Keep looking for new additions to the 4th quarter Art page. You can view the 7th grade “Checkerboard Designs” and the 8th Grade Hand, Ribbon and Texture Designs.

The 3rd quarter Art page is all up to date. Be sure to lokk at all the great art created this past quarter, As the 4th quarter progress, their work will replace the 3rd  quarter students.

Our 2nd quarter students just finished creating their own computer generated animations. The MLTI program, unique to the the State of Maine, helps to make this project a reality. Every student is issued the use of a laptop for their two years at the Middle School.  This project helps students to explore additional uses of their computer beyond word processing and web surfing. This was a very exciting project, the results of which you can see by checking out the MMS animation page.
       We started this project with a lesson on cartooning.  Afterwards, each student brainstormed ideas for their own animation.  Students then drew, painted, outlined and cut their cartoon characters and backgrounds out of paper.  Utilizing a digital camera and the Apple iMovie software, students began constructing their animations, frame-by-frame. After the animation was complete, students added a soundtrack (often mixing voice and music).  Once the animation was finished, it was rendered as a QuickTime movie.  Each movie has been uploaded to the school server and is available for viewing here.
      If you have any questions on how this was done, feel free to email me at Lucille_Hussey@fc.sad57.k12.me.us 

The 7th and 8th grade Boys and Girls Basketball and the Winter Cheering pictures are now posted our our Sports Page! Enjoy the slide show and good luck to our Mustangs!

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