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Hello, I'm Adam.

And this is Panda, and this is lesson eight from unit two, working with the story Bat Learns to Dance.

Here's the agenda for today.

We're going to warm up today with a song to sing and move around to.

Then after that, the main event of the day, the main challenge is to step through the new story we have created called Beetle Learns to Eat.

Okay, here we go.

So for our warmup today, we're going to think about actions and we're going to think about mini-beasts.

So in the story, beetle meets a butterfly.

So we're going to flap like a butterfly.

He meets a millipede, and do you remember millipedes have hundreds of tiny weeny little legs.

So we'll do that for the millipede and the big slug we could do this.

So this is going to really warm us up.

For me to sing the song, I'm going to put on the headphones and you'll soon pick up your bits to join in with.

Here we go.

From the top.

So you can start to move around.

♪ Do the mini beast.

♪ Can you try that? ♪ Do the mini-beast.

♪ Brilliant.

♪ Do the mini-beast.

♪ ♪ Do the mini-beast.

♪ ♪ Do the mini-beast, mini-beast, yeah.

♪ ♪ Do the mini-beast ♪ ♪ Here comes the butterfly.

Whee.

♪ ♪ Do the butterfly.

Mini-beast.

Yeah.

♪ ♪ Do the mini-beast.

♪ ♪ Who's next? ♪ ♪ Oh yeah, here comes the millipede.

♪ ♪ Whee.

♪ ♪ Do the millipede.

Mini-beast.

Yeah.

♪ ♪ Do the mini-beast.

♪ ♪ Who's next? ♪ ♪ Big slug.

♪ ♪ Whee.

♪ ♪ Do the big slug.

Mini-beast.

Yeah.

♪ ♪ Do the mini-beast.

♪ Brilliant.

Well done.

So for the big challenge of today's lesson, I'm going to teach you how to step through this story.

Now, hopefully you're still sitting and watching at the moment, and I'll invite you if you're able to, to stand up and do this with me after I showed you this.

We imagined that there are some paving stones.

We're going to step on them, without standing in the cracks.

And every time we go on a paving stone, we're going to say something and do something that helps us remember the story.

Watch, see if I can do it.

My first step.

Once upon a time, there was a beetle who was hungry.

First.

He met a butterfly.

Next, he met a millipede.

After that, he met a big slug.

Finally, when he got home, he told his story to his dad.

If you're able to and you'd like to, could you stand up and you can do that with me.

And it's fine, if you want to watch again.

Right here we go.

Storytellers put their hands together, And we do this for once upon a time.

Are you ready? First step.

Once upon a time, there was a beetle who was hungry.

Very good.

First, he met a butterfly.

Next, he met her millipede.

After that, he met a big slug.

Finally, he saw his dad and told his story.

Well done.

I'm going to pause the video now.

I'm going to invite you to try and do that.

Okay.

And afterwards, come back and we're going to add a little bit more to the story.

Good luck.

So how was that? Were you able to step through and remember the butterfly, the millipede and the slug? Well, we're going to do it again, only now we're going to add some things, some words that sound great when we tell the story out loud.

This time, let's add the things that the animals teach him to do.

So butterfly taught him to slurp nectar.

Millipede taught him to chew wood.

And the slug taught him to munch a leaf.

Shall we try that? Okay.

Here we go.

Once upon a time, there was a beetle who was hungry.

First.

He met a butterfly.

She taught him to slurp nectar.

Next he met a millipede, millipede showed him how to chew wood.

After that, he met a slug who taught him how to munch leaves.

Finally, he got home and told his story to his dad and he wasn't hungry any more.

Alright.

I think we can do it even trickier.

With even more words.

Shall we try adding now, he scuttled here.

He scuttled there.

He scuttled all around.

Could you do that with me? He scuttled here.

He scuttled there.

He scuttled all around.

And then to his surprise, a friend he found.

Let's try adding that as well.

This is hard.

A real challenge.

Let's do it together.

Okay.

Are you with me? It's okay if you want to watch, if you feel like standing up and joining him with me that'd be brilliant.

First step.

Once upon a time, there was a beetle who was hungry.

He scuttled here, he scuttled there, he scuttled all around.

Then to his surprise, a friend he found.

He met a lady bird who taught him how to slurp nectar.

He scuttled here, he scuttled there, he scuttled all around.

And then to his surprise, a friend he found.

Who was that? Can you remember? Millipede.

Millipede taught him how to, what was that word? Chew wood.

He scuttled here, he scuttled there, he scuttled all around.

Then to his surprise, a friend he found.

Who's this? Can you remember? It was the big slug.

Big slug taught him how to munch leaves.

Well done.

He scuttled here, he scuttled there, he scuttled all the way home.

And there he met his dad and told his story and the beetle wasn't hungry any more.

Well done.

I'm going to pause it again.

Could you try and step the story again and see if you can remember the slurping, the chewing and the munching.

And when you're finished, come back.

Okay.

Good luck.

Wow.

That was awesome work today.

Lots and lots of language and things to remember.

And I really hope stepping through the story is helping you see it in your imagination.

Well Panda and I are really looking forward to the next lesson.

Because in the next lesson, we are going to learn to mime that story, with all the words in our head.

Because remember in your head, every word quietly spoken, is still heard.

And it's a really good way of practising being a storyteller.

And I think we'll have to celebrate as well and sing the mini-beast song as well, because we're working so hard.

So until next time, we really look forward to seeing you then.

From Panda and me, keep on listening to new words and trying new words and showing your work to whoever you can.

Okay.

Bye.

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