Lesson video

Hello.

My name is Adam, and welcome to the fourth lesson in this unit, story telling through drama.

So far, we've looked at various ways of creating characters.

This includes using our whole bodies and our faces to create movement and still images.

And we've perform some stories using puppets and props.

In today's lesson, we're going to look at well known nursery rhyme which involves an unfortunate accident.

We're going to use this to think about our emotions.

And we're going to think about how we use emotions to express ourselves.

Here are some star words for today's lesson.

A mime is a type of movement we do when we pretend to be working with something that isn't actually there.

For example, I might mime drinking an imaginary cup of tea.

Lovely.

A still image is when we stop moving and we stay still like a statue.

And finally emotions.

Emotions are what we feel.

For example, when we feel sad or happy.

In drama, we can pretend to be feeling different emotions to help bring our characters to life and tell stories.

In today's lesson, you might want to get a piece of paper or notebook and a pencil to write things down with.

Pause the video, go and get those things and press play when you're ready to carry on.

As in previous lessons, we want to make sure we have plenty of space to move around freely.

So you may want to stand up, move your chair away from your desk and make sure you have a clear space around you, so you can move without bumping into any furniture.

Pause the video, clear your space and press play when you're ready to carry on.

Have you ever hurt yourself? Perhaps you've needed a plaster or some medicine.

It's not nice when we have an accident or hurt ourselves, is it? Well, today's story is about two children who have a little accident.

They are Jack and Jill and they're doing a job for their parents.

Have you heard of them? Let's have a look at the first verse.

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.

I have a quick question for you, to see how well you know the different parts of your body.

Which parts of his body is Jack's crown? Is it his head? is it his elbow? is it his knee? or is it his toe? Which part of his body is Jack's crown? Point to the screen if you know which answer it is.

It's his head.

Did you get that right? If you were Jack or Jill and you just come tumbling down the hill, how do you think you would be feeling right now? Let's create a still image to have a look at that, shall we? So stand up, into your clear space, stand with your hands by your sides, feet flat on the floor imagine these are my feet, that flats on the floor and they're both pointing forwards not out to the side, forwards.

And they're about shoulder with the part, and I'm feeling nice and tall, not slouched.

We call this being a neutral.

I'm going to count to three and say go.

And when I say go, I want you to jump into your still image, of however you think Jack or Jill might be feeling after falling down the hill.

Let's give it a go.

Okay.

So, standing in neutral, hands by your sides, feet flat on the floor, nice and tall.

And one, two, three go! Well done.

But I think we might be able to make that a little bit bigger and a little bit stronger.

So let's try it again and try to hold it for atleast three seconds afterwards.

Okay.

So standing in neutral, think about how Jack or Jill might be feeling.

And one, two, three, go! Amazing.

Well done.

Let's have a look at the next verse, shall we? Then up got Jack and said to Jill, as in his arms he took her, "Brush off that dirt for you're not hurt, let's fetch that pail of water." Think about what Jack does here and what he's says to Jill.

Do you think he's hurt badly? I think he's going to be okay.

Don't you? How do you think Jack might be feeling now? Happy, sad, confident, brave, calm, a little bit sore.

You decide, you think about how Jack might be feeling now and we're going to create another still image.

Can we do that for me? I'm going to count to three and say go again and you do your image and hold it for at least three seconds.

If you want to, you can pause the video and do it by yourself.

Otherwise I'll just count you in.

Okay.

So standing in neutral.

One, two, three, go! Well done.

Okay, let's have a look at the third verse.

So, Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch the pail of water and took it home to mother dear who thanked her son and daughter.

Phew! It looks like they're okay after all.

Perhaps they've learnt to be a bit more careful at the top of the hill.

What I want you to do now, is think about all of the emotions Jack and Jill might've felt on that adventure today.

Think about when they were going up the hill, falling back down the hill, going back up the hill and then back home.

Remember, there are no wrong answers with any of this, but you might want to ask your grown-up to help you write them all down.

Pause the video, get your grown-up to help you, and when you're ready to carry on, press play.

Excellent.

Well done.

What I want you to do now, is create still images for up to three of those different emotions.

If you can do some images of emotions you haven't already done today, that would be amazing.

But don't worry, if you haven't written down that many.

Pause the video, create your still images and when you're ready to carry on, press play.

Great.

They look amazing.

Well done.

What I want you to do now, is put all those images together.

I'm going to read the rhyme again slowly, whilst you do it but feel free to pause the video, if you need a little bit more time.

By putting all those images together, you're going to show all of those different emotions that you think Jack and Jill are feeling on their adventure.

Are you ready? Good.

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after.

Then up got Jack and said to Jill, as in his arms, he took her, " Brush off that dirt, you're not hurt, let's fetch that pail of water." So Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch the pail of water and took it home to mother deer who thanked her son and daughter.

Well done.

That was really good.

You've worked really hard today, but before we finish, I have a quick question for you.

What is a still image? Is it a piece of movement we do to music? Is it a picture we make with our bodies and faces? Or is it an action we do when we're playing make belief? Which one is a still image? It's a picture we make with our bodies and our faces.

Did you get it right? In this unit, we have looked at lots of different stories and we've explored how stories are told differently in drama, bringing them to life with actions.

We've created lots of different characters and whilst we were doing so, we were thinking about, who they are, what they are doing and why, and also how they might be feeling? And finally, we have used mime and movement and still images to perform those stories.

I hope you've had fun.

I know I have.

Thank you for joining in.

One last thing, if you've enjoyed these lessons, as much as I've enjoyed leading them, you might want to ask a parent or carer to share your work on Twitter.

You can use the tag @OakNational or the #learnwithOak.

Thank you for playing along.

I'll see you soon, for another lesson.