Article posted June 1, 2012 at 06:56 AM GMT-5 •
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Here's is our final video of the year. The Brainwaves singing Randy Newman's "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story. This year we made a number of videos with the theme of peace and friendship; "Give Peace a Chance", "International Peace Day Video Project", "Pinwheels for Peace 2011", "Nobel Peace Prize Winners", "We Shall Overcome" and Taylor Swift's "Mean".
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Article posted April 26, 2012 at 02:41 PM GMT-5 •
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Here is our stop motion animation book trailer of E.B. White's classic. Surprisingly, it did not win the Newbery Medal but did receive the Newbery Honor. Happy birthday Charlotte, you are 60 years old. Hard to believe isn't it?
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Article posted April 26, 2012 at 02:41 PM GMT-5 •
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Article posted March 19, 2012 at 07:09 PM GMT-5 •
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The Brainwaves sing Taylor Swift's "Mean". In keeping with our theme of promoting peace at home, in school and in the world through understanding. We are trying to improve our school climate and prevent bullying. We hope you enjoy our music video.
Article posted March 19, 2012 at 07:09 PM GMT-5 •
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Article posted March 9, 2012 at 04:57 PM GMT-5 •
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Mrs. Hen's class in Israel has asked us to join them in a study of Nobel Prize winners. The Brainwaves made this video celebrating the 17 Americans who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Article posted March 9, 2012 at 04:57 PM GMT-5 •
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Article posted February 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM GMT-5 •
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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 •
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Article posted January 23, 2012 at 05:39 PM GMT-5 •
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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.
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Article posted January 9, 2012 at 10:31 PM GMT-5 •
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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.
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Article posted December 7, 2011 at 08:02 AM GMT-5 •
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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.
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Article posted November 19, 2011 at 04:10 PM GMT-5 •
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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 •
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