Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Miss Barron and I love stories.

If you were here in the last unit then you learnt the story, "Monkeys and hats" and I've just made up a new song about that story that I wanted to share with you at the beginning of this lesson.

And I'm hoping that you'll join in with me.

It goes like this.

♪ A hat maker made some hats, hats, hats ♪ ♪ To see what he could sell, sell, sell ♪ ♪ But then he took a nap, nap, nap ♪ ♪ And the monkeys took his hats, hats, hats ♪ Should we say it again? I think you can join in with me this time, let's go.

♪ A hat maker made some hats, hats, hats ♪ ♪ To you see what he could sell, sell, sell ♪ ♪ But then he took a nap, nap, nap ♪ ♪ And the monkeys took his hats, hats, hats ♪ One more time, sing it with me with the actions, let's go.

♪ A hat maker made some hats, hats, hats ♪ ♪ To you see what he could sell, sell, sell ♪ ♪ But then he took a nap, nap, nap ♪ ♪ And the monkeys took his hats, hats, hats ♪ So there's my song about the "Monkeys and hats" story.

In this unit, we are going to recycle that story which means we are going to change it and you are going to make it your own.

In order to do that, today we are going to generate, which means come up with ideas for your recycled story.

So this is what the learning is going to look like today.

First, we are going to do a spelling activity then a recycling game to get you warmed up for recycling to get you playing with new ideas.

Then you're going to recycle a character to make your own character for your story.

You're going to draw your character and then you're going to write some short sentences about your new character.

So this is what you're going to need today.

You will need an exercise book or a piece of paper to write on and a pencil or a pen to write with.

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

So let's begin today with our spelling activity.

We're going to have a look at some words together.

So, first I would like you to look carefully at the words on the screen in front of you.

What do you think has been added to the words in the top row to make them different in the bottom row? Have a look at those words now and see if you can work that out.

If you think you've got it, have a go and tell me your screen now say, "I think, mm has been added." Go and have a go and tell me to your screen.

Brilliant job for having a go.

I'm not going to tell you if you're right just yet.

The next thing I would like you to do is to listen carefully to me read those words and see if you notice a difference in the sounds at the end of the words.

So listen carefully, ready? Walk, walked, look, looked, shout, shouted.

Did you notice a difference in the sounds at the end of the words in the bottom row , I wonder? Now let's have a go at that again but with some different words this time.

So first I would like you to have a look at those words.

What has been added to the words in the top row to make them different in the bottom row.

Go and have a quick look.

Okay, if you think you've got it, tell me to your screen now say, "I think, mm has been added." Have a go tell me to your screen.

Well done for having a go.

Now I'm still not going to tell you if you're right just yet but again I would like you to listen really carefully to me read those words now and see if you notice a difference in the sounds at the end of the words in the bottom row, compared with the words in the first top row.

So have a lesson ready, pick, picked, start, started, yell, yelled.

I wonder, could you hear a difference in the sounds of the end of those words? So what's going on here? Well, let's have a look.

Did you notice that the ending -ed has been added at the end of all of those words? That is the difference in the words in the bottom row compared to the words and the top row above them.

So -ed has been added to those words each time.

What is -ed? Well, -ed is a type of suffix and a suffix is a letter or group of letters that is added to the end of a word and changes its meaning.

And the way that -ed changes the meaning of a word, is to put it into the past tense.

So walked, looked, shouted, all become actions in the past, actions that have already happened that are completed, they're finished.

And we really use the past tense a lot, when we're writing stories.

Recycling stories means changing them so that we can make new stories from ones we already know.

And we already know the story, "Monkeys and hats" from our first unit, don't we.

We are going to be recycling that to make it our own.

But first let's warm up our creative minds by playing a recycling game.

We are going to change the ending of "Humpty Dumpty" So, let me remind of the rhyme.

You can look at my story map to help you but you can join in with me too.

♪ Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall ♪ ♪ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall ♪ ♪ All the king's horses and all the king's men ♪ ♪ Couldn't put Humpty together again.

♪ So that was the rhyme of "Humpty Dumpty" Now underneath you can see my three drawings on orange post-it notes.

Now those are my ideas to change the ending So if you look at the last picture on my story map you can see a picture of Humpty broken in two, he couldn't be put back together again.

I'm going to change that ending.

So here are my ideas.

The first one is that they did put him back together again and he became a safety king, marching down the city with banners saying, don't sit here, don't sit there because he's so worried about danger and safety.

My other idea is that they don't manage to put him back together again, he's broken in two but as he breaks, he hatches and he flies out as a bird.

And my final idea is that they don't manage to fix him but a spoon comes along and gives him a great big kiss and that fixes him that magically makes him whole again and then they go and run an egg and spoon race together and become British national egg and spoon racing champions.

So those are my ideas.

You might like to take one of those or you might have a different idea of your own.

I would like you to pause the video now and draw your idea for your ending for "Humpty Dumpty" pause the video and have a go.

I am so excited and interested to hear your ideas for your new ending.

Now you can see that I've drawn a map and instead of that last picture of "Humpty Dumpty" I have now put in a picture for my new choice of ending.

So, it's in purple so that you can see it clearly that was the picture I changed to put my new ending in.

So now I'm going to tell my story of "Humpty Dumpty" again with my new ending.

♪ Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall ♪ ♪ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall ♪ ♪ All the king's horses and all the king's men ♪ ♪ Couldn't put Humpty together again ♪ But it didn't matter because the spoon came along and gave him a big kiss and magically, he was whole again.

And then they ran an egg and spoon race together and became British national egg and spoon racing, Olympic champions.

So that is my new version of "Humpty Dumpty" with my new ending.

I would like you to pause the video and draw your own map of "Humpty Dumpty" with your new ending and then tell your new version from your map, just like I did, pause the video now and have a go.

How did you get on with that? I hope you enjoyed it, I think recycling is lots of fun.

So with that in mind, we are now going to get onto recycling our story, "Monkeys and hats".

Now because we're going to recycle our story, "Monkeys and hats".

We're going to change it.

It's going to be really helpful just to remind ourselves of the story first.

So I'm going to quickly retell the story again from my map.

Once upon a time, there was a hat maker, who walked through the forest on his way to market with a basket of hats on his head.

And as he walked, he sang his favourite song.

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

So he decided to take a rest under a tree and fell asleep.

When he woke up, all of his hats were gone.

"Who stole all of my hats?" he thought.

He looked for them everywhere.

And then he heard a noise above his head in the tree.

He looked up and there in the tree he saw a crowd of monkeys, each one of them wearing one of his hats.

"Give me back my hats." he shouted at the monkeys.

And monkeys love to copy, what monkeys see monkeys do.

They just copied him in their monkey talk.

"Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh." they said.

The hat maker was confused, talking monkeys.

So he shouted at them again.

"Give me back my hats right now." Those monkeys just copied him and shouted back in their monkey talk once again.

"Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh." Well this went on and on and on until the hat maker got so frustrated that he took his hat off and threw it on the floor.

And when he did that, you'll never guess what those monkeys did.

Monkeys loves to copy, what monkeys see monkeys do.

They did the same thing, they took hats off their heads and threw them on the floor.

Well, it was raiding hats and the hat maker was delighted, he had all of his hats back.

So he quickly swept them up into his basket put the baskets of hats back on his head and walked off to market singing his favourite song.

♪ I am going to market, to market, to market ♪ ♪ I am going to market to sell my hats ♪ And that night when he got home he was so proud of his story that he told it to his son and his son loved that story.

Every night, his son would say, "Dad, tell me the story of monkeys and hats again." And soon enough, the son grew up to be the hat maker himself.

And he made all sorts of hats just like his dad.

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

And one day he too was walking to market through the forest and he fell asleep under the same tree.

When he woke up, his basket was empty but he wasn't worried because he knew exactly where his hats were.

He knew the story that his dad had told him.

He knew his hats were up in the tree with those monkeys.

So knowingly, he looked up, saw the monkeys wearing his hats and smiled.

He said to them, "I know how to get my hats back." And what monkeys see monkeys do, they just copied him.

"Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh." Then he said "My dad told me this story." The monkeys copied, "Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh." So the hat maker's son took his hat off his head and threw it on the ground.

But the monkeys did nothing, they did not move a muscle The hat maker's son couldn't believe it.

What was going on? "Come on." he said, "Come on monkeys, copy me "take your hats off and throw them on the ground then "that's what you're meant to do." But they did nothing, they did not move.

And in the end, the chief monkey's son climbed down the tree until he was face-to-face with the hat maker's son and said, "You think you're so clever "because your dad told you stories.

"Well, guess what? "Our dad told us stories too "and this time we're keeping the hats." And so they did and off they went into the forest, wearing the hats.

And the hat maker's son went home with nothing, he sold nothing in market that day.

And so he learnt that stories are really important because you never know what you're going to learn from one or when one might come in handy.

That's the end of the story, "Monkeys and hats." And so we're going to use our story map from "Monkeys and hats" to help us change the story so that you can create your own character, instead of the hat maker.

I'd like you to have a go now at retelling the story from your story map.

If you have your story map from the last unit use that if not, you might like to join a new one using my word on the screen to help you.

So pause the video now and have a go at retelling the story from your map.

This is the bit where we get to be really creative and become story makers.

We get to bring our own ideas and our own interests to our stories to make them our own.

So we're going to change the character of the hat maker.

He's no longer going to make hats, he's going to make something else.

In fact, the character doesn't even have to be a he, it could be a she.

We could change him from a man to a woman.

So I had three ideas about what my character could be, instead of a hat maker.

Have a listen and see what you think of these.

I thought my character could be a toy dinosaur maker, I thought my character could maybe be a party dressmaker or maybe a football maker.

And so instead of carrying a basket of hats to market my character could carry a basket of toy dinosaurs, a basket of party dresses or a basket of footballs to sell instead.

So you might like one of my ideas or you might have a nother idea of your own, I'm sure you do.

I would you to draw a very simple picture, just like mine here, they're very simple aren't they.

Draw a quick picture of your idea for your new character, pause the video now and do that.

Did you draw your picture? Have you got your idea? While you were drawing, I actually had a new idea.

I've decided I will change the hat maker to a paper aeroplane maker.

I wonder what your idea is.

Can you tell me in a full sentence now, starting, I will change the hat maker to a.

Tell your screen now.

Wow, so many fantastic and different ideas.

I can't wait to start telling our new stories, they are going to be fantastic.

Now I'm interested to know why you chose your idea.

If it was me, I would say, "I like paper aeroplanes because they are fast." Can you tell me why you like whatever it is that you chose? So for example, if you chose one of my options a toy dinosaur maker, a party dressmaker or a football maker, you might use one of the words in the boxes beneath each one to help you.

You might say for example, "I like dinosaurs because they are enormous." or you might say, "I like footballs because they are fast and fun." So you might want to pause the video now and have a closer look at some of those words or take a bit more time to think about your sentence.

If you do then pause the video now and have a go.

Right, now we're ready to move on.

So now we are going to draw a picture of our new character.

Here's a picture of my character for my story.

I've changed the hat maker to a paper aeroplane maker, haven't I? So here's my picture of my new character and she's going to be a girl.

Her name is Dizzy Lizzy.

I liked the name Dizzy Lizzy because I think with all of that flying around that she does and all of those paper aeroplanes, spinning around all the time, she's going to feel quite dizzy.

So I've called her Dizzy Lizzy.

I would like you to draw a picture of your character showing what your character makes with them.

So you can see that I've joined the paper aeroplanes with my character.

Pause the video now to do your drawing.

Fantastic job, well done.

Now you've got your drawing of your character, you are ready to tell me a little bit more about him or her.

So you're going to write three short sentences and this is how they're going to start.

The first sentence is going to start, this is and you're going to introduce your character, you're going to tell me their name.

So for example I would say, "This is Dizzy Lizzy" Then your next sentence is going to start.

He or she makes, mm so tell me what your character makes.

So in my example, I've written, she makes paper aeroplanes to sell at market.

And then your last sentence, you're going to tell me what he or she loves.

So my sentences says she loves things that go really fast.

So I would like you to use those three sentence stems and write three sentences about your character.

Here are mine all together, listen to them again to help you.

This is Dizzy Lizzy.

She makes paper aeroplanes to sell at market.

She loves things that go really fast.

So use my example on the screen to help you write your sentences about your character and for an extra challenge, you might like to tell me even more about your character and write some more sentences.

I can't wait to read all about your new character.

Pause the video now and have a go at writing those sentences.

That's the end of the learning today, I hope you enjoyed the lesson.

I really did.

Do you remember at the beginning of the lesson, we sang a song.

I'm just thinking that I could maybe change the lyrics of the song to fit with my new character.

So, I think it would go something like this ♪ A paper aeroplane maker made some aeroplanes ♪ ♪ To see what she could sell, sell, sell ♪ ♪ But then she took a nap, nap, nap ♪ ♪ And the monkeys took her aeroplanes ♪ So I liked that, I like the rhythm but I think I could improve it actually.

I want the repetition of the same word at the end of each sentence so let me see if I can work that out.

I think I'm going to change it and now it's going to go like this, ready? ♪ A paper aeroplane maker made some planes, planes, planes ♪ ♪ To see what she could sell, sell, sell ♪ ♪ But then she took a nap, nap, nap ♪ ♪ And the monkeys took her planes, planes, planes ♪ That works, doesn't it.

I wonder if you would like to have a go at changing the lyrics of that tune and making them fit your new character.

See if you can practise singing and keep practising your storytelling and I will see you in the next lesson.

Bye.