Lights Camera Action in P2B!

This week we have continued to learn  how to find equivalent values of money. We were given an amount and had to think of all of the different coins we could use to make that amount. We played two different money games on the netbooks which we have really enjoyed.
Cashing in- door way online game http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/timeandmoney/cashingin/
Till we meet again-door way online game http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/timeandmoney/tillwemeet/
These games have really helped us recognise the different coins and find the amount of change that the shop keeper should give.
Our theme this week in school has been creative industries. In P2B we have been learning about the film industry. To begin we watched a clip about how the jungle book story was created, this clip taught us all about story boards. We have learned that story boards are a sequence of sketches which are used to organise the film. After watching a clip about how Walt Disney used storyboards to make his films we then made our very own storyboard.

Miss Boyes introduced us to a broken toy which she found. Miss Boyes asked us to create our own story boards to show what we think happened to the broken toy. The aim of the lesson was to be able to sketch to represent stories, our peers were able to guess our stories from looking at our sketches.

In writing this week we used our stimulus of the broken toy and our story board to help us write imaginative stories for a film. We had to structure our writing with a beginning, middle and end. Before we began writing we thought how we would make our writing successful and wrote our own success criteria. Miss Boyes would definitely pay to go and see our films in the cinema as the storylines were fantastic.

In Drama this week we worked in groups to plan how we would act out the story of a broken doll. We thought of some great roles which we played very well: the broken toy, child who broke the toy, child who owned the toy, shop keeper and toy fixer.

We took turns to record our peers acting out their story. Miss Boyes brought a real clapperboard to school which is used at the beginning of filming. She told use about the different details that are on the board for the person who checks (the editor) the recording later.

We took turns at using the clapperboard to say action and cut! At the end of the week we watched our recorded films back on the smart board.

As part of creative industries week a visitor to the school taught us how to be creative in music. We learnt a new song, then we added in different actions to different words and finally we used the musical instruments too. We thought this was great fun and really enjoyed using the instruments.

We have really enjoyed creative industries week and we will make sure that we continue to be a creative class!

Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P2B!