Room 2 hits the red carpet!

We saw our movie on the big screen!

Yesterday we went to Hoyts at Sylvia Park and walked down the red carpet into the XTREME SCREEN theatre to see our movie!

We made tiaras and bow ties

Waiting to take to the red carpet.

Us on the red carpet

Tale and Ali in La Premiere

Siu and Amit introducing festival.

It starts!!!

It was so fun when we got to see all the movies.

We made Tiaras and bow ties and dressed up in our best clothes.

It was about change.

Tale and Ali got to sit in the La Premiere seats because they worked hard on the movie.

Lots of movie making learning!

Stop Motion Animation is no walk in the park!

Here are some things that we have learned about making a stop motion animation movie...

We checked out a shop
bought one.

1. Make a tripod for your divice so that if you are taking the shots and they need to be aimed at exactly the same place each time you can get it right. 

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   Then we designed and made our own.

   
   
   

   

   The first photo taken with our tripod.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Mark the ground where the tripod needs to be and where people need to stand so that if you are making stills over days and days you can get it right across time.
3. Always do a test shot and check it to see if you can get everything in the frame.
4. Be clear about your stage direction because different people understand things differently.
5. Be prepared for Stop Motion Animation to take AGES!! We have taken 1678 frames so far and we still have two scenes to shoot.

A mark for where Ali needs to stand

Be REALLY clear about your stage direction!

THE FILM FESTIVAL IS WEDNESDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER AT 6pm at Hoyts Sylvia Park. A notice will be coming home very soon! It is a red carpet event so get your awards ceremony outfits ironed and ready to go!

Production has begun

 Read this for an exclusive look at the production of 'Room 2 tells Ali's story'.

As a class we voted to tell the story of Ali's Journey of Change; his journey from Iran to New Zealand. It is an incredible story and we are going to strive to tell it as best we can. 

Our co-constructed storyboard - how we want our film to look.

The Next thing we needed to think about was how to film it and what techniques to use. Obviously we had some incredible ideas (as Room 2 ALWAYS does) and unfortunately it was Whaea Emma's job to rein in the budget from 'multi million dollar' set creation to 'how can we film this at school on iPods and iPads?'

The research began.

As always the students of room 2 have blown us all away and the decision has been made to make a stop motion animation movie using a black vivid, crayons, iPod, and tripod constructed from random things like cardboard tubes.

Obviously, like any major motion picture it is currently being filmed under a cloak of secrecy but here is one of the 765 frames shot so far.

We can't wait to share our finished film with you at the SPS film festival on Wednesday 18th of September.

Our New Playground!

Check out our new Junior School Playground...

Room 2 spent a bit of time this week exploring the new Junior School playground. The verdict is in and WE LOVE IT!!

Construction Zone

Building a playground

Tale writes about it when we watched out of the window each day as the playground was built.

Last week a big digger came to our school. First it dug a big hole and then it left. Next some men came and put poles and rope up to make our playground. After that some other men came and put bark down on the ground to make it safe. I like the new playground and I can't wait to play on it.

by Tale

Our first big play

Be sure to bring your children down this weekend and explore the new playground, it is pretty awesome!

New members of Room 2!

We are so happy to tell you that we have 6 new students in Room 2!!!

Here are Dazurel, Orlandis, Calaius. Clyde, Arani and Livi.

They are all very happy to begin their journey of learning in room 2, but there is no time to waste... lets get stuck in!

Arani is threading his letters and saying the sounds.

Livi is making words with the scrabble letters

New ways to learn in Room 2.

iPads are part of our day at school...

We are learning how we can use them, learning how to act around them and mostly learning that with new privileges comes new responsibility. 

With our awesome inquiry question this term (Lights, Camera, Take Action for Change! How can we tell a story about change through film?) we needed new ways to capture our learning. The Junior School has been lucky enough to receive new iPads for their learning in all curriculum areas. 

This week we really got stuck into using them to enhance our independent learning time (the time when the teacher is working with other groups of children and we follow up and reinforce what we have learned with the teacher by doing independent activities). 

Here is how it went and some of the student's learning and reflections.

I am recording myself writing and saying my skip
counting in 2's numbers on the Showme App. I shared
it with my maths group afterwards. Masiu.

We are 'balancing' numbers on the scale. On one side of the scale it has two numbers like 5 and 2 and you have to count on to solve it and then put the answer number on the other side of the scale, like 7. Squares maths group.

I recorded myself telling my story about getting a hair cut. I pushed pause and play when I was writing my story so I could remember the words I wanted to write. Tale.

I am listening to the letter sounds and saying them after and I can press it as much as I like because I am wearing the headphones and Whaea Emma can hear me saying it because I am saying it with my mouth (alphabet sounds App). Boston.

I am doing my maths and learning to keep my
finger on the number when I move it. Juanpablo.

I am counting on my fingers and finding the answer
for the iPad. Marcel.

I love the new iPads and we are going to learn more and more and heaps. Gizelle.

A little Picasso in all of us...

Picasso so famously said...

'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one as we grow up'.

Thank goodness Room 2 have not grown up yet because we were able to produce some incredible abstract self portraits with Whaea Dagmar's careful guidance. Check out the photos of our process and outcomes.

Whaea Dagmar showed us paintings by Picasso
 and talked about what made them different.

We felt our faces to see where our features were in relation
to each other.

Then we drew a self portrait.

After learning about Picasso, our faces and giving a self portrait a go we got to choose shapes to draw our main features on and glue them where we wanted them. 

Glueing the shapes where we want them.

Drawing the outline around the features, lines joining
them and patterns in the different sections.

Whaea Dagmar used the photocopier to enlarge our self portraits and then it was time to talk about colour choices.

We worked hard and listened to music while we added the colour to our portraits. They are finished now which gives us an enormous sense of achievement but also makes us sad because of the great time we had creating ourselves as Picasso might have.

We are movie stars!

Making a movie in Room 2 

Today Learning Media made a movie at our school for the Ministry of Education, not only was it at our school but they also filmed us in our classroom doing reading and inquiry and they interviewed Whaea Emma!

There was a man who was asking the questions, a camera man, a sound man who held a boom and a microphone and also a lady who was the boss. They each had a job and when they put them all together they made a movie about us! 

This is the photo we took of them setting up the lights and the camera. 

First they interviewed Whaea Emma and Miss Leona in the resource room before school and we had to be really quiet in the corridor, it was so hard because we were so excited.











Next they filmed Whaea Emma and Miss Williams having a talk at morning tea time (we thought that was a bit funny). Then they filmed Room 2 doing reading. It was really exciting but sometimes when you are making a movie you have to redo things they call it 'Take 1' and 'Take 2' and it got a little bit boring.

Whaea Emma getting stage fright!

This is the huge camera

It all gets recorded onto this. 

In the afternoon they filmed us doing our Inquiry into the storm water drains with Room 7 and it was good fun because we got to show them our models, our designs and our plans for the big solution. They were very impressed! 

Then after school they filmed Whaea Emma talking to Boston and Marcel's Mums and Ernesto got to hold the huge microphone with the sock on it.

The boss lady took heaps of photos and she said she will email them to Whaea Emma and we will put some more up on the blog later on when we get them.

There are really interesting and exciting things about making a movie and some boring things but most of us either want to be actors or camera operators when we grow up now so we must have really liked it!