We’re back for another year! The buses have pulled up for the first time. Students have walked into their new classes for the first time. And we’ve filmed videos for the first time!
Last year, we had our News Teams 4, 5, 6, and 7 to represent our various projects. This year, we’ll be sharing the Math Movie Network, a network built for students to share math tutorials with you!
Students will be creating various math videos throughout covering a variety of topics. They will be similar to videos we produced last year such as Elapsed Time Number-line, Finding Area, and The Avery Bunch. These can be used as review or to introduce new topics!
A network can’t be complete without it’s stars though. So, without further ado, I introduce to you, your hosts for the 2011-12 school year!
Dear Mr. Avery’s class,
I liked your videos. Do you like technology? I saw you on the computers. I wonder what you were doing. I love learning about new technology.
Sincerely,
Jasmine
A 49’er
Dear Jasmine,
I love technology! I think there are so many wonderful things that you can do with it. When we were on the computers, we were looking at our blog, our wiki, and a website called Storybird. It was a lot of fun!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Quentin,
I am happy to hear that you like our videos. We just put a new video up for the classroom blog called Dr. Decimal. If you watch it I think you would enjoy it like you enjoyed our other videos we put up on the classroom blog. Thanks for the awesome comment.
Sincerely,
Faith
Dear Mr. Avery
Today I got a really cool scrap book from my Aunt in Washington State. I had a lot of fun at the dance tonight, and at school today. When are we going to make math videos again? I’ll see you on Monday!
from
Sam R.
Dear Sam R.
We Will be making some more math movies soon. It will take time though because we have to upload, practice , and every time someone makes a mistake they laugh so we have to redo that scene that the messed up on. 😆 But don’t worry we will get more up on the blog. I am 100% positive!
Sincerely,
Ed S.
Dear Morgan,
That is so cool that your family and Miss Leek are doing a triatholon! I know they will do great! 🙂
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Mr.Avery
This September my Mom is doing a triatholon with my two aunts, two uncles and Miss.Leek . I can’t wait to cheer them all on.
from,
Morgan M. 😀
Dear Mr. Avery,
Our second football game is going to be on Sunday in Scituate! I am so excited to BEAT them! 😆 It would be so cool if you could come to one of our games this year! 🙂 Have a great day!
Sincerely,
Alyx★ndr★
Dear Alyxandra,
I hope that the football game goes well and you BEAT scituate.
from,
Morgan
Dear Mr. Avery and Grade 6,
What an exciting project you have planned! Your introductory videos look so professional!
My students are in grade 2/3. We were quad blogging buddies with Mr. Avery’s grade 4 class last year.
We love watching videos made by other students and are going to start learning about green screening soon. I know you are doing more difficult math than we will be, but I am hoping we can learn some tips for movie making from watching your videos too.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Watson
Sointula, Canada
Dear Melody Watson,
Thank you! We take the time to make great videos and we all work together. It’s basically teamwork! I bet your blog with the second graders is amazing!
Have a great day!
Sincerely,
Kirstyn M. 🙄
Dear Mr. Avery,
I love your videos. They are awesome. I look forward to seeing more 🙂
From,
Quentin
P.S. I am a friend of Hannah.
Dear Quentin,
Thank you. We’ll probably have some new videos up soon.I like these videos too.
Sincerely,
Kirstyn M.
Dear Blogging Buddies,
I love to hear what all of you guys have to say about us and our blog! Everyone is so nice, and love the videos! They were so much fun to make! 🙂 Keep commenting we love to hear your feedback!
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Mr.Avery
It was a lot of fun making the videos. What do you think the next one will the next one be about?
Sincerely,
Morgan
Dear Morgan,
I agree the introduction videos were funny, I felt like I was going to burst with laughter though! 😀 I do not know what our next video is but I can not wait to find out!
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Tessa,
I agree that the math movies were superb. I also can’t wait to do more videos, I think that painting the wall green was a great idea but it can get a little distracting.
Sincerely,
Bryan C. 🙂
Dear Bryan,
I think the wall looks great in the room! It just adds a splash! It is a little bright and you can’t help but stare at it sometimes, but it is still great! I wonder what our next video will be…Can’t wait!
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Mr.Avery
It was very exciting to make the introduction videos and I can’t wait to make more. This year I would like to see a math movie about fractions.
Morgan M :-]
Dear Morgan,
It’s great that you liked the videos. We will defiantly be making more. Maybe we will make a math movie about fractions.
Sincerely,
Kirstyn M. 🙂
Dear Freddie,
Your blog is great! And don’t worry you will make it better and better through the year! 🙂
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Faith,
Hi! I know your dad will do great in the race! I can not wait to hear about it! 😉
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Mr. Avery and class,
Welcome back to school! What a terrific beginning of the year! Way to jump right in! Your introductory movies look so professional! Are you sure these are sixth grade students? 🙂
As I read through the wonderful comments, I can see that you have some terrific bloggers already! I love that!
I look forward to following your progress throughout the year! 🙂
Your friend,
Mrs. Y♥llis
California
Dear Mrs. Yollis,
School is starting out great this year! I love the new introduction video this year and just as you said we look just like professionals! And yes we are sixth grade student. I am one of the stars this year! 😆 I hope you have a great day! Happy Blogging! 😉
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
What a blog! I am blown away by how spectacular the presentation is. I dream to make my blog like that. I was wondering if you were interested in visiting my blog at:
http://www.6lbcdkg.global2.vic.edu.au
I hope that one day my blog will be as good as yours!
Freddie 🙄
Dear Freddie,
Thank you for your kind words.I bet your blog is very nice.
Sincerely,
Kirstyn M.
Dear Mr. Avery and Math Video Stars,
What a fabulous start to your blog this year! The Math Movie Network videos look so professional.
The part I like the best is when the students twirl in the chair to face the camera and get introduced! It reminds me of something I have seen on television some time.
I look forward to watching this year. I don’t teach 6th grade math, but I am one of your blogging buddies on the West Coast. I wonder if somehow you could make a fun video on all the time zones in the world. How do we figure out what time it is in South Africa or Australia or Los Angeles or London?
Whatever you make this year, I know it will be great!
Mrs. Hembree
Dear Mrs. Hembree,
I am so glad you like our videos this year! There will be many more upcoming this year. And I do to love when we twirl around in the chair, we do look like professionals! That is a great idea to make a video of all the time zones in the world! We will see what we can do!
Sincerely,
Alyxandra H.
Dear Mrs. Hembree,
How are you? Thank you for your comment. I don’t know if we we will do any time zone videos but I’ll be sure to ask Mr. Avery. With or without the time zone videos I’m sure that it’ll be a great year.
Sincerely,
Bryan C.
Mr. Avery,
Me and my other classmates know how to video conference and would like to see what you guys did to get a green screen? We would like to see mostly everything on math that you guys will be teaching/learning. You guys should post a video about video conference.
Clarissa
Dear Clarissa,
I am in Mr. Avery’s classroom this year! The green screen is actually just a wall that is painted green. I think he just uses some sort of software for the effects but I am not sure. Have a great afternoon!
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Hi Clarissa,
We painted our green screen onto the wall. It worked really well!
What do you do when you video conference? Do you use Skype or something else?
Look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Mr. Avery,
What we did for the video conference was use a huge TV that the school uses to talk to someone somewhere else. It had a huge webcam on top.
Clarissa
(P.s. I love the green screen. You should go on my teacher page and put it in a comment.)
Dear Clarissa,
That is so cool! It would be so much fun to video chat with your school! How would we be able to connect with you guys?
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Mr. Avery,
I really enjoyed visiting your math video “meet the students”. My son, Will G, introduced your class blog last night during our Skype call. I look forward to seeing the class projects, homework and challenges. Keep up the good work everyone.
Sincerely,
Natalie G.
Hi Natalie,
I’m so glad Will introduced you to our blog. You’ll be able to visit all year and see some of the different things that we’ll be working on. I know we’re excited to create lots of great videos this year that cover a variety of topics in math and science.
Thank you for visiting!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
I enjoyed making the introduction videos so much. I can’t wait to make more. Via Skype, I introduced my mom to our blog and taught her how to leave a comment. You are such a great teacher.
Sincerely,
Will G.
Dear Will,
I’m glad you shared our blog with your mom! That’s one of the things that I love about it, parents can come on and comment too!
I’m excited to make more videos this year. If you have any suggestions for videos, I’d love to hear them!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
I ♥ the class so far and will for the rest of the year!
I would really ♥ to make many more videos this year. Even though I wasn’t in your class two years ago when we were in 4th grade, every one told me what a great teacher you are! I’m very 😆 to be one of your students this year!
~♥
Molly 🙂
Dear Molly,
I’m glad to see you using some of our codes that I taught you!
I’m glad everyone thinks I’m a great teacher! I hope you learn a lot this year!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
When you made the Math Movie Network in different videos, does that mean that we will have different movie networks depending on which one you were on? 🙂
Emma~
Dear Emma,
We won’t have different networks. I know in fourth grade we had different news teams but this year will be different. The entire sixth grade will be a part of one Math Movie Network. Most of the videos will probably only have 3 or 4 people in them but they’ll all be a part of the same thing.
Great question!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Hi my name is Gisela. I am from Mr. Miller’s class. I want to tell you that I liked your Math Movie Network videos. They were fantastic!
Sincerely,
Gisela
Hi Gisela,
Thanks for visiting our blog! We really enjoyed making the Math Movie Network videos. There will be many more videos to come this year! I hope you enjoy all of them!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Gisela,
Thanks for the comment.I hope you enjoyed the video and we will have more on the blog very soon.
Sincerely,
Faith H.
Dear Ed S,
How do you do? I am as lost as you are when it comes to the green screen! The rest of the questions Mr. Avery will have to answer.
Sincerely,
Will G.
Dear Mrs. Nelson,
Thank you for visiting our blog and thank you for congratulating us. I’ll ask Mr. Avery about the videos and we will see what we can do.
Sincerely,
Will G.
Dear Mr Avery and Class,
Hey guys, nice blog. GREAT you have set up a new post! Wait a second, 44 visits from Hawaii? How do you get heaps of visits like that?
Sincerely,
Ashton!!!
Dear Ashton,
I’m glad you enjoy our blog! We have had a lot of visits from all over! Sometimes we visit other blogs and leave comments for them and then they come and visit us.
Do you have your own blog?
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr Avery and His Class,
I have a few suggestions for maths videos and here they are:
1: At school when you are just about to learn about a new maths area create a fun, interactive video to kick-start the unit
2: Also again when you start a new area you could create a quiz for them to take like an interview where they try to guess what the answer is, like a test to see what they already know
3: Another way is, you could ask the class to perform a play, poem or a song all about what they have learnt at the end of a maths Unit
Hope I gave you some good ideas,
Tess
Hi Tess,
Thanks for all of your great suggestions! You are full of great ideas. I think we’ll definitely try to use some of those this year. You’ll have to let us know what you think when we post them!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr.Avery
I think it is so cool how you can work the green screen. I also think how you have all of your classes get to make those films. All of the films you make are also amazing. I hope to see more of your films soon.
From,
Allison W.
Dear Allison,
If you remember at the end of fourth grade, you were one of the first ones I tried out the green screen with! I learned from all of you!
Just like with anything that you practice, I’ve gotten much better at making videos over the last couple years. I really enjoy making them and I hope all of you will too!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Allison W.,
I am happy to hear that you enjoyed the video Allison. We will be making more very soon. Thanks for the comment.
Sincerely,
Faith
Dear Mr Avery,
The videos look great! 😀 I’m so happy with the way they turned out, and I can’t wait until we make more videos! I also cant wait until we see all of them finished too!
From,
Jennifer W.
Dear Jennifer W,
Thanks so much for commenting on the blog!
I also look forward to more videos as we go along the year ★ Keep commenting!
Sincerely,
Taite B.
Dear Jenny,
I’m glad you finally got to see all of the videos finished!
Do you have any requests for a topic you’d like to see a video about? I’d love to make some videos that all of you would like to make!
Your teacher,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
Superb job on the Math Movies! 😛 I am excited for this years projects. I can’t wait! I’m sure it will be FABULOUS!
Your 6th grade student,
Tessa ♥
Hi Tessa,
Great job using some of the coding I taught you! It’s great to see the bold as well as some of the different smiley faces in there.
You shouldn’t be saying superb job to me though! All of you did a great job, especially considering that was your first videos you’ve done this year! This will be a fabulous year!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
I love what your students are doing and I can’t wait to view some of their math videos this year. The introduction video was awesome!! I started reading some of their blogs too. I’m a retired 5/6 teacher and I am always excited to see how technology is changing the way kids learn and share their ideas with others.
Dear Nilah,
I’m SO glad you enjoy our classroom blog. It’s nice to know that people enjoy the blog! 😛 We will be sure to work extra hard, after all 6th grade is the highest grade in our school!
A responding student,
Tessa:mrgreen:
Dear Nilah Cote,
Thanks so much for commenting on our blog! We really appreciate it. We will have “a ton” of math videos this year for the math movie network!
Sincerely,
Taite B.
Dear Mr. Avery,
I am so excited to be going to see my dad do an Ironman. While he is gone for about thirteen to fourteen hours, we will be going to the movies, having ice cream and having a lot of fun. I’m just hoping he can cross the finish line!
-Faith
Dear Mr. Avery and Class,
How do you do today? Do you have to practice a lot for the videos and how do you work the green screen? Do you need special stuff?
Thank you for your time,
Ed S.
Dear Ed S.,
I am doing great today! How are you? As you know since you are in this class this year we do need to practice before making the final. And I think for the green screen to work you need to download a software, but I do not know what it is. Have a great day! 🙂
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Mr. Avery,
How do you work the green screen? Do you have to download software? I was just wondering so I can make my videos better at home.
Sincerely,
Taite B.
Dear Taite,
I’m not really sure how you use the green screen. I’m pretty sure there is a software you use to do the background. The green screen is pretty cool.:roll:
Sincerely,
Kirstyn M.
Dear Taite B.
Thanks for the great comment. About the green screen yes you do dowmload a software. I hope you can find the software and make your videos better but I think your videos are probly good. 🙂
sincerely,
Kevin B. 🙂
Dear Mr. Avery,
I had so much fun doing the introduction videos and I look forward to dong more videos.
I was wondering if you are going to do a decimal video.
Sincerely,
Bryan C.
Dear Brian C,
I had fun doing the introduction videos, too. I hope we get to do a decimal video sometime this year. I also hope we will get to do a video about multiplying and dividing fractions once we get good at it. I can’t wait to make more videos this year!
– Emma W.
Dear Mr. Avery,
Today is not a good day. I slept in way too late and its been raining for the past three days. I`m not happy right now. However, I’m glad we got to make videos using the wall and I can’t wait to make another one.
-Sam R.
Hi Sam,
I’m sorry to hear you had a bad start to the day. I hope it got better as we went along!
I can’t wait until we make more videos too! Any topics you’d like us to make videos about?
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
The videos are really cool. I’ve always wanted to learn how to do that with videos. When I was doing my video I felt like i was going to explode with laughter! I think this is going to be a good school year for me and I hope it is for you to.
From your new student that still has trouble spelling sincerely,
Hannah K.
Hi Hannah,
“Ready to explode with laughter.” That’s great language you’re using there! I think a lot of you were ready to explode with laughter. As a matter of fact, a few of you did! I think we’ll probably see those again in a blooper reel.
I know it’s going to be a great year for all of us. Everyone’s been working so hard so far and I think we’ll definitely be learning a lot and having a lot of fun!
I hope you had a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
Having a great day in school today, but what a miserable day outside! For the past three days its been rain, rain, rain! I just want some sun.:) But luckily it is going to be nice and sunny this weekend, for the Pep Rally on Friday and our first game on Sunday, 9-11-11. Have a great rest of the day and weekend! 🙂
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Alyxandra,
It’s so great that the sun is out, finally! I hope it’s nice out again next week because I have recess duty.
I hope the Pep Rally and the game go well today. You’ll have to let me know how it went!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
Our pep rally was cancelled on Friday because we needed more practice but today is our football game! I’ll let you know how the game goes!
Sincerely,
Alyxandra
Dear Mr. Avery,
I would really like to do graph videos this year! 🙂 We could make videos about all the different types like bar graphs, line graphs, and pie charts.
Sincerely,
Fiona
Dear Fiona,
Thank you for the suggestion! I think we might be able to find an opportunity to do a video about graphs. Are there any types of graphs that you’d like to make a video about more than others?
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
I had so much fun making the videos. I hope we make more soon. When Mr. V sent the letters saying I had you I was so excited because I had so much fun with you in 4th grade.
-Kelsea
Dear Kelsea,
I’m glad you enjoyed making the videos! We’ll definitely be making more soon. I’m sure we’ll even be making a couple about decimals!
When I heard that I was moving to sixth grade, I was so excited because I knew I’d get to work with all of you again. We’re going to have a wonderful year!
Your teacher,
Mr. Avery
Dear Mr. Avery,
I would love to be in many videos this year. It sounds like lots of fun! ♥
Sincerely,
Molly
Dear Molly C,
Thank you for your comment and this does sound like a great year. I’m really looking forward to it!
From,
Ryan S.
Dear Molly,
You’ll definitely be in some videos this year! Our introductions were just a small taste of what we’ll be doing. We’ll be making plenty of math videos. We’ll also be creating some videos in science as well.
It’s going to be a great year!
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Molly,
Thanks you for the amazing comment. I also would like to be in more videos this year with you and the class. I think it will be really fun.
Sincerely,
Faith H.
Congratulations Mr Avery and the Math Movie Network hosts.
It was good to read about your new network on twitter. We are also a Year 1 class from Craigburn Primary School. In fact we are neighbours to Mrs Kolenberg and Room 4. As Mrs Kolenberg said we are learning about Place value in our classes. Maybe you could do a series of Math Movies for Mini Mathematicians sometime. We’d love to visit again and see more of your awesome blog.
From Room 3 and Mrs Nelson
Craigburn Primary
South Australia
http://jackienelson.edublogs.org
Hi Jackie,
That you for the kind words. I’m hoping once we get through our curriculum and are able to make some videos about that, we can make videos to cover other topics as well!
I know our grade levels are so very different but I’m sure we can still find ways to connect throughout the year! I look forward to it.
Sincerely,
Mr. Avery
Dear Ross Mannell,
Thanks so much for visiting our blog! There will be more math videos up very soon. It was a fun time filming them, every time we recorded one someone would laugh. In our class room we have a neon green wall for filming, you can click on it here.
Sincerely,
Taite B.
Hello Mr. Avery and your class,
Welcome to your new school year! At Craigburn Primary School we are into Term 3 of our year. This term we are learning about Place Value in Maths. We are only in Year 1 but could you do a video on that? We would like to watch it. We found a video on YouTube about Place Value that we really enjoyed. We hope you are having lots of fun!
From Mrs. Kolenberg and Room 4 at Craigburn.
http://mrsksclass.edublogs.org
Dear Mrs. Kolenberg,
Thank you for your comment. I will try and see what I can do for you and your students. I think if we do
make that video, I’m sure you will like it.
From
Ryan.S
We are fourth graders in Iowa. We’d love to see some videos on making change, geometry, and place value – just to name a few! We’re looking forward to watching!
Dear Mrs.Thurn & 4T,
Thank you for visiting our blog, I’ll ask Mr. Avery and see what we can do for those videos. If we do them, you will see them on the blog.
Sincerely
Will G.
WOW!
Maths Movie Network looks stunning. I hope to be able to check in and see what’s happening.
I always found one of the best ways of learning maths is to try to explain how it is done to others. It makes you think about what is being done.
The best start would be to explain what you are now doing in class so new viewers can understand the idea behind Maths Network. This may draw in requests for a topic to be covered or, through comments, let you know you’re helping others.
Great start to a great idea.
Ross Mannell (teacher)
Australia
Dear Mrs. Mannell,
Thank you for the wonderful comment. I also think the Math Movie Network is a great idea. Mr. Avery has an endless mind with all of his good ideas. Thank you for commenting. I hope you enjoy our future videos.
Sincerely,
Hannah K.
Dear Mr. Avery,
I really like those videos. I was wondering, are we going to make a decimal video this year?
Sincerely,
Kirstyn M.
Dear Kirstyn,
I too like the videos. I have no idea if we’re going to have a decimal video.
From
Ryan.S
Dear Mr Avery and class,
First day, first videos – what a great start to the year. You’ve started as you mean to go on.
I’ll be very interested to see your videos as you make them, although I think the math concepts will be beyond my Year 1/2/3 students. (They are only aged 6 and 7).
I do like to pass on good links to older classes at our school, so I’m sure I’ll be recommending that they watch your programs!
Have a great year.
From,
Mrs McKenzie in New Zealand
Dear Mrs. McKenzie,
Thank you so much for visiting our blog. You were one of the first people to see the new videos that were posted yesterday. We will be making lots of videos for the Math Movie Network this year. We really appreciate you looking at our videos and we hope you continue to visit our blog throughout the year.
Sincerely
Will G.