Lesson video

Hello, I'm Adam.

And this is Panda.

This is unit three, lesson four, with our work using the story, "The Little Red Hen".

Let's see what's on the agenda today.

First thing on the agenda today, we are going to learn a new nursery rhyme and maybe we'll play with it a little bit as well and change it.

And then after that, something we haven't done before in our sessions together, we're going to do a little bit of acting.

A little bit of role play to explore some of the characters in the story of "The Little Red Hen".

So let's move on to the warmup.

This nursery rhyme is called "Patty Cake".

And it is a patty cake as well.

I'll show you what I mean in a minute.

Could you perhaps repeat after me? ♪ Patty cake, patty cake, bakers man.

♪ Ready? ♪ Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man ♪ ♪ Bake me a cake as fast as you can.

♪ You're turn.

♪ Bake me a cake as fast as you can ♪ ♪ Pat it and prick it and mark it with a B, ♪ ♪ Pat it and prick it and mark it with a B ♪ Good.

♪ And put it in the oven for baby and me ♪ ♪ And put it in the oven for baby and me.

♪ Brilliant! Here we go.

Let's do it with a patty cake, which means you clap to yourself once and then you clap like that with a partner.

Perhaps you could be my partner? Should we try that? Here we go.

♪ Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man, ♪ ♪ Bake me a cake as fast as you can ♪ ♪ Pat it and prick it and mark it with a B ♪ ♪ And put it in the oven for baby and me ♪ ♪ For baby and me ♪ ♪ For baby and me ♪ ♪ Put it in the oven for baby and me ♪ Brilliant! We could change it a bit.

What if we said "Bake it really crusty and fill it with cheese and share it with the children who always say please"? Don't worry if you don't get it.

Try and join in with me.

I might make a mistake as well.

I haven't done this before.

Here we go.

♪ Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man, ♪ ♪ Bake me a cake as fast as you can ♪ ♪ Bake it really crusty ♪ ♪ And fill it with cheese ♪ ♪ And share it with the children ♪ ♪ Who always say please ♪ ♪ Always say please ♪ ♪ Share it with the children who always say please ♪ I love patty cake games.

That was fun.

Bless you I'm done.

So in this unit, working with "The Little Red Hen", we've been thinking about characters and what they are like, their characteristics.

And we decided that the little red hen, she had to be so determined to get the job done.

Nobody would help her.

And it was hard work.

Sewing the seeds and chopping the weeds and grinding the corn.

She had to do everything.

And even though she asked for help, she got none.

And sometimes we have to be like that too, to learn and to get things done.

Anyway, there are three other characters in this story, and we need to think about them.

What their characters were like.

What their characteristics were like.

Did they not help because they weren't very nice? Were they just lazy? Shall we meet them and find out? Who made this noise? "Moo!" Here they are.

Do you know who this is? This is cow.

Cow, in the story, the little red hen, she asked for your help.

She had lots of work to do and you didn't help, why? "Moo.

"It look like hard, hard work.

I'm much happier relaxing in my field.

And any way.

what was in it for me?".

What was in it for him? I thought that the little red hen wanted to share, and she didn't, she offered them.

Who else is in this story? There was the cow.

"Ruff ruff".

It was the dog wasn't it? Dog, little red hen, she asked you for help.

You never once offered to help, why not? "Ruff, I like to relax in the sunshine.

Relax in my basket.

And anyway, people feed me every day.

Why should I help? What was in it for me?".

Hmm, would rather relax in his basket.

Maybe lazy, unhelpful? What was the smallest animal? Do you remember? "Eek eek, help me!", said the mouse.

Mouse, the little red hen asked you for help.

You never helped, why? "Me?" Well, why should I? What was in it for me? I like to keep cosy in my little hole".

What was in it for me, said the mouse.

Nobody cared about the little red hen.

Maybe they were lazy? They weren't very helpful.

And maybe we don't like them that much in the story.

I don't know.

These are the things we need to think about and decide.

Now, I'm going to have a go at acting out the story to show you what I'm going to ask you to try.

Here we go.

So, working together, we've done quite a few different things.

We have told the story together doing actions.

We have stepped out the story.

And in other stories we've even acted out the stories without speaking.

But this time I thought it'd be fun just to pretend to play the story.

So I'm going to imagine I'm the little red hen and I'm busy doing things and I want to make some bread.

And let's see how it goes.

So it could go something like this.

Here we go.

"Oh, I really want to make some bread.

I know, I need to go and plant some seeds! Oh, this sack of seeds is very heavy.

I think I need some help.

Who will help me plant the seeds?".

"Not I", said the cow.

"I'm far too busy, relaxing in my field".

"Not I", said the dog.

"I'm just going to sit here all day, and watch the world go by".

"Not I", said the mouse.

"I can't be bothered".

"Well I won't ask again.

I'll do it all myself! Whew, this is hard work.

Ah!".

Time passed, the sun did shine, and the rains came down from time to time.

"Ooh, it's time to chop the wheat, but this is hard work.

I need some help.

Who will help me chop the wheat?".

"Mm, I'm going to pretend I didn't even hear that time".

"Ruff ruff, she talking to me? I'm going to get my head down.

Maybe she didn't notice".

"Eek eek, that looks like hard work.

Eek, I'm going to scurry away".

"Well, I won't ask again.

I'll chopped the wheat myself.

Mm.

This is really hard work".

Time passed, the sun did shine, and the rains came down from time to time.

"Hmm, I need to grind this grain and turn it into flour.

Oh, this is such hard work.

I need some help.

Who will help me grind the grain?".

"You're asking again? No, I'm not going to do that!".

"Far too tired".

"Oh dear no, no, no.

I've got to, I've got to um, I've got to um.

Go to sleep, bye!".

"Well, I won't ask again! I'll do it all myself.

Time past, the sun did shine, and the rains came down from time to time.

"I think I'd like to turn this flour into bread.

Here's the bread.

Put in some yeast and water.

Oh, this is hard work.

Who will help me bake a loaf?".

"Moo.

Not I, don't ask again!".

"Ruff ruff.

Um, no!".

"Um, no, buh bye!".

"Well, I was going to share it, but I won't ask again.

I'll bake the loaf myself! Right, I'm going to put it in the oven.

Oven gloves on".

Hmm.

Time past.

"Mm, it smells yummy.

Oh, who will help me eat the bread?".

"Oh, I will, that looks yummy!".

"Oh, oh, give me some bread, give me some bread! I love bread!".

"Eek eek, oh yes, I want bread, I want bread!".

"Well you didn't help me make it.

I made it by myself, and so I'm going to eat it all by myself!".

That was fun.

Whatever you took from that, why don't you have a go at acting out the story? Bits of the story even.

And try and show the character of the lazy animals when they speak.

Because you're going to have to be the cow.

You have to be the dog! And you're going to have to be the mouse as well.

So lots to do.

I'm going to pause the video now and I hope you have fun acting out the story of the "Little Red Hen".

Time for work.

So how was that? How did you find acting out the story? Maybe you found some friends and people to do it with.

Or even if you just acted it out and imagined it in your head without speaking.

T]That is still acting out the story.

And we thought it was fun.

I've never done that before, but we enjoyed it and we think it's helping us learn the story.

So, what have we done today? We've learned the story of "Patty Cake, Patty Cake" in a nursery rhyme.

And we changed it a bit and we made the bread really crusty, and filled it with cheese and shared it with the children who always say, please.

We had a chat with the cow and the dog and the mouse.

And we thought about their characters and how maybe they weren't very kind characters.

Very unhelpful, and possibly quite lazy.

And in a story, it's okay to see that kind of behaviour.

And it's okay to be critical, and to say, "We don't like that!".

We've explored "The Little Red Hen" and how determined she is through acting out the story.

So we're looking forward very much to the lesson five, where we're going to tell the story of the "Little Red Hen" independently.

You'll be telling it all by yourself and it'll be amazing in whatever way you're most comfortable with.

So keep on showing your acting to people.

Looking out for characteristics.

And Panda and I, we really look forward to seeing you again soon.

Until then, bye bye!.