:  Yes!
Izzy and Katy:  The monkeys can play in our pool!

Tom:  Thank you.
Narrator:  And the monkeys played in the pool.  Happily ever after.
Monkeys start to play.

link to video of 20 Monkeys

Aiden's Alaskan Adventure

One of us has been eager to share his photos and drawings from his travels up north!
Here are Aiden's awesome documents:

Alaskan
Beauties


In Alaska there are lots of places to see, you can kayak to Elfin Cove or take a cruise to Juneau. There are lots of animals.




In Alaska you see Glaciers, animals and many other interesting things.    





We went on a zip-line.