Lesson video

Hello everyone! My name is Miss Barron.

In the last lesson I told you a story.

Do you remember? I told you the story "Monkeys and Hats." Well today is a really exciting lesson because you get to become the storyteller yourself.

I'm going to teach you to tell that story from memory in your own way.

But first, I need to tell you the punchline of the joke I left you with at the end of last lesson, don't I? I left you with the joke "what kind of key opens a banana?" I wonder, did you work it out? Tell me now.

A monkey! Get it? What kind of key opens a banana? A monkey! That's right.

So, the reason I told you that joke was because our story has lots of monkeys in it, doesn't it? So let's play a game.

Now I'm going to do this game so you can find out a little bit more about me.

And it's called Two Truths and a Lie.

I'm going to tell you three things about me.

Two of them are true, but one is a lie.

I wonder if you can spot the lie.

Okay, so the first is "I have a pet worm named Wanda." The second, "I speak Spanish." And the third, "I was on a TV cookery show." Which one of those do you think is the lie? Have a think now.

Okay, are you ready to find out? Well, I do speak Spanish! That is true.

Now the other thing that's true is that I was on a TV cookery show when I was 13 years old.

Which means that the lie is the first one.

I do not have a pet worm named Wanda, although I did used to collect them when I was little.

So that's the lie.

Now let's play this game in relation to our story.

In this unit we are going to be learning all about problems. Remember I told you that great stories need problems that matter.

The problem in a story has to be difficult for the character to solve.

Otherwise it doesn't work.

So I've come up with three statements about the problem in our story.

Two of them are true, but one of them is a lie.

Let's see if you can spot the lie.

The first one is "the monkeys copied the hat-maker and made him angry." The second, "the monkeys stole the hat-maker's dresses." And third, "the hat-maker's son did not get his hats back." Which one of those do you think is the lie? Tell your screen now and use the sentence starter, "I think the lie is.

." Let's see if you're right.

The first one is true, isn't it? The monkeys did copy the hat-maker and made him angry.

Remember, he shook his fist at them and said, "Give me back my hats!" Now let's see which other one is true.

It's the last one! The hat-maker's son didn't get his hats back, did he? The monkey's ran off with them, the monkey's kept them.

Which means the middle one is the lie! "The monkey's stole the hat-maker's dresses." That is a lie, isn't it? What did they steal? It wasn't the dresses.

It was the.

? It was the hats, you're right! The monkeys stole his hats.

So that one is the lie.

Super job! Well done.

Now, let's run through the learning for today.

First, you're going to hear the story again, then we're going to map the story, then we're going to step the story through, and then finally speak the story.

You are going to have a go at telling the story.

Now, I'm going to explain what mapping, and stepping, and speaking looks like as we go through the lesson, so don't worry if you're not sure.

So what are you going to need? Well, you're going to need something to write on and something to write with.

So if you don't have those things, pause the video now and go and get them.

Fantastic! You are back with everything you need! And remember, you also need your wonderful selves and all the wonderful creative things that you can do.

And remember, it's okay if we make some mistakes this lesson.

Mistakes are what make the learning great to remember.

That's my saying.

All I want is for you to have a go.

Now it's time to listen to our story.

Do you remember our story chant from lesson one? Join in with me.

It's story time, it's story time.

Look, listen, learn.

Our story comes all the way from West Africa, doesn't it? And it's called "Monkeys and Hats." Once upon a time, there was a hat-maker.

He made tall hats and short hats, fat hats and thin hats, green hats and blue hats, all sorts of hats.

One day, he was walking through the forest carrying a basket of hats on his head on his way to market.

And as he walked, he sang his favourite song.

Sing with me.

"I am going to market, to market, to market.

I am going to market to sell my hats." Oh, it was a hot day and the hat-maker felt tired.

He decided to have a rest.

So he sat down under a tree, put his basket of hats down beside him, pulled his own hat over his eyes.

He fell asleep.

When he woke up he looked in his basket, only to find that all of his hats were gone! "Who's stolen my hats?" thought the hat-maker.

He looked for them here, he looked for them there, he looked for them everywhere.

But there was no sign of his hats.

Then, he heard the sound of a monkey chattering above his head.

He looked up and in the tree he saw a crowd of monkeys.

Each and every one of them wearing one of his hats.

Well, the hat-maker was furious.

He shook his fist and shouted at those monkeys, "Give me back my hats!" Now monkeys love to copy.

What monkeys see, monkeys do.

And so they just shook their fist right back at him and shouted back at him in their monkey talk.

Hat-maker was shocked and confused.

"Talking monkeys? How dare they talk to me like that?" He took a stick, broke it in two and shouted at them again.

"Give me back my hats right now!" What monkeys see, monkeys do.

Well this made the hat-maker even more cross.

"If you're making fun of me, then you'll be sorry," he shouted.

What monkeys see, monkeys do.

Now this went on, and on, and on.

Until finally, in frustration, the hat-maker took his own hat off and threw it to the ground.

Do that with me.

Took his own hat off and threw it to the ground.

"I give up," he said.

And just at that moment, all those monkeys in the tree- What do you think they did? They copied him, didn't they? They all took their hats off and threw them down at the ground.

Well it was raining hats.

And the hat-maker was delighted.

He'd got his hats back! Quickly he swept them all up, put them into his basket, put the basket back on his head and carried on to market.

"I am going to market, to market, to market.

I am going to market to sell my hats." And that day, not only did the hat-maker sell all of his hats, but when he got home he also had a great story to tell about how he tricked those monkeys into giving him back his hats.

And he told that story to his son.

And his son loved it, it became his son's favourite story.

And every night when Dad came home he would say, "Dad, please tell me the story! Tell me the story of the monkeys and hats again." And soon it came to pass that the hat-maker's son grew up and became the hat-maker himself.

He learned how to make hats, and made tall hats and short hats, fat hats and thin hats, green hats and blue hats.

All sorts of hats.

And one day the hat-maker's son too put that basket of hats on his head and walked through the forest on his way to market singing his song.

"I'm going to market, to market, to market.

I'm going to market to sell my hats." And the same thing happened.

It was hot and he felt tired, so he took a nap under a tree.

And when he woke up what do you think happened? All of his hats were gone.

But the hat-maker's son didn't worry.

He knew the story, he knew exactly where those hats were.

He looked up in the tree and saw monkeys.

Each and every one of them wearing his hats.

Knowingly, he smiled up at those monkeys and said, "I know how to get my hats back!" Now what do monkeys do? They copy don't they? What monkeys see, monkeys do.

And the hat-maker's son poked at his chest confidently and said, "My dad told me this story." And the hat-maker's son took his hat off his head and threw it to the ground.

But the monkeys didn't move a muscle.

The hat-maker's son was confused.

He didn't understand.

"Come on," he said, "come on monkeys.

Take your hats off, throw them on the ground.

You know what you're meant to do." But the monkeys did nothing.

Again and again, the hat-maker took his hat off and threw it on the floor.

Again, and again, and again.

But the monkeys didn't do anything.

And then the chief monkey's son climbed down the tree until he was face to face with the hat-maker's son.

He said to the hat-maker's son, "You think you're so clever because your dad told you stories.

Well, our dad told us stories too and this time we're keeping the hats." And the monkeys disappeared off into the forest wearing the hat-maker's son's hats.

And the hat-maker's son went home with nothing.

And that's why stories are so important.

You never know what you might learn from one or when one might come in handy.

And that's the end of that.

Now we're going to draw a simple story map to use pictures to help us remember the key events in the story in the right order.

So you need something to write on and something to write with.

I'm going to draw my story map first to show you and then you're going to create your own story map.

So, I'm going to draw mine on this big piece of paper here.

Now, the first key moment in the story is when the hat-maker goes to market.

So, you can see I've drawn a really simple picture of my hat-maker on his way to market, singing his favourite song.

So really simple picture, that's all it needs to be.

Now I'm going to draw an arrow to clearly show the next key moment in the story.

Which is, when the hat-maker falls asleep under the tree.

So there he is.

Sleeping under the tree with his basket of hats beside him.

That's the next key moment in the story.

Now my next arrow to show the next key moment.

Which is when he wakes up to find his basket of hats empty.

And he doesn't know where they are.

After that, the hat-maker looks up and finds those naughty monkeys in the tree, wearing his hats.

There they are.

And I'm going to draw an angry looking hat-maker.

There he is.

He's shaking his fist at them.

There we go.

So the hat-maker is angry when he sees those monkeys in the tree wearing his hats.

My next arrow is going to show my next key moment.

Which is when the hat-maker gives up and throws his hat on the ground.

I'm still going to show how angry he is.

There we go.

He gives up and throws his hat on the ground.

After that, what do the monkeys do? They copy and do the same thing, don't they? So I'm going to draw my monkeys and they too throw the hats onto the ground.

And in that way the hat-maker gets his hats back doesn't he? He goes home and he tells his son that story.

So there's the hat-maker and he tells his son the story of how he tricks the monkeys.

Then, years later the hat-maker's son becomes the hat-maker.

He goes to market and falls asleep under the tree again.

And when he looks up, he knows where his hats are.

He knows those monkeys are wearing them.

But this time, the monkeys don't copy him, do they? This time, the hat-maker doesn't get his hats back.

The monkeys keep the hats.

They say, "Our dad told us stories too and this time we're keeping the hats." And so the hat-maker's son is sad.

He goes home with nothing.

So that's my story map to help me remember the key events in the story.

Let's count how many pictures we've got.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

So I want you to do your story map in no more than nine pictures.

Now I want you to have a go at drawing your story map to help you remember the story.

Remember your pictures don't need to look exactly the same as mine, but you do need nine pictures to show the key moments in the story and you do need arrows between your pictures to make sure they're in the right order.

So pause the video now and have a go at drawing your own story map.

Now we're going to talk the map to help us retell the main events in the story.

So I'm going to do it with my map first, then I want you to have a go with your map.

Once there was a hat-maker, who went to sell his hats at market.

He fell asleep under a tree.

When he woke up all of his hats were gone.

He couldn't find them anywhere.

He looked up and saw a crowd of monkeys in a tree.

Each one of them wearing his hats.

He shouted at them and told them to give his hats back.

But they wouldn't listen, they just copied what he said.

In the end, he took his hat off his own head and threw it on the floor.

The monkeys copied him and did the same thing, so the hat-maker got his hats back.

The hat-maker went home and told his son the story of how he tricked the monkeys into giving him his hats back.

Years later, the hat-maker's son fell asleep under the same tree in the same forest and all of his hats went missing too.

But this time the monkeys had learned their lesson and they didn't copy the hat-maker's son.

They didn't give his hats back.

They kept the hats and the hat-maker's son went home with nothing.

And that's an example of using your story map to talk the story.

So I would like you to have a go at doing that with your map now.

See how much you can remember using the pictures to help you.

Now we're going to step the story.

When we step the story we are going to take one step for each picture on our map.

And with each step we are going to do a clear action.

This is really going to help us remember the story.

And you can use your map to help you.

I've got mine here to help me.

So I can look at it as I step through the story to remind me what the key events are.

So, I'm going to show you how to do it.

Now I'm standing up so that you can see my body and you can see my actions clearly.

You will see me take a step for each picture on the map.

So, I want you to watch me first and then you're going to have a go.

"Monkeys and Hats." Okay, so that was me stepping the story in mime.

You'll notice that I didn't put any words with it.

That was to make you concentrate really hard and see if you could work out which parts of the story I was showing with each step.

Now I'd like you to have a go at stepping the story like that.

I'm going to do it with you.

Can you join in with me? Fabulous job.

Well done for joining in with me stepping that story through in mime.

Now you've mapped and stepped the story.

You should know the main events pretty well.

Now you're ready to become the storyteller and tell the story yourself in your own way.

So I'm going to show you what they might look like and then I want you to have a go.

I'm going to use my map to help me.

Remember, you can too.

Once upon a time, there was a hat-maker who made all sorts of hats.

He made tall hats and short hats, fat hats and thin hats, green hats and blue hats.

One day he was walking through the forest on his way to market to sell his hats when he fell asleep.

When he woke up, he couldn't believe it, but all of his hats were gone.

He looked up in the tree and saw that a crowd of monkeys had stolen his hats.

Each one of them was wearing one of his hats and he felt furious.

He said, "Give me back my hats!" But they just copied and went.

And he kept on doing this and the monkeys kept on copying.

Until finally, he threw his hat down on the ground in frustration.

And when he did that, guess what happened? Monkeys love to copy, so they did the same thing.

They all took their hats off and threw them on the floor too.

So the hat-maker got his hats back and went home and told his son the story of how he tricked the monkeys into giving them his hats back.

Years later, the hat-maker's son became the hat-maker.

He fell asleep under the same tree and when he woke up, all of his hats had gone too.

He knew the monkeys had taken them, except this time the monkeys didn't give them back.

The monkeys said, "Our dad told us stories too and this time, we're keeping the hats." And off they disappeared into the forest, wearing the hats.

And the hat-maker's son went home with nothing.

And that's why stories are important because you never know what you might learn from one.

So, that's an example of me telling the story again using my map to help me.

I'd like you to tell the story at home again today.

Could you maybe tell it to a toy? I might tell the story later to my friend Maurice.

You could tell it to your teddy or one of your toys.

Or, you might even like tell it to somebody in your household.

Maybe you could even teach them how to do a story map or how to step the story.

That would be fantastic.

That's the end of our learning today.

I wonder what your favourite part of today's lesson was.

My favourite part was stepping the story because I like doing actions.

Now, you have been absolutely fantastic storytellers today.

You've worked so hard at remembering our story "Monkeys and Hats", by drawing your map, stepping your story and having a go at telling your story using your mapping and stepping to help you.

So I wonder whether you could practise telling that story at home before the next lesson.

You could practise telling it from your map.

Why don't you put it on your wall somewhere in the house? Practise telling the story from your map, practise stepping the story.

You might want to teach somebody in your house how to step the story.

Or you might want to tell them the story.

But it's a really good idea to keep practise telling it so that you know it as well as you can.

And we're going to be doing some really fun things in the next lesson with this story to help us remember it in even more detail.

But for now, should we finish singing the hat-maker's song again? Can you join in with me? "I'm going to market, to market, to market.

I'm going to market to sell my hats." Fantastic job everyone.

I look forward to seeing you in lesson three.