Lesson video

Hello, everybody.

I'm Ms. Corbett, and welcome to today's lesson, The theme of resilience in "Ada Twist, Scientist." I'm so excited for today's lesson because you're going to get to read or listen to the whole story, "Ada Twist, Scientist," and thinking about the theme of the story and talking about resilience and linking it to you.

For this lesson, I need you to have your listening ears, your thinking brains, and your looking eyes.

It would also be great if you could have someone to read the story to you.

And the story that you need is "Ada Twist, Scientist." And it would be great if your version could look just like mine.

You also need some paper and something to write with and draw.

So maybe you could pause the video and go and get those things now.

Fantastic.

Have you got them? I'm so glad you have.

Can you get your paper and your pencil in front of you, but so it's away from you so you're not distracted? And put the book away from you for now as well.

I think we're ready to get started.

And here is the outcome for today's lesson.

I can describe how a character is feeling at different points in the story, "Ada Twist, Scientist." And these keywords will help us with that.

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

Are you ready? My turn, your turn.

Theme, character, emotion, plot.

Well done.

Let's see how those come up throughout our lesson.

And the first part of our lesson is reading and responding to the story.

One of my favourite things, just enjoying a story.

So today, we are going to read this story, "Ada Twist, Scientist." Before we start, what do you predict the book will be about? I predict.

I think this because.

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Amazing predictions.

The only way we can find out if those are true is by reading it.

You are going to read or listen to the first two pages of the story.

So I would like you to open up your book.

You can go past that title page.

And those first two pages, don't go any further than that.

Pause the video now, and I really hope you enjoy.

Fantastic.

Did you enjoy? What do we know about Ada so far? Have a little think.

Hmm.

Let me tell you what I noticed that we know so far.

We know that Ada did not start talking until she was three years old.

She enjoyed observing and looking at others and other things.

She left chaos everywhere she went, so she's very messy.

And she stayed busy all day.

I also notice that this is a rhyming story.

Around, sound, break, wake.

Did you notice that too? It makes it really nice to listen to, doesn't it, because it has that rhythm.

Now you're going to read on a bit more.

Can you turn the page? And I would like you to keep reading until page 12.

Pause the video now, and I hope you enjoy.

Fantastic, I hope you enjoyed listening and really looking carefully at the illustrations.

Who have we been introduced to so far? So we've been introduced to Ada, our main character, but who else? The other characters are.

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Let's see.

We have been introduced to different characters, Ada, Ada's parents, Ada's brother, (gasps) that was who the little boy was on the front cover, Ada's cat, who seems to be following around everywhere, and Ada's teacher, Ms. Greer, as well as some other people at school.

They all seem quite shocked and confused by Ada's busyness, don't they? And what type of question does Ada most like to ask? Hmm.

Is it questions starting with how? Is it questions starting with why, with when, or with where? We know she likes asking questions, but there's one question in particular that she likes to ask.

Ada likes to ask, mm, questions.

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Ada most likes to ask questions starting with why.

Asking questions are a really great thing.

They can help us to understand the world around us.

And questioning is something that scientists do to start their experiments.

They ask a question to launch something that they're going to investigate.

Now you're going to keep reading until the end of page 18.

I really hope you enjoy.

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Great, I really hope you're enjoying the story as much as I am.

What is Ada most interested in? Hmm.

What is she most interested in? Ada is interested in.

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Ada really wants to be a scientist.

This means there's lots of vocabulary, language and words, about science in the story.

Did you notice that? Source.

So the source of something.

Research, where we're looking into something and researching things, learning things.

Hypothesis, which means you've got a problem and you're suggesting a reason of why that might be, and then you investigate it.

And tested.

We need to test things when we are scientists.

Now you're going to read just a few more pages from the next page until page 22.

Pause the video, and I hope you enjoy.

Well done.

Oh dear, think about the characters.

Think about Ada.

Think about Ada's family.

What emotions are the characters feeling? I've got some examples.

Ada is feeling lonely 'cause her family have told her to stop and have got cross with her.

She feels miserable because she's been told she can't do any more science.

She's disappointed.

Ada's family, though, are frustrated.

They're annoyed.

This word came straight from the book.

They're angry.

They're disappointed too with Ada for making such a mess.

And another word from the book, frazzled, which means they're really stressed and don't know what to do.

(gasps) Oh no, they're also mad.

Oh dear.

Which adjectives then can describe how Ada's family feel at this point in the story, frazzled, happy, frustrated, or curious? Ada's family are feeling, mm and mm.

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Let's see.

Ada's family are feeling frazzled and frustrated.

They are not happy because Ada has made such a mess in the house and very almost damaged the cat.

And they're not curious about what she's doing because they just want her to stop.

(gasps) Oh no! I really hope that we have a happy ending.

Can everyone cross their fingers? (gasps) They feel really frustrated and frazzled because Ada's taken over the house with her experiments.

Maybe that's not very fair.

Now let's see if we get that happy ending.

You're going to read and listen to the end of the story.

I really hope you enjoy.

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Okay, did we get a happy ending? I think we did, yay! Silent cheer.

What emotions, their feelings, do the family feel now? The family feel.

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Well done.

Ada's family realised that the mess she made was just because she was so passionate.

She cared so much about something and showed that she did not want to give up.

By the end of the story, the characters are supportive of Ada, they're proud of Ada, and they're curious and interested.

They join in in her investigations, just like Ada.

So, how did Ada feel by, how did Ada's family feel, sorry, by the end of the story? Did they feel proud, curious, furious, or angry? Hmm.

Ada's family feel, mm and mm.

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Let's see.

Ada's family felt proud and curious.

They no longer felt furious, which is another word for angry.

Thank goodness.

A character's emotion can change throughout the story.

So they started off feeling quite shocked and confused about what Ada was doing.

Then that feeling moved to anger.

And then finally, that feeling and emotion moved to being proud.

And that's okay that our emotions can change.

Different people might have different responses to the story, especially once we get to the end.

I really enjoyed that story.

I wonder if you did too.

Sharing your opinion about a story helps you to start to know which type of stories you really enjoy and maybe which type of stories you don't.

We can think about these questions to help us.

What was your favourite part of the story? Mm.

My favourite part was.

Why was that your favourite part? It was your favourite part because.

Who was your favourite character, and why? (gasps) My favourite character was.

Because.

But is there anything about the book that you would change? So this is where you can talk about maybe a part of the story that you didn't like.

And it's okay, but we can talk about that in a respectful, kind way by just saying what you'd like to change about the story.

So you're going to ask these questions and then answer them yourself.

What was your favourite part of the story, and why? (gasps) My favourite part of the story was watching Ada do her investigations because I liked seeing everyone's shocked face.

Who was your favourite character, and why? My favourite character was the cat 'cause I liked seeing its funny expressions.

Is there anything about the book that you would change? Hmm.

I would maybe change when Ada's family got really cross at her, but this did help her be really motivated to keep going.

Could you pause the video and ask and answer those questions now? Off you go.

Well done.

Great question asking and answering.

Here's some examples that I heard.

"My favourite part was when Ada was doing her experiments in school because they looked so shocked!" "My favourite character was the cat because it always showed me how it was feeling, especially when it almost went in the washing machine!" "I would change the story by making sure Ada's family never became cross with her because that made me feel a bit worried.

I didn't really like it." Really great opinions.

I really hope you enjoyed listening to the story.

Now we're going to move on to the second part of our lesson, the theme of resilience.

A theme, one of our keywords, is a main idea of something.

One theme in the story is resilience.

Can we say that word? Resilience.

Well done.

Resilience means never giving up on something and persevering, keeping going, even when you're finding something difficult.

So, let's see what you can remember.

What does resilience mean? Resilience means giving up when things are tricky.

Resilience means finding things really easy first time round.

And resilience means not giving up, even when things are difficult.

Hmm.

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Did you get it? Resilience means not giving up, even when things are difficult.

Resilience is the opposite of the first option, giving up when things are tricky.

If you just give up as soon as something gets tricky, that's not being resilient.

Resilience doesn't mean finding things easy first time.

It means finding things a bit tricky but keeping on going, even though things are tricky, which is quite a hard skill to have.

Let's look at some parts of the story where Ada showed resilience.

At the very start, Ada was learning how to climb all on her own.

Tricky when you're a little baby or a toddler, but she kept going.

So even from being really young, she showed that skill.

What about when Ada did not give up on asking questions? She wanted to learn more.

She didn't know the answers, so she wanted to find out.

What about when Ada wanted to know what was causing that horrid smell? Did she find out straightaway? No.

But did she give up? No.

What about even when Ada's family were cross with her? Did she give up, or did she decide to restart her investigation? She kept going.

Then she really confidently explained her thoughts to her parents, even though she wasn't sure whether her parents were going to support her.

And then even towards the end of the story, she still didn't know about what was causing that smell, but she kept going.

A real skill that you need to have as well, especially if you're a scientist.

Being resilient can be really hard, though, because you can come across barriers, challenges, or difficulties.

If Ada had given up, though, she may have stopped wanting to be a scientist altogether.

(gasps) That would be such a shame.

However, if you show resilience and then achieve what you hope to achieve, even though it might have been tricky along the way, you might feel proud, accomplished, 'cause you've achieved something, or inquisitive.

You want to learn more because you've been so proud of the process, and wanting to do more and not give up.

I am going to tell you about a time where I think I showed resilience and how it made me feel.

I showed resilience when I learned to swim.

At first, I found it really difficult and scary to do it on my own, but now I can swim all on my own.

That makes me feel accomplished and proud, and I know that those around me felt those feelings too.

Now it's your turn.

You're going to tell the person nearby an example of when you were resilient.

Think really hard.

Maybe it was something at school.

Maybe it was something outside of school.

Maybe it was something at home or a club or a hobby.

Have a think.

And how did it make you feel when you achieved it? Or maybe you're still in that process, like Ada.

You're still trying to achieve it.

You're still trying to ride your bike.

You're still trying to learn to swim.

You're still trying to read that book.

Hmm.

Then draw a picture of what you did to show that resilience and how you are feeling on your face.

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Fantastic job.

It's so important to share those challenges and how we can overcome them.

Really amazing, and shows what we can learn from books.

Here's an example that I saw.

"I showed resilience when I learned to read my first ever book." Maybe think back to when you first started school and you weren't sure of all of those sounds and how to blend them together.

But then remember that day that you did it.

"I found it difficult to remember the sounds and blend them together, but I felt so proud of myself to go home and tell my family I did it." Well done.

Can you give yourself a silent cheer for that resilience that you have shown? Because it is really tricky.

Did you listen to somebody else's example of resilience too? If you did, can you give them a big thumbs up and say, "I am proud of you." Well done, because I know I am proud of you.

What a lovely lesson.

We know that reading a story from the beginning to the end helps us to consider those big ideas, those themes told through the plot.

We also know that a character's feelings and emotion can change depending on what they're doing or what challenges they might be facing.

Some adjectives describe feelings and emotions.

Frazzled, proud, accomplished.

Linking our own experiences to what we are reading helps us to understand the characters' feelings and actions.

So thinking about the time that we were resilient really helps us to think about how Ada must have felt.

Resilience means never giving up and keeping trying, even when things are difficult.

Well done for today's lesson.

I really enjoyed it, and I hope you did too.

Hope to see you next time.

Bye!.