I’m playing catch up with this post, since Aoife and I missed the first class with St. Mary’s (it was my birthday!). Theresia kindly offered to cover for us and help Astrid to introduce the class to our project.
Meet Nightowl, guardian of the night!
Friday was the very last day of our classroom visits with the local primary schools. Setting out that morning we could hardly believe that we would be spending our next week like we’ve done for the last while by helping kids make some really cool characters to decorate the town for our festival and shoot some great picture stories to share with the world.
Our first two class with the Gaelscoil taught us though that we in for some serious fun, last day or not. The kids gave us their usual warm welcome (by name and all) and were happy to get their characters back.
Aoife pops her head into the picture with Hazel her new robot head character.
Aoife and myself arrived early for our second session with Ballyneale N.S. (seeing as I only live down the road) so we went in and got the class started, handing the groups back their characters.
Once Astrid arrived (all the way from Cork) she got everyone ready to do out their storyboards. The volunteer group was Issy’s two person group, both third class students. This group’s characters were ‘Mrs Lovemum’ (one of my favourite names so far) and Swimmer who is coincidentally, a swimmer.
Issy and her team-mate step up to the board.
Unlike many stories which start of in all sorts of far-flung worlds, this story starts off in the actual classroom, with these tiny pop-up people dwarfed by us, the students and all the giant furniture. To make it clear that the story takes place in the real world we had the girls pick a place in the classroom that would really show how tiny they are compared to their surroundings, so the girls picked the bookshelf. Continue reading
Our story-building class at Clerihan went brilliantly. The kids here chose the plot of the amazing animated film ‘Despicable Me’ to look at and work out on the board. What brilliant character, that oddly lovable Gru, and all his ridiculous minions!
Astrid does a short story-board of the plot of ‘Despicable Me’.
Suitably inspired by looking at the plot of this animated film, the kids got to work on their own stories.
Astrid and Aoife help some ambitious world travelling pop-up people.
Pop Up People 