Lesson video

Hi everyone, Miss Bryer here and welcome to lesson three in our honey and trouble character unit.

I left you in lesson two with a bit of trivia and I wonder if you had a guess about how many muscles were in an elephant's trunk.

What do you think? Do you think it's a number in the 10s? The hundreds, the thousands? What did you think? Well, let me tell you.

There are over 40,000 muscles in elephant's trunk.

No wonder they can do all that cool stuff, picking things up and moving it around.

Do you know that's more muscles than in our whole body just in that trunk.

Amazing.

We have lots to get through in our lesson three.

Today we're going to start off with a quick game followed by a spelling activity, then we're going to move on to some new learning about the character of the monkey using our storytelling toolkit.

Then we're going to do a song.

And finally we're going to mood map our story.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil and your brain.

So if you don't have any of those things, now's the time to get them.

Pause the video now and I'll see you back here.

Oh, hi.

I was just talking to my friend Zohra here.

He was saying how honey in trouble is his favourite story.

And I was telling him about the monkey and how he's my favourite character.

Why? Well, because he does silly things, but it makes me laugh.

Why? Well, because he doesn't know the word for honey and so he says trouble and it gets him into all kinds of mess.

Why again? Well, because he hasn't gone to school yet so he doesn't know his words.

And that makes him a little bit foolish at first that wasn't it until he learns.

Good idea.

Zohra says Why don't you try the three wise game? Think of a statement like my favourite character in honey in trouble is the monkey and then get a grown up someone at home or a puppet or a teddy to ask you why three times and see if you can use because to give your reasons cause that's really good practise for storytelling.

Pause the video now to have a go at asking why.

Now we are going to do some spelling.

Do you remember in lesson one, when we looked at these letter patterns, we looked at these tch, and ch, and they both say the sound ch.

So that can make it a little bit tricky to find out which one to write if you're writing a word, so we talked about how you might have a guess.

Why did that tch normally have a short vowel sound? That's our /e/ /a/ /o/ and /u/ sounds.

Like fetch, match and pitch.

Can you hear that short /e/ sound in fetch, the pi-tch and ma-tch.

They've all got that short vowel sound in them.

So we use -tch.

A -ch digraph normally comes at the end of words with digraphs.

So words like church without the /a/ digraph.

Words like torch without /o/ digraph and words like March without /a/ digraph.

Now, we played a game in lesson one that was about trying to guess which letter pattern I would use for different words.

So I think we should play that game again.

This time with new words to give you a bit of a challenge.

Are you ready? My first word is the word Witch.

So we sound it out.

Wi-t-ch, wicth tch or ch point to the one you think.

Are you pointing? There it is.

It's -tch which has that short /i/ sound in it.

So it's a -tch.

My next word is the word Hutch.

H-u-tch, hutch.

tch or -ch? point to the one you think.

it's -tch again.

It's got that short /a/ sound in it.

My next word is the word, pooch.

P-oo-ch, pooch.

There it is.

It's just a -ch because it has the digraph /u/, in it.

How about the word stitch? Sound out with me a s-t-i-tch.

Which do you think? tch or -ch? tch, -tch because it's got that short /i/ sound in stitch.

Last one then should we do the word, beech? B-ee-ch, beach.

tch or ch? Are you pointing? It ch because it has a /e/ digraph in it.

We've learned lot of new words today.

Why don't you pause the video now to write down your new words that you've learned so that you've got those spellings in your head.

So for our new learning today, we are going to be thinking about characters we care about.

That's really important in stories.

If we don't have characters we care about, then we won't enjoy the story.

And we won't be wondering what's going to happen in the end.

So it's really important that we learn how to write and create characters we care about so that people will want to read our stories.

So the writing toolkit might be brand new to you, or you might have seen it or one of the other toolkits in another unit.

But I'm going to talk to you today like it's a brand new thing that we can all learn together.

So our learning objective today is to explore characters through what they think, what they say, how they look and what they do.

And that's what our toolkit does.

It gives us some tools and some ideas of what to do and explore characters.

How we read them as a writer and how we write them like we're a reader.

So let's have a look at the toolkit now.

When we are writing about characters we care about, we want to describe their main inner quality, that's the thing that makes them them.

And we do that through four things.

We think about their physical appearance and dress.

That's what they look like and what they wear.

It might be their hair, it might be their eyes, their mouth, their clothes, whether they are tall or short, anything about their physical appearance and dress, which makes them what they are.

They also think about that action because their personality, what they like on the inside will come out in their actions.

Maybe it's to do with what they work, or the choices they make or what they do with their friends.

All kinds of things will come about in actions.

In our story, the monkey does lots of actions, doesn't he? He runs, and he climbs up trees and he goes off to ask his friends.

So actions tell us a lot about a character.

We've also got speech, what does the character say? That tells us what they're like.

Maybe it's to do with their voice.

Maybe it's to do with how often they talk or the kind of words they use? Do they use long, complicated sentences? Or do they shout short, sharp sentences? So that might give us a big clue about their character.

And the last thing are their thoughts and feelings.

So what the different things make them think about and make them feel because how things affects them will tell us a lot about their character.

So our monkey feels a certain way when things happen to him in the story.

And that gives us a lot of clues about what he is like.

What do you think monkey is like? What do you think is his main inner quality? Perhaps you might think that he is greedy, because he goes and gets all through all of that trouble just to get the honey.

Maybe you think that he is impatient because he can't wait for more honey.

Or maybe you think that he is foolish, because he makes all of those choices, even when he's getting hurt, and even when he's not getting any closer to getting the honey that he wants.

So his main inner quality will tell us a lot about everything else to do with the monkey.

Pause the video now, while you have a think about the monkeys main inner quality.

Maybe use this sentence starter.

I think the monkey is.

and then tell me what he's like.

Tell your screen now.

I got a song beat today that's all about what the monkey is like.

Let's sing it together.

I think the monkeys main inner quality is that he is foolish.

He does lots of foolish things.

Foolish means a bit silly, and like he doesn't know what he's doing and make some very strange choices.

I've got a song for you today.

That's all about the monkey being foolish.

I'll sing it all the way through so that you can listen to it.

Are you ready? It goes like this.

♪Foolish monkey in a tree,♪ ♪falls in love with sweet honey,♪ ♪thinks it's trouble doesn't know♪ ♪tries to find some more and so,♪ ♪have you got some trouble, please?♪ ♪Now he knows honey comes from bees.

♪ Did you hear all the different ways the monkey is foolish in our story? I'll teach it to you line by line.

I'll sing a line twice and you join in on the second time.

So I'll sing then you join in.

Here we go.

♪Foolish monkey in a tree♪ your turn to join in.

♪Foolish monkey in a tree,♪ next part ♪falls in love with sweet honey,♪ your turn ♪falls in love with sweet honey,♪ Good next part.

♪thinks it's trouble doesn't know,♪ Join with me.

♪thinks it's trouble doesn't know,♪ good ♪tries to find some more and so,♪ your time ♪tries to find some more and so.

♪ Last two lines.

♪Have you got some trouble please?♪ Join with me.

♪Have you got some trouble please?♪ Last time.

♪Now he knows honey comes from bees.

♪ Let me see your bee wings.

♪Now he knows honey comes from bees.

♪ Let's try and sing it all together.

Are you ready? Off we go.

♪Foolish monkey in a tree,♪ ♪falls in love with sweet honey,♪ ♪thinks it's trouble doesn't know.

♪ ♪Tries to find some more and so,♪ ♪have you got some trouble, please?♪ Now he knows honey comes from bees.

Good job.

In that song, the monkey says and does different things that tell us what he's like.

He says, Have you got some trouble please? Which tells us how foolish he is.

And in different parts of the song.

He's doing all kinds of crazy things like he thinks it's trouble, doesn't know, that's about him thinking and feeling.

We've also got how he falls in love with sweet honey.

That's something that he does.

All of these things give us clues about that he is bullish.

Now we're going to mood map our story.

If you're not sure what that means, it means we're going to think about how the monkey is feeling, what his mood is like at different parts of the story, because that will tell us more about what he is like.

If you joined me for our lesson two where we made our story map, you will need that now.

So go and get your story map if you have it.

If not, you can use mine.

And I'll see you back here in a minute.

Pause the video now to grab your story map.

Here's my story map that I drew in lesson two.

I'm going to go through it very quickly just to remind us what happened in the story.

First, there's a lady walking into the market to sell her honey, she trips over the stone and her honey pot smashes into 100 pieces, the monkey is in the tree and he takes a taste of that sticky, sweet liquid and decides honey is his new favourite thing and what he really loves.

He goes to ask for more trouble.

What he thinks is trouble? From brother Elephant who when he asks for trouble, smacks him with his trunk on the bottom and the monkey shouts ouch! He goes to sister Tiger asked her the same question have you got some trouble that you can give me? and she crawls him across the face and the monkey shouts ouch! So off he goes to Brother Buffalo, asked him for trouble.

Brother buffalo skewers him with his sharp horns and the monkey shouts ouch! So off he goes to the wise woman of the forest.

She gives him a bag and some great advice to go to the edge of the forest and open the bag and that was where he will find all his trouble.

So he goes off and opens it.

But unfortunately, three angry dogs pop out and chase him around and he has to run up a tree to escape.

But at home, his lovely mummy opens up a cupboard and has got a pot of honey right there for him waiting.

So that's what happened in the story.

In a mood map, we want to track the feelings and the mood of a character in the story to help us know what they are like, cause that's the important thing that we're thinking about using our writing toolkit.

So I want to think about the character of the monkey, because he's our main character.

I want to know what he is like.

Now, in this first picture in the story, the monkey isn't in it yet.

So there's nothing to tell me what he's like.

So I'm going to skip it.

Same with this picture, there's no monkey here either.

So I'm going to skip this one.

Here is what we first meet our monkey.

How do you think the monkey is feeling at this part of the story? Do you think the monkey is feeling good or bad? Do you think the monkey is feeling excited? Do you think the monkey is feeling nervous? Do you think the monkey is feeling shocked? How do you think he's feeling? On your story map, see if you can have a gap to writing a word to describe how you think the monkey is feeling.

If you need to pause the video while you do it, so that you've got time to sound out and write.

I think I'm going to write the word.

delighted.

That's a good word, isn't it? Delighted is a word that means really happy.

He loves that honey, isn't he? He thinks it's trouble.

So I'm going to write deligh that's our tri-graph t-ed, delighted.

That's how he's feeling this part of the story.

Then I'm going to go and think about not how brother elephant is feeling because he's not the character I'm thinking about.

I want to think about how the monkey is feeling when he's talking to Brother elephant.

Do you think that he is pleased with what brother elephant has to say? Do you think he is scared of what brother elephant has to say? Do you think he is sad by brother elephant and his words? Maybe he's confused.

Pause the video and write down how you think the monkey is feeling when he's talking to Brother Elephant.

I think he is being feeling pretty confused.

He doesn't know why the elephant has hurt him when he just wants his trouble, which we know is honey.

So I'm going to write, confused, split digraph and confused.

That's a tricky sound.

I'm going to move on to sister Tiger.

Now his feelings for sister Tiger are about the same, aren't they? He's thinking very similar things about when the elephant speaks to him, and sister tiger, and brother buffalo because they all give him very similar reactions.

They all hurt him, and they all don't give him the trouble, honey, that he wants.

So I could use the same word or I could use a different word.

I'm going to put hurt, he is feeling hurt that his friends aren't helping him and giving him what he wants.

And moving on to Brother buffalo he was our last animal friend, wasn't he?.

So how is he feeling with brother Buffalo, the same or different? He's feeling the same, isn't he really? So I am going to put both of those words to help remind me that it's the same hurt and con-fu-s-ed confused.

Now he goes to the wise woman of the forest.

And remember, she gives him a bag that she tells him it's full of trouble.

And he really wants trouble.

So how do you think that's going to make him feel? Do you think that's going to make him feel glad? Do you think that's going to make him feel mad? Do you think it's going to make him feel sad? They are all rhyming words, rhyming feelings? I think the monkey is going to be feeling happy and relieved and excited to get his honey.

Which word should I choose? Maybe.

relieved.

I'm going to say relieved.

He's like, ah, good, I finally got my honey.

That's what relieved means, means you're really happy that something actually gone well.

He was relieved to be given the bag of trouble.

But out of that bag comes those three angry dogs.

How does that going to make him feel? Is that going to make him feel excited? It's not going to make him feel nervous? Is it going to make him feel happy? Confused again? Probably not confused.

Pause the video and write down how you think that the dog is going to feel and make sure you fill in any of your other words that you haven't done yet.

Catch up with me.

I think I'm going to use another -igh tri-graph to write.

Fr-i-gh-t-n-e-d, frightened I think the monkey is feeling very frightened of the angry dogs.

But now he's going to go home to his mummy who's going To give him what he wants.

So how do you think that's going to make him feel? Will he feel angry with mommy? Will he feel surprised at mommy? Will he feel happy that mommy has given him what he wants? You write down your word.

Pause if you need.

I'm going to write that word, that rhyming word that I found out earlier.

I'm going to write g-l-a-d, glad Glad is another word for happy.

I think he's feeling very glad that he doesn't have to go and talk to any more animals or get himself into any more trouble because his mum has sorted him out.

So here we have got all of the monkey's feelings throughout the story.

And that's going to give us big clues to what he is like as a character.

We know when he gets something that he wants, something that's food and something that he wants to eat.

He is delighted.

So that might tell us about how greedy he is.

And the fact that he keeps asking for the same thing to all of his friends and gets the same response shows that he is foolish.

So these feeling words can be really helpful for working out what monkey is like.

Pause the video if you need to, to finish off your feelings words, so that your mood map is finished.

And that's it.

What was your favourite part of our lesson today? My favourite part was when we sang our song about the foolish monkey.

Should we do it one more time? Join in with me.

♪Foolish monkey in a tree,♪ ♪falls in love with sweet honey,♪ ♪thinks it's trouble doesn't know,♪ ♪tries to find some more and so,♪ ♪have you got some trouble, please?♪ ♪Now he knows honey comes from bees.

♪ That's my favourite part.

What was yours? Tell your screen.

Perhaps, you could perform a song to somebody at home or to one of your Teddy's.

Or if you want to keep on thinking about feelings, maybe you could keep a log of how you're feeling throughout the day, draw some faces and check how you feel when you get up.

Maybe when you have breakfast, after your lunch, how do you feel in the afternoon? That might give you a bit of a map like we did with our monkey.

In lesson four, we're going to be using some words to describe what the monkey is like.

So join me then if you come, I'd love to see you there.

In our last lesson, I gave you some elephants trivia.

So today, I have some Tiger trivia for you.

And my question is this.

Tigers are an endangered species, that means there's not very many left Have them in the wild.

But how many do you think there are in the wild in the whole world? They're endangered, remember? Not very many.

How many do you think? Have a guess, I will tell you at the start of our lesson four.

I'll see you then.

Bye.