Lesson video

Hello there.

I'm Mrs. Howley, and this is Cedric and we're ready to go on another journey with our senses today, Are you? Can you remember what they are? We can hear, we can see, we can touch and feel, we can smell and we can taste.

I'm ready to use my senses today, and so is Cedric.

In today's lesson, we're going to box up the story of Awongalema, the purpose, looking at how we can describe the senses in each section.

We're going to start with some spelling.

Then we're going to retell the story, using lots of senses.

Then we're going to box up the story, and then we're going to explore one section using our senses.

In this lesson, you'll need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil, or a pen, and your brilliant brain.

Pause the video now, if you need to collect any of those things and then press play as soon as you're ready.

Cedric and I have been creating our imaginary windows again, Cedric is in his imaginary window at the moment.

What could we ask him about the senses? Hmm.

What can you hear Cedric? Birds singing and the rustling of leaves.

What else could we ask him? What can you see Cedric? Dark shadows.

What else can we ask? What can you smell Cedric? Ooh, sweet perfumed flowers.

And, what can you feel Cedric? The cold ground and a breeze.

Where do you think Cedric is through his imaginary window? Are you in a forest, Cedric? Yes, our story is set in a forest but a forest in Africa where it hasn't rained.

Let's get started with our spelling now, we're going to have to use our sense of sight to look really carefully at the end of these words.

Our first word you might need to use when you're describing something, you can hear it's the word buzz, buzz.

Ooh I love saying that word because it makes a buzz.

Can you try? Buzz.

I've noticed there's two consonants at the end of that word.

There's a double Zed that makes that ZZ sound, buzz.

What can you spot at the end of this word? That's right, it's got a double S, Grass.

That makes that SS sound at the end of the word, grass.

Then we've got the word puff and you're right.

We've got a double consonant at the end of that word too a double F that makes that FF sound, puff.

Now we've got two consonants this time, but we've got our CK sound in both of the ways that it's written.

So It's a double ck with a C and a K.

And that's what you'll see at the end of words, with a CK sound.

Back, back.

Bell we've got a double consonant again, a double L this time.

What sound does it make? Uuu.

Bell well done? Each of these words has a double consonant at the end.

Practise writing each of these words down and look out for those tricky bits, look out for the double consonant.

Pause the video now, write them down and then press play when you're ready.

What can you remember about the Awongalema story? I love this story, and I love that we can explore it using our senses.

I'm going to retell it now, but only using the senses.

Cedric's going to ask me some questions about it and I'm going to use my story map.

At the start of the story, all of the animals are sat under the huge Acacia tree, there'd been no rain.

What can I hear? What could I hear? I could hear stomachs rumbling and animals groaning with hunger.

Great question, Cedric.

Lion stepped forward and he told the animals that they needed to know the name of the tree, and then it would give them fruit.

Cheetah volunteered first and ran up the mountain.

What could I see? Clouds of dust, because he ran so quickly.

He, bumped into an ant Hill on the way back down and forgot the name.

Who did they send next? Lion.

What could I see? When lion stepped forward, all of the other animals looked up, aah.

Adoringly, smiling from ear to ear.

Then lion ran up the mountain as fast as he could.

As fast as the wind, he ran and he ran and he ran and he got to the top and called out.

Mountain spirits, talk to me, tell me the name of the old, old tree.

What could you hear then? The echoes of the mountain spirits, echo, echo, echo across the mountain and across the distance, but then he also bumped into an anthill, and forgot the name.

So then they sent the Jaguar.

The jaguar, run up the mountain ran, ran, ran as fast as he could, as fast as the wind, heard the name from the mountain spirits.

He, hit an ant hill.

How did that feel? Biting pain all over.

Great question.

Great question, Cedric.

And then he forgot the name and they had to send the tortoise.

What could you hear? Then? You could hear the plod, plod, plod of the tortoise, slowly and quietly making his way up to the mountain top.

He took his time, Cedric.

Remembered the name, came back down and then there's the moment, when he said the name and the tree was filled with the most delicious fruit.

Oh, it smelt sweet Cedric and delicious.

The mouths were watering.

Ooh, and then they, mmm.

they could taste the delicious, refreshing fruit and they felt so happy.

Thank you for helping me Cedric use my senses when I retold that.

When you're getting ready to write a really useful thing to do is to box up the story, break it up into sections that we're going to write.

Now, we're focusing on one of the building blocks that brilliant storytellers and writers use, vivid description using all the senses.

So when we break the story intersections, we're going to think about what we can describe in each section using our five senses.

Okay.

So line down the middle.

So I've got my two sections and then four lines across one, two, three, four.

That's going to give me five sections for my boxing up.

One, two, three, four, and five.

So the first part of the story that we're going to want to describe is that moment under the huge Acacia tree, with the sun burning down and the animals are so hungry.

The second part that I'd really like to describe is where the animals, one of the animals is running up the Hill, really running as fast as the wind, that word fast is really important.

The next part of the story I'd like to describe is one of the animals hitting the anthill.

Ant, hill.

And then in contrast to that, we've got the tortoise.

I'm going to draw the tortoise's shell and think about when the tortoise plod, plod plods up the mountain, add a little tail as well.

And then the final moment I would love to describe is that moment where the tree is filled with fruit.

When the tortoise says the word Awongalema and it fills with the most delicious fruit.

I'll draw, a few pieces of fruits here to remind me as well.

Now let's think about each of those sections.

What can we describe using all of our senses? What can we describe in each of those sections? So in the first section, one of the things we can describe is how hot it is, the heat, and also how hungry the animals are and how dry the ground is.

Ground, how dry and bare it is, and the animals are so hungry.

I'm going to draw one of the animals, just remind me about the animals drooling because they were so hungry thinking about the fruit and also their tummies rumbling.

Drooling, grumbling, my tummy is rumbling now thinking about it.

Now, this section where the animals are running, running, running, running as fast as they can up the mountain.

Hmm.

What types of things could be described? Maybe clouds of dust as they zoom up the Hill.

Dust, as they zoom, zoom and in the story, it says they run like the wind because they're so fast.

That description really helps me to see it.

Like the tricky word, wind.

Now, what about when they hit that anthill? What types of things can we describe then? Can describe that pain that Oww!! I love that part of the story.

We're describing the pain, what do you think that pain might feel like? Might be itchy? It might feel.

I'll Draw lots of ants there to remind me.

It might feel like they're biting you all over, when they get bitten all over.

You might also be able to describe maybe the sound of the animals, screaming in pain.

Screaming, screaming.

And then the next part of the story, what types of things can we describe here? Where now the tortoise is on his way up the Hill.

He's going to plod.

I see him plodding.

You might hear him plodding, but he's soo.

Slow.

And in contrast, he might be quite quiet as he goes up the dusty path, plod, plod, plod.

I want to draw that path and think about describing dusty, dusty path.

And then finally, the last section we need to box up is the one where we've got all of the fruit from the tree and how might that taste? We're going to describe how sweet the fruit is, how juicy it tastes I can imagine all that juice dripping down their chins.

What might it look like might be able to see the bright colours of the fruit, right? You might be able to hear that munching, munching and you might be able to hear the sound of the cheers.

These are all things we can describe using all of our senses.

You can have a go now at boxing up the story of Awongalema, you might choose different things that you want to describe.

You might draw pictures or you might use words.

That's absolutely fine.

Press pause now, so you can have a go and then press play when you're boxing up is ready.

In lesson three of this unit, we created a sensory grid based on the first scene in Awongalema, but I'd really like to get to grips with that final scene we boxed up, the moment when all of the creatures have the fruit his tumbling from the trees.

I'd love to explore that with all of our senses.

So we're going to create a sensory grid now for that scene.

Okay.

So line down the middle, line across the page to create my four sections for my senses.

And again, I'm to do what we can see in this box.

I'm going to do what we can here in this box, what we can taste and smell as well.

And then what we can touch what we can feel.

So this is the moment where the fruit has finally arrived.

What are we going to see? We are going to see smiling faces.

Smiling, faces a bit diagraph, aces faces, that S on the end for our plural.

I'm going to draw, some of that colourful fruit going to see those shapes, round and colourful and in the tree, let's see those bright colours.

Let's have a thing there with that sweet taste, sweet, fresh, delicious, delicious fruit.

And I also think the flavours of that fruit after having no food will be mouthwatering.

Juicy, that's my pitch of the juicy.

Lets have a thing there about what we might hear.

Munching, the animals munching on that fruit, you might hear the sound of it falling down to the ground.

Thud! Because the tree is full of fruit.

You might hear the animals.

Hurray!!! Cheers.

What might you feel to the touch when you're handling that fruit? Some of the fruit might be rough and some of it might be smooth, rough.

Some of it might be smooth, probably think of those textures of that fruit, and it would feel wet, and also sticky.

Why don't you have a try now at creating a sensory grid for that scene.

Really think about what you would see, what you would taste, what you would hear, what you might feel.

Pause the video now and have ago.

Cedric, great work, getting to grips with what our was story is all about and how we can describe in it.

Yeah.

You deserve a jungle cheer.

Are you ready? Uh.

Amazing.

We can't wait to start developing our toolkit now for describing using all of those senses, we're really looking forward to the next lesson.

We'll see you soon.

Bye.