Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Miss Weerasekera.

And welcome to lesson six in our unit about Persephone.

Today I'm feeling really happy.

My plant that I showed in a previous lesson, if you saw it is something that brings me a lot of joy.

And today I noticed that it's getting a new leaf.

I'm going to show you.

I don't know if you can see it, but right in the middle there there's is a tiny little leaf growing.

Can you see him poking out the top? That's really made me happy today.

What is making you happy today? Today you're going to need a piece of paper, a pen or pencil, and your brain to think really hard.

If you don't have a pen or pencil or paper pause the video here, go and get it, and press play when you're ready to start.

Fantastic.

We're ready to get started.

In the lesson today we're going to start with a spelling activity.

Looking at brand new spelling rule.

We're then going to move on to an oral game called fortunately unfortunately.

Which is going to be a really fun way to help us remember our story.

But also dig deep into our ending, which is what we will be focusing on.

We're then going to box up our story ending.

You've probably done boxing up before, but even if you havent I'm going to go through it step by step.

So don't worry.

We're then going to have a challenge task to really test our brain.

Let's go for it.

Let's get started with our spelling activity.

The question says what sound can you hear in all of these words.

So I've given you three pictures, and i want you to have a look at them really closely, and think about which word has the same sound in all three.

Now I know it's a little bit confusing because there's a few different things in some of the pictures.

But I'm asking you to use your detective brain to try, and figure out which words I'm talking about that have the same sound in them.

The first picture is a little bit easier, because there is just a picture of this in it.

So that might help you with the others.

What is the first picture? That's right.

It's a knight.

Isn't it? Can you spot anything in the second picture that has a similar sound to the sounds in it knight in it.

That's right.

There's a knife.

Isn't there? How about the final picture? This one's a little bit tricky.

Not talking about her hands or the wool I'm talking about what it is she is doing.

Have a think.

That's right.

She is knitting or learning to knit.

I would like you to say those three words to yourself, and think about what sound all three of them have.

I'm going to go first.

Knight knife knit.

Let's do my turn your turn.

Knife fantastic.

Knight knit.

If you want you can pause the video here, and have a go at saying those three words again.

And seeing if you can spot which sound all three of them have.

And then press play when you think you have spotted it.

Fantastic.

You are a brilliant sound detective.

The sound that all three of those words have in them is the /n/ sound at the beginning.

Now the /n/ sound can be spelled with an n.

But for this three words its actually spelled with a k-n.

A lot of people sometimes say, when these words start with a /n/ sound, and are spelled with kn.

That the k is silent.

Because we can hear the N, but we can't hear the K.

We don't say knight.

Do we? We just say knight.

So our focus for this week is going to be words that have the /n/ sound in them.

Usually at the start, but it's spelled with K-n instead of just n.

All the words that start with the sound /n/ are spelled with k-n.

This is a statement that someone made.

And I wasn't sure if they were correct.

But I need your help please.

Do you agree with them or do you disagree with them? And can you think of any examples of words that have the /n/ sound in them.

That don't start with a k-n.

You can use the sentence stem to say this to the screen.

I agree or disagree with this statement because the word starts with the /n/ sound, and is spelt.

So I'm asking you to think of some words that start with the /n/ sound, but are not spelled with a k-n.

Pause the video here, and have a go.

And then press play when you think you found some examples.

Brilliant.

I can think of quite a lot of words that have the /n/ sound at the beginning, but don't have a k-n.

That means that this statement is false.

You could say that its partially true because there are some words that start with a k-n.

Like the ones you've just seen.

Knight knife knit.

But there are lots of others that start with /n/ sound, and are not spelled with a k-n.

So we have to know our spellings really well.

Here are some examples of how the /n/ sound at the beginning of a word can be spelt in different ways.

So we have nose that's just spelled with an n.

Knee, which is spelled with kn our spelling for this week.

And then gnome, another strange one where it's spelled with a g-n.

So that /n/ sound could be a bit tricky, and we just have to be able to remember, and spot when it's spelled differently to just n.

Okay.

It's time for us to play our fortunately unfortunately game.

I love this game.

I think its super fun.

And it lends itself really handy to understanding our story.

Because it's like an emotional roller coaster there's ups, there's downs, there's twists, there's turns, and they are happening all the time.

Now, when something is a fortunate event.

Or we say fortunately, it means there's something positive or something good has happened in the story.

When we use the word unfortunately, it means that something bad has happened in the story.

We're going to try, and retell the events of the story using fortunately, and unfortunately as our sentence starter.

I've used my pictures from my story map.

You can go, and get your story map if you've still got it to help you.

I'm going to start at beginning.

The first picture is of Persephone, and her mother Demeter isn't it? So I'm going to say fortunately Demeter, and Persephone were together, and the sun was shining.

I'd like you to have a go now.

Fantastic.

Well done.

Now we're going to move on to the second picture in our story.

Uuh.

This one is definitely an unfortunately isn't it? Unfortunately when Persephone was picking poppies, Hades came, and snatched her away.

I would like you to have a go at doing your unfortunately sentence for the second box.

What a brilliant sentence.

Even better than mine.

Well done.

Lets move on to the next picture.

Ooh this one's still unfortunately isn't it? This is a really big dip in our emotional roller coaster going all the way down.

I'm going to do mine.

Unfortunately Hades had Persephone trapped in his underworld, and she was so miserable.

Time for you to do your unfortunately sentence.

Wowie.

So fantastic.

Oh my goodness.

Things aren't getting better.

Hopefully we're getting right to the bottom of our emotional debt.

But I think we've got another unfortunately sentence coming next.

Unfortunately Demeter was so sad that all life on earth started to die.

And it got really cold.

Your time to do your unfortunately sentence.

Superstar.

Now the next one I want to try and use fortunately.

It might mean that have to tweak it a little bit.

So we know here that Persephone was really hungry, and she was she wasn't eating anything she refused to eat or drink anything Hades gave her.

But then she spotted some pomegranate seeds when she was really hungry.

So I'm going to say, fortunately Persephone saw some pomegranate seed she could eat.

Because she was so hungry.

You could also use unfortunately for that one.

Because we know that her eating the pomegranate seeds meant that she has to spend six months of the year in the underworld.

So it's up to you whether you want to make that one a fortunately or an unfortunately sentence.

Your turn.

Brilliant sentence.

Well done.

Okay.

Next up.

I'm going to say fortunately Zeus saw this going on, and decided to convince Demeter to make things better in the world.

Your turn.

Fantastic.

The last one I'm going to do for this bit is an unfortunately.

Unfortunately, Demeter refused, and said she would not make it summer again until she had her daughter back.

Your turn.

Fortunately.

Amazing.

We have used that game to retell our story in a different way.

Haven't we? And I can feel that story getting really deep into my mind I think I'm going to remember it forever.

Today we're really going to focus on the end of the story.

In the end of this story we know that Zeus goes down to Hades to convince him to let Persephone go.

He says no because of she has eaten six seeds, but then they come to a compromise don't they? Because they say six months of the year she'll be in the underworld, and six months of the year, she will be up with Demeter, and it will be nice, and summery.

I would like you to have a go at playing the Fortunately Unfortunately game with the ending.

I'm going to model her I would do it first.

And then you can pause the video, and have a go by yourself.

Fortunately zeus decided he could go down to the underworld, and convince Hades to let her go.

Unfortunately Hades said she had eaten six pomegranate seeds So had to stay in the underworld.

Fortunately Zeus had a clever idea, and thought that she could spend six months of the year with him in the underworld, and six months in the real earth with her mother.

Because she had only eaten six seeds.

Unfortunately this meant that for six months of the year Demeter was sad, and it would be cold on earth.

Everything would die, and it would be winter.

But fortunately it meant that for six months of the year Demeter was reunited with Persephone, and they were together again.

It became a warm everything grew, and it was summer once more.

I would like you to pause the video here, and have a go at doing unfortunately, fortunately for the ending of our story.

And press play when you've had to go.

What a super star! Doing the whole ending by yourself.

I am so impressed.

We are now going to do something called boxing up.

You might have done this in a previous unit but if you haven't don't worry.

I'm going to explain step by step how we do it.

Our boxing up table has got three columns in it.

In the first column we're going to be drawing different pictures to show what happens in our ending.

In the second column we're going to be writing notes, and any key words that explain what happens in that part of the story.

And in the final box, we're going to put how that bit of the story makes us feel as the reader or the listener of the story.

I'm going to show you an example of the first box.

In my first box, I have drawn a picture of Hades, and zeus shaking hands making their agreement about the six month of the year split.

In the next box I've written some notes about what happened.

I've not described a lots of detail.

I've just put some short sentences, and phrases to remind me.

Hades, and Zeus make an agreement, six pomegranate seeds, six months on earth, six months in the underworld.

That's all I need.

Finally I put the mood that this bit makes me feel.

This part of the ending made me feel pleased because they have reached an agreement.

Okay So I put the mood.

I've put a little explanation as to why it made me feel that way.

I am going to model quickly how you might do the next couple of sections, and then you're going to complete it by yourself.

Okay.

I'm going to model some of our boxing up now.

Now we've already done the first bit.

But I'm going to draw the picture for you just as a reminder.

And then you can use your own amazing brains to fill in the other parts or go back, and look at the slide if you're not sure.

So the first one I had was Zeus, and Hades.

Drawing his flamy hair.

Aah And they were coming to their agreement.

Okay.

So then in this boxes you are going to put your notes, and key words about what happens here, and then what it makes you feel when they come to this agreement.

Okay in my next box, I am going to draw some stairs going down.

Imagine this is the underworld, and this is earth up here.

And up here, I'm going to have Demeter looking nice, and happy.

Because climbing the stairs I have got Persephone coming back at the six months of the year.

So you can put some notes in here describing that, and then how does this moment make you feel as the listener or the reader of the story.

After that we know that Persephone returning, means that Demeter is happy, and she makes life on earth which we know as summer.

So I'm going to put summer like that.

You can tell me what's happening in this bit.

And then you can tell me how this bit this summery scene makes you feel.

Okay next we've got sadly that scene from before in reverse at the bottom we've got very evil looking Hades looking very happy because sad Persephone is going back down, and we've got a very sad looking Demeter as she leaves to go, and return to the underworld for six months.

For the next section, we are going to think about what happens next.

Because Persephone has gone we know that that makes Demeter feel very upset, and therefore it becomes winter.

Doesn't it? Okay I'm going to put snow falling down.

You can write winter.

Okay? Now the final box I'm going to put about what we learn as a reader.

Okay this is a real lesson that they talk about at the end where they explain Demeter's mood, and emotions, and how that causes the seasons.

So I'm going to split the box in half, and I'm going to have winter, and I'm going to have Demeter's sad face.

I'm going to have summer.

I'm going to have Demeter's happy face that I'm going to put little speech little thought bubble sorry.

Saying that's why we have seasons.

Yeah because that's the moment isn't it? At the end of the story that we're like, Ah so this is like our little thought bubble as the listener or the reader of the story.

Ah that is why we have seasons.

That's the explanation from this story.

Okay so those are the six parts that we're going to have as we box up our story ending.

Now in this boxes I explained before you're going to add your notes, and key words for what's happening at each part.

So you're going to describe it.

Remember note in also detail, just so you can remember these boxes in this column, you're going to add in how each bit of the story makes you feel.

So you remember that I put pleased here didn't I? Because they reached an agreement.

Okay? So you have to think about how each of these makes you feel.

Now that I have shown you how to start.

I would like you to create your own boxing up at the ending of the story.

You can draw your pictures.

Feel free to use examples from mine in that first column in the second column you need to make notes simple notes about what's happening in those pictures.

And then in the third column, you're going to write a quick sentence or quick phrase about how that part of the story makes you feel as the reader or listener to that story.

There are some extra emotion or mood words on here to help you If you're struggling to think of your own.

Pause here, have a go at that, and then press play when you're done.

Superstar you've done it.

You've done really well today.

It's not easy to box up the end of the story, and to think about how each of those bits make you feel.

And I'm really impressed by the amount of thought that you have put into your boxing up.

I would really love to see your boxing up.

So if you'd be happy to share it with me, please get a parent or carer to take a picture of it, and put it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.

You can tag Oak national, and use the hashtag LearnwithOak so that I can see it.

Hopefully I will see you in the next lesson where we're going to look at the ending of another story to help us understand how to write a really fantastic ending ourselves.