Black Day for Blue Ray  

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     Brainstorming

Each group of  3 to 4 children were encouraged zone in on a topic related to their curriculum for their stop motion movie. For example in this project "an accident at home" ,all children were given full freedom to contribute ideas and possible scenarios. An environment was promoted where all contributions were accepted without criticism or judgement. Some children were reluctant to get involved in the group setting; but wtih encouragement did get involved once it was evident that all ideas and contributions were accepted.

Teachers should emphasize full active listening during these sessions. Students should be encouraged to listen carefully and politely to what their classmates contributions, to tell the speakers or the teacher when they cannot hear others clearly and to think of different suggestions or responses to share.

For inspiration the makers of the stop motion claymation movies "Black Day for Blue Ray" looked at stop motion movies on the internet such as Wallace and Gromit and  Gumby, aswell as animation websites such as StopMotionCentral