Year Two Blog

Off with the head hes in bed he feels relly ded.
Cut of his nose & put them on his tose.
Off with the neck it wont take a secc.
Off with the arms there in a farm.
Off with the beely my welly is eating my belly.
Off with the legs they look like pegs.
Off with the feet put them a streets.
By Leo

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?

Today we looked at our writing in lots of detail. We were checking some recent work and looking for things like how well we used dialogue, description and punctuation. We thought about whether our writing made sense, and whether we were joining our letters.

To help with this, we swapped books and looked at each others’ work too. Was it useful? What do you need to improve in your writing? Leave a comment.

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

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?

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?

This week we have been looking at dialogue. We have thought about what the characters in Jack and the Beanstalk might say, and beginning to use speech marks to write it down.

Have a go at this activity. You have to add speech marks in the right places. To add speech marks using a computer keyboard, just hold the shift key and press the 2 key once. Good luck

Add the speech marks

For bonus points, why not print off what you do and bring it in to school?

Today we looked at Tony Ross’ version of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. The wolf isn’t so mean in this version. This is what Palvasha thinks he might say if he was to explain himself:

I am nice but people dont see it.I am so sad that my parents are dead.I am sad because i have no family and i am so sad about that.I am very cross with the villagers because the villagers killed my wolf family.I want to kill them and see if they like it.

Kate wrote some brilliant descriptive sentences today about the character of Harry from Tony Ross’ version of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. If you haven’t read it, Harry (the boy who cries “Wolf!”) is pretty mean and silly. This is what Kate has to say about him. Click on the little picture for the full version.

What could Kate improve? Remember to be a critical friend – tell her what you like, then tell her something she could improve in a nice way!