One Final Shot

 

Image from here. 

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't even begin to describe how happy I am!  My enthusiasm seems be to contagious!  For a second straight year in a row, I have converted all of my students (and their families,) into CAPS FANS!!!!  What a great year it has been!

 

Photo taken by Christina S.

I realize I haven't blogged as much this year as I did last year so let me give a brief recap:

2016-2017  school year:  My 1st graders and a 4th grade class collaborated on a hockey movie: HOCKEY STARS SHOWDOWN.  That movie was about a team that lost every game.  They never gave up and eventually won.

2017-2018 school year:  I brought my class together with the 4th graders again.  We reviewed what we did last year and asked the students if they wanted to make another hockey movie this year.  It was an overwhelming YES from all of them!

It has been a year full of team building, gingerbread zambonis and zambonis made out of recycled materials, ice skating, and lots of hard work!

The students worked in small groups to create potential story lines.  We selected the winning story by using ActiVotes in a March Madness elimination round.

Next, the students submitted their title ideas.  We used the same process to select our title - ONE FINAL SHOT. 

The students expanded on the script by adding dialogue, creating character names, and selecting numbers for the players.

Each student filled out an application on which role(s) they wanted and why.  Before that, I went over what all of the roles were and what they involved, whether it was a lot of hockey playing, how many lines they'd have to memorize, how much screen time, etc....

After the roles had been selected, the students went to work making the scenery, creating team logos, making parts of their costumes, practicing their lines, and rehearsing!

Finally it was time to film!  Here's the tour of the gym the day we filmed.
Here are some pictures from the locker room scenes:

The days leading up to our movie premiere, the Capitals won the Stanley Cup!  My students and I led a celebratory parade around the school with our Stanley Cup - a prop in our movie!

 

One of the 2nd grade classes joined us on our parade!  It was a blast!

This week, we premiered our movie.  Over 500 students came to the movie.  Everyone received a ticket, went through our ticket line, on to the snack counter where they received a small bag of popcorn, and into our theater which was covered in red paper. 

The students had jobs to do during the movie.  Students were stamping tickets, giving out popcorn, handing out programs, running the lights in theater, turning on the video, showing people to their seats, and sweeping up after everyone left. :-)

There are some similarities between our movie and what the Caps just went through winning the cup.

• Movie -  Stanley Cup themed
• Neither team in the movie had won the Stanley Cup before.  (Neither Vegas or the Caps had won before.)
• The final score in our movie was 4-3.  (The Caps won game seven 4-3.)
• The winning team that won in our movie, won that game "away."  (Caps won in Vegas.)
• Lots of singing We Are the Champions.  (Do I need to elaborate on that one?)

These are all coincidences.  There was no way of us knowing back in March when this was written, that the Caps would win it all!  It sure does make this movie, and all of the experiences along with it, that much more special.

So without further ado, here is our movie, One Final Shot.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible!  This was truly a team effort and I could not have done it without you!

I hope you all enjoy the movie!
LET'S GO CAPS!!!!!
~Stacey~

Ice Rink Field Trip Fun!

 

Image from here. 

We FINALLY got to the ice rink for our field trip!  We were supposed to go in early January.  We had a two hour delay that day due to weather.  So I chose a date later that month.  No joke - another two hour delay.  The kids couldn't wait to go!  Between my class and the fourth grade class that went, I believe only one student had been to an ice rink before.  When they all got on the ice, this is what it looked like:

After awhile, they got the hang out of it and had a BLAST!

Here are two videos as well:

Some of my kiddos wanted a selfie with me.  Look at their wonderful smiles!

Truth:  I can't ice skate.  I've been to the ice rink before (including when I took my class last year.)  I always hold onto the wall while going around the rink.  I'm way too nervous to let go!  My students were DETERMINED to get me off the wall.  One of my girls took my hand and led me around the rink!  Bless her heart! I wish I had a picture of it or on video, but to my knowledge, no one took any.

While I'm thinking about it, thank you to Mr. R and Mrs. V for taking pictures and videos!  Thank you for sharing with me!

The students watched people practicing their hockey skills in the other rink.  Before we left, they got to see the Zamboni!

They did NOT want to leave!  One girl told me she wants to live at the rink!

When we returned to school, we celebrated the 100th day of school.  The students were split up into groups and given 100 cups.  They had to collaborate and build a structure with their cups.  That turned into them combining all of their cups to create a hockey rink.

I think they did an AMAZING job!

Our field trip was definitely worth the wait.  They all want to go back! 

The students are almost done writing their scripts.  Pretty soon, we'll choose the one we're going to use for our movie!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Stacey~