A few weeks ago the Y3 homework 'Website of the Week' was http://www.elastoplaststories.co.uk/ . This is a website that is both great fun and extremely inventive with the use of plasters! There's also a teachers activity pack and a creative kids pack that you can download for free. One of the children in my class entered the story competition and we found out yesterday that she is one of the 3 winners! Woohoo - well done her! Her prize is a creative writing workshop for our class by the author Paul Geraghty . Her story is called 'The Sad Spider' if fancy searching for it and reading!
You create your Elastoplast story using many different plasters, you have a choice of 'moving' plasters or not and you can even add your voice!
You start with a blank storyboard and are given tools to work with - Creatures, People, Plasters and Backgrounds. You can also add description as you go through your story! I think it's a great website with much potential for use in a primary school!
If you're anything like us, we do half termly writing assesments which are then levelled and new individual writing targets are set. We did ours yesterday - great theme to do with Christmas from our Literacy co-ordinator - we're not allowed to give input as such but can talk about targets etc before giving the writing prompt. I always give the children their literacy books and get them to look at how much they have improved since they started Y3 - I LOVE to watch them do this because of how excited they become when they realise that they are better writers than in Sept - some huge gains in handwriting etc....and I pick a few children to show off their work to the whole class using the visualiser....very motivational and creates a lovely atmosphere for the writing assessment.
You create your Elastoplast story using many different plasters, you have a choice of 'moving' plasters or not and you can even add your voice!
You start with a blank storyboard and are given tools to work with - Creatures, People, Plasters and Backgrounds. You can also add description as you go through your story! I think it's a great website with much potential for use in a primary school!
If you're anything like us, we do half termly writing assesments which are then levelled and new individual writing targets are set. We did ours yesterday - great theme to do with Christmas from our Literacy co-ordinator - we're not allowed to give input as such but can talk about targets etc before giving the writing prompt. I always give the children their literacy books and get them to look at how much they have improved since they started Y3 - I LOVE to watch them do this because of how excited they become when they realise that they are better writers than in Sept - some huge gains in handwriting etc....and I pick a few children to show off their work to the whole class using the visualiser....very motivational and creates a lovely atmosphere for the writing assessment.
I love these stories!!
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!