Lesson video

Hi team, lovely to see you back again for this week's construction lesson.

And in this week's construction lesson with me Mrs Gerald, we are going to construct a beanstalk.

We are going to construct a beanstalk.

And to do that, we are going to use lots of different materials, to make a representation of a beanstalk.

First, we're going to think about, what does a real beanstalk need to grow? Then we're going to gather our resources to make our beanstalk.

We're going to listen carefully to the instructions, then we'll use our hands to create the beanstalk.

And then you'll get to share your creation.

You can share your creation at home with your family, Maybe even on Twitter.

You'll have to ask your adult to help you to do that.

How do beanstalks grow? I wonder.

I know that you have learned all about beanstalks with Ms.Hughes.

You read the story "Jack and the Beanstalk," and you read the story "Jack's Beanstalk." So I'm sure that you already know what a beanstalk needs to grow.

Tell the screen if you can remember.

There are some clues on the screen to help you.

Great job team your right.

A beanstalk needs to have the bean that it starts to grow from planted in the soil.

The soil gives it the nutrients that it needs to grow.

Then it needs to have some sunlight and some water.

It might be water from the rain, might be water from somebody like you watering it.

And then it needs some time to grow.

You have to be really patient to grow a beanstalk.

So that's why we are going to make our own beanstalk today.

Just like I said, we're not going to wait for our beanstalk to grow from a tiny seed.

We're going to make our own beanstalk.

You will need some toilet roll tubes, or kitchen roll tubes, some pipe cleaners, a paper plate, some cotton wool, some glue, some masking tape, or cello tape, a hole punch, some scissors, some paint or felt tips and some paper.

If you want to build your beanstalk along with me, pause the video now and go and get the resources that you will need.

Great job.

You gathered all of the things you need.

If you haven't got the things to hang now, no big deal.

You can watch the video and see how we make a beanstalk.

And then you could have a trial yourself.

Right now, we're going to watch the video and listen very carefully to the instructions.

Oh, can you see? I've found this tube, which is from a kitchen roll, It's quite long.

If you don't have a long kitchen roll tube, no big deal.

You could use two toilet roll tubes and connect them together with some masking tape.

You can decide how tall you want your beanstalk to grow.

You want a really tall beanstalk, you could connect more tubes together.

Putting the tape on to fix them together.

See, well done! Oh, a little bit more just to make sure that it's safely connected.

Next I'm going to paint my beanstalk.

You've got some green paint and I'm going to paint the cardboard cheap to make it look like the beanstalk.

If you don't have any paint, no big deal.

There's another way you can make your tube green.

You could wrap it in some paper.

The paper I'm using is tissue paper.

And you see I'm wrapping it up, and then using some tape to secure the end.

And then poking the rest of the paper inside the tube.

Now my tube is green, just like a beanstalk.

Next I'm going to make the leaves for my beanstalk.

So I've got a piece of green paper and I'm folding it up, folding it in half, and then folding it again, and again, this is a really great way of making more than one leaf at a time.

That way you don't have to do lots of cutting.

I'm going to draw the leaf shape on the paper.

And then use my scissors very carefully, to cut it out.

I'm remembering to put my thumb on the top before I start to chop.

I have a little rhyme that helps me remember that.

Thumb on top then we chop.

You see I'm turning the paper to help me to make the shape of the leaf.

Next I'm using the hole punch to make a hole in the leaf.

Now I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight leaves, ready to put onto my beanstalk.

Now I'm going to use the pipe cleaners to thread the leaves onto, but first I need to attach it to my beanstalk, We're going to bend the end over, and then use a little bit of tape to make keep it in place.

It's a little bit tricky, you might need some help from an adult for this.

There we go.

Now the pipe cleaner is in place.

I can thread my leaves onto the pipe cleaner.

Use your strong fingers, push them down to the end.

How many leaves will I add? One, two, three, four leaves.

And now I need to attach the pipe clean at the top.

Just like I did for the bottom of bend the pipe cleaner over, just positioning the leaves so they're nice and spread out, bend the pipe cleaner over and fix it with a little bit of tape.

A bit tricky to get the tape off.

There we go fix it in place.

Now I want lots of leaves on my beanstalk.

So I'm going to make some more leaves on pipe cleaners and add them.

Can you see? I've added some more and there are lots of pipe cleaners and leaves.

Now I'm using a plate because in the story "Jack and the Beanstalk," that's beanstalk is so tall.

It goes all the way to the clouds.

We're going to use the plate and cover it with cotton wool.

So it looks like the clouds.

Our beanstalk will be so tall It goes all the way to the clouds.

I'm using a little bit of masking tape to fix the plate and the tube together.

You might need an adult to help you to do that.

It's a little bit tricky.

There we go.

Then I'm going to put some glue on my plate and put some cotton wool on top of the plate and underneath the plate.

So it looks like fluffy clouds.

I have to pull the cotton wool apart and stick it on.

It feels very fluffy.

When it's all covered the top, I'm going to start at the bottom, put a little bit more cotton wool on with some glue.

It's a bit tricky because it sticks to your fingers if you get glue on them.

Now at the top of the beanstalk and "Jack and the Beanstalk," there was a castle that the giant lifted.

So now I'm making a castle.

I folded a little piece of the paper over, to help it to stick.

Now I'm joining the castle on my paper.

There are the turrets.

Next I'm going to use my scissors to cut the shape of the castle out.

Now I'm joining some doors and windows.

Now I'm going to carefully cut out my castle, to be careful with the scissors and make sure your fingers are not too close, we don't want to chop off fingers, and you see how I'm cutting the turrets.

I'm making two snips, and then folding the paper back to make the turret.

Two snips, one, two, and then fold the paper back.

One more side to do turrets on this side of the castle.

Fold the paper back, now my castle is ready to attach to the fluffy clouds at the top of my beanstalk.

I'm going to put some masking tape on the little piece of paper that I folded over.

One piece, two pieces just to make sure it's sticks securely, then I'm going to put it on top, and that's my beanstalk.

You could make your beanstalk taller if you wanted to, by adding more, cardboard tubes that's the way of making it taller.

Here's a picture of my completed beanstalk.

Can you see that I've added lots more leaves and it's a super tall beanstalk that goes right up into the clouds, and there's a castle at the top, just like in "Jack and the Beanstalk"? I wonder if you could retell the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" using your model.

Or maybe you'll decide to make up your own story that hasn't been stalk in.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you decide to do.

You could share your work with me and your creations with me by using the #ONAReception You'll have to ask an adult to help you to do that.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you decide to do and how you decide to use your model.

See you again next time for another construction lesson bye team.