Year Two Blog

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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

Today we began the process of editing our Jack and the Beanstalk videos. We put together all our hard work from this half term – our storyboard photos, our recordings, artwork and creativity. It is not finished yet, but I was very impressed with the way in which my class got on with the job. Video editing is fiddly and technical, and they really took to it!

You will be able to see the finished product tomorrow… Enjoy!

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.

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 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?

We have been thinking about credits for our film. Credits are the bit at the end which tell you who made the film. They are usually pretty boring, but not in 2JS! We have designed beautiful backgrounds which we want to use. Each group will have their own picture with a photograph of them with their group in it.

It is YOUR job to vote for your favourite for each group. Just click on the voting pad and click “vote” for each group.

Thanks!

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Mr Sloan

Here it is… 2AT’s stunning assembly looking at poetry. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment please!

2AT Class assembly – Poetry from jacksloan on Vimeo.

Last week 2HD put on a fantastic assembly for Key Stage 1. Have a look and let them know what you think by leaving them a comment.

2HD Class Assembly November 2009 from jacksloan on Vimeo.