Grade 2 Stop Motion Animation

As part of an initiative to have a good number of grades and students creating Stop Motion Animation, the grade 2s chose  stories they have read in class and make them come alive.  Here is a sample:

Cereal Boxes Are Almost There!!!

After working on MS Word (putting their cereal names, slogans, etc.), it is now time to draw mascots, games and colour the cereal boxes! Here are some that are about to finish!

Abdulhaqq's Before:

and After:

My favourite cereal name: Froot Fakes by Danna

Manha's Blue O Straws

Cereal Box Template

Here is a cereal box template which you can use with Microsoft Word to put in your text, drawings and graphics.

  Cereal Box Template

Here is the Success Criteria we made together:

(download clickable pdf)

FRONT has:

___ a MASCOT or CARTOON

___ original cereal name

___ original company name

___ slogas (catchy phrase)

SIDE has:

___ ingredients

___ nutrition Facts

___ barcode

BACK has:

___ games or activity or information about a famous person

___ prizes or toy

___ website

NEATNESS

___ has to have neat writing

___ colouring is solid, no scribbling, is inside the lines 

___ use at least one colour to show feelings 

(red: strong, yellow:happy, blue: relaxed, orange: hungry)

___ drawing has outline

Grade 2 Cereal boxes

Here are some grade 2s designing their boxes. Real ones are used for inspiration:

Stay tuned for the final ones. 

Media Are Constructions

The Grade 2s also viewed how Media can be made to what the creator wants it to show.  We saw this video:

 We then talked about the parts of a cereal box and how it is made for a target audience. We tried designing our own box with this website:

Mr. Breakfast

What is Media Anyway?

The Grade 1s just started their unit on "What Is Media".  We have viewed two videos on Media Literacy 101. Here is the first one:

What is Media Anyway?

Public Service Announcement Posters

We just finished our unit on Public Service Announcements!

The grade 2s had a wonderful time making their posters with Pic Collage, a FREE iPad app.

Before they got to take their pictures and put them on the iPads, they had to fill out this template first:

PSA Planning Template

It was the first time the Grade 2s used cloud storage.  For this one, we used copy.com.  

(I use it because it starts with 15GB free!  Click the copy.com link for your first 15 gb. You'll receive an extra 5 and I will as well! :)

After writing the plans, the Grade 2s went to their iPads and:

1.) took pictures for their posters

2.) uploaded their images to Pic Collage

3.) matched their slogans with their posters.

The pictures were eventually used for our school's Kindness and Caring Assembly.  If you want to know more about the detailed steps we went through, click here.

Here are some samples:

(Students' faces cannot be shown for security purposes.)