Lesson video

Hello everybody, it is me, Miss McCartney and I am so excited to continue our learning today.

We are going to learn some more about our story, "The marriage of Ganesh" that we heard for the first time in lesson one of unit 10.

Today we are going to be having a closer look at the mood of the story.

Storytelling superstars, in our lesson today to be the best you can be, you will need to prepare by having these three things.

You will need a piece of paper or something to write on, a pencil or something to write with and your wonderful creative brain.

Pause the video now if you need to go and collect any of those things.

Fantastic, let's have a look at what we will be learning today.

We are going to start off by learning a spelling rule, we are then going to draw a mood graph together to explore the mood in our story a little bit more.

We are then going to develop our understanding by looking at some different scenarios in our story.

Let's start with our spelling rule today.

We are going to be adding the suffixes -er and -est to our root words, but it is a little bit tricky today because we have to do something to our root word before we add our suffix.

Let's have a closer look with an example.

I have got the word 'big', I then add my suffix -er to make the word 'bigger'.

I can also add the suffix -est to make the word 'biggest'.

Can you have a look at your screen and see what I have added to the word 'big' before I have added my suffixes -er and -est? Hmm, have a really close look.

Can you whisper to your screen what you notice? Oh, I heard some of our learners say that we had to add an extra 'g' and you are correct, well done.

We need to add an extra 'g' because it is a consonant.

Hmm, can you say the word consonant? My turn, consonant your turn.

Brilliant, now a consonant is any letter that is not a vowel.

Let's remind ourselves of what our five vowels are.

They are' a, e, I, o and u.

So the first thing we need to understand about our rule is that all of our words today have a vowel before the last letter which is a consonant.

So I would like you to pause the video now and look at the words 'fit', 'sad' and 'fun' and find the vowel before the last letter.

You can point to it on your screen.

Brilliant, so in the word 'fit' before the last letter which is a consonant, we have the vowel 'i'.

This time I want you to shout the vowel with me.

In the word 'sad' before our last letter which is a consonant, we have the vowel 'a' fantastic.

And in our last word 'fun' before our last letter which is a consonant, we have the vowel 'u'.

Fantastic, now that we have looked at our words and found our vowels, let's look at what we need to do next.

I have got the vowels at the top of the page to remind us.

I have then got the word 'fit', 'sad', and 'fun' and you can see the vowels that you just found highlighted in our words.

Let's look at our first example.

We have added the suffix -er to 'fitter' but we have added an extra 't' because it is the consonant after our vowel 'fitter'.

Hmm, we have now got the word 'fittest'.

What do you notice about the word 'fitter' and 'fittest'? Can you notice something that is similar? Well done, I could see some people pointing to the word 'fittest' and noticing that we also had to add an extra 't' because it is a consonant after our vowel.

Let's have a look at our next word 'sad' and I would like you to pause the video and write down the words 'sadder' and 'saddest', do that now.

Okay, let's have a look to see how you added your suffixes -er and -est.

If we add the suffix -er to 'sad' we need to add an extra 'd' first because it is the consonant after our vowel and you should have spelt 'sadder' like this.

If you did, give yourself a big tick and if you didn't that's also okay because you can fix it and learn from your mistake.

I wonder if we wrote the word 'saddest' like this with two 'd's.

Did you add an extra 'd' before you added your suffix? If you did give yourself a tick and if you did not, you can fix it and learn from your mistake.

Let's have a look at the word 'fun'.

I would like you to add the suffix -er and the suffix -est to make the words 'funner' and 'funnest'.

Can you pause your video now to write down those two words? Excellent, let's have a look.

When I write the word 'funner' I add another 'n', I double my consonant because before my 'n' in my root word there is the vowel 'u'.

I can see some people who have learnt the rule now and have got it right, well done.

Let's have a look at our last word 'funnest'.

We should have added an extra 'n' before we added our suffix -est.

Again, if you got it right give yourself a big tick and if you didn't that is okay, can you fix your mistake? It is over to you to put your spelling rules into practise now.

You can see on the slide I have the root words 'big', 'fit', 'sad' and 'fun'.

What you are going to do is create two sentences about our story, "The marriage of Ganesh".

You can create any sentence about the story that you would like but it has to include two of the root words with either the suffix -er or -est.

Pause your video now to create your wonderful sentences.

Today we are going to be drawing a mood map to better explore the different moods that we learn about in our story.

But what does mood mean? As storytellers, we can explore the mood of a story to better understand the characters' emotions and our emotions.

When all the different events happen in a story it makes the character and the reader or the listener feel different moods and that takes us on a wonderful journey.

Let's have a look at Miss.

McCartney's mood.

You can see at the bottom on the left, I have a really angry and frustrated face that is red.

Above that I have an orange face that is sad.

In the middle I have a yellow face and this face neither feels happy nor sad, it feels in the middle.

Then we have a happy green face and an even happier face right at the top.

We could say that the face at the top symbolises when a character feels elated.

That means they feel really really happy.

I have got five events here that occur in the story and we are going to be thinking about how the characters feel and what their mood is like at these different points.

Now you can read along with me as I read out the events.

Number one, the brothers decide to race.

That happens right at the beginning of our story.

Number two, Kartikeya swims from island to island when he is racing around the world.

Number three, Ganesh wins the challenge.

Number four, Ganesh and Buddhi marry.

Number five, Kartikeya thinks Ganesh has cheated when he finds out what really happened at the end of our story.

What I would like you to do is to draw the same mood graph that I have.

And you may notice at the bottom I have the numbers one two three four and five and those match with the events that I have just read out.

So draw your mood graph and then where it says number one, you are going to put a cross on the face that you think best describes how the brothers felt when they decided to race.

So for example, Miss.

McCartney would put a cross next to the green face and above number one because I think both of the brothers would have would have felt mostly excited but a little bit nervous.

Pause the video now, draw your mood graph and put a cross above each number next to the face that you think best describes the characters' moods.

Fantastic, I wonder if you could hold your mood graph up to the camera so that I can have a little look.

Oh, it's really interesting because there wasn't a right or wrong answer to this task.

It is your opinion of how you think the characters would have felt but we are now going to explore that in a little bit more depth.

Number one, the brothers decide to race.

On your screen I have four different words and we are going to practise saying them using my turn your turn because some of them might be new words.

Anxious, your turn.

Apprehensive, your turn.

Determined, your turn.

Courageous, your turn.

Fantastic pronunciation everybody.

Okay, underneath each of my words, I have another word that might help you to understand.

So underneath anxious, I have the word nervous because anxious has a similar meaning to the word nervous.

Under apprehensive, I have written something bad might happen.

So if you ever get that feeling in your tummy where you feel like something bad is going to happen, that means that you feel apprehensive.

Determined means that you are committed to achieve.

You are going to put 100 effort in to make sure that you reach your goal.

And courageous has a similar meaning to brave.

So, you probably decided your own words when you plotted number one on your mood graph but now I would like you to choose the best word that you think describes how the brothers felt.

So your sentence stem is, "When the brothers race they might feel because.

." Your second sentence stem is, "This part of the story makes me feel because.

." I wonder if you are going to use the same word or a different word for each of those sentences.

Pause your video now and you can say your sentence to me on the screen or you can use your Teddy talk partner.

Okay, I'm going to share with you the words that I chose.

When the brothers race they might feel apprehensive because they are visiting places they have never been before and they might get lost.

This part of the story makes me feel determined because I cannot wait to listen and find out what happens on the journey.

Okay, let's move on to number two.

When Kartikeya swims from island to island we are going to do my turn your turn again.

Distressed, your turn.

Exhilarated, your turn.

Enlightened, your turn.

Curious, your turn.

Fantastic, there are lots of new words today so remember that the other words underneath are going to help us to really make sense of meaning.

So distressed, if you are distressed you can feel very concerned and very worried.

If you are exhilarated, this is a positive feeling where you are filled with energy.

If you feel enlightened then you feel knowledgeable and you have actually gone on a journey and learnt something new.

If you feel curious then you are eager to know more and you might start to ask some questions.

So I wonder which of those four words would best describe how Kartikeya felt when he was swimming from island to island and how you felt when you listened to that part of the story.

So your first sentence stem is, "When Kartikeya swims between islands he might feel because.

." "This part of the story makes me feel because.

." Pause your screen now and decide which of those words best fit into the sentence.

Excellent, so again when I was listening really carefully I could hear lots of different opinions but that is fantastic and what is important is that we use the conjunction 'because' to explain why we have come to that decision.

Let's hear what I thought.

When Kartikeya swims between islands he might feel distressed because actually when I swim I get really tired so I think Kartikeya might get really tired and he might not be able to see his destination.

This part of the story makes me feel curious because I asked myself lots of questions about the animals that he met in the sea.

I wanted to know more.

Let's move on to number three, Ganesh wins the challenge and there are some words again on the screen and some of my favourite words actually.

So let's do my turn your turn again.

My turn smug, your turn.

Triumphant, your turn.

Apprehensive, your turn.

Superior, your turn.

Remember in the brackets we have some phrases and words to help us to understand our key words.

So the word smug.

If somebody is feeling smug, they feel really pleased with themselves and they feel a little bit cheeky.

If you feel triumphant then you are really excited because you have achieved a great victory and you have made progress over somebody else.

We have already had the word apprehensive.

Remember that means when you have that feeling in your tummy that something bad might happen.

And if you feel superior then you feel like you are better than everybody or somebody else.

So let me read your sentence stems and you can choose the word that best describes how Ganesh feels when he wins the challenge.

"When Ganesh wins the challenge he might feel because.

." "This part of the story makes me feel because.

." Pause your video now and remember you can talk to me on the screen or you can talk to a Teddy talk partner.

Okay, I'm going to share with you my opinion now and it might be different from your opinion and that's what makes talking about stories so brilliant.

When Ganesh wins the challenge he might feel smug because he gets to throw the feast but actually he knows that Kartikeya doesn't actually know the real reason why he won.

This part of the story makes me feel a bit apprehensive because I feel sorry for Kartikeya, it was Kartikeya's idea to host the game but he has lost and he actually doesn't know why he has lost.

Okay, let's move on to number five.

Ganesh and Buddhi marry.

So again, we are going to do my turn your turn.

Content, your turn.

Optimistic, your turn.

Elated, your turn.

Proud, your turn.

Okay, so the word content means that you are at peace with yourself, you're feeling really happy and at peace with yourself.

If you are optimistic then you feel really hopeful that things will work.

We have already encountered the word elated on our mood graph slide and that means when you are extremely happy.

And our last word, proud, I'm sure that you're feeling proud because of your learning today.

It means you're feeling really pleased with yourself.

This time I'm going to share my example first and then you are going to pause the video and either speak to your Teddy talk partner or to me on the screen.

When Ganesh and Buddhi marry he might feel really optimistic.

He might feel really excited about the future because he has learned all these wonderful things about Buddhi and is looking forward to spending their life together.

When Ganesh and Buddhi marry she might feel really elated because she has met somebody that she admires and has similar interest to her.

This part of the story makes me feel really elated because it has a really happy ending.

Pause your video now and decide which words you think best fit these sentences.

Excellent, we have done lots of difficult learning today, learning lots of difficult new words so I am so impressed with everybody.

Let's move on to number five, our final event in the story and look at the mood here.

Again, we are going to do my turn your turn to make sure that we know how to say our new words.

My turn furious, your turn.

Disappointed, your turn.

Deceived, your turn.

Resentful, your turn.

Okay, so the mood in the story is very different here to perhaps some of the other events that we have explored.

If you are furious then you are full of anger.

If you are disappointed you feel sad because of failure, something hasn't worked out the way that you thought it would.

If you feel deceived then you feel that somebody or something has tricked you.

And if you feel resentful you feel really bitter which means you feel really angry and you don't feel happy for the other person.

So again this time, I'm going to share my example with you first.

And then you are going to pause your video.

When Kartikeya thinks Ganesh has cheated he might feel resentful because actually he has just learned that Ganesh won and hosted the feast but he didn't race around the world in the way that Kartikeya did.

And Kartikeya worked really really hard travelling from all those different places.

So I think he would feel quite resentful towards his brother.

This part of the story makes me feel.

Now actually none of these words describe how I felt so I'm going to choose my own one.

This part of the story made me feel curious because I had to decide, did I think that Ganesh had cheated and had done the wrong thing or did I think that he actually came up with his own rules and he didn't cheat because he didn't actually tell a lie.

So I felt really curious.

Pause your video now and decide which of those words you think best fit the sentences.

Excellent, I am so impressed with all our learners today because we have explored the mood throughout different points of the story and we have learned so many new words.

So I would like you to give yourself some shine and make yourself feel all warm and happy because you should be super proud.

Okay, so now we have our deep thinking section of our lesson.

I would like you to think about these sentences, I'm going to read them now.

When Ganesh won the challenge he saw.

So I want you to think about Ganesh winning the challenge when he is speaking to Kartikeya.

What might he have seen? When Ganesh won the challenge he decided to.

What do you think he was thinking in his head when he won the challenge? When Ganesh won the challenge Kartikeya.

And you can decide how to finish that sentence in any way that you would like.

Pause the video now and finish those sentences.

Brilliant, I could see lots of people with confused faces because they were thinking really hard.

I am going to share with you my examples now.

When Ganesh won the challenge he saw Kartikeya look to the floor and not make eye contact.

And that tells me that Kartikeya was really shocked and disappointed and he didn't want to look at his brother.

When Ganesh won the challenge he decided to.

I think he would have decided to talk to his servants in the palace straight away and get the best music arranged for the feast.

When Ganesh won the challenge Kartikeya decided he would go to the feast even though he had lost because he respected his brother.

Fantastic learning today.

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