Lesson video

Hi there, I'm Miss Toole and this is Ted.

And in today's lesson, we are going to be reading as a writer to look at how we can make our problem matter.

Because if you remember, the focus of this unit is to create our own story with a problem that matters.

In today's lesson, we are going to be singing a song and you're going to create your own song.

Then we're going to explore our toolkit, or problems that matter.

And then once you've explored the tool kit, we're going to be identifying the problems that matter within our song.

So today, you are going to need a piece of paper or an exercise book, a pencil or a pen, your amazing brain, if you'd like to, you can bring your teddy toy pal to help you, and of course, you will need your fabulous self.

So pause now while you go and get your resources, and then once you have them, you can come back.

Before we sing our song, I want to explore problems that matter.

Now Ted, you have a few problems and we're going to talk about why they matter to you and how you felt during your problem.

So Ted, why was it a problem when the witch turned you into a fish? Oh, Ted said it was a problem because he can't swim, so he was feeling very worried being in the water without being able to swim.

That does sound like a bit of a scary problem, Ted.

Ted, why is it a problem when you're hungry? Ted said, it's a problem when he's hungry because his belly starts to grumble and then he gets all grouchy and he tries to find the nearest pot of honey to gobble down as fast as he can.

Ted, why is it a problem when you don't get to have as much sleep as you need? Oh, Ted said that's a problem because he gets tired and then he can't concentrate on what he needs to do, and he feels really sad then because he can't enjoy all the activities he likes to enjoy because he's feeling really tired.

That does sound like a really sad problem, Ted.

I wonder, could you ask your teddy bear about their problems and see why it matters to them? Now that you've looked at problems that matter with your teddy toy panda, I would like to teach you a song all about our problem matters within our story.

So I'm going to sing the song and then I will help you change the song for your problem.

So are you ready to listen? So it goes.

♪ I've a got problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've a got problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've a got problem I care about ♪ ♪ Someone stole my treasure map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ And hid it in his pockets ♪ ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ What am I going to do now ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ I'm really upset now ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm going to get my map back ♪ So in my song, I've explored my problem of the treasure map being stolen.

Cause if you remember, the focus of my story and my problem, is that Pirate Peach treasure map gets stolen by the pirates and he needs to get it back because it belongs to his father.

Now your focus in your story might be a little bit different, but you can still put it to our song.

So I'm going to sing each verse and then I will and you can change the words for your story.

So I will sing it and sing it again with a and when I call like that, that means that you puts in your upper chart.

So the first bit is really easy because we sing the first three lines because we've all got a problem we care about.

So we go, ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ Someone stole my treasure map ♪ So for you, it would be ♪ Someone stole my ♪ So should we go? Let's try it together.

♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ Someone stole my ♪ Okay.

Now in our next bit, for me, I talk about who stole it.

So Captain Stumpfoot stole a map from me.

But you have a different character and a different object.

And then I say that he hid it in his pocket, but your character put it somewhere else.

I will sing mine then I will for you.

So are you ready? ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ And put it in his pocket ♪ So are you ready? Instead of saying Captain Stumpfoot you are going to say ♪ Stole the ♪ ♪ Stole the ♪ ♪ Stole the ♪ and hid it in That's somewhere they hid it.

So are you ready? All together ♪ Stole the ♪ ♪ Stole the ♪ ♪ Stole the ♪ ♪ And hid it in a ♪ Did you manage to put in your own words for that one? Don't worry if not, you can go back rewind and have another go.

Now the next bit for me is I can't find Captain Stumpfoot.

That's why I can't get my map back.

So I go, ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ What am I going to do now ♪ Because that's the problem for me.

I can't find him to get my map back.

So what's your problem in yours? The first thing that happens that stops them from getting their stolen item back.

So we can all say, I can't find, or you might have something slightly different, change of words, but then we can all do the last bit of ♪ What am I going to do now ♪ because that's how our thoughts, our thinking what are we going to do? So are you ready? One, two, three.

♪ I can't find ♪ ♪ I can't find ♪ ♪ I can't find ♪ ♪ What I'm going to do now ♪ What are we going to do? We can't find them.

Now its what am thinking, how will I get my map back? So for me its map, for you it's a different item.

So I will do ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ Am really upset now ♪ So for you, you might have a different emotion.

You have to be feeling something.

I'm feeling upset, but you might be feeling something else.

But your stolen item will be different.

All you will change is ♪ How will I get my ♪ ♪ Back ♪ Okay? So let's try that one together.

♪ How will I get my ♪ ♪ Back ♪ ♪ How will I get my ♪ ♪ Back ♪ ♪ How will I get my ♪ ♪ Back ♪ ♪ I'm really upset now ♪ And our last bit is for me.

Pirate Peach then feels determined to get his father's treasure map back.

And he is going get it.

So I say, ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm going to get my map back ♪ So see how are you feeling it near the end of your story.

Just before you get your item back, how were you feeling to make you go and get it? So you might feel determined or you might feel a different one.

So when am ready, I will on determined and you can put in your words to describe how you're feeling.

So ♪ I'm feeling ♪ ♪ Now ♪ ♪ I'm feeling ♪ ♪ Now ♪ ♪ I'm feeling ♪ ♪ I'm going to get my ♪ ♪ Back ♪ Amazing.

Now I'm going to sing the song once more all the way through.

You can join in, but you can put your alternative version alongside mine and we'll sing it together.

So are you ready? Let's go.

♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ Someone stole my treasure map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ And hid it in his pocket ♪ ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ I can't find Captain Stumpfoot ♪ ♪ What am I going to do now ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ Am really upset now ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm going to get my map back ♪ Fantastic.

Did you enjoy singing our song and putting our problem that matters to music? Helps us remember when we come to do our writing.

If you remember in one of our previous lessons of this unit, we explored our problems that matter toolkits.

And these are things that we need to make sure we are including in our writing to make our problem matter to the reader.

So we need a problem that is hard to solve to the character, not something that they can just simply do.

It needs to be hard to solve, and kind of take on a bit of an adventure.

We need to include, what does the character think about this? What does the character feel about it? And what does the character do about it? So that's the four things that we do, and our thoughts, feelings, and actions we've already explored looking at our main character.

Now the song we just sang helps us to do this.

Now I have got my song on the next couple of slides.

And now that you have created your song, you'll be able to do this with yours as well.

What we're going to do is, we're going to explore the song to identify the problem is hard to solve, to find what the character thinks about it, to find out what the character feels about it, and to see if we have included what the character is going to do about it.

We need to make sure we've included all of those things to show that our problem matters.

So here is the first part of my song ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ I've got a problem I care about ♪ ♪ Someone stole my treasure map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ Captain Stumpfoot stole the map ♪ ♪ And hid it in his pocket ♪ So that's the first part of my song, and your song will be very similar.

You will just have a different character that took it and you will have a different item that's been stolen.

And the first part is the problem.

And this is where we're telling our reader what our problem is and why it's hard to solve.

And for me, my problem is hard to solve because Captain Stumpfoot and his band of pirates have stolen the treasure map.

So it's not so easy that Pirate Peach can just take it back.

He's got to try and find a sneaky way of doing it.

So I introduced my problem straight away there.

It's something that I care about because the treasure map belonged to my father, who's no longer here.

It's hard to solve because I can't just get it from the pirates.

So there's my two things that I'm introducing my problem.

Then we'll move on to the next part of the song.

♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ How will I get my map back ♪ ♪ I'm really upset now ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm feeling determined ♪ ♪ I'm going to get my map back ♪ And in these two verses, I am exploring thoughts, feelings, and action.

And I put them in different colours for you to be able to see them.

So I'm thinking, how am I going to get my map back? How am I going to do it? I'm feeling upset, but then I'm also feeling determined because I'm going to go and get my map back.

So my feelings changed about my problem, which is fine.

And then the action is the last thing of what am I going to do? So for Pirate Peach, he's going to go and get his map back.

For your character, they might be doing something else to go and get their item back.

So I've talked about what I'm thinking.

I start off thinking, how will I get it back? And then I start to feel upset because it's gone.

And then after feeling upset, I feel determined.

And that determination means my action is to go and get my map back.

So have a think about your song.

Have you talked about your thoughts, how will you get your item back? Have you explored your feelings? So remember I said you might not be feeling upset, you might have a different feeling and you might not be feeling determined, you might actually feel a little bit nervous about getting it back, or a little bit worried.

Then what's your action.

Does you character ever get it or do they get somebody else to help them, or did somebody else get it back for them, or do they go and ask somebody else to get it back for them? So what's their action because of their thoughts and their feelings? Your task now is to look at your problem song and see if you can find within it, the problem, identify the character's thoughts, their feelings, and their actions.

And if you'd like to, you can underline them in different colours to show that they really stand out.

So pause now to complete your task and then once you're done, you can press play.

Did you enjoy today's lesson? I really enjoy it when we put our songs or our work to music cause I just think it helps us remember what we need to do.

Now, I'd like to end today's lesson by creating a quick poem.

And when I do a poem, I follow the structure of three words, four words, three words.

And our poem is going to be based on problems that matter because that is the purpose or the focus of our unit this time.

So I need your help to create our poem.

So my first three words, I want them to be focused on what is the problem.

So what's the problem in our story? That's right the map's taken.

So, let's do map is stolen.

It's three words.

Map is stolen.

My next line, I want to be focused on my thought.

What am I thinking? And it needs to be four words.

Good idea.

What will I do.

What will I do.

So we've got, map is stolen, what will I do.

Good.

And my final line, I want it to be based on how I am feeling.

So my map's stolen, which belongs my father.

So I'm going to put feeling very sad.

Feeling very sad.

So map is stolen.

What will I do? Feeling very sad.

Three words, four words, three words.

See if you can create your poem at home.

Thank you for joining us today and I hope you've had as much fun as we did.

See you later.