Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

How are you today? I hope you're feeling really, really good.

My name is Ms. Afzal and I'm feeling great today.

Guess why? Because we're going to be sharing some poetry, and I love poetry.

And the poetry we're gonna be sharing is really, really fun.

It's written by someone called James Carter.

You are going to need a copy of the book "Zim Zam Zoom! Zappy Poems to Read Out Loud." Yep, we are gonna be reading some very fun poems out loud, so I will pause here while you go and get your copy of the book.

Okay, you are back.

You've got your poetry, but what else do you have? Have you got lots of ideas? Are you feeling creative? Are you feeling excited? Are you up for having some fun? Come on, let's do it then.

Let's begin exploring this poetry.

The outcome for today's lesson is I can listen to and discuss 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

We have some keywords in our lesson today.

Let's go through them, my turn, your turn.

Chorus.

Senses.

Repetition.

Onomatopoeia.

Let's try that one again, onomatopoeia.

Rhyme.

Great stuff, I loved hearing those words.

Let's find out what the keywords mean.

Chorus, part of a song or rhyme that is repeated after every verse.

Senses, seeing, smelling, hearing, touching, and tasting.

Repetition, the repeated use of sounds, words, or phrases.

Onomatopoeia, it's a type of word that sounds like what it describes.

Rhyme is repetition in the sounds at the end of words.

These are our keywords.

Let's look out for them.

Let's listen out for them.

Let's think careful about these keywords.

Today's lesson is called Reading 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' by James Carter.

There are two parts to the lesson.

There's an introduction to the poem and exploring the poem.

Let's begin with our introduction to the poem.

James Carter is a poet.

This means he writes, yeah, you guessed it, poems. He writes poems. A poem is a piece of writing that uses words in a special way.

Poems can, wait for it, they can do so many amazing things.

They can tell stories.

They can describe feelings.

They can imagine things.

They can explore ideas, thoughts, emotions.

They can even tell jokes.

They can be super funny and silly.

They can describe our memories.

Wow, so many things that poems can do.

Check for understanding.

What can poems do? Tell the time.

Tell stories.

Describe feelings.

Pause the video while you decide what poems can do.

Well done if you selected tell stories, and well done if you selected describe feelings.

These are two things out of a list of many other things that poems can do.

James Carter has written lots of poems. Lots of his poems are fun and they can sound like a song when you read them.

One of his poems is called 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Can you say that? 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Fantastic.

What do you think this poem will be about? Hmm, pause the video here and think about this and then tell someone nearby.

What do you think this poem will be about? Okay, thanks for sharing your ideas.

Now I'm going to think of some things that might make the sounds 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Raindrops falling on an umbrella.

Playing in the bath, splashing about in the bath.

And now it's your turn.

I would like you to think of some things that might make the sounds 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Pause the video while you do this and tell someone nearby.

Okay, so what did you think of? Did you have similar ideas to each other, or maybe some different ideas? And now it's time to listen to the poem 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Pause the video while you do this.

Enjoy the poem.

Check for understanding.

Now that you have heard the poem, I would like you to see if you can name anything that went 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' in the poem.

So pause the video while you think of some of the things that made that sound in the poem and tell someone nearby.

So I wonder what things you came up with.

I wonder if you came up with the waves.

The waves go 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Did you come up with dirty Welly boots going 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'? Killer whales make this sound.

Fish with their little tails.

Rivers and raindrops.

Well done if you named any of these things that were in the poem 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Poems can make us think about our own experiences.

Let's hear about some experiences of the rain.

Here's Aisha.

I remember hiding under a tree in the park when it was pouring with rain.

Oh, that's a lovely one.

And here is Jacob.

It makes me think about the noise my feet make on the floor when I get out of the bath.

Yeah, that's a bit of a 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' sound.

Amazing.

Now it's your turn.

Can you remember a time when you played with water? Pause the video and tell someone nearby about a time when you played with water.

Oh, I hope you enjoyed sharing about when you were playing with water.

I wonder, was it at school? Was it at home? Was it outside somewhere? So many fun places to be playing with water.

In a safe way, of course, may I add? And now I'm going to say the words 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' in a happy voice.

And I'm going to tell you how the words feel in my mouth.

'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Oh my goodness, it feels like my mouth is playing with water.

Each word makes my mouth move in a fun, bouncy way, like the raindrops falling on the ground.

What a lot of fun.

And now it's your turn.

I would like you to say the words, 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' in a happy voice.

Pause the video and have a go at this now.

Okay, how did you get on with that? How did the words feel in your mouth, I'm wondering? Pause the video and tell someone nearby.

Thanks for joining in with that.

And now I would like you to listen to the poem again, and we're each gonna be thinking about our opinion of the poem, what we think about the poem.

So pause the video while you listen to the poem again.

Okay, so now I'm going share my opinion of the poem, 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

I will either share something I liked or something I didn't like.

Hmm.

I liked hearing the words 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' again and again.

I loved the repetition.

And now it's your turn.

I would like you to share your opinion of the poem, 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

You could either share something you liked or something you did not like.

And you could begin your sentence, I liked or I did not like.

So pause the video while you share your opinion of the poem with someone nearby.

Thank you for sharing.

Check for understanding.

The poem 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' is about wind, fire, water, mud.

Pause the video while you decide what the poem 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' is about.

Well done if you selected water.

Absolutely, this poem is all about water.

And now it's time for your first task.

Illustrations are drawings that can help bring a poem to life.

Choose one or two of your favourite words or descriptions from 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' and draw illustrations of these descriptions.

Think about the repeated words in the poem, the different experiences that are mentioned, and how the words are laid out on the page.

So pause the video, get your colours and your pencils ready, and enjoy creating your illustrations of your favourite words or descriptions from 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

And I'll see you when you're finished.

Okay, it's great to be back with you.

How did you get on? Which words did you choose to draw and why? And how do your illustrations show what's happening in the poem? Pause the video and tell someone nearby.

Okay, thank you so much for sharing all of that.

And now we are onto the next part of our lesson, exploring the poem.

Listen to the poem again.

Which words are easy to remember? Pause the video while you listen again and consider which words are easy to remember.

Okay, well, the words 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' are easy to remember because they're said again and again, and in fact, again and again and again and again, and even more.

We call this repetition.

Can you say that? Repetition, fantastic.

Can you hear any other words that are repeated again and again? Pause the video and tell someone nearby.

Are there any other words that are repeated? Did you come up with the words do it? Because those come in every verse of this poem.

Check for understanding, true or false.

Saying a word once is called repetition.

Pause the video while you decide if this is true or false.

Well done if you selected false.

It's not repetition if we just say a word once, it's if we say it again and again.

Repetition can make a poem fun, catchy, and easy to remember.

It also helps the words flow and sound a bit like a song.

This adds to the rhythm of the poem.

A chorus is a part of the poem that repeats after every verse.

That's one of our keywords, chorus.

Should we say it again? Chorus.

Fantastic, I liked hearing that.

In this poem, the chorus is the same as the title, 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

Can you say it? Check for understanding.

Repetition helps make the poem sound boring.

Add to the rhythm of a poem.

Make the poem fun and catchy.

Pause the video while you decide which of these things repetition helps with.

Well done if you selected that repetition helps add to the rhythm of the poem, and well done if you said that repetition helps make the poem fun and catchy.

'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' describes different sensory experiences with water.

Using our senses helps us to imagine and experience.

We have five senses.

Can you name them? Do you know what the five senses are? Pause the video and tell someone nearby, what are our five senses? So we have our sense of hearing, we have our sense of smelling, we have our sense of sight, we have our sense of touch, and we have our sense of taste.

Well done if you came up with these five senses.

The word drippy helps us to imagine what we can hear and what we can see.

Check for understanding.

Use your senses to help you imagine flowing water.

What can you hear, smell, see, taste, and touch if water was flowing? Pause the video and share with someone nearby.

Okay, I wonder what ideas you came up with.

Maybe you could hear whooshing water.

Maybe you could smell fresh water.

Maybe you could see moving water.

Maybe you could taste clean water, delicious.

Maybe you could touch cold water.

Well done for using your senses to help you imagine flowing water.

James Carter likes using onomatopoeia and rhyme in his poems. The title and the chorus of the poem are the same.

Can you all say it out loud with me? Ready? 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!'.

This is an example of onomatopoeia where words sound like what they are describing.

Can you think of another poem that contains onomatopoeia? Pause the video and tell someone nearby if you can think of one.

Well done if you thought of another poem that contains onomatopoeia.

Check for understanding.

Can you use another example of onomatopoeia to describe the sound of water? Pause the video and tell someone nearby another example of onomatopoeia to describe the sound of water.

What examples of onomatopoeia did you come up with? Maybe splash! Drip-drip-drop! Plosh! Tip-tip-tip! Pitter patter! Well done for sharing your examples of onomatopoeia to describe the sound of water.

Rhyming words have the same sound at the end of a word.

Listen to the first verse of the poem again.

Can you hear any rhyming words? Pause the video while you do this.

Well done if you found the rhyming words.

The words, bath, path, and laugh rhyme.

The sound at the end is the same, even though they're spelled differently.

Thanks for that extra tip there, Jun.

Some words in this poem have similar sounds in the middle, but they don't rhyme at the end.

Listen to the second verse of the poem again.

Pause the video while you listen to the second verse of the poem again.

So let's stretch out some of these words in the second verse by saying them slowly.

Boots.

Shoes.

Too.

If you listen carefully, you can hear that they all have the oo sound.

The repetition of sounds makes the poem fun to read and say.

Check for understanding.

Which two words have the same sound in the middle of the word? Stretch the words out to help you.

Waves.

Shoes.

Tails.

Pause the video while you decide which two words have the same sound in the middle.

Well done if you selected waves and tails, they both have the A sound.

And here's our little tip from Jun.

The sound is the same, they both have the A sound even though they're spelled differently.

Thank you, Jun.

And now it's time for your final task.

I would like you to read a verse of the poem or the whole poem aloud.

Here are some things to have a go at whilst reading.

Whisper the words in the verses.

Say the words in a chorus in a loud voice.

With a partner, take it in turns to read a line of the poem each.

Say the poem really quickly.

Find some objects or instruments that you can use to create sound effects as you read.

Oh my goodness, this is gonna be fun.

So pause the video here.

Have a lot of fun as you read a verse in the poem or the whole poem aloud and I'll see you when you're finished.

All right, you are back.

How did you get on? I hope you had a great time.

Did you read a poem out loud? Did you use a loud voice or a whisper? Did you use any instruments? That must have been great fun if you did.

And most importantly, did you have a good time? That is one of the most important things about learning and poetry, having fun.

In our lesson reading 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' by James Carter, we have covered the following.

A chorus is a part of a poem that repeats again and again.

Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like what it is describing.

Poems can make the listener think about their own experiences.

Repetition adds to the rhythm of the poem, helping to make it fun to read and easy to remember.

'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' uses lots of descriptive words to talk about different sensory experiences about water.

Well done everyone for joining in with this poem.

I had such a fun time together with you exploring 'Splish! Splash! Splosh!' by James Carter.

I hope you had a lot of fun too, and I hope you keep having fun enjoying water, drinking water, playing with water, enjoying the rain, and all sorts of other things.

I'll see you in another lesson soon, I hope.

Bye for now.