Lesson video

Hello all, I'm Ms. Brooms and I'm so looking forward to be learning with you today.

I will be guiding you through this lesson.

We are going to have such a great time.

So let's get started, shall we? Welcome to the lesson, "The Magic Porridge Pot." Your outcome for today is, "I can listen to and learn 'The Magic Porridge Pot'." So by the end of today's lesson, you should know more about "The Magic Porridge Pot." For today's lesson, you are going to need your looking eyes, listening ears, thinking brains, somebody to talk to, and your performing voice.

Our key words to keep an ear out for today are fiction, onomatopoeia, descriptive, fairy tale.

Well done, great repeating, if you haven't heard these words before, that's okay.

We're going to be looking at them today.

Today we are going to be focusing on introducing "The Magic Porridge Pot", comparing nursery rhymes, and performing "The Magic Porridge Pot." So let's start with introducing "The Magic Porridge Pot." If you have a look at all of these pictures, they are from nursery rhymes, okay? So I can see, oh, there's five ducks there.

There's a mother duck.

Ooh, maybe that's from the nursery rhyme "Five Little Ducks." Some of these nursery rhymes you might have heard before.

Nursery rhymes are a type of poem, and poems are a type of fiction text that are often short, and they are also written to entertain whoever is reading or listening, so it is enjoyable.

Now, there are lots and lots of different types of poems. So nursery rhymes are the type of poem that are often sung to an audience.

I wonder if you can name a song, nursery rhyme or poem that you know.

Have a think, do you know any songs, nursery rhymes or poems? Hmm.

Can you turn to someone nearby to you and tell them either a song, nursery rhyme, or poem that you know? Pause the video here.

Great, really good sharing.

True or false, a nursery rhyme is a type of video.

True or false? What do you think, true or false? It is a type of video.

Show me now.

The answer is, show me, show me your thumbs.

Great, the answer is false.

A nursery rhyme is not a type of video, it is a type of poem.

If you didn't get that, that's okay.

If you did, well done.

Look at this picture.

Oh, she's holding something above her head.

What do you think this nursery rhyme is about? Can you turn to someone nearby to you and tell them, what could the nursery rhyme be about, by looking at this picture? Pause the video here.

Oh, really good discussions.

Hmm, well I can see that there's a girl holding a bowl above her head, and there's stars coming out of it.

So maybe she made some sparkly cake batter? I don't know.

Hmm, what did you think? Now, that was "The Magic Porridge Pot", and "The Magic Porridge Pot" is a nursery rhyme.

♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble bubble ♪ ♪ Porridge in the pot ♪ ♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Stir it piping hot ♪ Now it's also the title of a fairy tale that you might already know.

Now, this nursery rhyme retells part of the story in a really lively way.

So nursery rhymes are often enjoyed by younger children, so you may have heard some nursery rhymes before.

Now nursery rhymes are much shorter than fairy tales, and usually sung to a tune.

♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Porridge in the port ♪ ♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Stir it piping hot ♪ Now they also contain rhyming words, pot, hot.

And as we might already know, rhyming words have the same sound at the end of a word.

So at the end of a word, they have the same sound.

I would like you to identify two words that rhyme.

Two words that rhyme, so have a think.

A, B, C, or D.

A is pot, B is pit, C is hot, D is hat.

Which two words rhyme? I'd like you to show someone near to you which ones you think rhyme.

Pause the video here for some thinking and sharing time.

Well done, great.

I'm going to show you the two words that rhyme.

The two rhyming words are A, pot and C, hot.

Pot, hot, they're rhyming words.

They have the same sounds at the end, ot.

Now nursery rhymes look different to stories in books.

"Bubble, bubble, bubble." Next line, "Bubble, bubble, bubble." Next line, "Porridge in the pot." Next line, "Bubble, bubble, bubble." Next line, "Bubble, bubble, bubble." Next line, "Stir it piping hot." What do you notice about how the words of this nursery rhyme look on the page? I would like you to turn to someone nearby to you, and tell them what you noticed.

I helped you out a bit when I was reading the poem.

Pause the video here.

Fantastic, great sharing.

I notice that all of these lines are underneath each other, and they don't all have full stops at the end, hmm.

Now I want you to have a think.

How is a nursery rhyme different to a fairy tale? How is it different to a fairy tale? A, it has a title.

B, it is usually sung to at tune, like a song.

C, it often contains rhyming words.

A, it has a title.

B, it is usually sung like a tune to a song.

C, it contains rhyming words.

How is it different to a fairy tale? Show me on your hands now, and I'm going to show you the answer in five, four, three, two, one.

The answer is B.

A nursery rhyme is different to a fairy tale, because it is usually sung to a tune like a song, and also C, it contains rhyming words.

Often, it often contains rhyming words.

Now "The Magic Porridge Pot", the nursery rhyme that we're focusing on, has two more verses, and each verse uses descriptive language to describe what the porridge is doing.

Descriptive, that's one of our key words.

"Split, splat, splot, split, splat, splot.

Magic porridge pot.

Plip, plap, plop, plip, plap, plop.

Stir it, never stop." Oh, so this descriptive language is describing what the poem is doing.

"Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.

Porridge in the pot.

Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.

Eat it piping hot." So, "Split, splat, splot, plip, plap, plop," are repeated.

Now, these words are onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeia are words that sound like sounds.

So, "Split, splat, splot," imagine the porridge dropping would make those sounds.

"Split, splat, splot, plip, plap, plop." Those words sound like sounds.

Wow, onomatopoeia.

"Split, splat, splot, plip, plap, plop." Fantastic repeating.

Now these words, these onomatopoeia, these onomatopoeic words, sound like what they are describing.

So this is called onomatopoeia.

"Split, splat, splot, split, splat, splot.

Magic porridge pot.

Plip, plap, plop, plip, plap, plop, stir it, never stop." So nursery rhymes and poems often contain onomatopoeia.

It makes things more exciting.

I would like you now to identify the words that are onomatopoeic.

A porridge, B split, C plop, D magic.

Which words are onomatopoeic? A porridge, B split, C plop, D magic.

Post the video here for some thinking time.

Great thinking, everyone.

Now the words that onomatopoeic are split, so B split, and C plop.

Well done if you got that.

If you didn't, that's okay.

Now, I would like you to answer these questions about the nursery rhyme, "The Magic Porridge Pot." The first question, what is the magic porridge pot cooking? What is the magic pot cooking, okay? Two, which words from the poem are onomatopoeic? And three, how should you eat the porridge at the end of the rhyme? So I'd like you to turn to someone nearby to you, and answer these questions.

Pause the video here.

Fantastic, great discussions.

Here are some of the answers that you might have already come up with, when you were discussing with the person near to you.

What is the magic porridge pot cooking? It is cooking porridge.

Which words from the poem are onomatopoeic? Splat, splat, splot, and plip, plap, plop are onomatopoeic.

How should you eat the porridge at the end of the rhyme? You should eat it piping hot.

We are now going to move on to comparing nursery rhymes.

You're doing great, everyone.

So we're going to compare two nursery rhymes.

When we compare, we're looking for things that are the same and things that are different.

There's an apple, and there's a lemon.

Hmm, I can see that the apple has a core coming out of its, out of the top, and the lemon does not.

That is something that is different.

So the apple has a core coming out the top, the lemon does not, on this lemon here.

Something that is the same, they both have yellow on them.

Hmm, I want you to think.

What is the same about these two pictures, and what is different about those two pictures? Could you please turn to someone nearby to you and tell them something that is the same and something that is different? Pause the video here.

Fantastic, that's great, really good sharing everyone.

So we are now going to compare "Five Little Ducks" and "The Magic Porridge Pot." ♪ Five little ducks went swimming one day ♪ ♪ Over the hills and far away ♪ ♪ Mommy duck said, quack, quack, quack, quack ♪ ♪ But only four little ducks came back ♪ So that is the "Five Little Ducks", and now.

♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Porridge in the pot ♪ ♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Stir it piping hot ♪ And that is "The Magic Porridge Pot." So these are the two nursery rhymes that we are going to compare.

Looking at "The Magic Porridge Pot" and "Five Little Ducks", they both have onomatopoeia.

"The Magic Porridge Pot" has "split, splat, splot," And the onomatopoeia in the "Five Little Ducks" is "quack, quack, quack." They both have rhyming words.

A difference is that "The Magic Porridge Pot" is set inside, and the "Five Little Ducks" is set outside.

Hmm, true or false? Both "Five Little Ducks and "The Magic Porridge Pot" take place inside.

Both "Five Little Ducks" and "The Magic Porridge Pot" take place inside.

Is that true or false? Is it true or false? Show me on your thumbs.

Everyone's showing me.

I'm going to show you the answer in five, four, three, two, one.

The answer is false.

"Five Little Ducks" is set outside, and "The Magic Porridge Pot" is set inside.

Now I'd like you to try and think of something else that is the same or different.

So we've already looked at some.

Now, what else is the same or different? I would like you to turn to someone nearby to you.

Have a look at things that are different, have a look at things that are the same, and try and come up with a bit more.

Pause the video here.

Okay, really good discussions.

I'm going to show you some of the things that you may have come up with.

You might have said that they both have movement.

They both have movement.

So "The Magic Porridge Pot", there's stirring happening.

That's different to the "Five Little Ducks", who are swimming.

They also both have repeated words.

If you thought of those two, great.

If you thought of something different that was the same or different, great.

Now "The Magic Porridge Pot" and "Five Little Ducks" are different because, hmm.

They're different because of what? A, one contains rhyming words and one does not.

B, there are animals in both nursery rhymes.

C, one nursery rhyme is set outside, and the other nursery rhyme is set inside.

Which one do you think it is, A, B or C? Pause the video here for some thinking time.

Great thinking everyone, I'm going to show you the answer.

"The Magic Porridge Pot" and "Five Little Ducks" are different because one nursery rhyme is set outside and the other nursery rhyme is set inside.

Well done if you got C.

If you didn't, that's okay.

Now let's have a little think about which is our favourite nursery rhyme.

My favourite nursery rhyme is "The Magic Porridge Pot", because I have porridge for breakfast every morning on the weekend, so it reminds me of home.

I would like you to tell your partner which is your favourite nursery rhyme, and explain why this is your favourite, remembering everyone can have a different opinion, and that's okay.

So we're going to use a stem sentence.

My favourite nursery rhyme is mm, because mm.

My favourite nursery rhyme is mm, because mm.

You need to say what's your favourite rhyme is, and why.

Pause the video here and off you go.

Well done everyone, great discussions, fantastic.

You may have said something like, "My favourite nursery rhyme is 'Five Little Ducks' because I'm interested in numbers, and in this rhyme we count backwards." So you might have been thinking about the maths that you like.

Or, "My favourite nursery rhyme is 'The Magic Porridge Pot' because I love saying the words to make it sound like porridge is cooking," mm, tasty.

Or you could have said something like this.

"My favourite nursery rhyme is 'Five Little Ducks' because I go to the park and feed the ducks with my dad." Well done everyone.

Okay, we are now moving on to performing "The Magic Porridge Pot." Today we are going to perform "The Magic Porridge Pot." Now, a performance is a show that you put on for others.

Have a stage, an audience.

I wonder if you've ever seen a performance, or maybe you've been in a performance yourself.

I know, I have seen a performance before.

It was our summer concert at school, and we were singing our favourite songs that we had learned in music.

That was a performance that I had seen, but also been in.

Which performances have you seen or been in? Can you turn to your partner and tell them now? Off you go, and pause the video here.

Great, really good sharing everyone.

Now let's have a little bit of a think.

Hmm, what makes a good performance? What makes a performance exciting to watch? Well, actions and movements do.

Facial expressions, and a loud, clear voice, a really nice, loud, performing voice.

I've just told you what makes a performance more exciting to watch.

Let's see if you can identify which of these make a performance more exciting to watch.

A, a loud, clear voice, B, jumping up and down.

C, actions and movements, D, facial expressions.

A, B, C, or D.

Okay, I'm going to let you pause the video here and have some thinking time, and then get ready, 'cause it could be more than one answer.

So pause the video here.

Wow, I saw you really thinking, super duper hard.

Now the answers of which of these make your performance more exciting to watch are A, a loud, clear voice, C, actions and movements, and D, facial expressions.

Well done if you've got all of them or some of them.

If you didn't get any, that's all right.

Keep focusing, you've got this.

Now, today we're going to imagine that we are actors.

We are going to be performing the first verse of the nursery rhyme.

♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Porridge in the pot ♪ ♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Stir it piping hot ♪ I would like you to practise singing the rhyme in a loud, clear, sing-song voice, and I'm going to listen.

Off you go practise.

Well done everyone, that was such great practising.

Okay, we are now moving on.

We are going to be adding actions and movements to our performance.

So, "Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.

Porridge in the pot." I am going to make my fingers move like they are bubbling, watch me.

♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ Those are my actions for the first section.

Now, what actions or movements could you do for the next part of the rhyme? So I've done.

♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Porridge in the pot ♪ You need to think of some actions or movements for, ♪ Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble ♪ ♪ Stir it piping hot ♪ And I would like you to do that with someone nearby to you.

Don't forget to use your listening ears, and make sure you are using a loud, clear, performing voice as you are doing the actions to help you.

I'd like you to do that now, and pause the video here.

Ooh, I saw some very good actions.

Well done everyone, give yourself a pat on the back.

This is going very well.

Now, which parts of our body can we use to add actions to a performance? A ears, B faces, C hands, D arms. A, B, C, or D.

What could you use? Everyone show me on your hands.

I'm watching, I'm having a look.

Okay, I'm going to show you the answers in three, two, one.

Which parts of our body can we use to add actions to a performance? We could use C, hands and D, arms. Now we can also use facial expressions to show how someone might be feeling.

So how do you think the person watching the porridge bubbling at the beginning might be feeling? Have a think, at watching the porridge bubble up and bubble up and bubble up, how could they be feeling? "Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.

Porridge in the pot.

Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.

Stir it piping hot." I think they might be a little bit shocked.

Everyone showed me a shocked face.

Really good shocked faces.

They might also be feeling very hungry, very, very hungry, very excited, quite amazed at how it's bubbling.

That's how they could be feeling.

Now how can you show these feelings on your face? I want you to show me a hungry face.

Everyone, show me a hungry face.

Ooh, good hungry faces.

Ooh, I'm very hungry.

Can you all show me now an excited face? Oh, very good excited faces.

A big smile, your eyes wide, eyebrows raised.

(gasping) Now can you show me an amazed facial expression? Oh, you look very amazed.

Mouth open, slight smile, amazed.

Oh, really good facial expressions, everyone.

Now the porridge pot is cooking by itself.

I am feeling amazed.

I will show you with my face how I feel.

I'm feeling amazed, this is my amazed face.

(gasping) Wow.

Okay, your turn.

The bubbling porridge smells delicious.

You are feeling hungry.

Show me with your face how you are feeling.

Everyone show me now.

Oh my goodness, such good facial expressions.

Wow, you guys look very hungry.

True or false? We can use our faces to different expressions.

Is that true or is that false? Everyone showing me on your thumbs, I'm going to show you the answer in 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

We can use our faces to show different expressions.

The answer is true, well done.

Now, we can perform on our own, in small groups or in big groups.

So when we're not performing, we are the audience.

Okay? We're the audience.

So how can we be a good audience? We can listen, make sure we're not talking over others, making sure we're sitting still and paying attention.

Be supportive, you can smile, you can cheer, and we could clap at the end.

(clapping) Now, I would like you to now practise performing "The Magic Porridge Pot." We've done so much work, everyone.

Now remember your facial expressions, a loud, clear voice.

Make sure you're singing the tune.

Make sure you're doing actions and movement.

And then number two, perform "The Magic Porridge Pot" to an audience.

So first, first you're going to practise, then you're going to perform.

If you don't have anyone to perform to, you can perform to me, I will be your audience.

I would like you to pause the video here and do that now.

Good luck everyone.

Wow, oh my goodness.

What brilliant performance.

Great performances, everyone.

Now, did you perform "The Magic Porridge Pot" to an audience? I mean, I was cheering my audience on, making sure that your performance had facial expressions, a loud, clear voice, singing to the tune, and having actions and movements.

Well done.

If you included that in your performances.

You have worked so, so incredibly hard today.

To summarise our lesson, we now know "The Magic Porridge Pot", and we know that it has some descriptive words in it that sound like what it is describing.

And that description is called onomatopoeia, great.

Now we also know that people can have different thoughts or opinions on different nursery rhymes, and that's okay.

We've used our voices, our facial expressions, our actions and movements, to make our performances more interesting.

And we know that when people do that in performances, it makes it more interesting and exciting to watch.

You have all been incredible.

Give yourself a big, ♪ One, two, three ♪ ♪ Well done, me ♪ Fantastic, it has been wonderful guiding you through our learning today.

I hope that you choose another English lesson.

Hopefully see you soon, bye.