Lesson video

Hi children, me, Ms. Brittain here and my talk partner, Cedric, for your fourth lesson in this unit.

In today's lesson we will be drawing and describing the characters.

To understand them a little bit more.

What will we do in today's lesson? Well we'll start off with our nursery rhyme, then we're going to step the story like in the last lesson, to help us recount it and then we're going to be drawing and describing some character.

For this lesson, you will need an exercise book or piece of paper and a pencil, your super memory and your teddy talk partner.

Pause the video now and go and get any of the items you need and then press play once you get back.

Me and Cedric are so excited about our learning today, children.

We get to do some drawing of our characters from our story.

What? Cedric says we've got a little visitor today but, I can't see anyone, Cedric.

Oh, Cedric says she's a little bit shy.

It's little duck, that little duck from our story.

What would we like to say to little duck, children, to welcome her? Could we say "Welcome little duck"? Okay, let's see it after three, all together.

One, two, three, welcome little duck! Can you go and see if she's ready to come out now? Oh, children, it's little duck.

Just like the little duck from our story.

Hello little duck.

Oh, she's going to help us with the rest of our story.

Well we're so glad to have you here, little duck.

Now it's time for our nursery rhyme.

Well we've got two helpers for our nursery rhyme today, we've got little duck and Cedric.

Now we put our own words to this nursery rhyme to fit our story and it helps us to remember the story even more.

So it starts with you, little duck, the little duck in the forest goes quack, quack, quack.

Are you ready? Join in, children.

♪ Little duck in the forest goes quack, quack, quack ♪ ♪ Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack ♪ ♪ Little duck in the forest goes quack, quack, quack ♪ ♪ The king has got her money ♪ Are we ready to do the greedy, bad king now? ♪ The greedy king in his castle goes mine, mine, mine ♪ ♪ Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine ♪ ♪ The greedy king in his castle goes mine, mine, mine ♪ ♪ He's stolen the duck's money ♪ Who was our first helper, children, shout at the screen who our first helper was.

The ladder! ♪ The ladder in the bag goes clang, clang, clang ♪ ♪ Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang ♪ ♪ The ladder in the bag goes clang, clang, clang ♪ ♪ He helped the duck solve her problems ♪ Okay, now if you'd like to, you can pause the video here and carry on the nursery rhyme and add the river, what noises might a river make? And add the bee.

And see how you get on.

We will start out learning today by stepping the story, which will help to recount the main events and the problems that the duck comes across.

Okay, so, join in with me first to step the story and then I'm going to give you an opportunity to have a go using your maps to step it on your own or with your teddy talk partner.

So, are we ready? Duck, king, ladder, who came next children? That's right, river, who came after the river? That's right, bees.

And what happened when she got to the palace? Our next step was? Hole, ladder.

Pot, river.

King, buzz.

Queen.

So each of our steps shows us who the duck meets on her way and then they become her helpers, they become the things that help her solve her problems. Let's do it one more time together.

Duck, king, ladder, river, bees, hole, ladder pot, river, bees, buzz, bees, buzz and then finally, the duck becomes queen.

Pause the video now and have a go at stepping your story, stepping the story with your teddy talk partner.

And you can use your story map if you need to.

Great job, if you had a go at stepping the story on your own.

I wonder how that went for you.

Now, it's time to draw and describe some of the characters in our story.

Using our plot matrix, let's remind ourselves of the key characters.

So, the duck, being the main character.

The problem is the king.

Three more characters, the ladder, the river and the bee.

What we're going to do is draw some of our favourite characters and label our pictures with words to describe that character.

Okay, my first character that I'd like to look at is the king.

Now I'm going to draw the king and I'm going to think of words to describe the king.

Can you tell your teddy talk partner one word you would use to describe the king? Is he nice and kind? Or is he greedy and selfish and bad? Tell your teddy talk partner now about how you would describe the king.

Can you tell your screen how you would describe the king.

Great work, children, he's a bad, greedy, selfish king because he stole the little duck's money.

He's not kind, you're right.

Will you help me to sound out the word king? I say it, king, use my robot hands and then I can write it.

Have a go at doing that with me, children.

King, kuh, eh, nn, guh, king.

Now I can have a go at writing it.

Kuh, eh, nnn, guh.

I've got the diagraph at the end, nnn, guh, two letters, one sound.

Kuh, eh, nnn, guh, king.

You can have a go at drawing a king now, if you're feeling confident and label it with describing words, adjectives, to describe the king.

If you're not feeling confident, you can follow me onto the next slide.

Okay, so on the video, you'll see I've drawn a picture of my king.

Now we've already thought about the words that we would use to describe our king.

We said bad, greedy and selfish.

So I'm going to write these, you can write along with me, children, or you may have already given this a go and want to check what you have written.

So the first word that I write is bad.

I'm going to say the word first, robot it, then write it.

Bad, buh, ah, duh, bad.

Buh, ah, duh, bad.

And I'm just labelling my picture.

Buh, ah, duh.

Bad.

The next word I might use to describe my king is selfish and that means you only think about yourself if you're selfish, so he's very selfish.

Say the word, selfish, robot it, sss, eh, ul, fuh, eh, shh.

Sss, eh, ul, fuh, eh, shh.

Let's have a look at what that looks like.

Sss, eh, ul, fuh, eh, shh.

Which is a diagraph, two letters, one sound.

Sss, eh, ul, fuh, eh, shh.

And the final word I'm going to use to describe my king is greedy, he wants everything for himself.

Greedy, guh, ur, ee, duh, ee.

Guh, ur, ee, duh, ee.

Let's have a look at what that sounds like, greedy, what that looks like, sorry.

Guh, ur, ee, that's a long E sound.

Duh, ee.

And you'll notice that I've got two E sounds but the one at the end is a Y.

That makes an E, but again, don't worry about spelling, just make sure you use your phonics.

Guh, ur, ee, duh, ee, greedy.

Now if you're feeling confident, and you've drawn the king with different labels, you could have a go at writing a caption.

Taking one of the words and captioning our picture.

The bad king, the greedy king, the selfish king.

And don't forget to think it, say it, punctuate it.

Have a go now if you're feeling confident and pause the video.

Well done if you gave that a go, here's what I might look like.

Capital letter, the.

Selfish, which I'm taking from my labels.

King, kuh, eh, nn, guh.

The selfish king, full stop.

Now, what I'd like you to do is have a go at drawing pictures of the other characters and labelling them with words.

And we'll have a little look at the other characters and think about how we would describe them.

And then if you're feeling confident, you could always write a caption underneath, just like in this video here.

So let's have a look at our other characters.

We've got the duck, duh, uh, kuh, duck.

Duh, uh, kuh, duck.

Duh, uh, kuh, duck, and you've got the diagraph, two letters, one sound, kuh, at the end.

How will we describe little duck? Pause the video now and tell your teddy talk partner how you might describe little duck.

Great describing words everybody, great adjectives, that's what we call a describing word.

You might say little duck is little, brave, determined and quite clever.

Another character in this story, the ladder.

How could you describe the ladder? I might describe the ladder as tall or high or helpful.

All our characters all helpful because they help the little duck.

You've got the river.

The river, how could we describe the river? Shout a describing word to me about the river.

Great describing words, we could say helpful, we could say fast, we could say quick or rapid.

You might want to draw the river.

And our final characters, the bees.

How would you describe the bees? Cool, some great ideas! Friendly, helpful, they're also very quick.

So I'd like you to pause the video now, pick one other character and have a go at drawing them and labelling them with some of your describing words.

Making sure you use your phonics.

And if you're confident, you can then write a caption underneath.

Oh, great work, children, if you managed to have a go at drawing some pictures and labelling them today.

I think that the children came up with some amazing adjectives, do you, Cedric? If you'd like to, you can always rewind the video to have a look at the different characters and also to have a look at the video of me labelling the greedy king.

Oh, Cedric said he's really excited about the next lesson and he has a little surprise for you in that lesson.

He says he might look a little bit different.

Oh, I can't wait to see that, Cedric.

Should we check on little duck? Hi little duck, how did you find today's lesson? Oh, little duck really enjoyed today's lesson and she loved drawing all the characters that helped her in the story.

And it's time for us to go now, children, but we've had a great time with you today and we can't wait to see you in the next lesson.