Post written by the grade 4s

This term we are participating in a 1 Minute Film Competition. We are learning how to analyse films and movie scripts to see how messages can be shared.

The theme for the competition is DIVERSITY and we have to include diversity in our film in some way. Diversity can be included as the main plot, as the something in the background, as something someone says or another way. If you win the competition, your team wins $1000 to share! The link to the competition is here.

We are following the writing process and we are going to make an awesome script. We will need to start by planning and drafting, then revising and editing. We will do lots of group conferencing with our group and teacher. Then we will publish it and you might be able to view it.

Our class will be making scripts for our short movies. Some groups might not have dialogue in their script – you don’t need dialogue to send a message. We read the scripts for famous movies like Up and Wall-E to understand how to write a script. Later that day, we had to write a script for a short film made by Pixar, called Partly Cloudy.  Try making a detailed script yourself! It’s harder than you think!

The next day, we got to make our own 8 frames of a storyboard, like real movies do (but just with a lot more frames). We had to carefully write the details into a script, then create frames (still pictures from a movie) to match. We watched the Pixar film on how they made their storyboard for Toy Story to learn about how the experts do it. Watch the film by Pixar here.

From here we are getting into groups and writing a script and making a storyboard for our Diversity film. Watch our blog for more updates on our films…

Welcome back to Term 3! What an amazing term we have to look forward to… I think it will be our best one yet!
Our Deep Learning big idea ‘Diversity’ is going to be very interesting. We have lots of exciting learning and inquiring in store for us and your questions and ideas so far have shown a lots of different perspectives on culture. While we do this, we will work on improving our 21st century skills of creativity, citizenship and communication. 

In Literacy we will be learning to write a new text type, scripts, in order to prepare us to make a film and enter a one-minute film competition! See the details here. The film will be based on the theme ‘diversity’ so get your thinking caps on. We will also explore how culture is represented in texts and how people have differing perspectives and opinions. 

In Maths we will start with investigating multiplication and division, and then move on to angles, time and location. I really want us to focus on becoming mathematicians who ask questions, problem solve and challenge themselves. We’re off to a great start with our multiplication inquiry!

We will also be spending some time learning about safety online and how to become good digital citizens so we can use the internet safely and productively.

Tell me what you think!

-Mrs Fintelman

What are you most excited about this term? 

What do you want to know more about?