Year Two Blog

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?