Lesson video

Hi, everyone! I'm Mrs. Howley and I'm really pleased to be here learning with you today.

Where is my helper, Cedric? Oh, he's out in the garden.

Can you give him a call for me? Cedric? Oh, here he is.

Oh, he's been very busy in the garden.

We're going to learn a song about a garden party today.

Let's see what else we're going to do in our lesson today.

So in today's lesson, we've got a grammar focus and we're going to learn to use the conjunction, but.

We're going to start by recapping our stories and singing a song, then we're going to play a game, then we're going to do some shared writing, and then we're going to have an independent task.

In this lesson, you'll need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil or a pen, and of course, your brilliant brain.

Pause the video now so you can collect those things.

We're learning how to extend our story sentences with the conjunction, but, today.

So that we can add this detail to our amazing stories that we've been creating.

So, I want us to recap our stories.

My story is all about a snail.

Who's the main character in your story? In my story, it ends with a garden party.

How does your story end? So, I've got a song about a garden party and I'm going to teach it to you now.

This is how the first verse goes, You can click with me.

♪ Who's coming to my garden party ♪ ♪ Who's coming to my garden party ♪ ♪ Who's coming to my garden party ♪ ♪ Who's coming to my garden party ♪ Should we try that again? Off we go.

♪ Who's coming to my garden party ♪ ♪ Who's coming to my garden party ♪ ♪ Who's coming to my garden party ♪ ♪ Who's coming to my garden party ♪ Oh, who do you think we should invite? What about butterfly? And butterfly's going to flap, flap, flap.

Can you do a flap? Let's go.

♪ Butterfly's coming flap, flap, flap ♪ ♪ Butterfly's coming flap, flap, flap ♪ ♪ Butterfly's coming flap, flap, flap ♪ ♪ She's coming to my garden party.

♪ Excellent.

Who else should we invite? Hmm, wriggly worms, good idea.

♪ Wormy's coming wriggle, wriggle, wriggle ♪ ♪ Wormy's coming wriggle, wriggle, wriggle ♪ ♪ Wormy's coming wriggle, wriggle, wriggle ♪ ♪ He's coming to the garden party.

♪ Oh, who else should we invite? The bee, buzzing.

♪ Bee is buzzing, buzz, buzz, buzz ♪ ♪ Bee is buzzing, buzz, buzz, buzz ♪ ♪ Bee is buzzing, buzz, buzz, buzz ♪ ♪ And he's coming to my garden party ♪ Well done! I wonder if you could create a song about your story? Cedric is such a good friend that sometimes he does like to complain.

Don't you, Cedric? So when I'm trying to be really positive about something, sometimes Cedric adds something else to that sentence.

For example, I like dancing.

Cedric said but.

I like dancing but it makes me tired.

I like dancing but it makes me tired.

That's right, Cedric.

I'll try another one.

I like chocolate, but.

I like chocolate but it makes me feel sick.

Only if I eat too much.

Now, I'd like to make that more positive so I'm going to start with something like, learning is hard but it makes me feel good.

Learning is hard but it makes me feel good.

Brilliant! I'll try another one.

Pets are hard work, but they give you lots of love.

Pets are hard work but they give lots of love.

Now I'm going to think about my story.

The snail in my story is grumpy.

The snail is grumpy but he needs a friend.

The snail is grumpy but he needs a friend.

Pause the video now and have a go at using the word but in a sentence out loud to somebody, to a teddy, give it a try.

So we're learning to use the conjunction, but, today.

But what is a conjunction? A conjunction is a word that we can use to join two main clauses in a sentence.

We can put two different ideas together in one sentence.

For example, snail felt sad.

Butterfly was happy.

They are two different ideas in two different sentences.

But we could join them using the conjunction, and.

Snail felt sad and butterfly was happy.

But we can also use the conjunction, but, because they're contrasting ideas.

They are two different ideas.

Let's try it.

Snail felt sad but butterfly was happy.

Let's try that again with these two contrasting sentences.

He liked sleeping.

She liked dancing.

We can show the difference between those two ideas using but.

He liked sleeping but she liked dancing.

Let's try that again.

She loved parties.

He hated parties.

Should we try putting that into one sentence with but as our conjunction, joining the two ideas? She loved parties but he hated parties.

Hmm.

Do I need to use the word parties again or is there a different word I could use? Let's try it again.

She loved parties but he hated them.

Well done.

She loved parties but he hated them.

Full stop.

I'm going to have a try now using the conjunction, but to extend this sentence.

He liked rain but she, hm, what type of weather do you think butterfly would like? He liked rain but she loved sunshine.

He, that's one of our tricky words, like, split digraph, ike.

Liked.

He liked.

He liked rain.

R, ain.

Rain.

He liked rain.

But, ba ut.

Ba, uh, t.

He liked rain but she, he liked rain but she, he liked rain but she loved, oh what does she love? Ss, sun, split digraph I, shine.

He liked rain but she loved sunshine.

Full stop.

Now let's think about this idea and how we could extend this with an extra clause using the conjunction but.

Let's think about snail and butterfly in my story.

They were different but, they were different but they were friends.

Capital letter, they were different but they were friends.

Full stop.

So next I've got they.

One of our tricky words.

They were different.

Di, if, erent.

Double F.

They were different.

They were different is our main clause.

Ba, u, ut, my conjunction.

They were different but they were friends.

They were different but they were friends.

Full stop.

Now it's your turn.

You're going to have a think about your story.

You can look at your story map if you've got it and think about two of the characters or two ideas that are different and you're going to create one clause, one idea, another clause, another idea, and you're going to join them with the conjunction but.

Like this, mmm mmm mm mmmmm mmm mm but mm mmm mmmm mm mmm.

Full stop.

I put some tricky words here to help you.

She, he, was, went, had, and the.

Pause the video now and have a go at your own sentence using the conjunction but.

Make sure you read your sentence back.

Does it make sense? Have you got a capital letter? Have you got a full stop at the end? Did you use your finger spaces? If not, pause the video again and make some improvements.

Remember, mistakes are beautiful because they help us learn.

How did you get on? Cedric said he's like to go to a garden party but he wonders who will be there.

Who do you think will be at the garden party? I can't wait to see how your stories develop in the rest of this unit.

You've worked really hard today and you deserve a British weather cheer.

Are you ready, Cedric? Brilliant! We can't wait to see you again soon.

Bye!.