4th Grade Circus Performances- Spring 2022

These are our circuses!

Students worked in groups of 3 to 5 people, with each student responsible for creating ONE character and/or ONE prop.  Each group then planned out their acts for their circuses, and were required to include two Simple Machines in their perfomance. 

These circuses are basd on American Artist Alexander Calder's "Cirque De Calder" from the 1930s, in which he designed and performed numerour acts and characters made from bits and pieces of trash.

 

4th Grade Shero/Hero Animations! 2019

4th Grade Ms Feeney

4th grade Ms Hunninghake

Ms Schafer's 4th grade

And here's Ms Nelson's!

4th Grader Circuses, from Spring 2019

Here are the wonderful 4th grade circus videos!  Well done, crew!

4 Feeney Circuses

and  4 Nelson's circus~

and 4 Schaefer's

I'm working on Ms Hunninghake's video at the moment~

Check back later!

April 9, The 4th Grade CIRCUS!

Hi there!  We've been working hard on our Circuses, based on Alexander Calder's Circus (link here!)
He created his circus over a number of years, carrying it from the US to Europe and performing it for friends.  Calder was also an engineer and his circus uses multiple simple machines.  Our 4th graders also used simple machines in their acts!  See if you can spot some!

4S Circuses can be viewed HERE~

4N Circuses can be viewed HERE~

4P circuses can be viewed HERE!

The Third Grader's Bird Animations!

We put these together using the 3D paper birds the students made-  they learned about simple stop animation while flying their birds across the sky!

Ms Bennett's Class

Ms Moore's Class

Ms Hunninghake's Class

Ms Jacobs-Smith's Class

4th Grade 2016-17 SheHero Animations!

Last Spring the 4th graders created these paper face animations of their Hero/Shero project.  They learned how to make a paper stop animation, and they included a quote from their person as well as a voice over.

And they did a great job!

Ms Nelson's Class~

Ms Feeney and Mr Kust's class

Ms Pape's Class

Ms Schafer's Class

4th Grade Hero/Shero Paper Face Animations!

Fourth graders are finishing up their incredible paper animation projects!  I've never done this with 4th grade before, usually with upper level students but these kids are doing amazing work!  I'll post some of the videos later-  these are to give you an idea of how they worked!