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Re-telling fairytales in 2JS

Posted by Mr Sloan on 24 February 2010, 5:12 pm

This week the children in 2JS chose a fairytale they enjoyed and re-told it. I didn’t give them any help! Here are three examples. What do you think? I’m sure the authors would love to hear what you enjoyed as well as what they could improve on.

Now for Emily’s. Now Emily decided to change her story quite a bit, but I think she did a great job of staying close enough to the traditional version whilst still being VERY imaginitive! Can you tell which story she changed?

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“Jack and the Beanstalk” – a film by 2JS

Posted by Mr Sloan on 12 February 2010, 4:54 pm

Here it is… You can click here for a really good quality version, or view it in the Voicethread below
PLEASE let us know what you think by leaving a comment. See the Voicethread in full-screen here

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2AT ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ SNEAK PEEK

Posted by year2 on 7 February 2010, 6:31 pm

The children in 2AT will be putting the finishing touches to their ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ video this week! It’s all very exciting. Here is a sneak peek at whats to come!
Miss Tucker

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Jack and the Beanstalk film premiered in 2JS

Posted by Mr Sloan on 5 February 2010, 4:16 pm

Wow! It’s done. I’m ready for a good night’s sleep and our film is finished. Well done to all of my wonderful class for producing something truly amazing for their age.

We premiered our film to some lovely children from 1KJ this aternoon, and they seemed very impressed. We talked to them before the film, sharing how we made our film. They had some great questions and I was very impressed with the way in which my class looked after the little ones! Here are some photos of the afternoon.

You will have to wait another hour or so for the full video I’m afraid! Keep checking…

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Traditional tale activities

Posted by Mr Sloan on 2 February 2010, 8:41 am

Have a look at these activities. Can you sequence the stories and describe the characters?

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Video production in Year 2. Jobs for the week…

Posted by Mr Sloan on 31 January 2010, 1:29 pm

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This week, our mission is to finish our Jack and the Beanstalk video project. There is still a lot to do, but we hope that all the people who visit our blog will help and support us in the next five days.

So. This is what we need to do:

  1. Rehearse our scripts and work on expression, character voices and clarity.
  2. Record our scripts using voice recorders.
  3. Photograph our stage sets.
  4. Import the voice recordings and photos into Microsoft Moviemaker.
  5. Sequence the story and edit the eudio.
  6. Add credits and titles to our videos.
  7. Publish our videos and upload them to the blog using Vimeo.

Once we have done all of this, we will probably need a weekend… In the last week of half term we will be evaluating our work. Stay tuned!

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Storyboard scripts – finished in 2JS!

Posted by Mr Sloan on 29 January 2010, 4:17 pm

Here are our finished scripts. Each child in each group chose a colour for themselves to help them remember which is their part. They are practicing their parts over the weekend, and we will begin to record them on Monday. Does the story make sense?
What do you think of their hard work?

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Can you help some of my class finish writing a story?

Posted by Mr Sloan on 28 January 2010, 8:38 pm

Group 10 from our storyboard project are VERY good writers. However, they didn’t quite get to the end of the story today…

Can you help them to finish off? Can you suggest some interesting descriptive sentences or some exciting dialogue? Leave a comment with your ideas please.

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Guided writing in Year 2

Posted by Mr Sloan on 27 January 2010, 6:40 pm

Here are the first 7 examples of writing done in 2JS this week. These are part of our storyboard project (see the post below). I think the children did a fantastic job working in their groups of three. They came up with imaginative, interesting, and clever ways to tell their part of the story.

What do you like about their work?

What could they improve?

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Jack and the Beanstalk – What are we up to in 2JS?

Posted by Mr Sloan on 26 January 2010, 7:03 pm

We have been VERY busy in the last couple of weeks. We have been working hard in groups of three on our big project for the half term. So how does it all work?

  • First we split the story of Jack and the Beanstalk into 10 parts. Each group of three children took a part of the story.
  • In our groups we are doing lots of drama, art and talking about the story, about the characters and about the settings. We have been thinking especially about the reasons why different characters behaved in the way that they did – why did Jack’s mum send Jack to sell the cow and not go herself? Why does the old woman live with the Giant? Who is the old man who gives Jack the magic beans?
  • We designed stage sets which we are now making into 3d story-boards. You can see how far we have got at the in the photos above.
  • We are also writing scripts in our groups. We are thinking about the section of the story that we have designed, and are trying to include lots of detail, description and interesting words. You can see some of our writing here Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 5
  • Our next jobs are to practice reading our scripts, deciding on who will take on which roles. We will record ourselves next week.
  • We need to photograph our finished boxes, complete with characters that we will make.
  • Finally we will put it all together into a film which we will put on the blog… Keep checking!

What do you think of our work? What do you like? What could we improve on?

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