Throughout this term we have been developing our narrative writing skills. We’ve looked at many different ways to write a detailed, interesting and exciting narrative story. We’ve looked very closely at the different features of a narrative story.
We’ve written stories and published them as word documents.
We’ve written digital stories using iPods and iPads using the app StoryKit. Some of these have been published on our English page.
Next we planned stories to use in a claymation creation. This planning is called storyboarding. Then we made our backgrounds (the setting), created the characters using plasticene and then filmed our stories using the iPad and the iStop Motion app. We’re publishing these onto our class You Tube channel. This is a private channel so only class members can see it.
To celebrate our stories we had a popcorn and movie afternoon. Each group took turns to tell us the outline of their story and then played their movie.
We thought it was wonderful to see how creative every group was. We gave each group some constructive feedback – what we thought worked well, what could have been improved and as a whole class talked about what we could do next time.
Here are some photos of our sharing session ( ok – lots of photos – they were too good to leave any out!!).
Have you used claymation to create movies?
Can you give any tips that we might be able to include next time?
Our quad blog team have enjoyed reading your blog today! We are really interested in your stories as we are going to also be writing our own in a few weeks time!
We have downloaded the ‘story kit’ app to help us! (We hope you dont mind) 🙂
Did you enjoy your movie afternoon? Our class loved this idea and would like to do this in our classroom!
This is a great idea!
From,
Class 4- Worsbrough Common Primary School
ENGLAND
How brilliant! School was never like this when I was young.
Well done Miss Sporn and pupils.
Hi Miss Sporn,
I am Liv from Castle Cove Public School.
I really liked the narratives you wrote and I think you are really lucky to have had popcorn while you watched the groups movies.
In my class we do narratives too.
Do you have a class pet and do you have a book corner?
Liv
Hi LIv,
Thanks for your comment on our blog.
We don’t have a book corner – Miss Sporn would love one with a lounge and some chairs – we just don’t have enough space!!!
Each student in our class has a book box that needs to have books that are a ‘good fit’ and that we’re interested in reading. It needs to include fiction and non fiction, picture books and novels. We also have a class library that we can choose from.
We don’t have any class pets this year – do you?
From Miss Sporns’s Class
hi!
in asembly each class has there own special asembly day and the yr3 and yr4 share an asembly the yr5 and yr6 share an asembly we read stories and do lots of other things to but i dont know what the yr5 and y6 do because im not in there class.
cool movies i thought thay were cool
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ih my name is grace
my name is poppy
your cool lots of visitors amasing work all difrent people you should be proud.
nice pictures we wish that we cold do that.
Hi, my name is Grace.
Hi, my name is Poppy.
We liked your post and we would like to know if you have to wear a uniform?
Hi Grace and Poppy,
Thanks for your email – we do wear a school uniform. It’s blue and yellow and we are wearing it in all of our photos.
Check it out.
From Miss Sporns’s Class