Lesson video

Welcome to lesson 10, the final lesson in our unit on The Sweet Talking Potato.

And today we are going to be finishing off writing our story.

We're going to be looking at the very end of our story and making sure that we have made it really clear what happens in our story.

In today's lesson, you are going to need your boxing map from lesson seven.

If you don't have your boxing map, don't worry.

You can share mine on the screen.

You're also going to need a pencil and a piece of paper.

You're also going to need your thinking brain as always.

If you need to go and get any of those things, press the pause button now and press play when you're ready.

Today, we're going to start off our lesson with playing a fun game.

We're then going to do some singing together.

Then it will be time to write the final part, the ending of our story.

Then we are going to have a go at telling our story.

Because it is our final lesson on The Sweet Talking Potato today, we are going to play a special game called Favourite Moment Circle.

Now in Favourite Moment Circle, we all go around and we take it in turns to tell the favourite part of our story.

So, we're going to start off with my turn.

My favourite part of The Sweet Talking Potato is when right at the end of the story, the throne talks to the king.

This is my favourite part because the king is just so amazed.

He's so shocked.

The king did not think that all of those objects and all of those animals have been talking to the farmer.

He didn't believe him at all, but then the throne talked to him.

So that is my favourite part of The Sweet Talking Potato.

Now I've had my turn.

I'd like you to have your turn.

So, you're going to press the pause button on your screen.

Then have a go at telling your screen your favourite part of The Sweet Talking Potato.

And when you've finished, press the play button again.

It was so good to hear so many people having different favourite parts.

So well done if you told us your favourite part.

Some of you really, really enjoyed it when the farmer was shocked at the beginning, when the potato screamed "Hands off!" Some of you really, really loved it when the farmer ran as fast as his legs would carry him because you found it quite funny.

Some of you loved it when the chicken and the loaf of bread spoke because you just weren't expecting it.

So I thank you so much for sharing all of your favourite parts of the story today.

It's now time to warm ourselves up with a song.

You might recognise the tune to this song.

We'll do my turn, your turn, so you can get to the hang of the words.

♪ One potato, two potato, three potato, four ♪ ♪ One potato, two potato, three potato, four ♪ ♪ I talked to the farmer and he ran out the door ♪ ♪ I talked to the farmer and he ran out the door ♪ ♪ Five potato, six potato, seven potato, eight ♪ ♪ Five potato, six potato, seven potato, eight ♪ ♪ He came back home later in a righty old state ♪ ♪ He came back home later in a righty old state ♪ We are now ready to have a go at writing the final part of our story, The Sweet Talking Potato.

So, we're going to get up pens and our pieces of paper and have a go at writing the ending.

Let's start off by looking at what happens at the end of the story.

So, at the end of the story we've got the king who talks, and then the throne who talks.

Hmm.

Let's see if we can think of a sentence to say the king talks.

The king talked to the throne.

The king sat down.

Hmm.

What should we have a go at writing? Can you tell your screen now what you think our sentence should be? The king sat down.

I really, really like, the king sat down because it shows us exactly what is happening in the story.

And that is our main purpose at the moment to think about the action.

So, let's go for, the king sat down.

Can you say it with me? The king sat down.

Say it quietly.

The king sat down.

Say it squeakily, the king sat down.

Let's say it on our fingers.

That king sat down.

How many words? Four words.

We're going to go through our strategies now and see what we need to do for our writing.

We need to start off with a capital letter at the beginning of our sentence.

We then need a finger space in between every word.

We need a full stop at the end of our sentence, and we need to reread our writing to make sure it makes sense.

When we're writing each word, we need to say the word, robot the word, and then write the word.

We've just got one high frequency word in this sentence.

The.

The is T-H-E.

Well done.

Let's see if we can give it a go and write this sentence together.

The king sat down.

The, it's the first word in our sentence.

It needs a capital letter.

And it's also our high frequency word which means we can't use our phonics.

The.

T.

H.

E.

The.

Now we need a finger space because it's going to be a new word.

The king.

Can you robot it with me? Kuh, ih, ng.

King.

Kuh, ih, ng.

Ng is a digraph.

N and G together make the sound ng.

The king sat.

Can you robot the word for me? S, ah, t.

Sat.

Very, very good.

S, ah, t.

Sat.

The king sat, finger space because it's a new word, down.

Can you robot the word? Duh, ow, n.

Down, good.

Duh, ow.

O and W makes the sound ow, down.

End of a sentence, show me what you need.

A full stop.

Okay, let's check it makes sense.

The king sat down.

The king sat down.

I think that makes sense, doesn't it? Oh, I really liked some of your sentences today.

Some of you said, "The king was amazed." The king was amazed.

I love this sentence because it really shows how the king is feeling.

It shows what's happening because he is shocked.

He didn't expect the throne to be talking, did he? The king was amazed.

Let's see if we can say it quietly.

The king was amazed.

Let's say it squeakily.

The king was amazed.

Let's say it in a low voice.

The king was amazed.

Let's say it in a sad voice.

The king was amazed.

Let's say it in a happy voice.

The king was amazed! Very good.

Let's count our words.

The king was amazed.

Four words.

We have got two high frequency words today.

Our first one is, the.

Our next one is, was.

The and was.

These two words we cannot use our phonics to sound out.

We just need to know what they look like and how to spell them.

So we're going to give it a go today.

The king was amazed.

Amazed is one of our key words today.

That means it's also really tricky to spell, amazed.

That is our special word in the sentence.

Let's see if we can give it a go and write our sentence now.

So, we've already written, the king sat down.

Now we're going to have a go at our next sentence.

The king was amazed.

Now the first word is, the.

That is our high frequency word again.

And it needs a capital letter because it's the first word in the sentence.

The.

T, H, E.

The.

New word, so we need a finger space, king.

Robot the word.

Kuh, ih, ng.

King.

Kuh, ih, ng.

N and G together make the sound ng.

The king, new word, so we need a finger space, was.

It's our high frequency word.

W, A, S.

Was, finger space because it's a new word.

Amazed, now this is our key word today.

The king was amazed.

Let's read our sentence to check it makes sense.

The king was amazed.

What have I forgotten? Of course, my full stop at the end of my sentence.

Let's see, can we read them to see if it tells us exactly what is happening? The king sat down.

The king was amazed.

I wonder if you can write the next sentence.

Now that we've written part of the ending of the story together to show exactly what happens, let's have a go at seeing, if you can press the pause button, and write in the end of the story yourself at home.

Remember to make sure that whatever you write, it tells us exactly what happens in the story.

You might want to write one word to show us.

You might want to write one sentence, or you might want to write more than one sentence.

It would be lovely to see however much writing you would like to have a go at doing today.

So press the pause button.

Write the ending of your story, and then press the play button.

So many of you were so good at showing exactly what happened at the end of our story.

You did such a good job at showing it really clearly, so we knew exactly all of the action that was going on.

So well done, if you had to go today at doing your writing.

So, because it is our last lesson on The Sweet Talking Potato, we're going to give it a go at telling the story together, to see how much you can remember and to see if you can then become a storyteller yourself.

So the story map is up on the screen.

Use it to help you and join in with the story when you can.

Are you ready to be a storyteller? Let's do our storytelling chant.

♪ It's story time, story time ♪ Look, listen, wow! Once upon a time, there was a farmer.

The farmer was feeling so, so hungry.

So he went out to his field and he picked a potato.

"Hands off!" yelled the potato.

"Was that you?" the farmer said to his dog.

"It wasn't me.

It was the potato." "Ah!" screamed the farmer.

And he ran and ran as fast as his legs would carry him.

He ran and he ran all the way to the marketplace, where he met the man who was selling chickens.

The man said to the farmer, "Why are you running so fast when the day is so hot?" The farmer said to the man, can you tell me what did the farmer say? "First, a potato spoke to me.

Then a dog spoke to me." What does the man say? "That's impossible." And the chicken comes out and the chicken replied, "Oh, no, it isn't." Can you be the farmer for me again? "Ah!" screamed the farmer.

And he ran and he ran as fast as his legs would carry him all the way to the bakery.

Well done.

When he got to the bakery, the baker said to the farmer, "Why are you running so fast when the day is so hot?" Can you tell me what the farmer says to the baker? "Well, first a potato spoke to me.

Next a dog spoke to me.

And then a chicken spoke to me." What does the baker say? "That's impossible." But the loaf of bread says, "Oh no, it's not." Could you be the farmer again? "Ah!" screamed the farmer.

And he ran away as fast as his legs would carry him.

He ran and he ran all the way to the palace where he met the king.

What does the king say? Can you be the king? "Why are you running so fast when the day is so hot?" What does the farmer say? Ready? "First, then, after that, and now." What does the king say? "Get out.

That's impossible, you foolish man." The poor farmer.

What does the king think? "Hmm, that farmer was foolish for thinking animals and objects could talk." Tell me what the throne said.

The throne spoke and said, "Whoever heard of a talking potato?" Well done.

Do you think we managed to tell the whole story, showing exactly what happened, showing all the action? I think we did too, well done.

You have done such a super, super job.

I can't believe that our unit on The Sweet Talking Potato has come to an end.

We have finished lesson 10.

Thank you so much for joining me.

I have got one last challenge for you, something that you could do at home after our lesson.

If you have still got your story map from lesson two, you could have a go at recycling the story.

That means you could make up your own version of the story.

If you don't have a story map, don't worry.

You can just tell the story from what you can remember in your head.

If you want to recycle the story, all you have to do is change one of the characters or something that happens.

So it might be that instead of a potato, there is a different vegetable that the farmer tries to pick up.

Can you tell your screen now the type of vegetable that you would like the farmer to pick up? Oh, some of you want him to pick up broccoli, some of you carrots, that would be funny, a talking carrot or talking broccoli.

Some of you think, "Oh, some tomatoes, talking tomatoes." So you might want to change one of the things that talks.

You might want to change, who the farmer meets at the end of the story.

Maybe it's not a king.

Maybe it is someone different.

I would absolutely love to see all of your ideas.

So, that's it from me.

This is the end of unit 13 on The Sweet Talking Potato.

I hope you had as much fun as I did.

And hopefully I'll be seeing you really, really soon for some more learning and more storytelling.

Have a fantastic day.

See you soon, bye! You have been working so hard during our time learning about The Sweet Talking Potato.

And I bet you have done some amazing work.

If you have and you'd like to share it with Oak National, please ask your parents or carer, to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearningwithOak.

Thank you for learning with us.

You have been an amazing storyteller.

We'll see you soon, bye!.