Lesson video

Hi everyone, and welcome to lesson eight in our unit on the Sweet Talking Potato.

In lesson Seven, some of you helped me make a boxing map of our story.

Today, we are going to use our boxing map to do our fast piece of writing together.

We're going to have a go at writing the beginning of the story.

I'm thinking all about the action that happens in the story.

That means we're going to look at what happens at the beginning of the story.

So let's see what you're going to need for today's lesson.

In this lesson, you are going to need your boxing map from lesson seven, if you don't have it, don't worry, you can share mine.

You're going to need a piece of paper and a pencil, and you're going to need your talking Ted partner.

If you need to go and get any of those things now press the pause button and when you're ready, press play.

Let's find out what we're going to do today Teddy, we're going to start off playing a game with our talking Teddy partner, then we are going to do some singing, and then we're going to have a go at writing a story.

Our game today is called, pass the stick.

Now in this game, you're going to need to get your talking Teddy partner, because we are going to have a go at telling little parts of the story.

You can choose how much you tell, but when you have finished, you pass the story stick onto your partner so they can have a turn at telling the next part of the story.

So me and Teddy are going to start off by telling the beginning of the story.

I'm going to go first, okay Teddy? Once upon a time, there was a farmer.

It's your turn Teddy.

Teddy says "The farmer I was very hungry.

"The former went out to his field and he picked a potato." My turn, thank you Teddy.

"Hands off," cried the potato "mm".

The farmer looked at his dog and asked him, "Was that to you, did you say that?" The dog replied, what did the dog reply Teddy? Teddy says "It wasn't me, it was the potato." Do you see how me and Teddy had to go at passing the stick between each other so that we can retell different parts of the story? Now it's going to be your turn.

Get your Teddy talk partner, get your pencil and see if you can use the story map on your screen to retell some little parts of the story by passing the stick between you and your partner.

Press the play button when you are finished.

It was so lovely to hear so many of you working with your Teddy talk partners to retell the story.

I loved how so many of you puts on different voices for the different characters.

That made me Teddy really, really happy.

Let's see what's coming up next in our lesson.

Now it's time for us to sing a song.

We are going to sing our new story song.

Let's do, my turn, your turn.

♪ Hey diddle diddle ♪ ♪ Hey diddle diddle ♪ ♪ This is the riddle ♪ ♪This is the riddle ♪ ♪ And the farmer run and run ♪ ♪ And run the farmer run and run ♪ ♪ The hen and the bread both spoke to him ♪ ♪ The hen and the bread both spoke to him ♪ ♪ And the King was amazed by the throne ♪ ♪ And the King was amazed by the throne ♪ Very good, let's see if we can do the whole song together now, ready? ♪ Hey diddle diddle ♪ ♪ This is the riddle ♪ ♪ And the farmer run and run ♪ ♪ The hen and the bread both spoke to him ♪ ♪ And the King was amazed by the throne ♪ Very good joining in.

Now, we've come to the exciting part of the lesson.

Where we're going to write some sentences together to tell the story.

Now we're going to focus on the beginning of the story today, and we're going to think about all of the action that happens in the story.

That's what is happening at the beginning of the story.

So I have got my story map here and I have got my boxing map here, and we're going to use these to help us.

Okay, for the start of our story.

we need to think about what a sentence could be.

And we need to rehearse our sentence.

So who was there at the beginning of the story, who did we meet first? The farmer.

And how can story start? Do you know any really, really good story openers? We could say, "once upon a time," "once there was," "one day," what kind of day could it be? One sunny day, one rainy day.

Let's have a go at saying, "Once there was." So in my sentence, I'm going to say, "Once there was," but you can have a go at doing something different, that is absolutely fine.

So once there was a, who was that? Once there was a farmer.

I think that is a super, super opening to our story.

Let's go through our strategy check to make sure we get our sentence right.

For our strategy check, we need to start off at the beginning of a sentence with a? Capital letter.

Then we need a finger space in between every word, we need at the end of a sentence say? Full stop, very good.

And, when you have written your sentence, what do I need to do? Go back to the beginning and check that your whole sentence makes sense.

When we are writing each word, what do we do? Say the word, robots the word, and write the word.

Well done.

We say the word, robot the word, write the word.

Now in our sentence, there are going to be some words that we just can't use our phonics for and you might know, but they are called high frequency words and key words.

So the high frequency words in our sentence today are a, there, was a, there and was.

And our key word today is our story opener, once, okay? So those four words we can't use our phonic for, but we just need to know what they look like.

Okay, now we're coming down to the best bit.

You get to write our first sentence together.

Can you remember our sentence? Once there was a farmer.

So I'm going to do a little tiny number five at the end of my right, to remind me that I need to write five words.

What was our first word? "Once," we just need to know how to spell it.

But the first letter is going to be a? Capital, "Once." O-N-C-E, Once, "there," that is that is also one of our high frequency words.

After once we need a finger space, there, T-H-E-R-E.

End of word so we need a finger space, was, W-A-S.

Once there was, finger space, a Now, I don't think I am going to fit the word "farmer" onto this row so I'm going to start a new line.

Once there was a farmer.

Can you help me say the word, robot the word, write the word "farmer" Farmer, f-ar-m-er.

Farmer, farmer.

F-ar, "ar" is a diagraph with the sounds /a/ and /r/ in it.

Those two letters make the sound "ar".

F-ar-m-er, "m", "er".

We've got another diagraph e and r, those two letters to come together to make the sound "er".

Should we check it makes sense? F-ar-m-er, farmer.

Let's read our whole sentence back together.

Can you help me.

Once there was a farmer.

Have I forgotten anything? What goes to the end of a sentence, showing me? A full stop, full stop is a dot.

So there we have our fast part of our story.

Once there was a farmer.

So our first sentence was "once there was a farmer." Now we need to explain what's the farmer does because we are thinking all about the action in the story.

So what does the farmer do? Let's look at the top boxing map to remind us.

Who is that the team meets, he meets the potato.

What could we say? He picks a potato? Is hungry and get the potato? He picked a potato? Let's go for, "he picks a potato." We're going to try and write that all together.

So, first of all, we need to have a think about how we're going to remember our sentence.

We need to say it lots of times.

He picks a potato, say it with me.

He picks a potato.

Show it on our shoulders.

He picks a potato.

Let's say it in a loud voice.

He picks a potato.

Let's say it in a soft voice.

He picks a potato.

Let's count the number of words.

He, picks, a, potato, four words in this sentence.

Okay, so our high frequency words in this sentence are "a" and "he".

So "a" and "he".

Our key word in a sentence is "potato." Later on, when you come to write your sentences, you can use the phonics that you know.

Can you remember a sentence, because it's time to write it together? He picks a potato.

Act it out with me.

He picks a potato.

Our first word in a sentence needs a? Capital letter.

He, H-E finger space because it's a new word.

He picks, can you help me say the word, "picks" Robot the word, p-i-ck-s, picks.

p-i, so a diagraph "ck," c and k together make the sound "ck", picks, picks.

He picks, finger space.

He picks a.

Well, I'm going to choose a new line now because I don't think that's quite enough space to write "potato" Potato, that was one of our key words.

Potato, Can you remind me what I'm going to need at the end of my sentence? After potato I need a? Full stop, good teamwork.

Should we read all of our writing back together and see our two sentences together so far for the beginning of our story? Once there was a farmer.

He picks a potato.

Does it make sense? I think it does so far.

I've got a challenge for you now.

We are going to pause our videos, get our pieces of paper and our pencils, and we're going to have a go at writing the beginning of the story.

On your screen, you have got the pictures from our boxing map to help you remember what's happened.

You might want to write a word what each picture, you might want to write a sentence, you might want to write more than one sentence.

So give it to go, use your phonic knowledge and have a go at writing the beginning of the story, using all of those sounds that you already know.

I can't wait to see your amazing writing.

So press the pause button now and when you are ready, press the play button.

Well done to all of those of you that had a go at doing some writing.

I loved seeing some of you are writing words to tell me what happened at the beginning of the story, some of you were writing sentences to tell me what happened.

Well done, I have loved telling our story together today and having a go at becoming writers together.

I really, really enjoyed it when lots and lots of you had to go at writing by yourselves as well at home.

You were using your phonics and I really enjoyed reading your words and stories.

You might want to have a go before lesson nine at drawing a picture to go with the beginning of your story, just to show what your words or your sentence is saying.

In a book, having a picture with the words is called an illustration.

So you could become not only an author and do the writing in your, but it's also an illustrator and drawing some pictures to go with your sentence.

I would love it if you could have a go at doing that before less than nine.

So have a great time with your writing and your pictures, and I will see you for more storytelling in lesson nine, bye.