Lesson video

Hello there, I'm Mrs. Howley.

Where is Cedric? Can you call him for me? He's my friend who always helps me out.

Cedric.

Cedric.

Oh, here he is.

Oh, he said he was off practising the past tense.

He said he'd like a little bit of help with it.

We could do that.

Now, what types of things do you enjoy doing, Cedric? Playing, I wonder if you can help him.

We'll practise it orally and that will help him with his writing.

So, Cedric likes playing.

If he did it yesterday, we'd say he.

Played.

Great, what else do you like doing, Cedric? Cedric likes dancing.

If he did it yesterday, we'd say Cedric.

Danced.

Fantastic! And finally, what else do you like doing, Cedric? Painting.

If he did it in the past, we'd say he.

Painted.

And our story is all about a magic paintbrush.

In this lesson, we're going to write some more story sentences with clear moods.

We're going to start with a spelling activity, then we're going to do some shared writing, and then you're going to do some independent writing.

You will need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil or a pen, and your brilliant brain.

Pause the video now, so you can collect those things.

In our spelling, we're looking at the wh grapheme at the start of words, which often makes a /wh/ sound.

When.

When? Where.

Where? What.

What? Who.

Who? Which.

Which? and while.

Have a go now at looking at the words, saying them in a sentence, writing the word without peaking, and then checking the spelling.

If you get one wrong, don't worry, mistakes are beautiful because we learn from them.

So look at where you went wrong and then try again.

Pause the video now and have a go.

Can you remember what happens at the end of "The magic paintbrush" story? I know that Ma Liang tricks the greedy king, and he draws the giant wave, shhh pshh, which destroys the ship.

But how do we feel at the very end of the story? Cedric thinks we might feel happy.

Have you got any other words we might use? Content.

What other themes do we have at the end of the story? What does Ma Liang do with the paintbrush for the rest of his life? Helps the people, that's right.

So we've also got that theme of kindness.

We're going to have a go at writing the end of the story, showing that happiness, contentment, and kindness.

And we're going to use our writer's toolkit.

To help us with the process of writing today, we're going to orally practise our sentences first.

We're going to think it, say it, then punctuate it.

When we're writing, we're going to think it again, write it, then read it back.

Can you remember what we have in our writer's toolkit to create mood, to help the audience of our story feel what we want them to feel? To move them.

Let's see, we've got.

Action.

We've got.

Setting that we can describe.

We can describe characters'.

Thoughts.

Characters' feelings, and we can also describe the characters' appearance, what they look like.

While I'm writing, I'm also going to remember my capital letters, my full stops and my finger spaces.

Now, in this first sentence, I want to set the scene.

The ship's been destroyed, I want to tell the reader what's going to happen from now on.

In fact, I'm going to use that phrase.

From now on, or from then on, Ma Liang used the paintbrush to.

To help others, to show kindness, I like that one.

To, I think I'm going to go with, to help others.

From then on, Ma Liang used his paintbrush to help others.

Capital letter, from then on, Ma Liang used his paintbrush to help others.

Full stop.

From then on, Ma Liang used his paintbrush to help others.

Capital F for From.

From then, from then on, from then on, capital M now for Ma.

It's not the start of a sentence, but it's the character's name.

From then on Ma Liang.

From then on, Ma Liang used.

From then on, Ma Liang used the, our high frequency word.

From then on, Ma Liang used the p-a-i-n-t-b-r-u-s-h to, paintbrush to.

From then on, Ma Liang used the paintbrush to h-e-l-p.

From then on, Ma Liang used the paintbrush to help others.

Full stop.

From then on, Ma Liang used the paintbrush to help others.

Have a go now at your action sentence.

From then on, Ma Liang used his paintbrush to.

Don't forget your capital letters, your full stops and your finger spaces.

Pause the video now and have a go.

Now I'm going to write a sentence to describe the appearance of Ma Liang, what he looked like.

To show that kindness, I think I'm going to say that something shines out of him.

Kindness shone out of him.

Love shone out of him, I like that one.

Love shone out of him.

Capital letter, love shone out of him.

Full stop.

Okay, so, capital L for Love, the start of our sentence.

Love shone.

Love shone.

Love shone out.

Love shone out of him.

Full stop.

Love shone out of him.

Love shone out of him.

Why don't you try your appearance sentence now? What are you going to describe? The Ma Liang's appearance, what he looks like, showing that mood of kindness and love.

There're some words in the tricky words box to help.

Pause the video now and have a go.

I'm going to write a sentence now to describe the character's thoughts.

How does Ma Liang feel at this point in the story? Happy? Content? Lucky? I think I'm going to use the word happy.

"I'm so happy", thought Ma Liang.

He thought.

"I'm so happy", he thought.

"I'm so happy", he thought.

Capital letter, "I'm so happy", he thought.

Full stop.

I'm writing my thoughts now, so I'm using my.

Inverted commas.

"I'm "I'm "so "I'm so "happy", ending in y.

"I'm so happy", "I'm so happy", he thought.

"I'm so happy", he thought.

This is the really exciting bit now, because now it's over to you.

You're going to write the rest of the story.

I'd like you to try a sentence for action and a sentence for feelings.

You might want to talk about what the crowd do while they watch the painter, while they watch Ma Liang.

While they watch the painter at work, what are they going to do? How are you going to show that mood? You might want to write a sentence about feelings, where you're talking about the type of life that Ma Liang now lives.

He lived a content life.

It's over to you.

You might want to challenge yourself to add some other sentences too.

Pause the video now and have a go.

How did you get on? I know that that can be really tricky, but remember it really doesn't matter if things get tricky.

That's the only way that the learning gets sticky.

I know who likes that rhyme, Cedric.

I've written a little bit more and I'm going to read it to Cedric now to see what he thinks.

Okay.

Everyone sang his name, watched him in awe, and he lived a happy and content life.

What do you think, Cedric? Cedric thinks I really created the mood there of happiness.

Why don't you try reading your writing to someone at home and see what they think.

See if they can guess what mood you're creating.

Now, I think we deserve a big celebration.

A big well done cheer, a big magical cheer.

But also, I'm getting my magical hat on for the occasion.

'Cause we have worked so hard.

Okay, are you ready? ♪ Well done, well done ♪ ♪ Well done, well done ♪ Wow! Wow, indeed! Don't forget, if you'd like to share your work, I would love to see it and so would Cedric.

Then please ask a parent or a carer to do this for you.

I'll see you very soon.

Bye.