Coleman's Camp WINTER 2013 - Large Scale Maze Creation

Using Old-Style Wooden Marble-Mazes as Inspiration, Kids worked in Groups to Design, Build, Test, and Revise Large Scale Unique Versions of this Classic Game.  X and Y axis, group planning, and team negotiation were all needed to navigate the pathways.

Coleman's Camp FALL 2013 - Hodgepodge of Photo Memories

Coleman's Camp FALL 2013 - Handmade Holiday Projects

Newspaper Skeletons

3-D Humanoid Amphibian

Coleman's Camp - SUMMER 2013

Coleman's Camp, 4th week: TUESDAY AND THURSDAY

• Group bonding and sharing time
• Watching several versions of videos set to the same music to explore how images affect the music
• Selecting and listening to several popular songs and student favorites to identify songs with a narrative
• Reading and analyzing lyrics of song we will use for our video
• Creating script for the song, including characters, actions, plot, perspective, and story arc of beginning, middle and end
• Filming scenes of the story, including changes in performances and improvisation

Coleman's Camp Studio, 4th week: SATURDAY

• Continuing work on group projects
• Learning to have times of reevaluating projects to determine if our work is making progress but also being okay with changing all or part of project we feel have lost momentum
• Collaborating and recording a video on Toontastic
• Creating 3D paper projects

NOTE - This is a raw video, the final will have many other scenes edited in to the music from "Snoopy versus the Red Baron" (cartoon version here) 

Coleman's Camp - Weekly Journal Entry: 12/24/2012

Week of 12-24: Thursday group experiments with electricity, making circuits to power small light bulbs and speakers.  Also testing materials to see if they conduct electricity or if they act as insulators to block the electricity.  The Saturday group set goals for the next year and made posters of finger paints and markers.  Also practicing following directions and working together to make Star Wars folded airplanes.

Coleman's Camp - Weekly Journal Entry: 12/3/2012

Week of 12-3: no Thursday Coleman's Camp but my Saturday group learned new ways to create cartoon and caricature people using randomly drawn shapes that they add details to.  Also creating Henri Matisse paper cut outs of people and characters.  Highly detailed Star Wars paper airplanes from a book were attempted, though the folding become evermore complex, necessitating Mr. Coleman finishing 6 Millennium Falcons!

Coleman's Camp - Weekly Journal Entry: Third and Fourth Week

3rd and 4th weeks: Animal camouflage and mimicry, especially watching Youtube videos of cephalopods (cuttlefish, squid, and octopus).  Kids created environmental posters where animals were hidden through camouflage or mimicry.  Experiments with paper, including being able to walk through paper and (for the younger group) making paper airplanes for practice following directions and learning new skills.  Flown outside during beautiful day and pleased to have Mrs. Ecklund-Johnson to reach through gates around the library and retrieve ambitious flight paths!  A really interesting and thought-provoking week (4th) on how our brains work, what we see, and (most importantly) what we miss in our daily lives.  Videos highlighting inattentional blindness and change blindness.  These can be found on my YouTube channel link found on this Shutterfly page.  Kids then spent time developing and running experiments to test each other!