Discovery Day - Animation

Sammi had her last day of Discovery Day today. This time the theme was "animation". They have been learning all about animation and movie making for the past 6 weeks. So, today they showed us the movie that they made! The first part of the movie was 3 short animations that the kids did. They would move each piece a little bit and film it and then move it some more and film it, until they had an entire short movie put together. For example, one of them was a cut-out doll putting together a snow man. And another was someone building blocks to make a house. It was all very cute and it looked like it took a lot of time for them to do. Then, they filmed 3 short movies, where all the kids had a special role. They did "5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed", "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears" and one called "The Door Bell Rang". Sammi played the Grandma who brings all the cookies in "The Door Bell Rang". All the kids were so cute, and you could tell they were having a great time. Sammi was an adorable Grandma :). And it was obvious that their teacher really put a lot of time and effort into making the movie for us. And thankfully one of the parents agreed to make copies for us.

For the start of the show, they had all the kids walk through the movie "Walk of Fame". They each made one of these star pictures for the "sidewalk". Sammi was the last to go through the tunnel b/c she was kind of shy and not sure she wanted to do it. She told me later that she didn't want to wave or spin like some of the other kids did. But, as you can see in the video, our movie star finally did make it through the tunnel!