Lesson video

Hi everyone! My name is Miss Toole and this is my friend Peter.

We love to find out information and one of the ways we do that is by playing a game called "Tell Me More." You will need your teddy to play this game, so pause the video now, go and grab a teddy, and come back to the screen.

Fantastic! Okay.

Let me explain how you play the game.

I am going to say a sentence, and then Peter is going to ask me to tell me more about a certain point in my sentence.

I'll tell him more and then he's going to pick something else for me to tell him more about.

So, are you ready? Tigers live in the wild and hunt for their food.

Tell you more about hunters? Hunters live out in the wild looking for what they want to eat.

They kill their food themselves and then eat it.

The wild is where there are lots of animals and there is usually trees, and rivers, and lakes.

It's where the animals get to live in their natural habitat.

Tell you more about habitats? This is where an animal or a human lives, where they are comfortable.

They have everything they need in order to survive - that might be shelter, it might be food, it might be their family or warmth or cold - and they are able to live.

Tell you more about family? Family can be the people that live in your house or it can be the people that are related to you like grandmas, grandpas, aunties, uncles, cousins, and we can have family really close by or we can have family all over the world.

Okay we'll end our game there.

So can you see how we play "Tell Me More?" So I want you to have a go with your teddy playing the game of "Tell Me More" and when you have done, you can carry on with today's learning.

Let's have a look at what we're going to be doing today.

We're going to start off with a quick spelling activity.

We're then going to recap our information map.

And then, we're going to box up the information from our information map to show us what needs to go into each section.

So, you are going to need an exercise book or paper.

Your paper will preferably be a blank piece of paper but if it's got lines on it, don't worry.

A pencil, and your super-duper-duper brains so pause the video now, go and get your resources, and then press play once you've come back.

Fantastic! Let's start with today's learning.

So we're going to start with our spelling activity and all you are going to need to do today is look at the screen and use your super, super voices.

Are we ready? We're going to start off with quickly retelling our information map.

Now I've put one up on the board and I've also got mine here so if you want to go and grab yours you can do.

We're not going to tell the whole thing, I'm going to tell you one bit of information of each of our five sections, okay? And then I want you to have a go.

So, introduction: big cat, tiger.

Identification: orange, gold, and white.

Habitat and diet: sleep in the day, hunt at night.

Conservation: only 4,000 tigers left in the whole wide world.

Ending: no, do not buy the tiger skins.

Okay? Should we have a go again? And this time we're going to say some different information.

And then you can pause the video and have a go doing the same with your information map.

So, lets go.

Introduction: tigers are the biggest cats.

Identification: up to three metres long.

Habitat and diet: sharp claws and long teeth help to catch and eat their prey.

Conservation: nature reserves to keep them safe.

Ending: help charities like the World Wildlife Fund to build the nature reserves.

Okay? Pause the video now and have a go at having a quick recap of our information map.

Now, we're going to box up our information map.

The purpose of our piece of writing is to give information on a specific topic.

Can you remember what our topic is? That's right, it's tigers.

So we're going to look at how our information piece boxes up the different information on tigers.

You will need to have on your paper a grid that looks like the one on this paper.

So you've got the three columns, and you've got five rows.

So pause the video now to have a go at drawing this in your book and when you're done you can press play and I'll show you how we box it.

So you can see now on the screen my box up.

So I have drawn on my piece of paper for you and then I have put down the left-hand side the different headings for the information text.

We've got introduction, we've got identification, habitat and diet, we've got conservation, and then we've got ending.

And then down this column I'm going to draw the pictures we've put on our information map for those sections.

For introductions, I've got an I.

For identification, I've drawn some eyes, because remember that's what they look like.

For habitat and diet, I've got the house.

And then for conservation, I've got the person taking care of the baby.

And then for ending, I've got our circle with the line through it.

Perfect.

Now, what we're going to do is we're going to put in the final column either words, pictures, or phrases to help us remember what goes into each of those parts.

So we're going to start with the introduction.

So in the introduction, we introduced Doctor Kotushka.

I am going to use the word for Doctor, which is a D and an R.

And Doctor Kotushka tells us that he is an expert on cats.

So he's given us the topic of the information.

So we're going to draw a picture of a cat.

And then, Dr.

Kotushka is even more specific because he tells us that the cat he is focusing on is the tiger.

So, to help me, I have written the word tiger down.

So as you can see now, for my introduction I have boxed up Dr.

Kotushka is the person talking about cats and tigers.

Now we're going to move on to identification, so what do the tigers look like? So in our information map, we are told the different parts of our tiger.

So it starts out with how long they are.

So they are three metres long, remember? So we are going to do our length.

Then we'll talk about the colour, so we've got orange, gold, and white.

So we're going to do an O, a G, and a W to represent the different colours.

And then finally, he talks about more specific what is to the tiger is there stripes, so I'm just going to do some stripes to show us the identification of our tiger.

Now I'm going to move on to habitat and diet.

So the first thing we find out is that the tiger is a hunter.

So we're going to write that word, hunter.

Because remember, you can write or you can draw a picture or you can write a phrase.

You can write a word, a phrase, or a picture.

So I'm writing the word hunter.

Then, it tells us about it's sharp claws, their long teeth, and can you remember what other part of the body we talk about to help them catch their food? That's right, the strong legs.

I'm going to draw the sharp claws, the long teeth, and the strong legs.

Now you can use the images that I have done or you can think of your own.

And then the final thing we find out about their habitat is that they like to go swim in the rivers and the lakes so I've just put a river onto my box up so I know.

Now we're looking at conservation.

So we know that there is 4,000 tigers left in the whole wide world.

So I've done the number 4,000 and the world to help me remember that one.

And that people kill the tigers for their tiger skin, so I'm drawing their tiger skin.

I'm putting the stripes onto it now.

And if it carries on there are going to be no more tigers left so I've done an X to help us to remember that bit.

But some countries have created nature reserves to keep the tigers safe.

So I've done a quick tree to represent the nature reserve and then underneath I'm going to write the word safe but remember you can think of your own or you can use mine.

An then the ending, so what do we know about the ending? So the ending tells us two ways in which we can help, first being that we can say no to buying tiger skins because we don't want to encourage people to kill the tigers for their tiger skins.

So I've done the word no and I've done a quick tiger skin.

And the second is that we can help charities like the World Wildlife Fund, so I've put a WWF to represent the charity, to build the nature reserves in order to keep the tigers safe.

And then the final thing I've put is hope you can be a friend like I am to the tigers so I've written the word friend.

So that's my box up of our information map.

So you can pause the screen now and you can use the one that I have done or you can create your own box up for our information map.

You might want to change the pictures or you might want to add your own phrases in.

Did you enjoy boxing up our information map today? I'm really impressed with all of your hard work, so let's give each other a marshmallow clap.

Well done, fantastic.

Right, to end today's lesson, we're going to have another go at "Tell Me More," so Peter is ready to go.

So are we ready? And now we are going to do "Tell Me More" and information maps so we have been learning all about information maps and our information map is on tigers.

Tell you more about information? Information is really important because it gives you knowledge and when you have knowledge, you learn more and you get to understand things in the world around you.

How would you find knowledge in the world around you? You find knowledge in the world around you by reading, by listening to people, by having conversations with people, and by going exploring what's outside.

Tell you more about reading? Reading is a fantastic thing.

You can read books, you can read posters, you can read leaflets, you can read lots of different things and when you read, sometimes, it takes you to a world where you've never been before.

Then you get to learn lots of new vocabulary, you learn lots of new words, and you get to challenge your imagination, which is fantastic! Thanks, Peter.

Peter really enjoyed that.

Now see if you can have another go with your friend at home.

Thank you for joining us today.

You've all worked really hard and I'm really impressed and I can't wait to continue writing out information in the next part of our unit.

See you later! Bye!.