Lesson video

Hello everyone.

It's Miss Doherty.

Today, we're going to write the opening to a recycled story.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, and a pencil.

You can pause the video now while you go and get those items. We're going to start today's lesson by singing.

Then we'll revisit the recycled story that we wrote in lesson seven.

And finally, we'll write the opening.

Don't worry if you weren't in lesson seven.

I'll tell you the beginning of the story before we start our writing.

In our recycled story, Goldilocks sings a song, doesn't she.

Let's sing that together.

♪ Goldilocks, Goldilocks ♪ ♪ What shall I do today? ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll swim ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll surf ♪ ♪ Maybe in the sand I'll play ♪ Let's try that again.

Make sure you're joining in.

♪ Goldilocks, Goldilocks ♪ ♪ What shall I do today? ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll swim ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll surf ♪ ♪ Maybe in the sand I'll play ♪ Let's add some actions.

♪ Goldilocks, Goldilocks ♪ ♪ What shall I do today? ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll swim ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll surf ♪ ♪ Maybe in the sand I'll play ♪ One more time.

♪ Goldilocks, Goldilocks ♪ ♪ What shall I do today? ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll swim ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll surf ♪ ♪ Maybe in the sand I'll play ♪ A problem is a really important part of a story.

All great stories have some sort of problem.

Now, in our story that we recycled yesterday, we've used the same character of Goldilocks, but we've come up with an entirely new story.

We've just recycled the character.

What is the problem in the story? Can you remember? The problem in the story is that Goldilocks finds the glistening, glittering star on the beach, and takes it, even though it doesn't belong to her.

She takes it back to her cave.

And when she wakes up the next morning, she realises that it's losing its shimmer, its light.

It's becoming dim.

And that's because it doesn't belong in her cave, but she doesn't realise that at first, and she feels very upset because she wants it.

And even if we're not supposed to have something, sometimes we still really want it, don't we? It's such a hard problem for her to solve that we need another character, Baby Bear, to come and help her.

And Baby Bear explains that sometimes we have to leave things where they belong and it's not ours to take.

And although Goldilocks is disappointed, she does listen and asks the star whether it wants to go back to the sea, and the star says yes.

So she puts the star back on the shore.

And from then on every day, as she goes for her walk, she sees the star glittering to her, as though it's saying "Thank you for putting me back home".

Now, I'm going to tell you the beginning of our recycled story.

So just that first box.

Once there was a little girl called Goldilocks, who lived in a cave on a beach with golden sand.

Every day, she walked along the shore, singing her song.

♪ Goldilocks, Goldilocks ♪ ♪ What shall I do today? ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll swim ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll surf ♪ ♪ Maybe in the sand I'll play ♪ One day, as she was walking, she noticed something shining in the sand.

She bent down to pick it up, but it started to move away from her, so she ran and ran, as fast as she could, until she caught up with the star and grabbed it with both hands.

She took it back to her cave, feeling so pleased with herself.

But the next morning, when she woke up, the star had become dim.

And that is the beginning to our story.

Now it's your turn to tell the beginning of the story.

Pause the video now, while you tell the beginning of our story, and resume once you're finished.

It's time now for us to do some writing.

You can see that I have written the story, or the beginning of the story, the very first section, on the screen, but I've left some gaps and I'm going to need your help to fill those in.

Once there was, the first word is was.

Once there was.

Now was is a tricky word.

I'd like you to have a go there.

Pause the video while you write once there was.

Have you done it? I've written was in there.

Once there was.

W-A-S spells was.

Once there was a little girl called Goldilocks who lived in a.

In a cave.

Fantastic.

Let's say the word together.

Cave.

Robot it: kuh ay v, cave.

Can you write the word cave? Pause the video now while you write the word.

Cave, kuh ay v.

Now there are lots of different ways that you can make that ay sound.

So don't worry if you've used a different one to me at first, but now you can see how we spell the word cave.

Let's recap.

Once there was a little girl called Goldilocks, who lived in a cave on a beach, that's right.

Say the word, beach.

Robot the word.

Buh ee ch, beach.

Write the word.

Buh ee ch, beach.

Once there was a little girl called Goldilocks, who lived in a cave on a beach with golden sand.

Say the word, sand.

Robot the word.

Ss ah nn d, sand.

Write the word.

Pause the video now while you write the word sand.

Let's read it together.

Ss ah nn d.

Sand.

Once there was a little girl called Goldilocks who lived in a cave on a beach with golden sand.

Every day, she went for a walk along the shore, singing her song.

♪ Goldilocks, Goldilocks ♪ ♪ What shall I do today? ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll ♪ swim! Say the word, swim.

Robot the word: ss w ih mm, swim.

Fantastic.

Write the word.

Pause the video now while you write the word swim.

Let's read it to check.

Ss w ih mm.

Swim.

Fantastic.

♪ Maybe I'll swim ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll ♪ surf.

Say the word: surf.

Robot the word: ss ur ff, surf.

Write the word.

Pause the video now while you write the word surf.

Surf.

Ss ur ff, surf.

Now just like with ay sound in cave and the ee sound in beach, the ur sound can be made in lots of different ways, but in surf, we make it with a U and an R.

♪ Maybe I'll surf ♪ ♪ Maybe in the sand I'll ♪ ♪ play ♪ Say the word, play.

Robot the word, puh ll ay, play.

Write the word.

Pause the video now while you write the word play.

Let's read that together.

Puh ll ay, play.

Fantastic.

Let's read that whole section again.

Can you use your finger to follow along as I read? Once there was a little girl called Goldilocks who lived in a cave on a beach with golden sand.

Every day, she went for a walk along the shore, singing her song.

♪ Goldilocks, Goldilocks ♪ ♪ What shall I do today? ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll swim ♪ ♪ Maybe I'll surf ♪ ♪ Maybe in the sand I'll play ♪ I would love you now to pause the video and make sure that you've written that whole section at the beginning of the story.

Pause the video now while you write the opening.

Wow, that was a lot of writing, wasn't it? Now, we're going to do some reading.

I've written the rest of the story opening, and we're going to read it together.

The words in bold, though, I'm going to ask you to read.

When we read them, we look at the letters, make the sounds, and blend the sounds together.

Can you say that with me? We look at the letters, make the sounds, and blend the sounds together.

Let's read.

As she was walking, she looked down and spotted something glistening in the.

She.

down to pick up the.

but it began to move away.

As she could and grabbed it with both.

Pleased with herself, she took it back to her cave, but the next morning, when she woke, it wasn't as shiny.

It had become.

Did you read that? Let's do it together just to make sure.

As she was walking, she looked down and spotted something glistening in the ss ah nn d, sand.

She buh eh nn t, bent down to pick up the ss t ar, star, but it began to move away.

She, that's one of our tricky words, we just have to know that one, she rr ah nn, ran as ff ah ss t, fast.

She ran as fast as she could and grabbed it with both hh ah nn d ss, hands.

Pleased with herself, she took it back to her cave, but the next morning, when she woke, it wasn't as shiny.

It had become dd ih mm, dim.

Brilliant.

Let's read it all the way through.

Put your fingers on the screen so that you're following.

As she was walking, she looked down and spotted something glistening in the sand.

She bent down to pick up the star, but it began to move away.

She ran as fast as she could and grabbed it with both hands.

Pleased with herself, she took it back to her cave, but the next morning when she woke, it wasn't as shiny.

It had become dim.

Wow, you have done so much writing and reading today.

Give yourself a pat on the back.

See you next time when we're going to write the middle of that story.

Bye bye.