Lesson video

Hello, I am Miss Corbert and thank you so much for learning with me today.

Today's lesson is called Imagining You are the characters in "The Magic Porridge Pot." So for this lesson, you will need your thinking brain, your looking eyes, and your listening ears.

As well as that you will need your imagination.

If you got it, fantastic.

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

I think we're ready.

Let's get started.

Today's lesson outcome is I can act as if I am a character in the story.

Here are key words for the lesson that will help us get to the outcome.

Are you ready? My turn, your turn.

Point of view, character, emotions, expression, Verb.

Well done.

There might be some words there that you've not heard of before, but don't worry because we will go through them today.

Let's look at the first parts of our lesson, expressing actions and emotions.

We know that rereading a story really helps us to remember the plot as well as notice some details in the text and illustrations.

I'm going to read you the whole story of "The Magic Porridge Pot" again.

Whilst listening, I want you to think about the characters and how they are feeling at different parts of the story.

I'm going to read you the story now.

Get your listening ears ready.

"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 plays 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, which means smell.

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

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

They're very lucky.

One day Jin was so eager to feed the villagers that she accidentally repeated the magical words twice, "Cook, little pot, cook.

Cook, little pot, cook." 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 to come and see what the fuss was about.

It was chaos and nobody knew what to do.

Suddenly, Jin remembered the wise woman's advice.

She uttered them 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 and I really hope you enjoyed hearing the story.

How was Jin feeling at the beginning of the story? Have a little think.

Compared to how she was feeling at the end.

Have a think.

Can you pause the video now? Jin was feeling and Jin was feeling.

Pause the video.

Fantastic.

Well done.

It really shows that you've listened to the story carefully.

'Cause at the start of the story, Jin was feeling quite hungry, which is why she went to explore in the forest.

But by the end of the story, it says that she was feeling full and content, which means just happy with what she has and who she is.

Well done.

We can think of our feelings as being inside our bodies.

The things that we feel.

And our feelings are the emotions that we have about something.

There's one of our key words, emotions.

An emotion is a feeling or a mood about something.

One emotion might be happy, and we can feel really happy on the inside, but then emotions can be expressed, which is another one of our keywords.

On the outside of our body.

We can show how we are feeling by doing different things.

So if I was feeling the emotion of happy, I might be smiling, I might be giggling, I might be laughing, or I might be bouncing up and down to show my happiness.

That is how I express something.

We're going to think from the character's point of view.

Another key word, point of view.

Which means imagining we are them.

So we are no longer ourselves, we are thinking from their point of view, which you are imagining how they are feeling and what they are doing.

We'll express the emotions of the characters, but there are different ways of expressing emotion.

So here's what I'm going to be looking out for.

Facial expressions, smiles, maybe big smiles or little smiles.

Shock.

Our facial expressions.

What we do with our face.

Our body movements or actions.

I might show that I'm scared by scrunching my body.

I might show that I'm brave by having my hands on my hips.

I might also use my voice if I was feeling shocked, I might go, Oh! If I was feeling scared, I might go, oooh! Or if I was feeling happy, I might start laughing.

Things we do or say, can show others how we are feeling and express to others.

So, I'm going to imagine I'm no longer Ms. Corbet.

I am Jin.

I am the main character in the story.

And it's the start of the story, and I can't find any food to eat.

I'm going to freeze frame to show you how I am feeling, and then, I'm going to describe with words how I'm feeling.

Are you ready? So I'm Jin, it's the start of the story and I can't find any food to eat.

Okay, freeze frame.

Let's see how I'm feeling.

Are you ready? And you are going to repeat it after me.

I am hungry.

I am starving.

I am frustrated.

If you're frustrated, that means you're fed up.

You're disappointed.

So I showed you, I expressed my emotions and then I described them.

Now it's your turn.

You are Jin.

You are no longer yourselves.

So I would like everybody to close their eyes.

And then in five seconds, you are going to open your eyes and you are going to be Jin.

Are you ready? Five, four, three, two, one.

Let me see.

Hello Jin, nice to meet you.

So you're Jin, and you're in the bamboo forest.

An old lady appears giving you a magical porridge pot.

Can you show me how you are feeling? I'm going to give you a bit of thinking time.

Then you are going to get ready to freeze frame.

Are you ready? Freeze frame.

Okay.

Oh my goodness.

What amazing expression.

Well done.

Now I'm going to say how you are feeling and you are going to repeat after me.

Are you ready? You are surprised.

You are curious.

And that's a word from the story.

Jin was curious about what the pot was.

You are excited.

Fantastic.

What amazing ways to express ourselves and then describe our feelings as well.

Okay, it's my turn again.

I am Jin, I get home and say the magic words.

The pot starts bubbling with delicious porridge.

How am I feeling? Can you repeat after me? I am excited.

I am amazed.

I am grateful.

So I did this to kind of show my shock and amazement, and also a bit of relief that it's finally making some delicious porridge for me.

But I'm also very grateful and thankful.

So I'm showing that happiness on my face.

Now it's your turn.

You are a hungry villager.

So you are no longer Jin, you are no longer yourselves, you're a hungry villager.

So close your eyes again.

Five, four, three, two, one.

Let me see.

Hello, nice to meet you again.

You are a hungry villager, but, Jin hands you a bowl of scrumptious hot porridge.

How do you feel? Can you express that to me? I'm watching.

Then I'm going to ask you to freeze frame in five seconds.

Five, four, three, two, one, freeze frame.

Wow, what fantastic expression? Are you ready to repeat after me? You are grateful, which means you are thankful just like I was.

You are happy.

You are relieved.

Now if you have a feeling of relief, it means you are worried about something, but you are not anymore.

So you are relieved.

You might go, phew.

Fantastic.

What Amazing expression.

Now it's your turn to express how Jin felt whole throughout the whole story.

If you are with someone, you could do this in pairs.

So one of you could express how you are feeling, and the other person could describe how Jin felt.

Jin felt hm and hm.

Using some of the words that we use together.

And then you can swap over.

If you are on your own, that's okay.

You can express it to yourself, and then say your sentence, Jin felt hm and hm.

So the first one, I might do this, Jin felt hungry and frustrated.

But the for the final one, I might go, Jin felt thankful and relieved.

Can you go through the whole story from the beginning to the end, expressing how you feel, and then using some words to describe how you feel.

Pause the video now and off you go.

Wow, that was amazing expression.

And I loved hearing some of the descriptions as well.

So for one of the pictures where the porridge is overflowing, you might have gone.

Jin felt worried and helpless.

Did you manage to describe and express how Jin felt during every part of the story? Well done if you did.

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

Understanding the story.

We now know that imagining that we are the characters helps us to understand and remember the main part of the story.

Let's continue to think about the characters feelings and actions.

So you are Jin.

Remember you are Jin.

Where were you when you met the old lady? I met the old lady.

Think about the setting.

Pause the video.

I met the old lady.

Pause the video now.

Let's see if you were right.

I met the old lady in the bamboo forest.

Well done.

Now you are going to put the events in the order that they happened.

So thinking about which order these happened in.

Now these events didn't necessarily happen right after each other, so just think back in the story which came first, which came after that, and which came after that.

Can you pause the video now and put them into order? Off you go.

Well done.

Can you get your pointing finger ready and point to the parts of the story that happened first.

Off you go.

Well done if you are pointing to when Jin met the old lady in the bamboo forest and she was feeling very thankful to take the magical porridge pot.

Get your finger ready next.

What happened next? Was it when the porridge over spilled, or was it when Jin managed to stop the porridge and make enough for everyone? Pointing ready.

It was when it had overfilled and flooded all of the streets, which means finally, Jin managed to use magical porridge pot correctly.

Well done.

Now again, you are Jin, how did you feel when the magic porridge pot would not stop making porridge? I felt hm and hm.

Can you try and think of two words to describe how you felt when the magic porridge pot would not stop making porridge? I felt hm and hm.

Pause the video now.

Wow, what fantastic descriptions.

And I love that you used some of the descriptions from our previous learning cycle.

I felt shocked and panicked.

Might have been one description that you used.

Shocked and panicked.

These words are adjectives.

We are going to be using adjectives lots now your learning.

We know that a character's feelings can lead them to action, lead them to doing something.

Lots of events in the story happened because of the character's feelings.

I would use adjectives to describe how a character is feeling and then explain their action.

So, Jin was curious and excited.

So her action was that she ran home as quickly as she could with the magic porridge pot.

So an action shows what a character does.

The verb in the sentence, there's a key word.

The verb in a sentence tells us what a character is doing.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

Could you say that after me? A verb is a doing or a being word.

Well done.

Look at this sentence again.

She ran home as quickly as she could with the magic porridge pot.

Can you identify the verb? A verb is something that we do.

What did she do? She ran home as quickly as she could with the magic porridge pot.

Which word tells us what she did? Pause the video now.

Let's see if you got it.

She ran home as quickly as she could.

The verb is ran, because running is something that we do.

Jin was running home because she was excited to try out the magic porridge pot.

Well done if you spotted it.

Don't worry if you didn't 'cause we're going to do much more practise.

So, is this true or false? Get your thumbs ready.

A verb is a doing word.

True or false? Show me your thumbs in five, four, three, two, one.

Well done if you have your thumbs up.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

Well done.

So which kind of these words is a verb? A verb is something that we are or that we do.

So, kind.

Kind.

Is that a being word? Is that something that we do an action or is it a feeling? Ate.

Not as in the number eight, it's an ate something, to eat something.

That might be something that we do.

And Jin.

Hmm.

That's the name of something.

Which one of these is a verb? Can you pause the video and have a think, who is the verb.

Pause the video.

Let's see.

Did you do it? Well done If you managed to get ate.

So if Jin ate the porridge, the thing that she did is the verb.

Ate.

Well done.

Let's look at another example.

A verb can also describe how somebody says something because speaking is an action, something that we do.

Which of these words is the verb something that we do? She whispered to the pot, "Cook, little pot, cook." Which is the verb? 'cause a verb can also describe how someone says something.

Have a think.

The verb is whispered.

Whispered is a verb.

It shows us what Jin was doing and explains that she was talking quietly.

So, for each main event of the story, you are going to describe how the characters were feeling using adjectives, and say what they were doing using a verb.

Because we know that feelings leads to actions.

So you are going to say, hm was or were feeling hm.

They hm.

So for example, Jin and grandmother were feeling hungry.

They walked to the bamboo forest.

Walked is something that they did.

Can you pause the video and have a go? Off you go.

Well done.

Did you manage to describe and explain what the actions were for every part of the story? Let's see what about this part of the story here? Maybe you could point to the part that it is.

The villagers were feeling relieved.

They cleaned and tidied the streets together as a team.

So the feeling, the adjective is relieved, and they cleaned and tidied are the things that they did, which are the things that they did to clean the streets together.

So cleaned and tidied are verbs.

What's a fantastic of learning.

Today, we now know that imagining that we are the characters can help us to understand the main events of the story, and describe what is happening.

We also know that acting out parts of the story can help us to understand a character's feeling and actions.

There are different ways to express emotions.

Facial expressions are one of them.

Facial expressions and actions help us to show those feelings and emotions.

And actions are verbs.

And verbs tell us what a character is doing or has done.

Thank you so much for learning with me today and I hope to see you next time.

Bye.