Lesson video

Hello everybody, it is me Miss McCartney.

And this is lesson three of unit nine.

And we are going to be looking at, cause and effect today.

Hmm, do you have any idea what those words might mean already? If you do, can you whisper your ideas to the screen now.

Hoo, I had one of our learners say when something happens and it makes something else happen.

Let's find out in today's lesson if you are right.

For our lesson today you will need, a piece of paper or something to write on, a pencil or something to write with and your wonderful brain.

If you need to go and collect any of those things to make sure that you are fully prepared, pause your video now.

Brilliant, now that you are ready let's have a little look at what we are going to be learning today.

We are going to start with a spelling activity, then we are really going to think about, what is cause and effect? Hmm.

We are then going to practise using cause and effect for our explanation how birds fly.

And at the end of the lesson we are going to play a little game with rhyming couplets.

Let's get started with our spelling.

Today we are going to be looking at common exception words.

My turn, your turn.

Common exception words, your turn.

Brilliant pronunciation, okay.

Common exception words are a little bit tricky because we cannot use our phonics to sound them out.

They are exceptions, which means they don't fit the rule and we just need to learn them.

We have got three words that we are focusing on today.

My turn, your turn.

Most, your turn.

Water, your turn.

Even, your turn.

Fantastic.

In a second, you are going to pause your video.

You are going to look at the first word, you are going to say the first word, you are going to cover it up on your screen so you can't see it and you are going to try and write it getting the letters in the right place.

You are then going to check on your screen and your piece of paper to make sure that your word looks the same.

If you get it right you can give yourself a really big tick.

And if you don't get it right then you can fix your mistake and learn from it.

You are then going to repeat that process for the other two words.

So I would like you to pause your video and look, say, cover, write and check for all three of our common exception words.

Pause your video now.

Brilliant, can you hold your three words up to the screen so that I can have a little look.

Okay, I can see that some of our learners got all three of the words correct.

Well done.

And some different learners they got some words correct and fixed some words.

So that means that they learned from their mistake.

So they also deserve a really big well done.

We are now going to look at our next activity where you can practise using these words.

Can you write three sentences about birds using our common exception words? Remember they are, most, water and even.

Miss McCartney's example is, "all birds need to drink water." Pause your video now and write down your three sentences.

Brilliant, can you come a bit closer and whisper your favourite sentence to me.

Fantastic, one of our learners said, "most birds can fly but some cannot." Really in use of our common exception word, most.

Well done.

Okay, we are now going to have a little look at what, cause and effect mean.

So what is it? A cause and effect relationship is when something happens that makes something else happen.

So we are going to start by thinking about some examples that all of us have in our everyday lives.

So if the cause was rain, if it was raining, what might the effect be? Hmm, have a little think, pause your video, what might the effect be of it raining? Okay, can you whisper your idea? Fantastic, we had lots of different ideas.

One of our learners said that if it rained lots it could cause a flood, that would be an effect of rain.

Well done.

Another one of our learners said, that the flowers might grow.

That would be an effect too because flowers do need rain to grow.

Let's look at our next example.

If our cause was falling over what might the effect be? So if you fell over, what might the effect be? Pause your video now and have a little think.

Excellent, I heard lots of wonderful ideas.

One of our learners said, "the effect of falling over might be "that you start laughing." I do that sometimes if I fall over, I start laughing.

And another learner said that, "you might cut your knee and really hurt yourself." So both of those things have happened because you fell over.

Brilliant, let's have a look at our last example.

So your cause, is jumping up and down.

What might happen because you are jumping up and down? Pause your video now and have a little think.

Brilliant, can you whisper your best idea to the screen.

Fantastic.

So one of our learners said, "the effect of jumping up and down is that, "you might get very sweaty and out of breath." That definitely would happen especially you were jumping up and down lots.

Somebody else said that if you were jumping up and down, you might knock something off of a shelf.

And that could be a big problem especially if it was something really special.

But that would be an effect of jumping up and down.

Well done.

We are now going to start thinking about cause and effect in our explanation tact, how birds fly? Lets have a little think about it.

Let's think about flapping first, that is the first process that we have learned about.

So I would like you to think about, what the effect of a bird flapping their wings is.

So bird flaps wings and then you can see I have got three key words under effect.

They are, wind, pushes and upwards.

I would like you to describe the effect of the bird flapping its wings, using those key words.

Pause your video now.

Excellent, can you whisper your sentence using the three key words? Oh, brilliant.

So one of our learners said, "when a bird flaps their wings, "their wings "push down "on the air "and that creates an upward effect "for the bird "and as the wind blows, "it helps the bird to fly." Fantastic, you have used all three of our key words.

Let's look at our next cause, it said wings flap faster.

Hmm, what would be the effect of wings flap faster? Your two key words are harder and push.

Pause your video now to craft your sentence.

Brilliant, I had one of our learners say, "when a bird's wings "flap faster "they push down on the air harder "and they can fly faster." Fantastic.

So you have learned the cause.

So what happens first when the bird flies and the effect, what that means after.

Brilliant learning everybody let's look our next process.

Our next process, this is my favourite one, gliding.

I would love to be a bird and to be gliding over the world and looking down.

Okay, so our first cause, we have wings tilt.

So I want you to use this sentence stem.

When the bird's wings tilt the effect is and you are going to use the key words, move and forward.

Pause your video now to craft your sentence.

Brilliant, come a bit closer and whisper your sentence to me.

Fantastic.

One of our learners said, "When the bird's wings tilt "the effect is "that the wind, "the wings push down on the air "and the wind helps them to move forward." Fantastic use of our key words.

Okay, let's look at our second cause.

Air pushes against the wing.

Hmm, air pushes against the wing.

Your key words are pushes and up.

Pause your sentence now to craft your sentence.

Pause your video now, sorry, to craft your sentence.

Fantastic, I would like you to sit up really straight make sure that you have a good body posture and speak really clearly to the screen as you tell me your sentence, go.

Excellent work.

One of the sentences that I heard was, "when air pushes against "the wing "the bird is pushed upwards." And you have used both of our key words, well done.

So we have really thought about the process of gliding now and what the bird does and what that means happens next.

Fantastic, let's have a look at our last process now.

Steering.

Now this time, I have not given you any key words.

I want you to form a really eloquent sentence to explain the effect by yourself.

So your first cause is, when the shape of the wings and tail change.

Hmm, what happens when the shape of the wings and tail change? Pause your video now to craft your sentence.

Excellent, I'm going to give you a round of applause because that was the first time that you have crafted your sentence with the key words yourself.

And you did such a wonderful job.

One of our learners said, "when the shape of the bird's wings and tail change, "that means they can choose which direction to fly in." I really liked the key word direction.

Let's have a go at our final example now.

So the cause is, air pushes against the wings.

Now we've had this one a few times because it's really important to birds flying.

Pause your video now to craft your sentence to explain the effect.

Brilliant work everybody.

One of our learners said, 'when air pushes against the the wings, "the effect is that the bird is able to move up "and the faster the bird flaps its wings "the more it pushes against the air "and the faster it can fly." What a great understanding you have really delved deeper into the cause and effect of birds flying.

Well done everybody.

We are going to finish our lesson today by crafting some rhyming couplets.

Now I have written three sets of rhyming couplets.

Rhyming couplets is when the last two words of a line rhyme.

So I would like you to help me guess the second word because it will rhyme.

Let's go through our first example.

When birds fly sometimes they go up very? Hmm, what word could rhyme with fly? I'm going to say my rhyming couplet again.

And this time I want you to shout out the last rhyming word.

Are you ready? Sometimes birds fly, sometimes they go up very? High, fantastic well done.

Are you ready for our next rhyming couplet? Okay.

The wings push against the air, how high would you? And that's our missing word, I'm going to say it again.

The wings push against the air, how high would you? Shout it.

Dare.

That was a little tricky one.

Okay, rhyming couplet number three.

Gliding up high in the sky, they watch the world go? And we need a rhyming word there.

I'm going to say our rhyming couplet again.

And this time I want you to shout the rhyming word.

Are you ready? Gliding up high in the sky, they watch the world go? By.

Fantastic.

I have really enjoyed our lesson working together on cause and effect today.

And that will really help us in the rest of our units as we look towards writing our own explanations.

Great learning today everybody, lets finish with our challenge question.

If you could fly, where would you fly to? And you have got the sentence stem.

I would fly to because.

Mrs. McCartney's example is, I would fly to the North pole because I would love to see just how cold it is.

Pause your video now to complete your sentence.

Excellent, can you whisper your sentences to the screen now? Oh, one of our learners would like to fly to Australia to see a kangaroo.

I'd quite like to see a kangaroo as well.

Somebody else would like to fly to the Amazon rain forest to see all the different types of frogs.

What two great examples.

If you go there, don't forget to take me too.

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Well done for all your hard work today and I will see you very soon.