Lesson video

Hello, I'm Adam, and this is Panda.

We are on unit five, lesson four, using the story of "Mouse Deer." Let's see what's on the agenda today.

A really busy session today.

We're going to warm up with some nursery rhymes, then we're going to have some thinking time about great words to describe the king's chocolate, and the king's drum and his belt.

And remind ourselves as well, how to describe a rainforest.

Once we've done those things, the big challenge is that we'll be telling that story together, and your work later in the session, will be to draw a picture of a tropical rainforest, showing us all the sounds that we could use in our storytelling.

So for this, you'll need a piece of paper and a pencil, but not now, later in the session.

Let's get on with a warm up.

I think this first nursery rhyme is a really good one to skip to.

It really works, it's called "Looby Loo." It's very simple.

♪ Here we go Looby Loo ♪ ♪ Here we go Looby Light ♪ ♪ Here we go Looby Loo ♪ ♪ All on a Saturday night ♪ That's all it is.

Here we go Looby Loo, here we go Looby Light, here we go Looby Loo, all on a Saturday night, as you skip down the street.

Do you want to try it? Not skipping now though.

♪ Here we go Looby Loo ♪ ♪ Here we go Looby Light ♪ ♪ Here we go Looby Loo ♪ ♪ All on a Saturday night ♪ ♪ Here we go Looby Loo ♪ ♪ Here we go Looby Light ♪ ♪ Here we go Looby Loo ♪ ♪ All on a Saturday night.

♪ This other one is called "Mary, Mary." And the lyric goes, the words goes Mary, Mary quite contrary, and we don't hear that word very often, contrary.

Contrary just means Mary does things differently, in her own way, like all storytellers do.

So the tune goes.

♪ Mary, Mary quite contrary ♪ ♪ How does your garden grow ♪ ♪ With silver bells and cockleshells ♪ ♪ And pretty maids all in a row, row, row ♪ ♪ And pretty maids all in a row ♪ Do you want to do that with me? ♪ Mary, Mary quite contrary ♪ ♪ How does your garden grow? ♪ ♪ With silver bells and cockleshells ♪ ♪ And pretty maids all in a row, row, row ♪ ♪ And pretty maids all in a row ♪ That was fun.

Nursery rhyme is done.

So this is the thinking time of the lesson, where we really think about the words we could use in our storytelling.

Words we'll be able to remember and help us.

Now, this story is about a very clever, quick-witted Mouse Deer.

She's so clever she can trick a great big ferocious tiger.

The trouble is, we've got to make the tiger want to eat mud.

We've got to make him want to hit a wasps nest and we've got to make him want to put a snake on as a belt.

So, we need clever words and clever tricks to do it, don't we? Now, Panda likes chocolate and I like chocolate and everybody in my house likes chocolate, but if chocolate is melted and it's on the ground, it could look a bit like a muddy sludgy puddle.

One word we could use is gooey.

Gooey is kind of sticky, and you can move your finger around in it like a liquid, and when I hear the word gooey, I like the word ooey.

So, perhaps we could say, this chocolate is ooey and gooey and sweet because chocolate is sweet, isn't it? It's scrummy and yummy and so good to eat.

Could we remember that because it rhymes? Shall we try it again? This chocolate is ooey and gooey and sweet.

It's yummy and scrummy and so good to eat.

Maybe we can remember that and put it into our story.

This is a challenge.

We're working hard today.

A drum.

Panda, do you mind if I sit you down? A drum booms. It's really fun, a drum.

It booms and I imagine the tree vibrating.

So this drum is such fun it makes everyone dance.

It booms and vibrates.

Hit it hard, take a chance.

If Mouse Deer said that, she'd be tempting, wouldn't she, the tiger to hit it, but we know it's a wasps nest.

So shall we try that? This drum is such fun, it makes everyone dance! It booms and vibrates.

Hit it hard, take a chance.

We'll try and get that perhaps into our storytelling, and finally there's the belt.

Now, Mouse Deer wants to make it sound like a king's belt, so this belt is amazing, it shines very bright.

Do that together.

This belt is amazing, it shines very bright.

It razzles and dazzles and twinkles at night.

Shall we do that second bit again? It razzles and dazzles and twinkles at night.

So those three things, how we describe them, we'll try and get those into our storytelling.

And even if we only remember some of the words, it will be brilliant.

The other thing is to describe the setting, and in the previous lesson we practised this, but it'd be good to practise it again.

So when I do this with my fingers, do you remember that meant pitter-patter? Let me turn on the rain.

Through the pitter-patter, pitter-patter of the rain the tiger hunted.

Through the chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter of the monkeys the tiger prowled.

Through the drip-drop, drip-drop of the raindrops, tiger hunted.

Through the squelch-squirch, squelch-squirch of his paws the tiger prowled.

Brilliant.

Let's try and get some of those things into our storytelling.

So our big challenge now is to tell the story together.

So I'm going to invite you, if you're able to, to stand up.

It's fine to watch and join in in other ways as well, but I like doing this standing up.

So the idea is, we are going to try and tell the story together.

So join in with me if you can.

So for example, when I do this, you might remember that the words I'm thinking of are pitter-patter, pitter-patter, pitter-patter.

Do you remember that? Chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter of the monkeys.

I find doing the actions helps me find the words.

So try and join in with me and this is a brilliant way of practising storytelling.

Here we go.

Hands together 'cause we know how stories start, don't we? Here we go.

Once upon a time, there was a tiger, and he was a hungry tiger.

Through the pitter-patter, pitter-patter of the rain, tiger hunted.

Through the chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter of the monkeys, tiger prowled.

Through the drip-drop, drip- drop of the raindrops, tiger hunted.

Through the squelch-squirch, squelch-squirch tiger prowled.

He heard a song.

♪ I'm quick and I'm sharp and I have no fear ♪ ♪ Who am I ♪ ♪ I'm a little Mouse Deer ♪ And he looked, and he saw a small creature with whiskers.

A Mouse Deer.

And he pounced.

After three, shall we pounce with a roar? One, two, three.

Mouse Deer, I'm going to eat you for breakfast.

Uh-uh.

Do that together.

Uh-uh.

I'm busy guarding the king's pudding.

Do that together again.

I'm busy guarding the king's pudding.

She pointed to the mud.

How did we describe it? Can you remember? This chocolate is gooey and ooey and sweet.

It's yummy and scrummy and so good to eat.

Can I try some? Mouse Deer skedaddled.

Tiger pawed some up.

Are you ready for the big yuck? Ready? Yuck! Do that together, 'cause that's fun.

Yuck! That's not chocolate, it's mud! Through the pitter-patter, pitter-patter of the rain, tiger hunted.

Through the chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter of the monkeys, tiger prowled.

Through the.

drip-drop, drip-drop of the raindrops, tiger hunted.

Through the squelch-squirch, squelch-squirch, tiger prowled.

And then you heard.

♪ I'm quick and I'm sharp and I have no fear ♪ ♪ Who am I ♪ ♪ I'm a little Mouse Deer ♪ And he looked and he saw Mouse Deer, and he pounced, one, two, three.

Mouse Deer, I'm going to eat you for my lunch.

Uh-uh.

I'm too busy guarding the king's drum.

This drum is such fun, it makes everyone dance.

It booms and vibrates.

Hit it hard, take a chance.

Tiger hit the drum.

Went the wasps.

Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! Through the pitter-patter, pitter-patter of the rain, tiger hunted.

Through the chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter of the monkeys, tiger prowled.

Through the drip-drop, drip-drop, drip-drop of the raindrops, tiger hunted.

Through the squelch-squirch of his paws, tiger prowled.

♪ I'm quick and I'm sharp and I have no fear ♪ ♪ Who am I, I'm a little Mouse Deer ♪ He looked and he saw, and he pounced.

Mouse Deer, I'm going to eat you for my evening dinner.

Uh-uh.

I'm busy guarding the king's belt.

Hmm.

This belt is amazing.

It shines really bright.

It razzles and dazzles and twinkles at night.

Can I try it on? Tiger could not move.

And the last thing he heard was.

♪ I'm quick and I'm sharp ♪ ♪ And I have no fear ♪ ♪ Who am I ♪ ♪ I'm the little Mouse Deer ♪ And that's how we tell a story together.

And you may have been joining in with some of the actions and saying some of the words, and that is great because we're being very ambitious using very exciting words.

So well done.

Your job now is because we're working on the setting, it's important that we see what this forest looks like.

So I would like you to draw a picture of the forest.

There's lots of trees and bushes.

There might be in the trees some.

It will be raining.

Maybe we'll see some birds, and we'll definitely see a prowling tiger.

Time to work.

I'm going to pause the video now, and when you're finished, come back and we'll talk about this story some more.

Good luck.

I wonder what your rainforests look like.

I'll bet they're all different.

Remember, everyone here Oak Academy loves to see your work, and your teachers and carers will know how to share your work with us, so please do.

Well, what have we done today? A lot of things.

We've had some nursery rhymes, and we've explored the words we needed to make chocolate and drums and belts exciting.

We've learned all the words we could use to describe a tropical rainforest, and we've told the story together.

So show your pictures, share your work today.

And the big challenge will be in the next lesson, you telling that story to your talk teddy, but don't worry, we will help you practise before we ask you to do that.

So a big challenge in the next lesson, but you're up for it, we know.

And we look forward to seeing you then.

Okay then, bye-bye.