La Luna is a new animated short film from Pixar that will be shown in Cinemas before lasts weeks 'Resource of the Week' Brave. The film will be 8 minutes long in total. La Luna is the timeless fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work
Teaching Ideas
Use the last few seconds of the clip to stimulate rich descriptive writing. You could introduce similes and metaphors to describe the moon and the sea.
Use the last few seconds of the clip to stimulate rich descriptive writing. You could introduce similes and metaphors to describe the moon and the sea.
Dialogue between the characters, an opening scene, a story board showing the action between the two clips, extend the story and write an ending
The children could write diary entries for the day before the fishing trip and one after the trip describing the 'star fishing.'
They could write instructions for how to catch a star or poems about the night sky and shooting stars.
Write a voice over for the film trailer then record it and add to the films.
The children could write a narrative about someone who collects stars