Lesson video

Hi, team, and welcome to today's lesson with me, Mrs Garrard.

Today's lesson is all about important people in our community.

Let me share my screen with you.

And we'll get ready to start our lesson.

First we'll need to gather some resources.

Then we're going to think about who the important people are in your community.

Your community is the place near where you live and the people that live and work there.

Then we're going to create a community token to say thank you to somebody in your community.

And then you'll get to share your community token with the person that you've made it for, if you ask your parent's permission.

So for this lesson you will need your listening ears and your looking eyes.

You'll need your hand.

You'll find out a little bit more about that in a moment.

You'll need some paper, some paint, and a paintbrush.

Pause the video now and go and gather the things that you'll need.

Come back when you're ready.

Great, now you're back we can start thinking about who the important people are in your community.

So people that are important in the community can be people like doctors, and nurses, and surgeons, who look after us and keep us well and look after us when we're not feeling so well, shop assistants who help us to buy our groceries, or buy toiletries and things like that that we need in the shops, postmen, who deliver our letters.

Our neighbours are important.

Our neighbours are people that live close to us and often they can be our friends.

Our priest or our imam or another person from our religion can be important to us.

Refuse collectors are really important because they help to keep our environment tidy.

Police officers, they're very important in our communities, just like the fire brigade.

They keep us safe.

And teachers are important too, because they help us to learn.

So today we're going to make a community token to say thank you to somebody in your community.

You might be saying thank you to somebody for helping to keep you well, a doctor or a nurse.

Maybe you'll make your token for them and say thank you for helping to keep me well.

Maybe you'll create your token to say thanks for smiling at me and making me feel happy.

Maybe a shopkeeper or your neighbour smiles at you every time that you see them, and that helps you to feel warm inside.

Maybe you'll say thank you to somebody in your community, like a policemen or the fire brigade for keeping you safe.

Or maybe the refuse collectors.

You could say thank you to them for helping keep our environment clean.

It's not very nice when we see lots of litter around.

So the refuse collectors that pick up our litter do a really great job of keeping our environment clean.

Maybe you'll say thank you to a teacher, or your parents, for helping you to learn.

Those are just a few ideas.

I bet that you have lots of other ideas of important people in your community.

If you have an idea, you can share it with me now.

Tell your screen.

Wow, you had some really good ideas.

I heard construction workers in there, and librarians, because they help you, don't they, when you want to go and check out a book at the library.

Construction workers help us by building the houses that we need to live in and the shops we need to visit to buy things.

You have such great ideas.

Let's get on with making our community token.

So to do this you'll need to watch the video and listen carefully to my instructions.

So I've decided for my community token I'm going to create a hand print and a rainbow, but you might have a better idea of something that you would like to create.

I've painted my hand to make my print, but can you see the fingers didn't come out so well, so I'm going to try again.

I'm putting a little bit more paint on my fingers and I'm going to press them down a little bit harder so that you can see the four fingers and the thumb of my hand print.

You see how I'm trying really hard to put it back where I had it first, and wiggling my fingers to make sure there's a better print.

There we go.

Then I'll have to go wash my hands super quickly so that I can come back and paint my rainbow.

I wonder if you can remember how many colours are in the rainbow.

Tell your screen if you know.

There's red, and orange, and yellow, and green, and blue, and indigo, and violet.

Seven, great.

This is my red stripe of my rainbow.

Like I said, I'm doing a hand print and a rainbow for my design, but you might think of something different.

Maybe you'd like to do flowers, or a picture of you smiling, or a picture of the person that you're making the community token for.

Maybe if they have a uniform, you could paint a picture of them in their uniform.

I'm still working on my rainbow.

I'm trying really carefully to keep my lines nice and neat.

Can you see? This is my orange line.

Can you remember what colour will come next in our rainbow? Red, orange, what comes next? Tell the screen.

Yellow, great job.

Thanks for helping me.

Yellow comes next.

See how careful I'm being? Oh, missed a little spot there.

Now it's time for my yellow.

Taking my time.

I wonder, can you tell me, is my line for my rainbow a straight line or a curved line? Tell the screen.

Yeah, you're right.

It's a curved line.

A rainbow is made up of curved lines of light.

What colour is next? Red, orange, yellow.

Oh, it's green.

That's quite a dark green, isn't it? Making sure there is no white spaces between my colours of the rainbow.

Now my next one.

I've got one, two, three, four.

There are seven colours.

So if I've already got four colours, how many left? How many are there left for me to paint? I have four and I need seven.

There are how many? Three, yeah, you're right.

Three more colours.

This is my blue.

I think I'm getting a little bit speedier.

Not much.

My blue line.

Now I just have the indigo and violet lines to go.

When I've completed my rainbow, I'm going to write on my token.

You might like to have a little try at writing too.

If you're finding it a little tricky, you could ask your parent or your carer to help you.

Maybe they could write the words and you can try and write it underneath.

I'm going to write the word thank you.

Maybe you'll have a little bit more time than I have to make your token, so you could add some more things.

If you choose to do a hand print and a rainbow, maybe you could do some clouds or some flowers, maybe you could add picture of you on there so that the person you're sending it to knows what you look like.

That's my completed, oh, I'm just going to add one more thing I forgot.

I'm going to write thank you.

It's really important to put my message on there because I'm thanking the people in my community for all of the great work that they do to help.

I'm going to put a smiley face too, because smiles always make people feel better.

That's my community token.

Let me show you a picture of it.

There it is, all finished.

That's my token.

Yours might look different to that, and that's okay.

That's okay.

You could use your imagination and think of something to put on your community token.

Maybe once you've completed it, you could ask your parent or carer if you can give your token to somebody special in your community.

You'll have to ask first.

Let's see.

You could also share your work with me on Oak National Academy.

If you'd like to do that, then please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, or Facebook, or Twitter using the tag @OakNational and the #LearnwithOak.

And then I'll get to see all your amazing creations.

Team, it's time for me to end the lesson now.

It's time for you to go and have a go at making your very own community token.

Bye for now.

I'll see you again soon.