How Do You Do Math?

PI-MAGEDDON!

It's hard to find videos better than Vi Hart's, but here's a link to a site with some special Pi facts!

Enjoy your irrational day!

The Super Fun Trip to LACMA 2/27/15

I'm still trying to load our super cool animations from our Frame X Frame Workshop, so please bear with me. In the meantime, here are some photos of our trip to LACMA. If you bring in a thumb dive, I can easily transfer the animations onto it so you can play them at home.

Our wonderful teaching artist, Javier Barbosa, leads us through the museum to the workshop.

Javier shows film clips Salvador Dali made for Walt Disney! (That project never got off the ground.)

Storyboarding

Javier helps shoot cells

In the galleries

Talk about TEXTURE!

Javier holding actual can of Spam in front of "Actual Size," a painting of a can of Spam, by Ed Ruscha. 

Yes, I kissed a rock! Why not? 

Preparing for Pi Day! 3.1415 … 3/14/15

Why, Vi, why you no like Pi?

Vi Hart Mania!

We are big Vi Hart fans in our class--here's a cool interview with Vi where we see how she makes her amazing videos!

Eastside Arts Festival: March 7 @ Eagle Rock HS

Come enjoy free arts performances, workshops, films and exhibits by student artists! (Featuring the animation work of our own class who attended the LACMA Animation Workshop)

Saturday, March 7

9-3

Eagle Rock High School

1750 Yosemite Drive

The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye: Book Review by Ruby A.

                          Detective Enola Holmes, 14, is searching for the wife of Luis Orlando del Campo, who has mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile, her brother Sherlock (Holmes!) is searching for her to give her a package. The package is from her long lost mother. Enola, Sherlock, and her other brother, Mycroft, will need to solve these mysteries. What happened to their mother? And to Lady Blanchefleur del Campo?

          The mystery Enola is solving is connected with her past. When she came to London, two people tried to kill her, but luckily she ran away. This memory of Enola’s will help her find who kidnapped Lady Blanchefleur. Also the memory of what her mother taught her will help her solve the mystery of her mother’s package.

          I recommend this book because of the fantastic main character, Enola Homes. She is an independent young woman who solves her mysteries with intelligence, bravery, and style. One of the tools she uses to solve mysteries is to change her identity, which I liked. I also loved the way she spoke, as well as all the language in the book. Her vocabulary included cool words like “enigmatic,” “prattle,’ and “aquiline.” Sometimes it was a little confusing to figure out where they were in London, in 1889, but by the end it became more understandable. All in all, I highly recommend this book.

 #mysteries #familypower #enolaisalonespelledbackwards