Tell Me a Story

As a part of our Sharing Time topics that relate to our Inquiry unit we were asked to ‘tell a story’ to the class. It can be very challenging to tell a story – not read it or have a book with you for support. It showed just how brave the students were and so well organised.

We are learning about all the different ways stories can be told – like books, drawings, telling stories, performances, songs, plays, etc.

This we the class were so creative with their storytelling. We had such a variety of ideas presented.

We heard stories told through:

  • plays
  • puppet plays
  • home made puppets and theatres brought in
  • pictures glued in sequence to tell a story
  • apps used on iPad like Puppet Pals
  • plays told with trees and characters
  • Lego characters used
  • and so many more!!!!

Nearly all of the materials used were home made by the students and many stories were created by the students, which showed just how clever and creative they are!

Here’s photos from
Tell Me a Story on PhotoPeach

What did you think of our storytelling sessions?

iStop Motion Movies

Here are some of the claymation iStop Motion Movies our class has created.

This is the first time we’ve had a go at trying to tell a narrative story in this format.

After our popcorn and viewing afternoon we reflected upon our movies – the quality of them and ways to improve them. We thought that for a first attempt our movies were pretty good. Each group told a story, we could easily see the characters and how they contributed to the story and the plasticene characters were well made.

We’ve decided to add music to add more interest, we need more screen shots to make our movies longer, we needed larger backgrounds so that we couldn’t see anything but the background (no movement or people in shots) – we think these changes will add far more detail to our stories and make them more interesting.

Here are some of the movies ( we’re having a few technical hiccups publishing some of them onto You Tube ).

 



Tell us what you thought of our movies. Can you give us any tips or tricks that might help us to improve our movies?

Have you tried claymation before? Did you use iStop Motion to record them