Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Miss.

Barron.

Now, there's something you should know about me.

I love stories.

I love telling stories, I love listening to stories, I love writing stories, but most of all, I love the magic of stories.

For me stories are magical because they take me to all sorts of amazing places in my imagination.

Where I get to meet all sorts of fascinating characters who do all sorts of fascinating things.

And I feel really lucky because I get to teach you to be an amazing story teller and an amazing story writer.

Now I wonder if you have a favourite story already.

If you do, can you tell me what it is right now? Can you start your sentence, my favourite story is.

Wow.

Sounds like you like the magic of stories too.

Now, before we get started, there's someone I need you to meet.

This is my special friend, Maurice.

Now Maurice is really chatty.

So I know he's excited to meet you.

He's going to say hello to you now.

Can you say hello back to Maurice? He's really glad to meet you.

Oh, hang on a second.

What's that Maurice? You want to play a game? Me too.

You want to play the tell me more game.

Oh, I love that game.

That's one of my favourites.

Okay.

I'm going to tell you how to play.

You play this game in pairs.

One person is the storyteller and the other person is the listener.

I'm going to be the storyteller, Maurice and I are going to play to show you how it works.

So I'm going to be the storyteller and Maurice is going to be the listener.

I'm going to say one sentence about myself.

Maurice is going to listen carefully to what I say.

He's going to choose one word and then say, tell me more about.

So let's play and we'll show you how it works.

My name is Kate and I love mountains.

Tell me more about mountains.

Okay.

Once I climbed a really high mountain and when I got to the top, I saw lots of eagles flying in the sky.

Tell me more about Eagles.

Okay.

Eagles are magnificent creatures.

I like Eagles because when I look at them, I imagine what it might be like to fly.

Tell me more about fly.

Well, last night when I was dreaming, I dreamt that I was riding on the back of a dragon and we were flying through the sky, back to our cave in a volcano.

So that's the tell me more game.

Why don't you have a go at playing that later with one of your toys or somebody else at home.

Now, let me tell you what we're going to do in the rest of this lesson.

As I said, you are going to learn to become an amazing storyteller.

And so to start off today, you are going to listen and respond to a story.

And I'm really excited because I get to tell you one of my favourite stories and then we're going to talk about it together.

So let's see what the lesson is going to look like today.

We're going to do a quick spelling activity first.

And then it's story time.

We're going to listen to our story.

And after that, we're going to talk about it using something called the plot matrix.

And I'm going to show you what that is a bit later.

Now, let's look at what you're going to need this lesson.

First, you're going to need something to write on.

So a piece of paper or your exercise book.

And you're going to need something to write with.

So a pencil or a pen.

If you don't have those things, pause the video now and go and get them.

Fantastic.

You're back with everything you need.

And remember one more thing, you need your wonderful selves and all the wonderful things that you can do.

And it's okay if you make some mistakes today, I might make some mistakes too.

I have a saying about mistakes, "Mistakes, help to make the learning great." All I want is for you to have a go this lesson and hopefully have as much fun as I think I will.

Now I'm going to tell you a story today.

Here's a clue as to what our story is going to be about.

I wonder if you can work it out.

♪ I know a word that rhymes with cats ♪ ♪ You put it on your head and the word is ♪ ♪ Hat ♪ You're right.

There are lots of hats in our story.

In fact, our story is about a hat-maker who loves hats.

I'm wearing my favourite hat to tell you this story.

Now it's time for our spellings.

This week we are going to be reminding ourselves of the letters of the alphabet to help us with our reading and writing.

So to start off today, let's sing the alphabet song together.

And I've got some actions as well that I'm going to do.

So feel free to join in with me, if you'd like.

As we sing together, I would like you to follow the lowercase letters of the alphabet with your eyes to remind yourself of the letters.

Okay.

I think you know the tune.

Join in with me when you're ready.

Let's go.

♪ A B C D E F G ♪ ♪ H I J K L M N O P ♪ ♪ Q R S T U V ♪ ♪ W X Y and Z ♪ ♪ Now I know my ABC ♪ ♪ Won't you sing with me ♪ Thanks for joining in.

I enjoyed singing that.

I hope you did too.

Now let's put some of that learning into practise.

I'm going to say some letters from the alphabet out loud.

When I say each one, I want you to point to the letter with your finger and say it out loud.

So the first letter is B.

The letter is B.

Quickly find it with your finger and say it out loud.

You got it? There's the letter B.

The next letter is N.

The letter is N.

Find it with your finger, point to it, say it out loud.

Did you spot it? There's the letter N, well done.

The next letter is H.

Find the letter H There's the letter H.

The next letter is L.

Find that the letter L.

Say it out loud remember? Have you got it? There it is.

The next letter V.

Find the letter V, say it out loud.

Did you spot it? There it is in the bottom corner.

The next letter is S.

Find the letter S, say it out loud, S.

There's the S.

And finally the letter Y.

Can you spot the letter Y? Point to it with your finger, say it out loud.

There it is at the bottom, there's the letter Y.

Great effort this morning with your spellings.

We're going to do the same thing again with these letters.

This time, we're going to go a bit faster.

Are you ready with your finger? Let's go.

D.

D.

There it is.

The next letter is T.

There's the letter T.

O.

Find the letter O, say it out loud.

Bit faster now.

C.

You got it.

There it is.

G.

Find the letter G.

There's the letter G.

V.

We just did this one didn't we? See if you remember.

There's the letter V at the top.

And X.

Find the letter X.

There is the letter X.

And finally the letter R.

There's the letter R, the last one left.

Well done, you have done an absolutely fantastic job.

A great effort with your spellings today.

Spelling superstars, well done.

You can see I'm wearing my favourite hat to tell you this story today.

So it's time for me to tell the story.

Make sure you're sitting somewhere comfortable.

Make sure you're sitting somewhere quiet.

Let's do our story chant.

It's story time.

It's story time.

Look, listen, learn.

Dot it with me.

It's story time.

It's story time.

Look, listen, learn.

Our story comes all the way from West Africa.

And it's called "Monkeys and Hats." Once, not twice, not thrice, but just once upon a time, there was a hat-maker.

And he made tall hats and shorts hats, fat taps, and thin hats, green hats and blue hats, all sorts of hats.

One day he was walking through the forest with a basket of hats on his head, ready to sell at the market.

And as he walked, he sang his favourite song.

♪ I am going to market to market to market ♪ ♪ I am going to market to sell my hats ♪ Sing it with me.

♪ I am going to market to market to market ♪ ♪ I am going to market to sell my hats ♪ It was a hot day and the hat-maker began to feel tired.

So he decided to have a rest.

He sat down under a tree, put his basket of hats down beside him, pulled his own hat over his eyes.

And he fell asleep.

When he woke up, he looked in his basket only to find that all of his hats where gone.

"Who's stolen my hats," thought the hat-maker.

Well, he looked for them here.

He looked for them there.

He looked for them everywhere, but there was no sign of his hats.

Then he heard the sounds of a chattering monkey up above his head.

He looked up and in the tree he saw a crowd of monkeys.

Each one of them wearing one of his hats.

Well, the hat-maker was furious.

He shook his fist at those monkeys and said, "Give me back my hats!" Now monkeys love to copy.

What monkey see, monkeys do.

And all they did was shake their fist back at him and shout at him in their own monkey talk.

Well, the hat-maker was shocked.

Talking monkeys? Talking back at him like this? He broke off a stick in two and shouted at them again, "Give me back my hats right now!" Monkeys love to copy.

What monkey see, monkeys do.

This made the hat-maker even more cross.

He shouted them again, "If you're making fun of me, then you'll be sorry!" What do you think the monkeys did? You're right.

Well, this went on and on and on, until finally in frustration, the hat-maker took off his hat and threw it to the ground.

Do that with me.

He took off his hat and threw it to the ground.

Well, what do you think those monkeys up in a tree did? What monkey see, monkeys do.

They did the exact same thing.

They took off hats and threw them to the grounds.

It was raining hats.

The hat maker was delighted.

Quickly, he swept up all of his hats, put them in his basket, put the baskets on his head and carried on off to market.

♪ I am going to market to market to market ♪ ♪ I am going to market to sell my hats ♪ And that day, not only did he sell all of his hats in the market, but you he also came home with a great story to tell.

A story about how he tricked those monkeys into giving him back his hats.

And he told that story to his son.

And his son loved that story.

Every night when his dad came home, he would say, "Dad, tell me! Tell me the story about the monkeys and hats." And soon enough, the hat-maker's son grew up and became the hat-maker himself.

He learned to make hats and he made all sorts of hats.

He made tall hats and short hats, fat hats, and thin hats, green hats, and blue hats, all sorts of hats.

One day, he too put a baskets of hats on his head and walked off to market to sell them.

Can you sing the song with me? ♪ I'm going to market to market to market ♪ ♪ I am going to market to sell my hats ♪ But that that day it was also hot.

And the hat-maker's son felt tired.

And so he too decided to take a nap under a tree.

He fell asleep.

And when he woke up, what do you think happened? All of his hats had gone.

But the hat-maker's son didn't worry because he knew the story.

Knowingly, he looked up into the tree, saw those monkeys wearing his hats, and smiled.

"I know how to get my hats back," he said to them.

And what do you think the monkey said? What monkey see, monkeys do.

They copied.

And the hat-maker's son said, "My dad told me this story." The monkeys copied.

What monkey see, monkeys do.

And then the hat-maker's son, went to take of his hat and threw it on the ground.

But the monkeys didn't move a muscle.

The hat-maker's son couldn't understand it.

He was confused so he did it again.

Took of his hat and threw it on the ground.

Do that with me? Took of his hat and threw it on the ground.

But still the monkeys did nothing.

So he took his hat off and threw it down, again.

And again, and again.

And the monkeys did nothing.

Well then, the chief monkey's son climbed down the tree, hung his hat on a branch out of the reach of the hat-maker's son, until he was face to face with the son and said, "You think you're so clever because your dad told you stories.

Well, guess what? Our dads told us stories too.

And this time we're keeping the hats." And off they went into the forest.

Each one of those monkeys wearing the hat-maker's son's hats.

And the hat-maker's son had no hats to sell in the market that day.

He had to go home with nothing.

And so that's why stories are important.

You never know what you're going to learn from one or when one might come in handy.

And that's the end of that.

I hope you enjoyed listening to that story.

I enjoyed telling it.

It's one of my favourites.

Now Maurice is really keen to tell us his favourite part of the story.

Ah.

I like that bit too.

His favourite part was when the monkeys copied the hat-maker and talked back at him in their monkey voices.

Those bits were funny, weren't they? My favourite part is at the end, when the monkeys say to the hat-maker's son, "Our dad told us stories too.

And this time we're keeping the hats." What was your favourite moment? Can you tell us? Now, can you use a full sentence? My favourite part was.

Let's check our understanding of the story.

We are going to do that using a very simple and useful tool called the plot matrix.

The plot matrix is great for helping us understand how stories work.

You can see on your screen, that you have a grid with six boxes and each box has a different heading.

Where, who, problem, solution, ending and learning.

I would like you to have a go at drawing that six box grid on your piece of paper.

Now you might need a ruler to help you.

You might want to ask for somebody else's help, or you might have a go at folding your piece of paper into six boxes like I've done here.

Can you see? Now the way I did that was to fold it in half this way first and then into thirds like this.

When you open it up, you get six boxes on your piece of paper.

So, have a go at drawing this grid.

Make sure you put in the headings in each box.

Pause the video now and have a go.

Right, let's start with our first box, which has the heading, where.

Where just means where does our story take place? Where is our story set? If you think, you know, start drawing a simple picture in that box now.

If you're not sure, choose from one of these options.

Is our story monkeys and hat set in the forest? Is it set in the mountains? Or is it set under the sea? What do you think? Have a go, pause the video now, have a go.

Draw a very simple picture in that box to show you.

This is my simple picture of a tree to show that our story takes place in the forest.

Now your picture only needs to be that simple too.

It's just to help you remember and understand the story.

Now let's move on to our next box with a heading who.

Who means, who is the main character in our story? Now I'm going to give you a clue because actually I think there are two main characters in our story aren't they? I wonder if you can remember who they are.

Can you draw a simple picture of them in your box now? If you're not sure choose from one of these options.

Are our character's hat-makers? Are they shoe makers? Or are they glove makers? Draw a picture of the main characters now in your box.

Pause the video and do that.

They're hat-makers, aren't they? Here's my simple picture of the hat-maker and his son.

Both are the main characters in our story.

Now let's move on to our next box.

The next box is the problem.

Now this is a really interesting box.

All great stories have problems that matter.

Which means that they have problems which are difficult for the characters to solve.

So I want you to have a think, what is the problem in this story? What problem do the hat-makers face? Draw a simple picture in your box now.

If you're not sure, choose from one of these options.

Is the problem that, some elves take their footballs? Is the problem that they get lost in the forest? Or is the problem that some monkeys steal their hats? Draw a simple picture in that box now.

Pause the video and have a go.

Here's my simple drawing to show the problem, which is? You're right.

It is that the monkey stole the hat-makers hats while they was sleeping.

So you can see them wearing their hats in a tree.

Now, the problem in this story is really difficult to solve for the hat-maker, isn't it? What does the hat-maker do to try and get his hats back? Can you remember? Can you tell me in a full sentence? The hat-maker.

he does, doesn't he? The hat-maker shouts at the monkeys.

He says, "Give me back my hats!" I wonder, how do you think the hat-maker felt when he saw the monkeys wearing his hats? Tell me in a full sentence.

I think he felt.

I agree.

He felt really angry, didn't he? That's why he shook his fist at them and shouted.

Now, I also wonder, what would you have done if you were the hat-maker in that situation? What would you have done if you were him? Can you tell me in a full sentence? I would have.

Interesting.

Now that problem happens for both of our characters, doesn't it? It happens for the first hat-maker and then it happens again for his son.

Now let's look at how that problem gets solved.

So we come to our next box, solution.

How does that problem get solved? What do you think? Draw a simple picture in your box now.

Pause the video and have a go.

Now this one's a bit more tricky, so you might need a bit of my help here.

Now because that problem happens to both of our characters.

The first hat-maker gets his hats back, doesn't he? So, he throws his hat on the floor and all the monkeys copy and the problem gets solved.

He gets his hats back.

That's why I put a tick next to the first hat-maker.

But the hat-maker's son, he throws his hat on the floor but the monkeys don't copy, do they? So he doesn't get his hats back.

So I've drawn a cross next to the hat-maker's son.

So the problem gets solved for the first hat-maker, but not for the hat-maker's son.

So pause the video now if you'd like and have a go at using my picture to help you correct yours, if you need to.

Then we come to the ending of our story.

How does the story end? Is it a happy ending for the hat-maker's son? Or is it a sad ending? What do you think? Draw a picture of the ending now in your box.

Pause the video and have a go.

The ending of the story is a sad one for the hat-maker's son, isn't it? Remember the monkeys say, "Well, our dad told us stories too and this time we're keeping the hats." And they disappear off into the forest with all of the hat-maker's son's hats.

And so he has nothing to go home with.

So he feels sad and cross.

And then finally, our last box, what is the learning in the story? Now, there's no right or wrong answer here.

You can choose.

What do you think you learned from this story? Pause the video now and draw a simple picture in that box.

So for me, the last line of the story really helped me work out the learning.

Can you remember the last line of the story? It says, "That's why stories are so important.

You never know what you're going to learn from one or when it might come in handy." So I've drawn a picture of stories, a book, because you might read stories, but you can also listen to stories, can't you? Just like you did today.

So the power of stories, really important.

You never know what you might learn from one, just like the monkeys and the hat-maker.

So pause your video again now.

And if you'd like to, I'm going to show you, this is my finished plot matrix.

You might like to just make any edits using my one to help you.

Now keep your plot matrix with you because we're going to use it in the lessons that come.

So don't throw it away, keep hold of it.

And you might like to have a go at telling the story again, using your plot matrix before I see you in the next lesson.

Now you have worked really hard on your plot matrix today.

That might be the first time you've done something like that.

It's a really useful tool to remind you what happened in the story and to help you to understand it.

So I want you to keep it with you.

And I'd love to see your work.

So if you would like to, please ask your parents or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational with the hashtag #LearnwithOak.

I would absolutely love to see your plot matrix.

That brings us to the end of today's lesson.

Now the next lesson is going to be really exciting because you are going to learn to become the storyteller yourself.

You're going to learn to tell this story from memory in your own way.

But for now, I'm going to leave you with a joke.

I wonder if you can guess the punchline and tell me at the start of the next lesson.

What kind of key opens a banana? See you in the next lesson.