Lesson video

Hello there, I'm Mrs. Howley, this is Cedric.

He said he's very pleased to be with you here in this lesson.

We're going to sing a song now, because in today's lesson, we're going to think about a different part of the story with a different mood.

So we're going to change the words to our magic paintbrush song.

Okay, so this time it's going to go like this.

♪ Greedy king, greedy king ♪ ♪ Stole the paintbrush, stole the paintbrush ♪ ♪ Oh no, oh no ♪ ♪ Poor Ma Liang, poor Ma Liang ♪ Could you join in this time and could you show the moods with your face? Can you try, Cedric? Okay.

♪ Greedy king, greedy king ♪ ♪ Stole the paintbrush, stole the paintbrush ♪ ♪ Oh no, oh no, ♪ ♪ Poor Ma Liang, poor Ma Liang ♪ Well done, I think we're ready for our learning.

In this lesson, we're going to continue writing the story of The Magic Paintbrush, focusing on moods.

We're going to start with a game.

Then we're going to do some shared writing.

And then you're going to do some independent writing.

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

Pause the video now to collect those things.

We're going to explore a different mood today.

We're going to explore the moment when the paintbrush is stolen from Ma Liang.

This'll give us the chance as writers, to practise writing in a different mood.

Because this is one of fear or sadness or suspense.

We're going to play a game now that's going to help us do that, and Cedric's going to help me.

This game is called the telephone game.

Oh, Cedric, there's somebody on the telephone.

Who is it? I don't know till I answer it, do I? I've got my very fancy telephone here, you might have one of these as well, it's really cool.

Anyway, I'll answer the phone.

Who is it? It's Ma Liang.

He's phoning from the time just after the paintbrush was stolen.

Hi Ma Liang.

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear your paintbrush has been stolen.

Cedric wants me to ask him what happened.

What exactly happened? He was in his bed, yeah, yeah.

And.

What was the weather like? What was the weather like, Ma Liang? Oh, it was pouring with rain, it was pouring with rain, the wind was howling.

It was a really dark, cold night.

Yep, so you were in your bed, what happened then, Ma Liang? Oh, he heard a noise.

What sorts of noise did he hear? What sorts of noise did you hear, Ma Liang? Like banging and things being thrown around in his house.

Yep.

Oh, my goodness, he said that's the moment he realised that the magic paintbrush was gone.

How did he feel? How did you feel, Ma Liang? Felt scared and worried.

I'm so sorry to hear that.

I'm not surprised, you felt scared and worried.

Why was he worried? Why were you worried? He was worried he wouldn't be able to help the people anymore.

Because he didn't have the paintbrush.

Yep, oh I bet.

What did he do? What did you do, Ma Liang? He said he jumped out of bed, he jumped out of bed really quickly.

Oh, oh, he threw the covers off, yep.

And started searching around the house, yeah, I think I'd do that, as well.

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that, Ma Liang.

Oh, you've got to go? Okay.

I'll speak to you again later, Cedric says hello, bye, bye! That was the telephone game, it's fun, isn't it, Cedric? Using our imagination, it's helped us to think about that scene and exactly what's going on.

So we're going to practise using our writers toolkit again to show that mood.

And when we write, first of all, we're going to rehearse those sentences out loud.

So we're going to think of an idea, we're going to say it as a sentence, then we're going to punctuate it.

Then, when we're writing, we're going to think that sentence, we're going to write it, then we're going to read it back.

Can you remember what we can use in our writers toolkit to create mood? Let's see, we can describe? Action, that's right.

We can describe? Setting.

We can describe characters, what they look like, we call that? Appearance.

We're going to describe characters? Thoughts and their? Feelings.

Fantastic, now I'm going to start by describing setting.

Because I want to show that change of mood from the magic to the fear, the moment that that paintbrush is stolen.

So I'm going to describe the weather, I think.

So I'm going to say it was a cold night and the rain lashed down, the wind howled.

Ooh there was an eerie fog, descended.

That means comes down.

I love that, but I might save that for later because I like the wind howled, 'cause it shows me a sound that I can then hear.

So I've got it was a cold night and the wind howled.

Capital letter, it was a cold night and the wind howled, full stop.

Capital I, it was, tricky word, a, it was a, it was a cold, it was a cold night.

It was a cold night.

And, it was a cold night and, the wind howled, it's in the past, so it has ed on the end, and the wind howled.

Full stop.

I was a cold night and the wind howled.

Have a go now at writing a setting sentence yourself.

Describe the weather, it was a cold night and? I've put some tricky words for you in this box.

Descended, was, down, the, eerie.

But also don't forget to use your phonics.

Say the word, segment it, and write the sounds.

Don't forget your capital letters, your full stop, and your finger spaces, off you go.

Now I'm going to create an action sentence to tell me what's going on.

So the king has sent his people to steal the paintbrush.

But I want to describe the king using a really good adjective.

I could say greedy.

I could say bad, I think I'm going to use evil to put that mood across.

The evil king had sent his people to steal the paintbrush.

The evil king had sent his people to steal the, I've run out of fingers, paintbrush, 11.

The evil king had sent his people to steal the paintbrush, full stop.

Capital T for the.

The evil, evil.

The evil king, kuh, eh, nnn, guh, king.

The evil king, the evil king had, the evil king had sent, sss, eh, nnn, tuh.

The evil king had sent his, the evil king had sent his people.

Another one of those tricky words.

We can't sound it out, we've just got to know it.

The evil king had sent his people to, sss, tuh, eal.

The evil king had sent his people to steal the, remember we break this down, puh, aint, paint brush, even though it's one word, we break it down into two to help, full stop.

The evil king had sent his people to steal the paintbrush.

Have a go now at your action sentence.

How will you describe the king? Evil, greedy.

He sent his people to steal the paintbrush.

You've got some of those tricky words in your box.

Don't forget, capital letter, full stop at the end and your finger spaces, pause the video now and have a go.

Our next sentence is going to be about appearance.

What could we see Ma Liang doing? Maybe he's trembling, maybe he goes pale.

I'm going to include some action in this, as well and I'm going to say Ma Liang sat up in bed and trembled.

Ma Liang sat up in bed and trembled, full stop.

Ma Liang sat up in bed and trembled.

Now, we need a capital letter for Ma and for Liang because it's the characters name.

Ma Liang sat, suh, ah, tuh, Ma Liang sat, puh, up in bed.

Ma Liang sat up in bed.

And trembled.

Tuh, reh, eh, mmm, trembled.

Ma Liang trembled.

Ma Liang sat, Ma Liang sat up in bed and trembled, full stop.

Now it's your turn to try two sentences.

One about thoughts and one about feelings.

For thoughts, you might like to include what Ma Liang is thinking when it's stolen.

"What am I going to do?" "Where's it gone?" For feelings, you might want to say how we was feeling.

He was so? Worried, scared? You've got key words in the box, don't forget your capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

And try your best to sound out any words you're not sure of.

Good luck.

Wowzers! Absolute wowzers! Some incredible work.

Now, I'm going to read mine to Cedric and get some feedback from him.

How does it create that mood of fear and suspense.

Okay.

It was cold night and the wind howled.

The evil king had sent his people to steal the paintbrush.

Ma Liang sat up in bed and trembled.

I think he likes it.

Oh, Cedric's given me some really good feedback, he said that next time I might want to include more about the characters appearance.

Yes, I could've talked about how Ma Liang went pale or he had sweat on his brow.

Great tips, I'll remember that next time.

What was your favourite sentence you've written today? Maybe you'd like to share it with Oak National.

If you would, ask a parent or carer to do this for you.

We'd love to see it.

See you soon, bye!.