Year 2 LOVE Traction Man by Mini Grey

Over the last few weeks Year 2 have been looking at the story of Traction Man by Mini Grey. We love the adventurous missions he goes on and the different costumes he wears for them! After learning about the story, describing the main character and creating our own costumes for Traction Man to wear, we started to plan our own version of “Traction Man’s visit to school”. In groups we planned his mission, thinking about who would be the victim (e.g. The Poor Pens) and enemy (e.g. Wicked Professor Ruler) in the classroom. Then we set up a mission scenario using things from around our class and our very own Traction Man Action figure. We recorded mini movies of the scenes with narrations and then wrote up our stories using our movies. Our final stories are amazing – even if we do say so ourselves!

 

We created bridges for Traction Man to cross out of glue sticks and books” width=”300″ height=”225″ /> We created bridges for Traction Man to cross out of glue sticks and books, a forest of pens and a sea of maths counters – it was lots of fun!

 

We created zip wires from string, parachutes from pencil cases, swamps out of scissors – all for Traction Man’s school adventure! We LOVED filming them too! We created zip wires from string, parachutes from pencil cases, swamps out of scissors – all for Traction Man’s school adventure! We LOVED filming them too!