The Water Cycle Common Craft Style-Part 3

The last group finished filming their Common Craft video on Friday. This was a wonderful learning experience for everyone. We learned how to brainstorm ideas, create a story board, make Common Craft style props, and work together to plan out individual jobs. It took a lot of practice to get our timing just right and to make our videos interesting by using expression when we narrated the action. We think making videos in the Common Craft style is a great way to share information.

We hope you enjoyed Group 5’s video. If you missed any of the other groups you can watch their videos by clicking on the links below.
Group 1 and 2
Group 3 and 4

The Water Cycle-Common Craft Style

This week we are making Common Craft style videos to show what we learned about the water cycle. We worked hard in our teams to plan our videos, write our scripts, and make all the pieces we would need. We learned that timing is very important and that we have to use expression when we narrate the action. The hardest part was timing the narration with the moving of the pieces in and out of the scene.

Here are the first two groups:

We hope you like our videos!

Engineers in Training

This week we started a new unit in science called Materials and Structures. We learned what structures are and looked for different geometric shapes and forms used to create them outside and in our classroom. We also learned that engineers have to be good problem solvers, work well in a team, and be very creative.

Today we tried our first team challenge. Mrs. Watson gave each team 5 sheets of newspaper, 20 popsicle sticks, 1m of masking tape, 1m of string, and 20 minutes to build the tallest free standing structure they could.

Take a peek…

In the next few days we will be learning about forces that act on structures, joint construction, and how to strengthen materials. Then we will try this challenge again.

Beautiful British Columbia!

Our new friends in Australia posted a great video showing the beauty of Australia on their blog.  It made me think that we should do the same now that we have people visiting our blog from all over the world.

Canada is the second largest country in the world.  Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories. We live in British Columbia. Here is a short video about our province.  It is from Tourism BC and was used to help promote British Columbia and the 2010 Olympic Games.