Coleman's Camp FALL 2013 - Imaginative Play During Halloween Time

Pirates!

Using Spanish Language book to create new Narratives in small groups, then "reading" the invented story to the "class"

Coleman's Camp FALL 2013 - Imaginative Play and Illusions

A School for Students Who Need Each Other

Illusions

Coleman's Camp Fall 2013 Montage

Coleman's Camp - SUMMER 2013

Coleman's Camp, 5th week: TUESDAY (no THURSDAY due to 4th of July)

• Continued filming segments for video to accompany song
• Reading lyrics and discussing meaning
• Brainstorming methods to represent each segment of lyrics
• Exploring, practicing, and refining facial expressions and gestures to emote

Coleman's Camp Studio, 5th week: SATURDAY

• Recording Toontastic video
• Sharing of items and special skills, talents, and interests
• Organizing supplies

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 - SUMMER 2013

Coleman's Camp, 3rd week: TUESDAY AND THURSDAY

• Creating roller coaster tracks with cut strips of plumbing insulation
• Investigating momentum, slope, and energy of marbles traveling the track
• Introducing Kinetic and Potential Energy
• Problem solving challenges abound: 
• Gaining momentum without sending marble flying
• Creating a path for the marble to follow to take advantage of the momentum
• Joining tracks to each other and to tunnels, allowing for smooth transfer of marble to next section of roller coaster
• Placement of loops, drops, and banking turns to get as much distance and action out of marble

Coleman's Camp Studio, 3rd week: SATURDAY

• Getting to know new member to the group and sharing creativity in our homes, playtime, and with friends
• With several group members absent, students joined with other groups to offer help in working on projects
• Cutting and assembling prop of a home
• Finish a complete play using Toontasic app, including plot, characters, setting, and (most importantly) voices supplied by groups members and others interested in helping (link to video soon to be included here)