Year Two Blog

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?

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

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! 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…

I think it’s fair to say that we all know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk now… At least, I HOPE we do! We have had beanstalks coming out of our ears for the last 5 weeks, and are very nearly finished with our project. On Friday we will be putting our videos on the blog.

In the meantime, have a look at this fab video made today. What do you like about the way in which she re-tells the story? What is it that makes it so exciting and interesting? Leave a comment to let us know.

Re-telling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk from jacksloan on Vimeo.

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

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!

We are getting so carried away with Jack and the Beanstalk! Let us explain what we are doing in these photographs. We were thinking about what the charaters might say or think so we did a ‘freeze frame’ to help us. The characters even included the beanstalk, clouds, gold coins, the chicken and the harp. They also made us think more about our story writing and it helped us to improve it. The storyboards are nearly ready so keep checking the blog.
Miss Douglas

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.

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?