Lesson video

Hello, everybody.

I'm Miss Corbert and welcome to today's lesson, exploring aspirations and the future, linked to the story "Ada Twist, Scientist." I'm really excited for today's lesson because it's your chance to celebrate and talk about what you aspire to be when you grow up.

For this lesson, it would be great if you could have your listening ears.

Can I see them? Your looking eyes and your thinking brain.

It would also be great if you could have someone to talk to.

As well as that, it would be fantastic if you could have your copy of "Ada Twist, Scientist," and you will need something to write with and write on.

It would also be great if you could have your success criteria nearby.

Lots to get.

Could you pause the video, make sure you're ready.

Off you go.

I think we are ready to get started.

Today's learning outcome is I can use a character's experience to consider what aspiration means and write about my future, and these keywords will help us.

I would like you to repeat them after me in your loud and proud voice.

Are you ready? My turn.

Your turn.

Future, personal response.

Adjective.

Adverb.

Thank you so much for joining in with me.

The first part of our lesson is exploring aspirations and the future.

In the story "Ada Twist, Scientist," we meet Ada who wants to be a scientist.

She is resilient, she is curious, and she is inquisitive, which makes her a great scientist.

Do you think that Ada wants to be a scientist as a job in the future? And how do you know? I think she does want to be a scientist because.

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Fantastic.

I think she does want to be a scientist because ever since she was little, she loved looking at the world around her and is constantly researching and testing new ideas.

In this lesson, you will think about what you want to be in the future.

So right now, we are in the present.

Can you say that for me? Present, happening right now.

What's already happened to us has been in the past.

Can you say that? Well done.

But the future is what has not happened yet.

That's what's going to happen.

Now, the future could be tomorrow, next week, next year, in 50 years.

The future is something that has not happened yet.

So we will be thinking about the future and what we want to be in the future.

I want to be.

So you'll think about what you want to grow up and be in the future.

So thinking about yourself in the future, you might think about your aspirations this means.

So when we're considering that, you're thinking about your aspirations.

That's quite a long word.

Should we practise saying it? Aspirations.

Well done.

Now, your aspirations is what do you aspire.

What do you want out of your life and what you want when you grow up.

So you might think, "I will be an astronaut.

I want to be a shopkeeper.

I aspire to be a teacher." So thinking about this true or false? And get your thumbs ready.

Are they ready? Keep them still for now.

The future is something that has not yet happened.

Is that true or is that false? I'm going to give you five seconds.

Let me see.

Five.

Well done if you are having your thumbs up.

The future is something that has not yet happened.

The present is happening now and the past has already happened.

The future is what is to come.

Once we are adults, we try and find a job and we do this to earn some money to showcase our skills and things that we can do and to help in some way.

Whatever job you have helps in some way and every job is different, but jobs often require you to work with other people, solve problems and complete tasks, complete things, and also work at certain times.

Can you think of any jobs that you know, maybe it's jobs that you've seen on the television or in books, or maybe it's jobs that you know that your family members have or friends.

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Wow, you thought of so many.

Fantastic.

We know that books written by the author Andrea Beaty explore different aspirations.

Andrea Beaty wrote "Ada Twist, Scientist" and Ada wants to be a scientist.

She's also got lots of other books.

Iggy Peck wants to be an architect.

Sofia Valdez wants to be the future prez, the president.

Aaron Slater, the illustrator, and Rosie Revere, the engineer.

and "Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year." Which of these careers or jobs interest you the most? You could also think about Ada Twist too.

Which of these interests you the most? Could you pause the video now and explain why? Off you go.

Great.

So maybe when you're older, you aspire to be one of these jobs, but also, if you don't, that's okay.

That is what we call your personal response, how you feel about something.

The characters in Andrea Beaty's stories face challenges and follow the characters developing the right skills to do the job that they want in the future.

The aspiration that you have for the future might mean that you have to learn something new and be resilient.

We have to all work hard to get there, to get to the job that we want to have.

And as you grow up, your aspirations might also change.

So I'm a teacher.

I have actually always wanted to be a teacher, but it was okay if maybe at one point I wanted to be a hairdresser or a footballer or an artist.

That aspiration might change and you might not be even sure what you aspire to be.

For now, just think about what interests you the most.

So what does Andrea Beaty write about? Is it children and their future jobs, children and their families, adults working or just scientists? Hmm, what do we think? Could you pause the video now and share what you think? Off you go.

Let's see if you got it.

Andrea Beaty likes to write about children and their future jobs.

That is the main theme.

Sometimes in the stories, their families might appear, but the main focus is the children.

It doesn't really focus on adults working because it's all about what children aspire to be.

And "Ada Twist, Scientist" we know is about scientists, but all of the other front covers that we've seen are about lots of different jobs.

As well as Andrea Beaty, there are other authors who write about jobs, careers, and aspirations.

Nathan Bryon writes about the character of Rocket, a little girl who wants to make changes to the world from the environment to space.

So in this book, "Clean Up!", she really wants to help clean up the oceans.

In another book that you might have read, "Look Up!" is all about Rocket aspiring to be an astronaut like the real-life astronaut Mae Jemison.

Rocket is really passionate.

She really cares.

She's hardworking, she's caring, and she's interested in learning new things.

I wonder if you're a bit like Rocket too.

Dr.

Ranj is another author who writes about people in our local communities.

Dr.

Ranj is a real-life doctor.

He describes jobs like being a doctor, a soldier, a scientist, a recycling truck driver and a shop worker as being superheroes.

And he says this because they do such amazing work and they are helpful, they are resilient, they are patient, they are caring.

Can you think of any other jobs that help our local communities? Maybe use that front cover to help you.

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Well done.

Maybe you were thinking of firefighters, police officers, nurses, doctors.

Well done.

Different books then might appeal, might make you be interested in, to different people.

And we can give a personal response how we feel about those books and how those books have made us feel.

And it shows that we can learn lots about different things including jobs and careers in the future from books.

Here's one example.

I would most like to read "A Superhero Like You" by Dr.

Ranj because I want to be a doctor when I grow up.

I want to help others when I am older.

Here's another example.

I would most like to read "Sofia Valdez, Future Prez" because I am interested in leading others and making changes in the community.

Which of the books that we've talked about would you most like to read? Think about all of the books by Andrea Beaty.

Think about "Look Up!" and "Clean Up!" by Nathan Bryon.

And think about "A Superhero Like You" by Dr.

Ranj.

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Great.

I loved hearing your different responses.

So now you are going to think about those books.

Or you could think about something else linked to your experiences about what job you aspire to have in the future by answering some of these questions.

Then ask those questions to someone else.

What job do you aspire to have in the future? The job I aspire to have is.

Why do you aspire to have that job? I aspire to have that job because I want to help others.

I want to learn more.

I am interested in.

What do you know about that job? So maybe you've got your learning from somebody who has that job in real life, maybe from your learning in other subjects at school, maybe from books or maybe from something else.

And share what you know.

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Off you go.

Great.

I loved how carefully you listened to other people's responses and how well you answered it yourself.

Here are some examples.

I aspire to be a curious, smart scientist.

This sounds like Ada Twist.

I aspire to be a scientist because they can help to make discoveries.

And I know that scientists work in a team and they complete lots of investigations.

I wonder, did you manage to share your opinion? Well done if you did.

Now we're going to move on to the second part of our lesson, writing about what I aspire to be.

Today in this lesson, you will write about what you aspire to be.

And here is the success criteria to help you.

Describe a job using an expanded noun phrase.

Add detail to a verb using an adverb.

Join two ideas together, using and and read back your writing to make sure it makes sense.

We know that different jobs require you to have different skills and description of those skills are often adjectives because they're describing the noun, which is the job or the person who has that job.

Here're some examples.

Resilient, helpful, collaborative, which means working as a team, strong, and that might be strong physically or strong and brave, hardworking, caring, curious, creative.

You may think that you have learned some of these skills already.

You may think, "I am already resilient, I'm already caring," which is great.

And that means that you can get started about thinking about how you can make those skills even better.

I am going to say what I aspire to be when I grow up.

I'm obviously grown up.

So this is just an imaginary one.

I aspire to be an architect when I grow up.

So that's somebody who designs buildings, just like "Iggy Peck, Architect." Now I'm going to add two adjectives to describe what I want to be to create an expanded noun phrase.

Let's think.

I aspire to be a creative, comma, collaborative architect when I grow up.

I'm gonna say that sentence again with all of my punctuation.

Capital letter, I aspire to be a creative, comma, collaborative architect when I grow up.

Full stop.

I chose creative because architects have to design things, so they have to be creative in their brains.

And I chose collaborative 'cause they have to work with others, builders, plumbers, engineers.

So they have to work together.

Now you are going to say what you want to be when you grow up.

I aspire to be when I grow up.

Could you pause the video now? Great.

Here's an example that I heard.

I aspire to be a recycling truck driver when I grow up.

Now you'll add two adjectives to describe what you want to be.

I aspire to be mm, mm, mm, adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

When I grow up.

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Let's see the example that I saw.

I aspire to be a strong, comma, resilient recycling truck driver when I grow up.

Those two are great choices of adjectives.

Strong to carry all of the rubbish and resilient, never giving up.

Fantastic.

Have you got that sentence in your head? We can use adverbs as well to add detail to the actions that people do in their jobs.

They might do something resiliently, helpfully, collaboratively, carefully, quickly, lovingly, patiently, creatively.

Adverbs often end in the letters -ly.

If you take the -ly away, you're often left with an adjective, resiliently.

So you can see that we can create adverbs from some of our adjectives.

See if you can match the example to the word class then.

The examples that I have are helpful, patiently, resilient, resiliently.

Hmm.

Then I have adjective and adverb.

Some of those are quite similar.

So think carefully.

Maybe put them into a sentence to help.

Adjectives are describing the nouns.

Adverbs are describing the verbs.

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Let's see if you got it.

Helpful is an adjective.

Nurses are helpful.

Patiently is an adverb.

We'd use patiently.

We wouldn't say nurses are patiently.

We'd say nurses help others patiently, describing what they do.

Resilient is an adjective.

I might say recycling truck drivers are resilient, but they might do something, they might pick up rubbish resiliently, which makes resiliently an adverb.

A bit tricky.

So make sure you're thinking about which word to use and when.

Different jobs we know require us to do different things.

Have a look at these examples.

Teachers teach people patiently and they help others lovingly.

Shopkeepers give food to others quickly and they work as a team collaboratively.

Can you see the verbs and the adverbs? The verbs are the things that the teachers or shopkeeper does.

And the adverbs are how they do it.

Can you pause the video? The verbs are and the adverbs are, pause the video now.

Great.

Let's see.

The verbs are, in the first one, teachers teach.

That's something that they do.

And they teach patiently.

There's my adverb.

They help, there's my verb, lovingly.

There's my adverb.

For shopkeepers, they give, that's the verb, something that they do.

They give food to others quickly, there's the adverb, and they work, something that they do, as a team, collaboratively.

These sentences as well are compound sentences because they have joined two ideas together using and.

Teachers teach people patiently and they help others lovingly.

Shopkeepers give food to others quickly and they work as a team collaboratively.

So I am thinking about being an architect.

I'm going to explain what a person in that job does and I will include a verb, an adverb to describe the verb.

And I will use the joining word and to join the two ideas together.

Architects design, there's my verb, buildings creatively, my adverb.

And they work, my verb, as a team collaboratively.

Let me say that sentence fluently.

Architects design buildings creatively and they work as a team collaboratively.

Now you'll explain what a person in the job that you aspire to be does.

And you will include a verb and an adverb to describe that verb.

And you will join the two ideas using and, the job, verb, adverb.

And they, verb, adverb.

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Fantastic.

Really good job.

Have you got that sentence in your head? Here's an example that I heard.

Nurses care, there's my verb, for others lovingly, adverb and they give, verb, medicine carefully.

Great job.

Let's see if these sentences have met the success criteria.

My first sentence describing what I aspire to be.

My second sentence describing what they do.

I aspire to be an artistic, smart illustrator when I grew up.

Straightaway I can see an expanded noun phrase.

Artistic, smart illustrator.

Illustrators draw pictures for stories creatively and they listen to authors carefully because illustrators have to listen to what the author wants to make sure that their illustrations are correct.

So I have my verb draw.

And how do they draw? Creatively.

And they listen, there's my verb, to authors.

How do they do it? Carefully.

And I've joined those two ideas together using and.

Illustrators draw pictures for stories creatively and they listen to authors carefully.

And we read back our writing to make sure it makes sense.

Now I'm going to have a go at writing.

I'm going to share another example.

So then you've had lots of different ones.

Are you ready to help me? I am ready to write about what I want to be when I grow up.

I have got my lined paper, my success criteria and I'm ready to go.

I also have my pen ready to write with.

Now, my first sentence is what I aspire to be.

Okay.

Capital letter.

I aspire to be a caring, comma, smart vet when I grow up.

So I'm going to start here.

Capital letter.

I aspire.

Now, we've seen that word quite a lot.

Aspire, ire Now, that is a trigraph made by those letters.

I aspire to, common exception word.

I aspire to be be, B and E spells be.

Aspire to be a caring, caring.

Caring.

Caring.

Caring, I'm having another adjective.

So I need to separate with a? Tell me.

Comma.

Caring, smart.

Could you sound out smart with me? Smart.

Smart.

I aspire to be a caring, comma, smart vet.

Could you sound out vet with me? I'm starting a new line 'cause I've ran out of space.

Vet.

Vet.

When.

When.

That doesn't look quite right.

I remember, I need that sneaky wh- digraph.

When.

I aspire to be a caring, smart vet when I grow.

Gr, and I know it's O-Q 'cause it likes to be at the end.

Grow up, up, up.

I aspire to be a caring, smart vet when I grow up.

I finished my first idea.

So I need a full stop.

Then I'm going to say what vets do and how they do it.

Capital letter, vets.

And now I'm talking about more than one vet, so I need vets.

Vets, I've ran out of space.

Vets help animals is my verb.

Help.

Help.

Help animals.

Animals.

Animals.

Can you see that I'm sounding out every word as I'm writing it? Vets help animals.

How do they help animals? Let me think of an adverb.

Bravely.

Brave, split digraph A.

Ly, -ly.

Vets help animals bravely.

I need a new idea.

And they support, my verb, owners kindly.

So pet owners.

And, so I don't need new capital letter because I've got and, they, they they support, support, support owners.

Owners.

Owners Kindly.

Kindly.

Kindly.

Full stop.

I think I'm finished.

Let's check our success criteria.

Describe a job using an expanded noun phrase.

Caring, comma, smart vet.

Add detail to a verb using an adverb.

Vets help, that's my verb, animals.

Where's my adverb? Bravely.

They support, there's my verb, owners kindly.

I've joined two ideas using and.

Vets help animals bravely and they support owners kindly.

And I've read back my writing to make sure it makes sense.

Capital letter.

I aspire to be a caring, smart vet when I grow up.

Full stop.

Vets help animals bravely and they support owners kindly.

Full stop.

And I was reading my writing back as I was writing.

Thanks for helping me with mine.

I think you're ready to go.

Thank you so much for helping me with my writing.

I think you're ready to write yours.

You're going to write about what you aspire to be and what that job does.

Don't forget to check your success criteria.

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Really well done, everybody.

Fantastic.

Let's just check.

Did these sentences meet our success criteria? I aspire to be a sporty, strong netballer when I grow up.

Netballers work as a team collaboratively and they train, which means they work hard to train, resiliently.

Describe a job using an expanded noun phrase.

I aspire to be a sporty, comma, strong netballer.

Add detail to a verb using an adverb.

Okay, netballers work.

There's my verb.

How do they work? As a team collaboratively.

And they train, there's my verb, resiliently, there's my adverb.

Have I joined two ideas together using and? Netballers work as a team collaboratively and they train resiliently.

And we have read back our writing to make sure it makes sense.

Can you now check your success criteria and make sure that you've met it? Remember, this is a time to learn.

So if you haven't met it all, you can add your bits in now.

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Fantastic checking.

Really good job.

I've loved today's lesson because it's so nice to celebrate and talk about your skills and what you aspire to be in the future.

I can't wait to see what you achieve when you grow up.

So today we have learned that an aspiration is a hope or an ambition of achieving something.

And to achieve that ambition or goal, we know that a person must work for it and have certain character traits and be resilient, just like Ada Twist.

We also know that someone's future ambition may be different to another person's.

And it's really important to respect other people's personal responses and opinions.

We also know that certain character traits can be linked to specific aspirations or jobs.

Thank you for learning with me today and I hope you're really proud of your writing.

I really hope to see you again soon.

Bye.