Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Miss Barron and welcome to our first lesson in unit two.

Now, if you were with me in unit one, you already know how much I love stories.

I love telling stories.

I love writing stories and I love recycling stories, which means taking stories I already know, and changing them to make them my own with all of my own ideas.

And that is exactly what we are going to be doing in this unit.

In this unit, we are going to be taking the story, "How Coyote Brought Fire to Earth" that we already know and changing it to make up new stories of our own.

So, I can't wait to get started.

In today's lesson, we are going to generate, which means come up with ideas for our recycled story.

So, today we are first going to do a spelling activity.

Then, we're going to do a recap of the story, "How Coyote Brought Fire to Earth" because that is the story we're going to change and make our own.

Then we are going to generate, come up with ideas, for our new recycled stories.

Then we are going to tell them.

So, in today's lesson, you will need an exercise book or piece of paper to write on and a pencil to write with.

So, pause the video now and go and get those things if you need to.

Fantastic.

You are back and ready to begin the learning.

So let's start with a spelling activity.

Now, today we are learning to spell tricky words that have the 'u' sound in them, but are spelled with the letter 'o'.

So, let's have a look at some of those words.

Read them with me.

Other, can you hear it's got the ''u' sound, but it's spelled with a letter 'o' at the beginning, isn't it? Other, mother say it with me, mother, brother, son, love, Monday.

All of those words, when we say them sound like they have the sound 'u' in them, but actually that ''u' sound is spelt with a letter 'o'.

So, these are tricky words that we can't sound out.

We just have to practise spelling them so that we learn them.

Now, let's have a go putting those words into our own story sentences.

For example, after saving the humans, Coyote went to have dinner with his mother.

So, there's my example.

I would like you to pause the video now and have a go at putting those words into your own story sentences.

Fantastic job.

Now then, let's have a go at spelling them.

We're going to practise spelling them because we just need to learn and remember.

So, we're going to do that using our look, cover, write, check strategy.

So, take each word a time, look at it carefully, cover it up, write it down three times and then uncover it to check.

And at that point, you can fix any mistakes or carry on spelling that word a few more times, if you feel like you need to, to get really confident.

So, I would like you to pause the video and use that look, cover, write, check strategy, to practise spelling those tricky words.

So, before we recycle the story, "How Coyote Brought Fire to Earth" today and change it to bring in all of our new ideas, let's just recap the story to remind us what's happens.

And I'm going to do that using the story map.

So, this is a really quick recap.

Once, the humans on earth were suffering terribly because they were so cold at night.

They had no warmth.

So, brave Coyote offered to go and get a piece of the sun's fire from up in the sky world.

But the sun was guarded by a huge evil fire giant, who chased Coyote, when he snatched a piece of its fire.

Coyote had to throw the fire to white crow who threw it to white squirrel, who threw it to singing frog, who threw it to tree, who kept it safe in her trunk.

And from that day to this, that is why we have fire on earth.

That is why fire lives in wood, why frogs can only croak, why squirrels are grey, why crows are black and why we get thunder when the fire giants grumbled from up above, and that is why humans are warm on earth at nighttime.

So, that is a recap of the story.

I would like you to pause the video now and recap that story yourself in your own words.

So pause the video and do that.

Brilliant job.

So now that you've recapped the story, we are ready to generate or come up with new ideas for recycling the story.

So, the first thing that I need you to do is to draw a grid, just like the one on my piece of paper.

So, you need six boxes and each box is going to have a heading.

The first box has the heading problem.

The next box has the heading helpers.

Then the third box has the heading journey there.

The fourth box has the heading take object.

The fifth box has the headache journey back and the last box has the heading solution.

So, I'm going to tell you what those headings all mean and how we're going to use them to help us create our new stories after you've drawn your grid.

So, pause the video now and draw your grid.

Brilliant job, you are back.

And now we're ready, to think about our ideas for our new story.

So, the reason that we've got these headings is because, they are going to mirror the plot structure from the story that we learned in unit one, "How Coyote Brought Fire to Earth".

So, let me just talk you through how they do that.

So, the plot is what's happens in the story.

At the beginning of our Coyote story, we had a problem, didn't we? The problem was that humans were suffering at night because they had no warmth.

So, then we had some helpers.

Coyote was the main helper and he had white crow, white squirrel and singing frog to help him.

Then, there was the journey to get the object, wasn't there? To get a piece of the son's fire.

He journeyed into the sky world.

Then Coyote took the object, didn't he? He took a piece of the sun's fire and he was chased by the fire guardian, by the fire giant.

And then there was the journey back.

The journey back down to the forest.

So, coyote was chased by the fire giants.

He had to throw the fire to white crow, who threw it to white squirrel, who threw it to singing frog, who threw it to tree.

And at the end, the problem was solved, wasn't it? Fire was kept safe on earth.

The humans were happy.

There was no suffering because they have warmth at night.

And we found out why fire lives in wood, why frogs can only croak, why crows are black, why squirrels are grey and why we get thunder? So, that was our Coyote story, and we are going to use the same structure to come up with ideas for our new story.

So, let's begin with the problem.

Now, there is going to be a big problem.

Something is missing from the world, which is causing lots of suffering.

So, what could it be? I'm going to think about some ideas, what it could be.

Have a listen to my ideas and see if there's any that you might like for your story.

So, it could be that sweets are missing from the world.

Gosh, what would a world be like without any sweets? It could be that stories are missing.

It could be that books are missing.

Maybe ice is missing from the world.

Maybe films are missing or perhaps gold is missing.

So, those are my ideas for what could be missing from the world.

Have a think about whether you like any of those for your story.

Now, for my story, I'm going to choose stories.

Stories are missing.

I just can't imagine a world without any stories.

For me, that would be a terrible world.

So, I'm going to draw a picture to show that stories are missing from the world and it's causing so much unhappiness.

I can imagine that humans are really bored and grumpy without them.

So, stories can be read and stories can be told.

So, this is my picture to show stories and they're missing from the world.

Now then, we need some helpers, don't we? Who is going to go and help bring the object that we need? So, let's have a think who could bring my stories to earth? Who could bring them back for the humans.

So, here's some different ideas I'm thinking of.

See if you'd like any of these for your story.

I'm thinking of a hummingbird.

I'm thinking of a badger, may be I could call him brother badger.

I'm thinking of a rabbit, a fox, a leopard maybe, a monkey, perhaps a spider.

I wonder if you like any of those ideas for your helpers in your story, or maybe you're thinking of some different ones already.

For my story, I want my main helper to be hummingbird.

So, this is hummingbird.

Just like Coyote was our main helper in that story, hummingbird is now going to be the main helper in my new story.

So, there she is.

And she's going to have three other helpers.

So, I'm going to choose brother badger.

Brother Badger now.

Badgers have black and white stripes, don't they? So, I'm going to draw those.

That's how we're going to know that this is brother badger.

And, I think she's going to have a fox to help her, sister fox.

There's sister fox, and she's going to have sister rabbit to help us.

I'm going to draw big, long ears for rabbit.

There we go, that's rabbit's whiskers, big teeth.

Okay, so those are my helpers.

Have a think about what helpers you might have for your story to bring back whatever's missing.

Now, we've got the journey to the place to get the missing thing.

So, where could it be? Now, if it's sweets, if you'd like sweets for your story, then maybe they're stored in the sugar mountain.

If it's stories, if like me, you want stories to be missing, maybe they're kept in an underground story cave.

If books are missing, maybe they've been hidden in bookworm's library.

If ice is missing from the world, maybe it could be in the sky world.

Films, if they're missing from the world, maybe they're up in the Hollywood mountains.

Hollywood's where all the films are made, isn't it? Or where lots of them are made.

Gold, if gold's missing, maybe it's in a gold cave.

So, what am I going to choose for my story? It's going to be the underground story cave, isn't it? Have a think about which one you like for your story? So, it depends, what's missing from the world, doesn't it? What you've chosen.

Now, the stories are going to be kept in an underground story cave, guarded by evil, angry story-bat.

There he is.

There are the stories that he's guarding and hummingbird has to go and get them.

And it's going to be deep underground that story cave in my story.

Now have a think about where your thing is going to be.

Where does the helper need to go to get it? So now, hummingbird is going to take the object and we need to show our guardian here, don't we? Whatever's guarding it.

So, in my story, hummingbird is going to take the stories in her beak.

But remember, angry story-bat is guarding them, and so he is going to chase her, isn't he? Let's make him really evil.

There he is.

So in your story, let's have a think about what the guardians could be? Who is guarding that object that's missing? So maybe if sweets are missing, they could be guarded by an evil sugar plum fairy.

Maybe if stories are missing like mine, you might have an angry story bat in a cave, you might have something different.

If books are missing, then maybe it could be a bookworm that's stolen them.

If it's ice, maybe they are guarded by an ice giant up in the clouds.

If it's films, they could be guarded by a movie monster.

And if it's gold, maybe gold is guarded by the gold finger giant in his gold cave.

So, let's have a think about the journey back.

Our main helper is chased, remember? And so to throw it to the other helpers.

So, I'm going to have hummingbird escaping with those stories, but she needs to throw it.

She's going to throw it first to sister rabbit, and then sister rabbit is chased by angry bat too, so she is going to throw the stories to brother badger.

But then brother badger is also chased by the story-bat, and so has to throw them to fox.

Fox is going to throw them back to hummingbird, let's colour her beak and all the time they are chased by angry story-bat.

There he is.

Now then, how are we going to solve the problem? How are we going to solve it? I think that hummingbird is going to throw the stories up into the cloud.

And then when it rains, it's going to rain stories down on earth and all of the seas and the lakes and the rivers on earth are going to fill up with stories and humans are going to drink them.

And then that is how they become storytelling creatures and how they become happy again.

So, that's going to be the solution in my story.

I wonder, how is your problem going to get solved? So, once your main helper or all of your helpers have got that object back, how is it going to bring happiness or perhaps learning or sharing, or entertainment maybe, if it was films, if that was your idea or riches.

Have a think about that for your story.

So, this is going to be my picture for mine.

Hummingbird throws them into the clouds.

and then when it rains, it rains stories and all of the lakes and the rivers fill up with stories.

And the humans drink them, and then the humans are full of stories, and so they are happy.

They're no longer arguing.

They're no longer bored and grumpy.

They're happy.

They learn lots.

They share, and life is great.

So, this is my story.

Once upon a time, there were no stories.

People got really bored and argued all the time.

Hummingbirds stepped up and said that she would go down to the story cave, where they were being kept and she would let the stories out.

But she needed help from brother badger, sister fox and sister rabbit.

So, they dug and dug and dug deep down into the earth until they came to the story cave where all of the stories are being guarded by evil, angry bat.

Hummingbird took the stories in her beak.

She snatched them and escaped.

Angry bat chased her out of the cave.

"Stop thief, give me back my stories," he yelled.

Hummingbird dug and dug as fast as she could, up back through the soil, and she threw the stories to sister rabbit who threw them to brother badger, who threw them to sister fox, who threw them back to hummingbirds to get away from angry bat who was chasing them the whole time.

Hummingbird threw them into the clouds.

And when it rains, it rains down stories and all of the seas, lakes and rivers in the world filled up with stories.

The humans drank them.

They became happy.

They learned all sorts of new things.

They shared, they talk together.

They had fun and life was great.

So, that is my new story.

So, now for the really exciting part, it's your turn to fill out your own plot matrix grid with all of your own ideas for your new recycled story.

So, let's begin with the problem, the first box on your grid.

Remember, the problem needs to be that there's something missing from the world.

Something that is causing lots of unhappiness and suffering.

So, what could that be? Here are my ideas again.

Maybe there's no sweets in the world.

Maybe there's no stories like I chose.

Maybe there were no books.

Maybe there's no ice.

Maybe there's no films in the world.

Maybe there's no gold.

So, you could choose one of those options, or you might have a different idea of your own.

I would like you to the video now and draw a simple quick picture in your problem box for something that is missing from the world that's causing lots of suffering.

Fantastic, well done.

Now, I would love to hear your idea for the problem in your story.

So can you tell me to the screen, say, the problem is, go on to tell me to your screen now.

Wow, we are going to have so many different creative stories.

Some of you have chosen sweets.

Some of you have chosen books.

Some of you have said, there's no ice in the world.

Some of you have different ideas.

I had somebody say there's no trees in the world.

There's no birds.

All sorts of different ideas.

Now, let's move on to our next box.

So, who are the helpers in your story that are going to bring this thing back? So, in my story, it was hummingbird, badger, fox and rabbit, wasn't it? Who are they going to be in your story? You can choose any creature, up to you.

So, pause the video now and draw some quick simple pictures of the helpers in your story.

Remember, you need four, don't you? You need a main helper.

In our Coyote story, it was coyote.

In my story, it was hummingbird, and then you need three other helpers.

So, I chose brother badger, sister fox and sister rabbit.

Who are yours going to be? Pause the video and fill out that box now with a picture.

Amazing job.

Now, go on and tell me your help us up.

Say my helpers are, tell me to your screen.

So many different creatures that are going to be helpers in our stories.

Now then, let's move on to our next box.

The next box is the journey there.

So, where is the object stored? Where is it kept or hidden? So, it might be if you chose sweet, that they are kept in the sugar mountain.

Maybe if you chose the stories like me, they are kept in an underground story cave.

If you chose books, maybe they're kept in bookworms library.

If you chose films, maybe they're kept in the Hollywood mountains.

If you chose ice, maybe the ice is kept in the sky world again.

And if you chose gold, maybe it's kept in a gold cave.

So, you might want to choose one of those ideas, if you chose one of mine for your problem, or you might have a different idea, if you chose a different problem of your own.

So, pause the video now enjoy a picture in your journey there box to show where this thing is hidden.

Fantastic.

Now, tell me where your object is hidden.

Go on say, it's hidden, tell me your screen.

I heard some of say that the sweets are hidden in the sugar mountain.

I had some of you say that the ice is hidden up in the clouds in the sky world.

I heard some of you say that the books are hidden in bookworm's library and some of you had your own ideas.

Now then, let's move on to our next box.

So, our main helper is going to take the object, but who is going to chase it? So who is guarding the object? Who is going to chase your main helper? So, here are some ideas.

If you chose sweets, it could be the sugar plum fairy who's guarding them all.

If you chose stories like me, it could be an underground story-bat, or you might have a different idea.

If you chose books, it might be an angry, evil bookworm.

If you chose films, it could be the movie monster.

If you chose gold, it might be a gold finger giant.

If you chose ice, then it could be an ice giant up in the clouds, or you might have a different idea.

So, I would like you to draw a picture in this box now of who or what is guarding the object.

So, pause the video and do that.

Amazing job.

Now, I can't wait to hear what your ideas are for creatures or who knows what is guarding the object.

So, don't tell me your screen, say is guarding the objects.

Tell me now.

Brilliant.

These stories are going to be so exciting.

Some of you said story-bat, some of you said bookworms, some of you said evil sugar-plum fairies, all sorts of different ideas.

Now then, we've got the journey back, haven't we? So, your main helper needs to get back with the help of the other helpers.

So, your helper is chased by whatever it is that's guarding the objects.

Who are they going to throw the things to? So, have a think about that.

Who is your main character going to throw the object to? Pause the video and draw that sequence with arrows in that box, on your grid.

Pause the video and do that now.

Okay, fantastic.

So, there's quite a few little pictures to draw in that one.

I'd like you to tell me to the screen now.

Say throws it to, who throws it to.

Go on and tell me to your screen.

Brilliant.

So, we've got that order of who throws it to who really clear.

Fantastic.

Now then, the solution, the final box on our grid.

How does the problem get solved? So remember in mine, hummingbird threw it into the clouds.

And then when it rained, it rained down stories and everybody drank the stories and everyone was happy again.

So, how is the problem going to get solved in your story? How is there going to be happiness on earth again, or learning or sharing or entertainment maybe? I would like you to draw a picture in this box to show how the problem is solved.

So pause the video now and do that.

Fantastic job.

So now, you should have all of your six boxes filled out with your own ideas for your story.

So, before we carry on, before we start working with these new stories, we just need to make sure that the story works.

So, we need to make sure the problem is really difficult to solve.

Does it cause a lot of unhappiness and suffering, that's really important.

Now then the helpers, have we got four helpers? We need a main helper and three other helpers.

So, make sure you've got that.

Now the journey there, you've got to be clear where your object is hidden and also how the helpers are going to get there.

So, because the stories is in my story are kept in an underground cave, then I know that my characters have to dig their way down.

Do have a think about how your characters are going to get to the place.

How are they going to get to sugar mountain? How are they going to get to the gold cave or to the clouds in the sky world? How are they going to get to bookworms library.

So make sure that you think about that.

Now then, taking the object.

We've got to have our main helper taking the object and then being chased by the guardian, haven't we? And that guardian's got to be angry and fierce and scary.

Now the journey back, we know that we have to have our main helper who's chased, and so has to throw the objects on to the other helpers.

So make sure that you've got that order really clear in your head.

And then finally the solution.

So, how is the problem solved? Remember the object comes back.

It's shared with the humans and the humans are happy again.

There's no more suffering in the world.

So, make sure that your story has got all of those things in it so that the plot works.

Pause the video now and just double check that with your plot matrix.

Now that we know our stories work, let's have a go at telling them, I'm going to tell mine again for you first.

And then it's going to be your turn.

Once upon a time, there were no stories on earth.

The humans were so bored and grumpy that they argued all the time.

Then brave, hummingbird stepped up and offered to help.

She said she would get the stories back from the underground story cave, where they were being hidden, but she needed help.

So brother badger, sister fox and sister rabbit all offered to help her.

Together, they dug down deep into the ground until they reached the underground story cave where all of the stories were guarded by evil, angry story-bat.

Hummingbird dashed into the cave and snatched the stories in her beak.

As she left the cave to escape, she was chased by angry story-bat.

And so, she had to throw the stories to sister rabbit who threw them to brother badger who threw them to sister fox who threw them back to hummingbird.

All the time, they were chased by angry story-bat who wanted his stories back.

Hummingbird finally threw them into the clouds.

And then when it rained, it rained down stories.

Stories filled the oceans and the lakes and the rivers on earth and the humans drank them all up.

And so, they became full of stories and they loved telling stories and listening stories and making up stories together.

They had fun and they were happy and they learned all sorts of new things.

That is the end of my story.

That is how hummingbird brought stories back to earth.

So now that you've heard me tell my new story, I would like you to pause the video and have a go at telling your new story, using the pictures on your plot matrix to help you.

So, pause the video and have a go at that now.

Well done on all of your fantastic hard work today.

Coming up with those new, really creative ideas for your own story.

Now, I can't wait to see what we're going to do with that new story in lesson two.

So I will see you then.

Bye.