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We are a 2nd grade class in Bridgeport, CT, USA. We will graduate from college in 2027.


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Teacher Assignments

The Language Channel 01/18
Don't Laugh at Me 01/13
What I Have Learned So Far 01/06
Resolutions 01/01

Teacher Entries

The BFG 2/17
The Borrowers 1/23
We Shall Overcome 1/9
The Whipping Boy 12/7
The Invention of Hugo Cabret 11/19
List 5, 10, all

Student Entries

J the important thing 2/14
W GOLDILOCKS 2/10
J The Important Thing 2/9
J the important thing 2/9
W THE IMPORTANT THING 2/9
C inportant things 2/9
Y The Like Poem 1/30
B I Saw My Cat Again 1/14
B Hi 12/21
B Hello 12/21
B When You Leave School and Your Sad 11/23
S monster story 10/21
S my lies 10/6
B my pets 10/6
J my story 10/6
D i use to be but now I am 10/4
J My Wishes 10/3
G Lies 9/30
J my wishs 9/30
B Lies 9/30
D Lies 9/30
M Lies 9/30
J my lies 9/30
S I Wish 9/30
Y what i like to do 9/29

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The BFG

Article posted February 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM GMT-5 • comment (1) • Reads 951

The BFG is the Big Friendly Giant. It was written by Roald Dahl, who also wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and Matilda. We hope you enjoy the newest stop-motion animation from the Brainwaves. Be sure to leave a comment and let us know what you think.

Article posted February 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM GMT-5 • comment (1) • Reads 951



The Borrowers

Article posted January 23, 2012 at 05:39 PM GMT-5 • comment (4) • Reads 4527

Here is our first green-screen video, Mary Norton's The Borrowers. We read the book, making a flow chart as we went along. Next we wrote the script. We divided up the tasks. The set designers did the art work for the background, the cast acted out the parts, the narrators read the script and the director added the music. Our teacher shot the video in front of a green screen. The "human beans" and the "Borrowers" had to be shot separately so that we could shrink the students who played Arrietty, Pod, Homily and Uncle Hendreary without shrinking the "human beans". We hope you enjoy the results.

Article posted January 23, 2012 at 05:39 PM GMT-5 • comment (4) • Reads 4527



We Shall Overcome

Article posted January 9, 2012 at 10:31 PM GMT-5 • comment (15) • Reads 1978

January is Civil Rights Month and we also celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. this month. Mr. Ferguson, a fourth grade teacher at Lafayette Regional School in Franconia, NH organized the Global Peace Video Project last September. We sang "Give Peace a Chance" for that project. This time Mr. Ferguson has organized a Civil Rights project. Here is our contribution, we sing "We Shall Overcome", which became the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1950s and the 1960s. The song has since spread globally and is now sung around the world by people fighting for their civil rights.

Article posted January 9, 2012 at 10:31 PM GMT-5 • comment (15) • Reads 1978



The Whipping Boy

Article posted December 7, 2011 at 08:02 AM GMT-5 • comment (2) • Reads 6766

Here is our stop-motion animation of Sid Fleischman's Newbery Medal winning book The Whipping Boy. They are all here, Jemmy, Prince Brat, Cutwater and of course our favorite Hold Your Nose Billy.

If you visit our second grade classroom you can even see the braid of garlic they we hung up in his honor.

Article posted December 7, 2011 at 08:02 AM GMT-5 • comment (2) • Reads 6766



The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Article posted November 19, 2011 at 04:10 PM GMT-5 • comment (1) • Reads 4202

The Invention of Hugo Cabret was written in 2007 by Brian Selznick. In 2008 the third grade Brainwaves made a green screen video of Hugo Cabaret. In 2011, this year's second grade Brainwaves have produced a stop-motion animation of the same book.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret was award the Caldecott Medal as the best picture book of the year, even though more than half of it's 500 pages are text. Academy Award winning film maker Martin Scorsese has made a 3D movie called Hugo. It opens November 23, 2011. We have posted both our 2008 and 2011 videos here.

"Sit back, open your eyes and be prepared to dream."




Article posted November 19, 2011 at 04:10 PM GMT-5 • comment (1) • Reads 4202



Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Article posted October 21, 2011 at 11:41 PM GMT-5 • comment (2) • Reads 6917

We just finished reading the Newbery Award winning Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. We named our monster Mrs. Frisby and made a stop motion animation of the book. We hope you are inspired to read this book.

Article posted October 21, 2011 at 11:41 PM GMT-5 • comment (2) • Reads 6917



The Monster Project 2011

Article posted October 19, 2011 at 10:17 PM GMT-5 • comment (12) • Reads 1504

This is our fourth time participating in the Monster Project. We joined 42 classes from the USA, Canada, England, Australia and Russia in this month long project. Our Monster is named Mrs. Frisby after Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. We can't wait to see the other Monsters when they visit Monster Central. We want to thank Mr. Terry Smith for organizing this project every year. It's a monstrous undertaker. Oops! Did I just say undertaker? I meant this is a monstrous undertaking. WARNING! Do not watch this video before going to bed as we can not be responsible for nightmares.

Article posted October 19, 2011 at 10:17 PM GMT-5 • comment (12) • Reads 1504



International Peace Day Video Project

Article posted October 12, 2011 at 05:28 PM GMT-5 • comment (3) • Reads 2344

This is a celebration of International Peace Day on September 21, 2011. It was organized by Mr. Ferguson's fourth graders from Lafayette Regional School in Franconia, NH. In honor of this day, we created a multi-cultural vision of peace. We collected movies from classrooms around the globe containing their messages of peace. We used Dropbox to collect 24 videos from 14 countries on five continents: Canada, Guatemala, England, Bulgaria, Ghana, Israel, Russia, India, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, U.S. Virgin Islands and the USA. Mr. Ferguson's class then edited a 4-minute mashup of all the videos. Look for the Brainwaves, we are the very last class singing "Give Peace a Chance".

Article posted October 12, 2011 at 05:28 PM GMT-5 • comment (3) • Reads 2344



O.R.E.O. Project 2011

Article posted September 19, 2011 at 07:29 PM GMT-5 • comment (5) • Reads 6268

The O.R.E.O. Project is not just a math project but also includes, art, music, language arts, science, and nutrition. The students estimate, predict, count, add, subtract, graph and compare.
This global project is organized by Jen Wagner's "Projects by Jen". Students around the world can compare how many cookies they stacked, before they tumbled, with other classes. Oh did I forget to tell you that they also get to eat Oreos.

C is for cookie but they all get A's. As The Count would say, "We love to count!"

Article posted September 19, 2011 at 07:29 PM GMT-5 • comment (5) • Reads 6268



Pinwheels for Peace 2011

Article posted September 17, 2011 at 03:34 PM GMT-5 • comment (1) • Reads 715

The Brainwaves continue their participation in the International day of Peace celebration by participating in the Pinwheels for Peace Project. They wrote messages and drew pictures of peace on their pinwheels. The wind then carries these messages into the sky and around the world where they joined the messages of millions of children around the world. It is estimated that in 2010 there were 3.5 million pinwheels sending messages of "Whirled Peace".

Article posted September 17, 2011 at 03:34 PM GMT-5 • comment (1) • Reads 715



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My Classes & Students

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2008-2009
Alejandro
Beatrice
Giselle
Jean Carlos
Joel
Jonathan
Jose
Karen
Kyjuan
Marie
Michael
Railin
Rauniel
Ricardo
Robin
Saul
Wilson
Yelitza

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2009-2010
Abraham
Andrew
Angel
Bern
Elias
Erika
Evelyn
Janaiah
Jay
Jordan
Jose
Kahlis
Kevin
Khyree
Mekhi
Michael
Nahum
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Shyne

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Alyssa
Angeles
Anthony
Brianna
Daisey
Demajinae
Ernest
Ikeia
Jacknell
Jah-Marley
Jean-Nick
Justin
Keyshla
Luis
Neftaly
Nevaeh
Priscilla
Tiany
Winter
Yashira

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2011-2012
Betsy
Christopher
Daniel
Destiny
Glenseph
Jada
Jaiden
Jaylencia
Jenecia
Julie-Anna
Marcus
Max
Milenny
Sandra
Tianna
Wilfred

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