Lesson video

Hello, I'm Miss Corbert and I'm really excited to learn with you today.

Today's lesson is called Comparing Fairytales.

And fairytales are some of my favourite type of stories 'cause they're so magical and exciting.

So I'm really looking forward to today's lesson with you.

All you'll need for today's lesson is your thinking brain, your looking eyes, and your listening ears.

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

Let's get started.

So today's lesson outcome is, I can compare some well known fairytales.

Let's have a look at our keywords, which will help us get us to that learning outcome.

My turn then your turn, fairy tale.

"The Magic Porridge Pot" is a fairy tale.

Compare, setting, theme.

Fantastic, the first part of our lesson, we are going to be revisiting the story of "The Magic Porridge Pot." We know that re-reading a story really helps us to remember the plot, so what happens in the story, as well as notice any other details in the text and the illustrations.

I'm going to read you the story now.

And whilst listening, I want you to try and remember who the characters are, where the setting is, and what the whole plot is because soon you are going to be retelling the story yourself.

I'm now going to read you the whole story.

Have you got those listening ears on? Off we go.

"The Magic Porridge Pot." "Once upon a time a little girl called Jin lived with her grandmother in a small mountain village.

Jin was a kind and curious girl with a fiery spirit.

One day Jin was feeling hungry, so she went exploring in the bamboo forest.

She met a mysterious old woman.

The wise woman gave her a magical porridge pot and explained that if Jin whispered the words, cook, little pot cook, she would be rewarded with a tasty treat.

She also told Jin that for the pot to stop cooking, she should say, 'Stop little pot, stop.

' Then Jin hurried home excitedly with her heart dancing like a butterfly.

She placed the pot on the stove and chanted the magic words.

To her amazement, the pot began to bubble and boil, filling the kitchen with a delicious aroma.

Jin was thrilled to share the porridge with her grandmother and the rest of the hungry villagers.

Everyone was filled with joy as Jin served them all bowls of the most scrumptious porridge they had ever eaten.

One day Jin was so eager to feed the villagers that she accidentally repeated the magical words twice.

The pot overflowed, filling her home with porridge that spilled out into the village.

The streets were swimming in porridge and even people from neighbouring villages had come to see what the fuss was about.

It was chaos.

Nobody knew what to do.

Suddenly Jin remembered the wise woman's advice.

She uttered the words, 'Stop little pot, stop.

' And the magical porridge pot obeyed.

Much to everyone's relief, the porridge pot stopped flowing.

Finally, the villagers gathered together and worked as a team to tidy up the mess and destruction created by the porridge.

Jin's sharing and generosity meant that she and the villagers were full and content.

Jin learned to take great care when using her magical porridge pot, providing just the right amount of porridge for everyone.

The end." Thank you so much for listening to my story and I really, really hope you enjoyed listening to it.

I wonder what is just one thing that you can remember from the story.

Could you tell me now? I remember, I'm listening.

Fantastic, you remembered so much.

Remembering the main events, which are the main parts of the story help us to know the plot.

So once upon a time, a little girl, a young girl named Jin, lived with her grandmother in a small village in the mountains.

One day they were feeling hungry, so they went to find some food in the bamboo forest.

But they met an old lady who gave Jin a magical porridge, a magical pot.

We didn't know it was a porridge pot at this point.

Jin said, cook, little pot, cook.

And it started to create some delicious porridge, which she shared with all of the people in her village.

But suddenly the porridge started to overflow and it would not stop.

It filled the streets and everybody was shocked and confused and it was chaos.

Everybody worked together to try and clear up the mess.

Jin realised to say, stop, little pot, stop.

And managed to make just enough porridge for herself and all of the people in the village.

So we know from all of that, that a character is a person or an animal in a story.

Jin and her grandmother are the first characters that we meet in the story, but can you think of any more characters? Pause the video now and have a think.

Who else is in the story? Pause the video now.

Well done, we had the old lady, didn't we? And we had all of the other villagers.

So true or false, the bamboo forest is a character in "The Magic Porridge Pot." True or false? Show me your thumbs.

I'm going to check in five seconds.

Zero, let me see.

Well done if you are saying false.

The bamboo forest is not a character.

'Cause the bamboo forest is a place which is a setting because we know that a setting is where a story takes place.

And we also know that a story can have more than one setting.

I wonder what are the different settings in "The Magic Porridge Pot?" I've given you a clue with the bamboo forest.

Can you think of any more? Pause the video and have a think, off you go.

Well done, the settings are, the village in the mountains, and we also see inside of Jin's house and the bamboo forest.

We know that remembering the main events of the story help us to know the plot.

So your first task is to retell the story yourself using the main events to help you of "The Magic Porridge Pot." You might start with once upon a time because lots of fairytales start with that and you might end with finally, maybe if you are, if you are nearby to someone, you could take it in turns to say the different events.

Pause the video, and off you go.

Fantastic retelling, did you remember or to include all of the settings and the characters in the story? Well done if you did.

Let's move on to the next part of our lesson.

Features of fairytales.

Have a look at these stories.

We've got "Cinderella", "Snow White" and "The Snow Queen." These are called fairytales.

One of our keywords.

Fairytales are a type of traditional tale with a magical element.

So which one of these is a fairy tale? We know that a fairy tale is a type of traditional tale that has something magical in it.

Let's have a look at these titles.

"A superhero Like You." Hmm, that book is about real people with real jobs.

"Cinderella" which is about a fairy godmother turning her into a beautiful princess using her magic.

Or "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," which is about a caterpillar who eats its way through lots of food.

Which of these is a fairy tale? Could you point, could you point to the story that you think is a fairy tale in five? Let's see, well done if you said "Cinderella." "Cinderella" is a fairytale because it has magical parts in it.

"A Superhero Like You" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" are both fiction stories, so made up stories, but they don't have magical parts to it.

Have a look again at these fairytales, including the one that we are focusing on.

"Cinderella", "Snow White," "The Snow Queen," and "The Magic Porridge Pot." These stories have lots of things that are the same.

So I can see actually the main character in all of these stories are female, are girls and are people rather than animals.

I can see that two of the stories, and one of the stories actually, or two, I can't quite tell from "The Snow Queen" are outside.

The "Snow White" and "The Snow Queen" look like they're outside.

But "Cinderella" and "The Magic Porridge Pot" look like they're inside.

I wonder if you could think of anything else that is the same or something that is different.

And you might also use what you know if you already know some of these stories as well.

Or you might just use the front cover.

Could you pause the video now and have a think what is the same and what is different? This is comparing, pause the video now.

I loved hearing all of your ideas.

Now the front cover of "Snow White" doesn't really tell us this, but it does have a magical part, doesn't it? Because Snow White eats a magical, poisonous apple, doesn't she? "Cinderella" has magic from the fairy godmother.

"The Snow Queen" has her own magic to turn things into ice.

And we all know that "The Magic Porridge Pot" is magical too, well done.

So fairy tales often include magical objects and creatures, talking animals like "Anansi The Clever Spider." Princes or princesses like in "Cinderella." And we know that all of these things are fictional things because we know that pots don't cook by themselves.

And we know that talking animals, that animals don't talk.

So we know that these stories must be fiction stories.

So true or false, fairytales often include magic.

Think about "Cinderella," think about "Snow White," think about "The Magic Porridge Pot." Think about "Anansi The Clever Spider." How does that spider talk without magic? Is that true or false? I'm going to give you five seconds, five.

Let me see your thumbs.

True or false? Well done, fairytales often include magic.

True, they do.

Fairytales also often have heroes and villains.

Ooh, heroes are the good characters.

The kind characters in the story like Cinderella, Snow White or the Fairy Godmother.

Villains are the bad characters in the story.

Like the ugly sisters in "Cinderella," the wicked stepmother or the giant in "Jack And The Bean Stalk." Which of these is a villain, which means an unkind or a bad character in a story? Is it the old lady who gives the pot to Jin? Is it the giant in the "Jack And The Bean Stalk?" Or is it Jin who makes the porridge? Hmm, have a think.

Which of these is a villain? I'll give you five seconds.

Mm is a villain, five.

Let's see.

The Giant is a villain.

'Cause the giant doesn't like sharing with Jack and tries to chase him down the beans stalk.

Whereas the old lady is very generous.

She gives Jin the pot because she's feeling hungry and Jin shares all of the porridge with everybody.

Fairytales also often have a theme.

So there are so many things that are similar.

A theme, one of our key words, is the main idea that the writer wants to focus on.

So in the story, "Snow White," the theme is jealousy because the evil queen is jealous of Snow White.

"The Three Billy Goats Gruff," the theme is courage because the little goats stand up to the big evil troll.

So they are courageous.

And in "The Snow Queen", the theme is friendship.

'Cause the snow queen works with her sister, her friend, to work together and to save each other, friendship.

By the end of the story, we often learn the lesson based on a theme.

In "The Magic Porridge Pot," instead of keeping the pot all to herself, Jin shares the porridge with the hungry villagers.

So this means that we learn the importance of sharing with others who are in need, which is the theme of "The Magic Porridge Pot." Because what might have happened to the villagers if Jin hadn't shared the porridge? How would they be feeling? They would be feeling, let me hear you.

They'd be feeling really hungry and probably a bit upset.

So the theme of the "Magic Porridge Pot" is sharing.

Sometimes though we can find it quite difficult to share with others or our friends.

So I'm going to tell you about a time when I shared something and how it made me feel.

I shared my snack with my friend after school, and I felt proud because I made my friend happy.

Now it's your turn to tell somebody nearby about a time when you shared something and how it made you feel.

Normally, if you share something, you might find it a bit tricky at first, but then once you've done it and seen the person who you shared with and how they're feeling, it might make you feel quite positive.

So I shared, mm, I felt mm.

Then once you've shared it and maybe listened to somebody else's idea, can you please draw a picture of this and show on your face how it made you feel? Pause the video now.

Wow, what a lovely task.

What a lovely thing to think about all of the times that you've shared with someone and how it made you feel.

Let's look at an example.

I shared my bike with my little brother.

That is so, so kind, and I felt really happy to see him having fun.

Well done, did you manage to think about a time that you'd shared something and how it made you feel? Fantastic, let's move on to the final part of our lesson, comparing fairytales.

We can compare fairytales by looking at the features that are the same and things that are different.

So comparing means looking at different things, two different things and thinking about things that are the same and things that are different.

Now we've looked at all of the features, we can do this really well.

So have a look at some of these features that we know are in fairytales.

Magic, maybe heroes and villains, a theme which teaches us a lesson, and a happy ending.

Let's see.

The fairy tales that I'm going to start compare are "Cinderella" and "Snow White." So the first feature, magic.

Cinderella has a magical fairy godmother and Snow White eats a magical, poisonous apple.

In "Cinderella" are there heroes? Yeah, Cinderella, the Fairy Godmother.

And there are villains, the wicked stepmother and the evil stepsisters.

In "Snow White," we've got heroes, the seven dwarves that help her, Snow White herself, and the prince as well.

And we've also got the villain, the evil queen.

"Cinderella" has a theme which teaches us a lesson.

I think so, I think the main theme it teaches us is about kindness and "Snow White" we know, teaches us about not to be jealous of other people, but do they both have a happy ending? Yes, Cinderella finds her Prince Charming and the wicked stepmother and sisters get their comeuppance and Snow White awakes from her sleep and has a happily ever after too.

So both of those fairytales have things that are similar because they all have magic, heroes and villains, a theme which teaches a lesson and a happy ending, but each one of those things is slightly different.

So lots of the features of fairytales are the same, but when we look more closely at the details, some things are different.

So in "Cinderella," the magical object is a pumpkin carriage as well as the Fairy Godmother.

And in "Snow White," the magical object, I forgot about this one, as well as the poisonous apple, it's the talking mirror.

Let's think then about the villains in these fairytales.

We know that a feature of fairytales can, that it might have heroes or villains.

"Cinderella," "Snow White" and "The Magic Porridge Pot." We know that the villain in "Cinderella" are the wicked stepmother and the ugly sisters.

In "Snow White," we have the evil queen.

What about in "The Magic Porridge Pot?" Is there a villain? Is there someone that is really unkind or tries to cause problems? I don't think there is.

So not all fairytales have a villain.

As long as they have a magical part of it, then they can still be a fairytale.

So true or false, all fairytales have a villain.

Is that true or is that false? Show me your thumbs in five seconds.

Let's see.

False, not all fairytales have a villain, which we've seen from our story, "The Magic Porridge Pot." So we know that we can compare fairytales by thinking about what is the same and what is different using the features that we've looked at.

The main features of fairytales are that they have magical characters, objects or settings.

They often have heroes and villains.

They often have a theme that teaches us a lesson, and they often have a happy ending.

You are going to compare these two fairytales thinking about what is the same about them and what is different.

The two fairytales that you are going to compare are, "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and "The Magic Porridge Pot." Okay, are you ready? So you are going to use this table to compare the "Magic Porridge Pot" and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." You're going to use the features to help you.

Look at the feature and decide does each of, does the fairytale have it or does it not? If it does, you could either give it a thumbs up or you could tick it on your worksheet.

If it doesn't, you could either leave it blank or a thumbs down, or you could write a cross on it.

Are you ready? Pause the video now and off you go.

Fantastic, let's see how you got on.

The first feature is magic.

"The Magic Porridge Pot" definitely has magic, and we know that from the title because it has a magical porridge pot in.

"The Three Billy Goats Gruff" though doesn't have magic.

It does have talking animals, but no magic.

The "Magic Porridge Pot" doesn't really have heroes and villains because we don't have any villains.

But "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" has the evil troll.

"The Magic Porridge Pot," and "The Billy Goats Gruff" both have a theme.

"The Magic Porridge Pot" is all about sharing, and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" is about courage and standing up for yourself, and they both have a happy ending.

The happy ending in "The Magic Porridge Pot" is that Jin learns to use the porridge pot correctly, but manages to get just enough porridge for everybody.

And the three billy goats get to the other side of the bridge.

Well done if you managed to compare those fairytales.

Thank you so much for learning with me today.

We've done so much learning.

We know now that comparing means exploring things that are the same and things that are different.

We have also learned lots of features of a fairytale.

Fairytales have lots of the same features, magical objects, characters or settings, heroes and villains, a theme which teaches the reader a lesson, and that most end happily.

Maybe you could look out for some other fairytales that you know, maybe if you are reading them, listening to them, or watching them and see whether they have these features.

I really hope that I get to learn with you again next time.

Bye.