Hello my great audience! One day, my amazing teacher told the class something: we were starting a stop motion project! You might be wondering, what on earth is stop motion? Click HERE for a video all about it. This project linked our learning about stop motion with our work on the book The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. (read the book! After you read my blog of course.)

Me and my group, Lyla and Jeremy,  (They have blogs on this from their own blogs too!)  did quite a few things before the filming. First, we had to decide what scene of the book to do. We chose Brightbill Hatching. Next, we had to figure out what happens and how it happens in the stop motion video. This is my filled template:

After that, we had to plan our script and what our video will sound like. We quoted the book as per my great teacher’s instructions and it sounded good in the end. Here is the script:

Now we were told to design our set. We tried to make it look like it was in a tree. We were not sure we’d have everything we did have so our set design may look a little dull, it looked like a tree to me. Here is a photo of how we thought it would look:

Once finished, we had to make our set and characters. While Lyla did the set, I did the characters out of clay because she is allergic. The thing we added to the set that we didn’t think we would have were the branches.

Now we filmed everything, added the credits, sound effects, voiceovers, and music, we downloaded it. Here is the video:

Now that I was done, I will show you my honest review and write another one for you.

My honest review of my work is that I liked it, I loved the set, planning and filming, but I think  the characters should have been better. here are the pictures of my other self assessment.

One day in July, I woke up and looked at my clock. 3:00 am! Time to get ready, I said to myself. I was so excited to finally go to Florida!  After half an hour, we were all ready to go, waiting for my aunt to arrive. After four, we were almost at the airport! The car ride was very tense and excitement was in the air.

At the airport, we got our bags and went through security. My bag was randomly selected for a double check. The airport was quite busy, seeing that it was five in the morning. It took some time, but we were speedy and were on time for our flight.  I hate flights. They are soooo boring! This one wasn’t different. We flew through Toronto and arrived in the Bahamas. It was just like any other place in Canada, except way more tropical and hot.

After a few days of just shopping and chilling, we sailed to a place called Harbor island. The trip was long. Way too long! I was bored to tears and feeling sick. There, we rode huge waves on boogie boards at a beach with pink sand, visited reefs, and even had close encounters with green sea turtles, which are an endangered species! We were with them so much and once, Maia got bitten by one! I got a horrible rash, but overall, we had a blast!

After a few days here, we sailed back to the marina where we went to an enormous waterpark. At the waterpark, I went on a slide that was pitch black and went into a tank full of sharks! There was also a lazy river that wasn’t so lazy. There were rapids and giant waves! There was also a slide that was more like a rollercoaster!  I loved it! The trip was so much fun, but it had to come to an end. I had such an exciting trip! Thank you for listening!

Beavers are incredible animals and you will see why. I am going to share some facts about beavers.

1. Beavers are actually better at swimming than running. You can probably catch up with a beaver on land but once they enter the water you will fall behind.

2. Beavers make huge homes called dams but they actually live in structures within the dam called lodges.

3. Beaver teeth never stop growing. They need evergrowing teeth to cut down trees.

4. Beavers have orange teeth and they are technically made of metal. The teeth contain traces of iron and magnesium.

5. Beavers, as you know, are on the Canadian nickle.