Lesson video

- Hi everyone, I'm Miss Fryer and I'm so excited to join you here for unit four, all about the story of Anansi and Tiger.

In this unit, our learning's going to be all about action that is clear.

So by the end, we're all going to be amazing action men and women, able to make exciting things happen in our stories.

We're going to start our learning today with a song.

Then we're going to do a spelling activity before listening to our new story, Anansi and Tiger, and then plot matrixing the story to get it into our heads.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and your brain, so pause the video now if you need to get any of those things.

I have a song that's all about creating action packed stories.

So I think that's a great way to start our action unit.

Do you want to learn it? Our song is all about the three things that we need to do to create exciting action that's clear.

It goes like this.

♪ You've got to show what happens step by step ♪ ♪ You've got to show what happens, where and when ♪ ♪ You've got to show what happens, how it looks ♪ ♪ You got to show what happens ♪ Do you want to learn it with me? So all the lines start with "you've got to show what happens" with our little show action.

♪ You've got to show what happens step by step ♪ Can you sing that for me? ♪ You've got show what happens step by step ♪ Our next "show what happens", our pitch goes down a little bit.

♪ You've got to show what happens ♪ Goes down a little bit, and then we say ♪ Where and when, and point to my watch ♪ Ready to sing that bit? ♪ You've got to show what happens, where and when ♪ Good, and the third one goes ♪ You've got to show what happens, how it looks ♪ So we're going to look all around to make sure that lovely little detail about everything that's going on.

♪ You've got to show what happens, how it looks ♪ Can you try it? ♪ You've got to show what happens, how it looks ♪ And the last one just goes.

♪ You've got to show what happens ♪ And just some jazz hands at the end.

I love a jazz hand.

♪ You've got to show what happens ♪ It's like a bit of a flashy ending.

Exciting.

Cool.

So I think we should do it all the way through.

Remember, you've got to show what happens step by step.

You've got to show what happens, where and when You've got to show what happens, how it looks.

You've got to show what happens, jazz hands.

Ready? Let's do it together, off we go.

♪ You've got to show what happens, step by step ♪ ♪ You've got to show what happens, where and when ♪ ♪ You've got to show what happens, how it looks ♪ ♪ You've got to show what happens ♪ Really good job! That shows us all the things that we need to do to make sure we do action that is clear in our writing and what to spot for when we're looking in our reading.

Now we're going to do some spelling.

We're going to be looking today at compound words, which sounds like it's going to be very complicated, but it's actually just putting two words together into one.

Have a look at the pictures on your screen.

What do you think those pictures represent? We're going to be reading the pictures and putting them into one word.

What's that first picture? Tell your screen what's happening in that first picture.

Looks to me like rain.

That's a picture of a rain cloud, isn't it? That picture shows me rain.

How about the next picture? That pink picture in the middle of the screen.

What does that one show? What is that, tell your screen That is a bow, so we have got rain plus bow, what is that going to make one word? Rain plus bow is equal to rainbow.

Rainbow is a compound word, it's made of two smaller words.

Knowing about compound words makes spelling nice and easy because we only have to do a little bit at a time.

We break it up into chunks, so we can sound out the first part, rain, r-ai-n, rain, only three sounds.

And then the second part, bow, b-ow, bow.

Only two sounds.

So we only have to keep a few sounds in our head at once.

When we put it together, we've got to make sure we put it together in one word with no finger space.

Here are some clues to some more compound words.

I wonder if you can work them out.

Let's have a look at the first picture then.

What do you think over on that far left side? Tell your screen, what do you think word that is? The first picture looks like a star and the second picture is a fish.

So all together we have the word starfish.

Very good if you've got that one, Let's have a look at the next picture in the middle.

Have a look at those two pictures together.

I wonder if you can work out what the big word is.

Hmm, tell me your screen.

Looks to me like we have the word moon.

That's a picture of the moon, isn't it? And up in the ceiling, it illuminates our work.

We have got a light so that together we have moonlight Moonlight, amazing job.

Next one then, that's the one directly underneath me.

Hmm, looks like one of these.

What's that? And something you're probably sitting on, that first word is the word arm.

And the next one is chair.

Putting them together makes armchair, very good.

Let's look at the bottom row now, underneath starfish.

Tell your screen, what are those two pictures? Can you put them together into one long word? Hmm.

I can see a picture of the sun.

And next to the picture of the sun is a flower.

Sun, flower, sunflower.

Great job if you got that one.

Let's have a look at the middle one, underneath moonlight.

Hmm, here's our first picture.

Once it got next to it? You might find it on the ground.

It might fall off a tree.

That first picture we've got, lip, and next to it, we have got stick.

The compound word lip, stick, lipstick.

Very good, and last one, we have got two pictures.

Have a look, what's that? You might have one for your breakfast.

Come out of a chicken.

And the second picture you might find on the beach.

Put them together into a compound word, tell your screen.

Okay, let's have a look.

The first picture is egg.

That's an egg there in the picture.

And the second one we've got a shell.

Egg and shell, eggshell.

So compound words are just putting two little words into one big word.

Now it's time for Anansi and Tiger story.

I have a chant that I sing before we start our Anansi story.

So I'll do that, and then we will get into our story.

Once upon a time, there was a spider called Anansi.

Now it happened that in that place, in that time, all of the stories were about Tiger.

There was Tiger and Elephant, Tiger the Great, Tiger just knew and had all of the best stories.

Anansi was fed up of this and decided that he would trick Tiger into giving him all of his stories.

So Anansi went to Tiger's cave.

"Oh Tiger," said Anansi.

Tiger prowled out of his cave and growled at Anansi.

"What do you want?" said Tiger.

"I've come to make you a deal," said Anansi.

"I'll give you two things you want, if you give me all of your stories." Tiger was also fed up with Anansi and thought this would be a good way of getting rid of him.

He decided to make it extra tricky for him.

"Go and get me a barrel full of bees, and after that, our python," said Tiger.

So Anansi went off to the beehive.

"Oh bees!" said Anansi.

Out of the beehive came the queen bee "Is it true," said Anansi, "that bees squabble all the time?" "No," said the Queen Bee.

"We work as a team." "Prove it," said Anansi.

"Get all of your bees organised into this barrel." One by one, each of the bees flew into the barrel.

And once they were all in there, Anansi slammed the lid shut, trapping them all inside.

With this done, he went off to see the python.

"Oh Python!" said Anansi.

Python came slithering out of her home.

"Is it true," said Anansi, "that Cobra is the longest snake?" "No," said Python, "It'sssss me." "Prove it," said Anansi, "Cobra is as long as this stick." So Python laid out her long body next to the stick, but found herself just short.

"I know," said Anansi.

"I'll tie your tail to the end of the stick, and you can stretch out your neck and prove that you are the longest snake." So Python let an Anansi tie her tail and stretched out, but she was still a little short.

"Hmm," said Anansi.

"Let me tie the middle of your body to the stick.

Then you can stretch out your head and prove that you the longest snake." So Python let Anansi tie her middle of her body to the stick and with the middle tied down, Anansi grabbed hold of her head and tied that to the stick too.

With his barrel of bees and his python on a stick, Anansi went back to the tiger.

The tiger had to admit defeat and gave Anansi all of his stories.

That is why, if you go to that place, you will find no sign of Tiger or any of his stories.

They all belong to Anansi.

We're going to create a plot matrix of our story of Anansi and Tiger.

A plot matrix is really good for making sure we understand all the different parts of the story.

What you are going to need to do today is to make yourself a grid with six boxes, just like the one on your screen right now.

The six boxes represent the six different parts of the plot matrix.

We have here our where box for where the story takes place, our who box for who are the characters, the problem box, where we talk about what happens and what goes wrong in the story, the solution, about how that gets sorted out, The ending, what happened in the end? It's that simple.

And the learning, what does this story teach us? So get yourself a piece of paper, draw out your six boxes, pause the video and we'll get started.

So the first box on our plot matrix is our where box.

Where does the story of Anansi and Tiger take place? Now I realised that there are really three different locations because Anansi visits three different characters.

So let's go with where we start the story.

Where do we start and end the story of Anansi and Tiger? Pause the video so that you can draw in your where, your location.

Let's have a look at what you've drawn.

Did you remember where the story takes place? It takes place in Tiger's cave, doesn't it? Anansi goes to visit Tiger in his cave and he prowls out and growls at Anansi.

It takes place in a cave.

I've written the word c-a-ve, cave, after it so I remember it's a cave.

My next box is my "Who" box.

Who is the main character in our story? Who is the story all about? Pause the video so that you can draw and write in who the main character is.

Shall we have a look? Who have you drawn as your main character? Who's the story about? It's about Anansi, isn't it? Anansi the Spider.

Anansi is a spider, Anansi is a man.

So you could have drawn him as a spider or as a man.

That's okay.

I've drawn him as a spider, because spiders are cool.

Now the problem, the problem that the main character has, what is Anansi problem? What does he want that makes the action in the story take place? Pause the video so that you can draw and write in the stories problem.

Shall we have a look? The problem is that Anansi wants all the stories.

I've written the words "Wants stories," because he does, he wants all of the stories.

Next box is our solution.

How does a Nancy solve his problem? How does he end up getting what he wants? What does he have to do? Pause the video while you do your box, just detailing your solution.

Let's have a look shall we? What does Anansi have to do to solve his problem? What are you going to do to get his stories? There it is, he has to get the python and the barrel of bees, doesn't he? So I've drawn a picture of a python attached to the stick and the bees in the barrel and written the words python, P-y, that's a Ms. Fryer Y, that's spelled with a Y.

Th-on, python, and b-ees, bees.

That's the solution to the problem.

And the ending, what happens at the end of the story? How does the story finish? Pause the videos so that you can draw in your story's ending.

What happens in the end? Is it a happy ending or a sad ending? In the end, it's happy or at least for Anansi, not really for tiger.

He gets his story, doesn't he, got the stories.

So I've drawn a picture of Anansi with a story book and written the words g-o-t, got, st-or-ies, stories.

He got the stories in the end.

And the last box I think is the trickiest box.

This box is about the learning.

What does the story teach us? Now, some stories teach us a lesson about doing the right thing, but Anansi is an origin story.

That means it tells us why something is or why something isn't as is the case with Anansi.

What did I tell you at the end of the story that we learned about the world? See if you can remember, pause the video, and draw it in if you can remember.

I wonder if you remembered our learning.

At the end of the story, I told you that now there are no tigers in that place.

All of the stories belong to Anansi.

And remember from our song, Anansi is West Indian and west African.

And that's true.

There are no tigers in the West Indies or in Africa, all tigers are in Asia.

So this is a story that gives us an origin for why there are no tigers anywhere outside Asia.

So well done if you remembered that, that is what we learn in this story.

So by now, your plot matrix should look a little bit like this.

Take some time now if you need to fill in any extra details or write in your words by pausing the video.

I hope you've drawn a great plot matrix that will help you remember what happens in the story of Anansi and Tiger.

In lesson two, we are going to be getting that really in our heads, by creating a story map and stepping our story.

All through this unit, I would love to see everything that you come up with about Anansi and Tiger, and you can share your work with Oak National and with me.

If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @Oaknational and #LearnWithOak And that is it for our lesson one.

The first lesson of our unit for Anansi and Tiger unit.

I hope that you had a good time listening to the story.

Now I'm going to give you some trivia.

♪ Spider facts, spider facts ♪ ♪ Going to give you some spider facts ♪ It's a spider fact, guys.

I wonder if you can have a guess at how many different kinds of spider there are in the world? New ones are being discovered every day, so scientists think there's even more than we've currently counted.

But how many do you think we found out about so far? It's a lot, have a sensible guess and I will tell you at the start of a lesson two.

Bye!.