Lesson video

Hi everyone.

Miss Fryer here.

Back for lesson four of our "Honey and Trouble" character unit.

In lesson three, which I hope you were there to join me for.

We learned about the monkey's feelings and I left you with a trivia question.

I asked you how many tigers you thought there were left in the wild.

I told you they were an endangered species.

So how many do you think? A big number? A little number? How many do you think? Well, there are less than 4,000 wild tigers left in the whole world.

Which when there were 7,000 in just American zoos and private collections alone is crazy.

So, that was something to think about.

Look after our world.

Today, we are going to be doing a speaking activity.

Followed by some new grammar learning, which we'll be using in some shared writing.

And then I'm going to leave you to do some independent writing by yourself.

For 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.

We're going to play a little speaking game where I do an action and a line that monkey says from our story.

And you copy me.

See if you can think for each line, what it says about monkey's character.

Are you ready to copy? Okay.

Off we go.

"Hmmmm.

"I like this." Now you have a go.

What does that say about monkey's character? Does it make us think that he is cross? Does it make us feel like he is foolish? That was our, one of our main inner quality, wasn't it? Do you know what? I think it tells us that he is greedy.

He really wants that honey.

And he will do anything to get some more.

Should we do another one? I'll do it.

Then you copy me back.

Okay? How about? "I wonder why brother elephant did that?" Can you copy me? What does that tell us about what the monkey is like? He's surprised by it, isn't he? He doesn't think brother elephant is going to hit him.

He thinks he's going to get a lovely pot of trouble.

That's honey.

Interesting.

Let's do one more.

Shall we? Let's do.

"Ooooh, "that's not trouble.

"That's honey." You copy me.

What does that tell us about monkey? I think it tells us that he has learned from his mistakes that maybe he realises just how foolish he has been.

Hopefully that will help him in the future.

And he'll think before he goes around using words, he doesn't know.

So, we talked in lesson three, about how important it is to create characters we care about because we won't care about the story, if we don't care about the characters.

And the monkey is a really important character in "Honey and trouble," because we're with him for almost all of the story.

So, if we want to get to know him better, when we're writing about him, we want to describe him as much as we can.

And for that, we are going to use adjectives.

Adjectives are describing words.

They tell you what a character is like.

I showed you before our writing toolkit.

This is what we do to describe our main inner quality of the character.

And we do that with those four areas.

Let me remind you of what they are.

They are the physical appearance and dress, what they look like.

That is how their actions show their personality, what they are like on the inside and how their speech gives us clues about what they are like by what they say and how they say things and their thoughts and feelings, what they think and feel about things that are going on.

Or if we're talking in their voice, maybe how they respond and what they do.

And we can see their decision making.

So what we want to do is to use our adjectives, to do these things.

Now, like I said, adjectives are describing words.

They tell you what something is like, and that could be from any of our four areas of the toolkit.

So, here I have a sentence.

Put your finger underneath the first word and we'll read it together.

It goes like this.

She nipped the little monkey on the leg.

That must be a lion biting sister tiger, who nips him on the leg.

Now, one of those words in the sentence tells us what the monkey is like.

I wonder if you could point to it.

Point to the word that tells us what monkey is like.

Do it for me now.

I hope you got it.

It's the word little.

Little is something of his appearance that tells us what he is like.

That's the adjective in the sentence.

Little, she nipped the little monkey on the leg.

It tells us that he is not big.

He's little.

Let's do another one.

Reading fingers ready.

Underneath the words.

He poked him in his fluffy tummy.

Hmmmm.

Which of those words tells you what the monkey is like? Can you point to it? Do that for me now? There it is.

It's the word fluffy.

It tells me that he has a fluffy tummy, that is nice and soft to touch.

He poked him in the fluffy tummy.

Fluffy is the adjective.

Let's do one more.

He was so excited.

Which of those words tells us what the monkey is like? Which is the adjective? Point to it for me? You pointing? There it is, excited.

It tells us what the monkey is like.

That's something about his personality.

Maybe he's doing an action that shows us he's excited, or maybe he's speaking and in an excited way.

And that's going to give us a clue to what he's like.

Pause the video now.

And I want you to think of an adjective to describe your appearance and personality.

So, I might say something like I have pink hair that's as a piece of physical appearance about me that I have.

I have pink hair.

You could use the sentence I have in your sentence.

And I want you to also think about your personality, what you're like on the inside.

So, you might say something like, I am smiley, and that will tell us what you are like on the inside.

Pause the video now and tell your screen what you are like.

Now, that we've thought about some adjectives and we've practised speaking them.

Now, we're going to do some shared writing.

We're going to practise writing some sentences with some adjectives.

So, we're going to think about our toolkit again, while we're writing our main inner quality.

We always come back to that.

So, our sentences today wants to say are the main inner quality of the monkey.

We want to highlight to our reader that he is foolish.

He is a foolish monkey.

And today we're going to be doing that by thinking about his physical appearance, what he looks like, and his actions, what he does.

Okay.

So, what I've done is I have drawn an outline of a monkey that I'm going to use today to help me remember whether my words are words about his appearance, that's what he looks like or his personality, what he's like on the inside that we show through our actions.

So, you can draw your own outline of a monkey, or you could print one off the computer or get someone to help you draw one.

A monkey shape is a good idea just to help us keep track of it.

But you could write yours in a list as well, if that's easier.

So, I want to think about appearance first.

So, I'm going to choose two things that I want to describe using my adjectives about the monkey's physical appearance and dress.

You might decide that your monkey is wearing clothes and you can do that.

It's your story, as well as mine.

So, I could describe the monkey's tail.

I could describe his eyes or his nose or his mouth, something on his face.

I could describe his feet or his hands, his fur.

what do you think? What do you want to describe? You choose yours too.

I think I'm going to describe his fur.

So, I'm going to do a line out from his fur to show me the angle to describe that.

And from his tail, something else I'm going to describe.

Now, I'm going to think of some adjectives of what I could, that I could describe his fur and his tail with.

So, let me think.

What is his fur like? Now, the monkey in your head might be different to the monkey in my head.

So, your words might be a little bit different.

You might think that your monkey has brown fur or black fur or grey fur.

Your monkey might have really neat and tidy fur.

Or he might have matted and sticky fur from where he was eating all that honey.

Maybe your monkey has very soft fur or maybe it's bristly and hard.

So, you can choose, what words would you like to use for your monkey.

You can use fur if you like.

Choose something different.

I think I'm going to describe his fur as.

Me.

Sss.

Yyy.

That's a happy E, it goes on the end of a word.

I call it a happy E cause that word happy has got that same E sound that is spelt with a Y.

Messy.

Sss.

Soft.

Fff.

Fur.

Messy, soft fur.

You see, I've used two adjectives there.

So that could be a challenge for you.

Could you use two adjectives? One's fine anyway.

So messy, soft fur.

I feel what is his fur was messy.

It might give me a little bit more of a clue about what our monkey is like.

He's so foolish and greedy that he hasn't even brushed his fur this morning.

He's messy, but it's still soft.

Now, I'm going to think about some adjectives to describe his tail.

I could describe it as long.

Maybe your monkey has a short tail.

It could be curly.

Like the one I've drawn.

Or straight.

It could be thick and bushy or thin and straight.

Hmmmm.

I think I'm going to describe my monkey's tail as.

Thh.

Iii.

Nnnn.

Thin and.

Thin and.

Ccc.

Uuuu.

Rrrly.

That's a happy E again.

Thin and curly.

Taaa.

Iiiil.

Thin and curly tail.

So, you go ahead and do your words to describe his physical appearance.

Pause the video while you are writing, or maybe you were writing when I was writing and you've caught up.

So, I'm going to move straight onto his personality.

That's what he's like on the inside.

And he shows us his personality by his actions.

That's our part of our writing toolkit.

So, I'm thinking about the kinds of things he does and the clues that that might give us.

So, he gobbles up all that honey at the start of the story that makes me think that he's greedy.

What do you think? Is he lazy? Grumpy.

Happy.

Playful.

I think he's definitely greedy.

He's also impatient.

Excitable.

He is cheeky and foolish we know.

And also I think something that's good about him is that he's very determined.

Isn't he? He keeps going.

Even when all of those bad things are happening to him and his friends have hurt him.

Given him trouble, I'm going to use the words, the ones that first come to my head.

So, I'm going to write the words grr.

Eee.

Ddyy.

E, greedy.

And I'm going to write these on the inside of my monkey so that I remember that part what he's like on the inside and the word.

Fff.

Oooo.

Liii.

Sssh.

Foolish.

So, you should have two words that describe his physical appearance.

There are two things that describe what he looks like.

And two adjectives that describe his personality on the inside of your monkey.

What he's like on the inside that he shows with his actions.

So, if you've been writing along with me, then you might be ready by now, but if you're not, and you need some more time, pause the video so that you can finish your adjectives and join us.

Did you manage to write your monkey adjectives? We're going to use them now in some independent writing.

That means you're going to think of some ideas and write your own sentences about them using the words you've just thought of.

Now, I'm ready to write some independent sentences, I'm going to use some of the words, well, all of the words, actually.

That I thought of those adjectives to describe the monkey and his appearance and personality.

So, I'm going to start off with my appearance or the monkey's appearance.

How did I describe him? I described him as having messy, soft fur and a thin, curly tail.

So, that's what I'm going to put in my sentence.

I'm going to use some of those words.

I'm going to start off with my sentence, with the, the sight word the.

T-H-E spells the.

The.

And then I'm going to do the tricky word monkey.

M-O-N-K-E-Y.

You'll probably get very good at spelling monkey, even though it's a very tricky word.

It doesn't follow off on X rules.

The monkey.

And I'm going to talk about what he has.

In fact, let's tap it out together.

The monkey has messy.

Soft fur and a curly.

Tail.

We do all together.

The monkey has messy, soft fur and a curly tail.

Do it on your tummy for me.

The monkey has messy soft fur and a curly tail.

We're using that joining word and in the middle.

On our shoulders.

The monkey has messy soft fur and a curly tail.

Now, last time on our fingers, the monkey has messy, soft fur and a curly tail.

How many words? 10.

10 words.

I've already got my capital letter at the start.

And I make sure I'm using my finger spaces in between my words.

The monkey.

What was my word? Has.

Haa.

Ssss.

Has.

What did he have? He had Mmmm.

Eeeh.

Sss.

Yyyy.

Messy.

Ssss.

Ooo.

Ffff.

Ttt.

Ffff.

Uuuur He has messy, soft fur.

That's the first thing about his appearance that I wanted to write about.

Now, I'm going to use that joining word and, Aaaa.

Nnnnd.

And.

Messy, soft fur and a.

Ccc.

Uuuur.

Lllllyy.

Tttt.

Aaaa.

Iiiil.

What do I do at the end of a sentence? Full stop.

So, that's what I'm going to put there, yep.

Read along with me with your reading finger.

The monkey has messy.

Soft fur and a curly tail.

Excellent job.

Now, I'm going to write about his personality.

Remember, the words I thought of were foolish and greedy.

But you might've thought of different ones to put in your monkey.

So I'm going to start off with my sight word he.

H and E spells he.

With a capital H at the start.

He isss is.

Now, it's tricky word foolish.

Fff.

Oooo lll.

Iiiish.

Five sounds.

Let's do it.

Fffff.

Ooooh.

Llll.

Iiii.

Shhhh.

He is foolish.

Joining word and again.

And.

He is foolish.

And.

Gggg.

Rrrrr.

Eeeeee.

Ddddd.

Yyyyy.

Greedy.

Big, full stop on the end.

Can you see that? My descending letters are going below the line and my ascending letters are going up, up, up.

That's my personality sentence.

He is foolish and greedy.

Now, it's your turn to have a go.

Use the adjectives from your monkey to write your own independent sentences.

You can use my sentence starts, if you like.

The monkey has.

Put your words in and for your personality sentence.

He is.

Pause the video now to write your sentences.

Now, the last thing I want you to do today is to five finger check your sentences.

And if you don't know what that means, I'm going to explain it to you.

Can you see my big hands on the screen? And it has five fingers.

They represent the five things we need to check when we are writing our own sentences.

We need to check that our sentence has a capital letter at the start.

So, make sure that yours does.

Your sentence also needs to have finger spaces in between every word.

So, make sure that yours does.

We want to check our spellings.

So, sound out all of your words again, to make sure you haven't missed any sounds out.

We want to make sure that it has a full stop at the end.

That's our fourth finger.

Make sure it's got a big full stop at the end of each of your sentences, you should have too.

And the last thing, make sure your sentence makes sense.

If you've missed out any little words or miss the ending of one of your words, it might have changed what the sentence means.

So, reread it again and make sure that it makes sense.

Should we have a practise doing one together? Let's do one together.

Here is a sentence that describes the monkey's appearance.

It says the monkey has black eyes and teeth.

Have you? No.

No.

It looks like we have to five finger check this sentence.

Let's have a look.

Let's go through our five fingers and put them all in.

Does our sentence have a capital letter? No, it doesn't.

We need to put one in.

Here we go.

I've done it with green.

For growing in our learning.

The monkey has black eyes and teeth.

Does it have all of its finger spaces? Does it have a space in between every word? The, finger space.

Monkey.

There's not a finger space after every single word, we'd better put one in.

There we go.

And there is our third finger.

There is our full stop.

Cause we'd forgotten to put that in as well.

So, now we've got our capital letters.

Our finger spaces.

Our full stops.

How about spellings? Are all of the words spelt right? Can you spot anything that's not spelled right? Point to your screen something that you've considered spelled wrong.

I've spotted one.

Somebody has mixed up their Bs and Ds.

When I get confused between my Bs and Ds, I make my bed.

I know that my bed goes.

Buh.

Eeh, duh.

So, letters that look like this, are a Buh.

And letters that look like this, are a Duh.

Have I written a Buh for black? No.

I've written a Duh.

So, I need to switch it to a Buh.

And I can see at the end of my sentence, I, someone has written, was it me? I can't remember.

The word teef, but I know that teeth has a T-H and I know that because I have to use my Tttt.

Tongue to say it.

Teeth.

With my tongue.

So, I'm going to correct my spellings.

There we go.

The monkey has black eyes and teeth.

My last finger, does it make sense? The monkey has black eyes and teeth.

Black eyes and teeth.

You have black teeth? Does he? It doesn't make sense? Does it? I think I must've missed out an adjective there.

Let's put an adjective in here.

Oh, two.

Even better.

So, now we have sentence that says the monkey has black eyes and sharp, white teeth.

Those describe the monkey.

See that's much better.

So, pause the video now so that you can five finger check your sentences.

And make sure there are amazing.

And that's it for today.

Did you learn anything new? I learned to make sure that I always use my five finger check because it looks like from that last slide that I don't always make perfect sentences because everybody makes mistakes.

Perhaps, you could read your sentences to somebody at home.

Or even use adjectives to describe things in your house or any of your toys.

That would be cool.

In lesson five, we are going to use our reading skills to look for clues in a text.

So, get your detective brains ready for lesson five.

I'm going to leave you today with some buffalo trivia.

That's our last animal friend.

Isn't it? Buffalo horns can be very, very long.

And we know that the Buffalo uses them to skewer the monkey on the belly.

But how long are the longest buffalo horns? If you were to stack cubes on top of each other, how many do you think you'd have to stack to make the longest buffalo horn? Have a sensible guess.

And I will tell you at the start of lesson five.

I'll see you then everybody.

Bye.