Family Blogging Month Winner! Ruby & Troy

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The winners of Family Blogging Month earned a free post on Mrs. Yollis' Website. Here is a creative video produced by the finalists Ruby, Troy, and Sydney!

Ruby's Reflection: 

Making this stop-motion video was a fun project and an educational way to have a blast with crocheted critters. It was a little hard to slow down the video and time our voices. We made a movie with little creatures and props. It was fun and extremely confusing at first. But once we got it down, it wasn’t as hard. The group (aka: Sydney, the 4th place winner of the Family Blogging Month, Troy the 3rd place winner, me- the 2nd place winner, and Nicholas) was recording our voices as talking animals. The app we used was called Stop Motion and it was super cool! When you took a picture, SNAP, and then move the prop or animal in front, behind, left or right -- it shows a ghost line, so you know if you moved it too far. Again, it was super fun and a great way to spend time with your friends! Hope you enjoy the movie!

Our stop-motion movie is about animals having trouble solving their problems. However, two smart birdies come in to help!  They argue over who should get the extra treat, and they realize that no one should get it. By being selfish, they almost caused death to the unhatched bird!

Enjoy!

Have you ever made a stop motion video? Do you have any tips to share?

What did you love about Family Blogging Month? 

3-D Shape Extravaganza!

By Ben, Sydney, Trent, and Ethan

In math, Mrs. Yollis’ students have been working on geometric 3-dimensional shapes. 

3-D shapes have flat faces, straight edges, and pointy vertices. 

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One 3-D shape is a cube. It has six square faces, twelve edges, and eight vertices. 

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 Another  3-D figure is the cylinder. This space figure has two circular faces, zero edges, and zero vertices. 

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Rectangular prisms have six faces, twelve edges, and eight vertices.  

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A recognizable  3-D shape is the cone. It looks like an ice cream cone. The cone has one face, zero edges, and one vertex. 

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One very unusual 3-D shape Mrs. Yollis’ students have learned about is the square pyramid. The square pyramid  has five faces (four triangular and one square base), eight edges, and five vertices. 

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The final 3-D shape our class  learned about is the sphere. It has no faces, edges, or vertices. 

Poor sphere.

:-(

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Here is a PhotoPeach show we put together!  See what the faces of the shapes look like!

3-D Shapes Extravaganza on PhotoPeach

3-D shapes are extremely fun to learn about!

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Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Kim for the photo of the pyramid at the Louvre Museum!

 

Do you know any 3-D figures we didn’t mention?

How many faces, edges, and vertices did you find?