Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Miss Baron, and this is Marcel.

We know that we are learning all about description at the moment.

Now, do you remember, in unit one, we played a game called through my imaginary window.

Well, Marcel and I have been looking through our imaginary windows again.

And we would love to describe for you what we can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.

So Marcel is going to go first.

Are you ready? Go on, tell us what you can see, Marcel.

Did you get that? He says that he can see the bright, beautiful feathers of hummingbird.

What can you hear? He says that he can hear her hum a sweet, lovely tune.

What can you smell, Marcel? He says he can smell her perfume.

She smells like the perfume of flowers.

And what can you feel? Did you hear that? He says that he can feel her soft silky feathers.

Well, sounds like you are experiencing some beautiful things through your imaginary window today.

Let me describe what I see, hear, smell, taste, and feel when I look through mine.

I can see the black wings of story bat, and I can see his fang-like teeth.

I can hear him squawking, telling all of the stories to himself in his cave.

I can smell the damp dirt down there.

I can smell how damp it is and dirty, deep underground.

And I can feel his rubbery wings.

So now, we would love if you could have a go at playing that game with somebody else at home, or one of your toys.

Have a look through your imaginary window and describe it using the senses.

What can you see? What can you hear? What can you smell, taste and feel? So pause the video now and have a go at playing through my imaginary window.

In today's lesson, we are going to build descriptive phrases for our new stories.

So in more detail, the lesson will look like this.

First, we are going to do a quick spelling activity.

Then we are going to sing a descriptive story song for my story.

And I'm going to show you how you can write some verses about your story.

Then we are going to draw and describe a scene of our choice from our story.

And then we are going to turn that into a list poem.

So in this lesson, you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper to write on, and a pencil to write with.

So pause the video now and go and get those things if you need to.

Amazing job, you are back and ready to begin the learning today.

So let's begin with our spelling activity.

Today, we are going to learn to spell some tricky words with the U sound spelled with the letter O.

So remember, we can't sound these words out.

We just have to learn them.

So let's practise reading them together.

My turn, your turn, My turn, first.

Come, your turn.

Come, your turn.

"Come and help us," shouted the humans.

Next word, my turn.

Some, your turn.

Deep voice this time.

Some, your turn, brilliant.

"We are going to need some help," thought badger.

Next word, done, my turn.

Done, your turn.

Fantastic, done, your turn, brilliant.

Well done for saving the stories.

Next word, month, your turn.

My turn, month, your turn, brilliant.

"We have been waiting a month for someone "to come and help us," said the humans.

Next word, worry, your turn.

My turn, worry, your turn, fantastic.

There was a lot of worry about how bored people were becoming without any stories.

Next word, above, my turn, above, your turn.

Again, above, your turn, fantastic.

"We need to get above ground quick," cried hummingbird.

So those are the words that we are going to learn to spell today.

And you've just heard me put them into some story sentences for my recycled story.

So I would like you now to put them into story sentences about your story.

So there's an example again, about my story.

Without stories, the humans have been bored for months and months.

So remember, you're now going to put those words into sentences about your recycled story.

Pause the video now and have it go at that.

Fantastic effort.

I would love to hear your favourite sentence that you came up with.

So, can you tell me to your screen now say, "My favourite sentence is.

." Tell me your screen.

Wow, those are fantastic, creative story sentences using those tricky words.

I can't wait to read your stories at the end of this unit.

Now then, I would like you to practise spelling them now.

Because remember, we can't sound them out, we just have to learn them, which means we need to practise, practise, practise spelling them.

So you're going to use your look, cover, write, check strategy.

So you're going to each word at a time.

You are going to look at it carefully.

You're then going to cover it up with your hand.

You're going to write it three times, just like you can see I've done on the screen.

Then you are going to uncover it and you're going to check it.

And at that point you can fix any mistakes you may have made.

And, if you feel like you'd like to, you can carry on spelling that word a few more times until you feel really confident, like you've really got it.

So I would like you now to practise spelling those words, using your look, cover, write, check strategy.

Pause the video now and do that.

Fantastic job.

You have done an amazing job with your spellings today on those tricky words.

And they're going to come in really useful.

Those words come up all the time.

So once you learn to spell them, you won't forget.

You'll just know them after that.

And it will be so much easier when you want to use them in your writing.

Now then, let's move on to the main part of today's lesson when we are going to sing some descriptive songs about our new stories.

Now I'm going to teach you a song about my recycled story first.

And then you're going to become a songwriter and have a go at using some descriptive phrases in verses of your own about your story.

So we know our description song already, don't we, from unit one.

Now let's sing it again.

And we're going to use this same tune to create our song verses today.

So sing this with me, and then I'm going to teach you the verses about my story.

So you ready, let's go.

♪ Description, description ♪ ♪ How shall we do it ♪ ♪ Description, description ♪ ♪ How shall we do it ♪ ♪ How does it look ♪ ♪ How does it sound ♪ ♪ How does it smell ♪ ♪ How does it taste ♪ ♪ How does it feel ♪ ♪ That's how we do it ♪ Right, let's sing those two verses again, ready? So joining in all the way from the top with the actions, let's go.

♪ Description, description ♪ ♪ How shall we do it ♪ ♪ Description, description ♪ ♪ How shall we do it ♪ ♪ How does it look ♪ ♪ How does it sound ♪ ♪ How does it smell ♪ ♪ How does it taste ♪ ♪ How does it feel ♪ ♪ That's how we do it ♪ Brilliant job.

Now, now that we've learned the tune, I'm going to teach you the other verses for my story.

Now I'm going to make myself a bit bigger on the screen so you can see my face and my actions a bit clearer.

Let me just recap my story really quickly before we sing the song about it so you remember what happens.

Humans are really bored and grumpy because they have no stories.

So hummingbird offers to help.

And she gets the help of badger, fox and rabbit.

They dig deep, deep, deep into the underground.

They go down the tunnel and find a sparkling cave where all of the stories are being hidden and held by evil story bat.

Story bat is guarding those stories.

Hummingbird grabs them in her beak.

She flies out of the cave as fast as she can.

Angry bat chases her.

So she throws the stories to Rabbit, who gets chased up the tunnel by angry story bat.

So she throws them to badger, who keeps running up through the tunnel.

But again, he gets chased.

So badger throws them to fox.

He's still getting chased by angry bats.

So he throws them back to hummingbird, who then throws them into a cloud.

And all of a sudden it begins to rain down stories.

And all of the seas and lakes and rivers of the world are full of stories.

And the humans drink them and they begin to tell stories.

And that is how humans became the storytelling animal.

And from that day to this, they have fun listening to each other's stories and telling stories and making up stories together.

And the world is a happy place.

So that is my recycled story, isn't it? So now that we've recapped it, let's sing our verses about it.

Are you ready? To the same tune.

So, we're going to sing each verse twice.

Join in with me as soon as you feel you can.

♪ I see people bored ♪ ♪ I hear people moan ♪ ♪ They seem so unhappy ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it ♪ Okay, join in with me.

Sing that verse with me, let's go.

♪ I see people bored ♪ ♪ I hear people moan ♪ ♪ They seem so unhappy ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it ♪ Brilliant, so that was for the first part of my story, wasn't it? Now the next part, digging.

Join in with me when you can.

♪ I see a deep dark hole ♪ ♪ I smell the dirt and soil ♪ ♪ I hear the sound of digging ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it ♪ Join in with me.

♪ I see a deep dark hole ♪ ♪ I smell the dirt and soil ♪ ♪ I hear the sound of digging ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it ♪ Brilliant, now onto the next scene when they are in the cave.

♪ I see a darkened cave ♪ ♪ I smell the scent of stories ♪ ♪ I hear angry bat ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it ♪ Ready, join in with me.

♪ I see a darkened cave ♪ ♪ I smell the scent of stories ♪ ♪ I hear angry bat ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it.

♪ Brilliant, next scene.

At the end of the story, when the stories are raining down, let's go.

♪ I see the rain fall down ♪ ♪ I hear the sound of stories ♪ ♪ I feel people's happiness ♪ ♪ That's how I describe it ♪ Ready, join in with me.

♪ I see the rain fall down ♪ ♪ I hear the sound of stories ♪ ♪ I feel people's happiness ♪ ♪ That's how I describe it ♪ Brilliant, now let's sing it all the way through.

Sing with me all the way through now with the actions, ready? ♪ I see people bored ♪ ♪ I hear people moan ♪ ♪ They seem so unhappy ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it ♪ ♪ I see a deep dark hole ♪ ♪ I smell the dirt and soil ♪ ♪ I hear the sound of digging ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it.

♪ Brilliant.

♪ I see a darkened cave ♪ ♪ I smell the scent of stories ♪ ♪ I hear angry bat ♪ ♪ That's how we describe it ♪ ♪ I see the rain fall down ♪ ♪ I hear the sounds of stories ♪ ♪ I feel people's happiness ♪ ♪ That's how I describe it.

♪ Brilliant job, well done.

You have just helped me sing my story song all the way through.

Now, I would like you to have a go at taking that same tune and writing a verse or some verses about your story.

So did you notice that I used the senses in all of those verses? I said what I could see, what I could hear, what I could smell, sometimes what I could taste, sometimes what I could feel.

So let's just take a look at these two verses on the screen a bit more closely.

I see a deep, dark hole.

So what I can see.

I smell the dirt and soil.

What I can smell.

I hear the sound of digging.

So we've got lots of senses used in our verses, haven't we? Let's have a look at the next verse.

I see a darkened cave.

I smell the scent of stories.

I hear angry bat.

And then our final line in every verse, ♪ That's how we describe it ♪ So you can see I've used see, then smell, then hear in both of those verses.

Now it's up to you which senses you would like to use for your verses.

You might like to follow that pattern and use those three.

Or you might like to say what you can taste or what you can feel.

Up to you.

So pause the video now and have a go at writing one or more verses for your story using that same tune and using the senses.

Pause the video and do that.

Brilliant job having a go at being a songwriter and performer.

Now at the end of this lesson, maybe you can send me one of your verses.

I'll tell you how you can do that.

So now let's draw and describe a scene of our choice from our new stories.

So I am going to draw a scene of my choice from my story now.

And I'm going to write some labels using the senses to describe it.

So watch me draw my scene.

I wonder if you can guess which scene from my story it is.

Have you guessed yet? There is evil story bat in the cave.

And he's guarding all of the stories.

So there they are.

Here are the stories.

Now remember, stories can be told as well as read, but difficult for me to draw pictures of stories that can be told, so I'm going to draw them like this.

There we go.

So there is evil story bat guarding all of the stories in his cave.

So I'm now going to have hummingbird who opens her beak so that she can snatch some of those stories and take them back to the humans to save the day.

So that is my picture of the story moment that I would like to describe.

So now let me come up with some descriptive phrases using the senses.

So let me say what I can see first.

What can I see? I can see a dark cave.

So, a dark cave.

There we have an expanded noun phrase, don't we? A is the determiner, dark is the adjective, and cave is the noun.

So I can see a dark cave.

I can also see that it sparkles with stories.

It sparkles with stories.

Now, what else can I see? I can see angry, comma evil story bat.

Right, now, so three things I can see.

What can I hear? I can hear wings flapping.

Wings flapping.

There he is with his wings open, ready to attack.

So wings flapping.

I can hear him squawking, squawking, watch me write it, squawking.

And I can hear him whining.

He likes to whine, this story bat.

I can hear him shouting, "You will not take my stories." So let me write that down here in inverted commas, because it's what he says.

"You will not "take my stories!" And I'm going to put an exclamation mark on the end because it shows how angry he is.

And then I'm going to close my inverted commas, because he stopped speaking.

"You will not take my stories!" Now then, what can I feel, what can I feel in that cave? I think I can feel the wet, slimy stone walls of the cave.

So wet, comma, slimy stone walls.

That's what those cave walls feel like.

I think that I can also feel his leathery, rubbery wings as he touches me, as he tries to get those stories back.

So leathery, comma, rubbery wings.

Gosh, it's almost like I've turned into hummingbird now.

I'm describing it as if I'm her, aren't I? So I can see leathery, rubbery wings.

What else can I see? His black open wings, black open wings.

His fang-like teeth.

Fangs are really sharp long teeth, like wolves have.

Fang-like teeth, and his mean red eyes.

Now the last thing that I need to use is the sense of smell.

So what can I smell down there? I think it smells musty.

Now, musty is a smell that you get if no fresh air has been in for awhile, musty.

So no fresh air has got to that deep, underground cave for years and years and years.

So it smells musty down there.

I can also smell damp, earthy soil.

Damp, earthy soil.

Have you ever smelled soil? Smells, smells earthy.

That's how we describe the smell of it.

So those were my labels to describe what I can see, hear, smell, and feel down there.

Now also I could say that I could taste the damp earthy soil, couldn't I? So before you come to draw your road and label it, let me just show you how I've colour coded by labels now to show the different senses really clearly.

So you can see that what we can see has been underlined in purple.

What we can smell has been underlined in green.

What we can hear has been underlined in blue.

What we can feel has been underlined in red.

And what we can taste has been underlined in brown.

So there we go.

So you might like to underline the different senses that you have used when you label your picture.

So now it's your turn to draw a moment of your choice from your new story.

And I would like you to label it using the five senses.

I think it's a good idea if you underline each of the senses that you have used in a different colour, like I have done in my picture.

So pause the video now and do that.

Fantastic, now let's have a look at how we can turn our descriptive labels from our drawings into a list poem, a descriptive list poem.

Now let me show you mine for my picture that I drew.

So you will see that I am listing things in my poem.

I'm listing the senses.

So let's have a read of it together.

A team digging tirelessly together.

Strong, sharp claws scraping against soil and stones.

Keep digging.

We can make it.

The smell of damp, earthy dirt.

Drenched in sweat.

Tired but determined.

They can almost taste bat's stench now.

Now two words that you might not know the meaning of in there.

Drenched means soaked, so they're drenched in sweat.

It means that they are absolutely soaked in sweat, they've been digging so hard.

And stench, that stench.

A stench is a really strong unpleasant smell.

So let's have a look at the senses I have listed to create my list poem.

First, I have listed two things that I can see.

I can see a team digging tirelessly together.

I can see strong, sharp claws.

Then I've listed two things that I can hear.

I can hear their claws scraping against soil and stones.

I can hear one of them shout, "Keep digging.

"We can make it." I can smell the damp, earthy dirt.

And I've just written one line about what I can smell.

So you don't have to use two lines for every sense.

It's up to you.

You are the creator of your poem.

Now I have written two lines about what can be felt, so drenched in sweat, that's what they can feel.

They feel themselves drenched in sweat and they feel tired but determined.

And then finally I've written one line about what they can taste.

They can almost taste bat's stench now.

So you can see two lines about what they can see, two lines about what they can hear, one line about what they can smell, two lines about what they can feel, and one line about what they can taste.

So like I said, it's up to you how many lines you write about each sense, but I would like you now to have a go at writing your own list poem, listing the senses for your moment in your story that you drew and labelled.

So pause the video and have a go at that.

Now I would really love to see your descriptive picture and read your list poem that you have created today about your story.

So if you would like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational, @KateEBarron, and #LearnwithOak.

And that brings us to the end of our learning today.

Well done, you have been fantastically creative and you have written some brilliant description using the senses today.

Not only have you written and performed a song, but you've done a drawing, described it with labels and you've created your own poem.

All sorts of fantastic skills that you've practised in this lesson.

So I really look forward to seeing you in lesson four.

Until then keep singing story songs and keep telling stories, bye.