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

Wow! What a lot of hard work we have all done in the last few weeks. Today we finally finished and photographed our storyboards which means that we can start editing our film tomorrow in literacy. We don’t want to give too much away before our film premiere on Friday, but here’s a sneak peak at our storyboards without the characters… I am incredibly proud of the work which 2JS have been doing. Well done!

Can you see the characters perched up on out whiteboard too? It looks as though they all sorted out their differences in the end!

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?

Right. School’s out. It’s -4 outside in Chorlton and there is LOTS of snow! Tell us what you have been getting up to by leaving a comment here, or why not have a go at uploading a photo or two? It’s really not that hard, but you will need an adult to help you out. You can find instructions here

I had a great snowball fight with some friends yesterday, and saw Mikey, Milan and Alfie having a great time on their sledges. I also went for a beautiful walk in Chorlton Ees where the snow was really thick and the sunshine was beautiful. Here are some pictures of my walk. Enjoy the snow everyone!

New instructions for how to add a picture to a blog post are on the Year 2 blog. Check them out here. Are you up to the challenge?

All those who manage it before the end of next week will get a special prize from Mr Sloan…

Good luck!