To write speech and thought bubbles

Early Years Foundation Stage

Literacy

The Lucky Duck

﻿Hi children, Miss Brittain here, for your fifth lesson of the unit. Today's learning objective is to write speech and thought bubbles and by doing this, we are able to show our reader and our audience how the characters in our story are feeling. What will we do in today's lesson? Well, we'll start off with a nursery rhyme. Then, we're going to do some role play, and a bit of acting and then we will write our speech and thought bubbles. For this lesson, you will need an exercise book, or a piece of paper and a pencil, your super memory and your Teddy talk partner, or something else if you'd like to use that.

You can pause the video now to go and get whatever items you need and then press play again once you return.

Now children, I've not seen Cedric in this lesson so far yet. I think he's running a little bit late. Oh, here they both are! Wow, Cedric, you're looking really fancy today, in your glittery robe and your brooch. And hi, Little Duck. Oh, Cedric is dressed as a king, from our story. Oh Cedric, I love it! That's perfect for what we're going to be doing today.

Let's start off with our nursery rhyme and we've changed the words in our nursery rhyme to go with our story. So, let's remind ourselves first.

Okay, so to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus", we put our own words to the song, starting with the Little Duck in the forest goes quack, quack, quack. Don't worry if you can't remember, because you can always just join in afterwards. Are you ready Cedric? Are you ready Little Duck? The Little Duck in the forest goes "quack, quack, quack", "quack, quack, quack", "quack, quack, quack". The Little Duck in the forest goes "quack, quack, quack", the king has got her money. The greedy king, perfect for you today Cedric. The greedy king in his castle says "mine, mine, mine", "mine, mine, mine", "mine, mine, mine". The greedy king in his castle says "mine, mine, mine", he's stolen the duck's money. See if you can pause the video now and sing the rest of the nursery rhyme, with the different characters. We had the ladder in the bag that goes "clang, clang, clang", the River in the bag that goes "swish, swish, swosh", and the bees in the bag that go "buzz, buzz, buzz". Pause the video now and have a go.

We are going to use our imagination and role play some of the things that the characters think and say in the story, which will help us with our writing.

So, role play means acting. And Cedric's in his beautiful robe and brooch ready to act like the king. And we have Little Duck here to help us in this lesson too. If you want to use your Teddy talk partner for this bit, to role play with your Teddy talk partner, then that would be great too. Okay, so we're going to be thinking about Little Duck's character and how she is treated unfairly. All throughout the story, she is treated unfairly by the king. Can you tell your Teddy talk partner one thing that the king does to the duck that is unfair? Can you tell your screen now the one thing that the king does that's unfair? Oh, great work children! You might have said that he stole her money. You might have said the he put her in a deep, dark hole. You might have said that he put her in a pot. All of those things are really unfair on Little Duck. And we want to think about how Little Duck might have felt and what she might have said. So, when the Little Duck saw the king, she might have said to him "It's not fair," because he had her money. And he said, "I will not give you your money back." And he put her into a hole. When she was in the hole, what might she have said? What might she have said when she was in the hole? Can you tell your screen what she might have said? That's right, she might have said, "LET ME OUT!" "It's not fair, let me out!" But the king said "no," and he didn't let her out. What might she have said about the king, or thought about the king? Do you think that she would have thought, "he's a nice, kind king?" Can you tell your Teddy talk partner what she might have thought about the king? Can you tell your screens now? Oh, great try children. You might have said that she said he was a bad, selfish king. So, the Little Duck might have thought, "he is a bad, selfish king!" And what did the king think of the Little Duck do you think? Do you think he felt sorry for her? Do you think he wanted to help her? No, you're right. He probably thought "What a silly Little Duck." And who helped her out of the pot? That's right, it was the River who helped her out of the pot. Can you imagine now, that you're Little Duck and say what she would say to the River, to help her get out of the pot? You might use your Teddy talk partner to be the River. Pause the video now and have a go. Great work if you had a go at acting as the Little Duck, needing to get out of the pot. Now, if you'd like to, you could pause the video and have a go at acting out different parts in the story. Remembering, that it's all about the Little Duck being treated unfairly. How do you think she is feeling and what would she say? Pause the video now if you'd like to have a go. Now it's time to write some speech and thought bubbles. Before we begin, let's have a look at today's star words: our key vocabulary. Our first word is money, our second word is greedy and our third word is unfair. Can you say them with me now? Money. Greedy. Unfair. Okay, let's have a look at our high frequency words. You can't sound them out, you've just got to know them. We've got me, he, is, the and want. My turn, me, your turn. My turn, he, your turn. My turn, the, your turn. My turn, want, your turn. My turn, is, your turn. Okay, so now we're going to write some speech and thought bubbles, as if we were Little Duck. Now, a thought bubble is something that you think in your head and a speech bubble is something you say out loud. Now, the first thing we're going to do is imagine the point when Little Duck is in the hole. Now, for any time in this video you need to pause the video to catch up, or draw your pictures, that's absolutely fine. And if you need a parent or carer to draw your speech bubbles and thought bubbles, that's okay too. So we're imagining Little Duck, when she's deep in the hole. What might she think? Remember how Little Duck is overcoming lots of problems and she's finding things that everything is unfair. What might she think? Can you tell your Teddy talk partner, something that Little Duck might think? If you're feeling confident now, you might want to draw Little Duck in the hole and write in her thought bubble what you think she would think. But if you're not, you can always write along with me. Now, I think that Little Duck would think that "It is unfair!" That's what I think she's thinking at this time, so I'm going to have a go at writing it is unfair. "Is" is in my high frequency word box and "unfair" is also in my star word box. So I need to say my sentence first, then punctuate it and then I can write it. It is unfair. Capital letter, it is unfair. Full stop. Let's have a look at me writing that. And if you want to write along now, that's fine. I've got Little Duck, in the deep hole, and she's thinking that it's unfair. Capital letter, it, finger space, is, from my high frequency word box, unfair, from my star word box. And then, full stop. You can pause the video here, if you'd like to write that for your Little Duck. But it's okay if you want to write something different. Now, what might Little Duck say when she's in the hole? What might she shout, I can imagine she's shouting. Could you tell your Teddy talk partner, something that Little Duck might shout? Oh, great ideas children. Again, if you want to write your ideas in your speech bubble, that's absolutely fine. But if you're not feeling confident enough to, you can write along with me. I think that Little Duck would say "Let me out!" or "Help me up!" "Let me out. I want my money." So, let me out. And I want to think about how I'd sound let out: l-e-t, let. Me, from my high frequency word box. Out, ou-t, out. Let me out. Remember, we say the word, then we robot the word. I want to write that first bit and if you want to write along with me, that's fine. Okay, let: l-e-t, let, l-e-t, let. Me, from my high frequency word box. Let me out, ou-t, out. And out has got the diagraph "ow": two letters, one sound. Let me out. And I'm going to use an exclamation mark there because I feel like Little Duck is shouting that. "Let me out!" Then I think she might say "I want my money!" I want my money. Capital letter I. Want, from my high frequency word box. My. Money, from my star word box. And my is a high frequency word as well, that we can't sound out. I want my money. You can have a go at writing that yourself, or write along with me now. Capital letter I. Want. My. Money. Full stop. All great work children, if you gave that a go. Is where Little Duck is put into a pot. What might she think and what might she say? That's her next problem that she faces. Tell your Teddy talk partner something you think Little Duck might think. She might think something about the king, because she's not very happy with him. What might she say? Who does she get to help her? If you're feeling confident now, you might want to draw your picture and your thought bubble and your speech bubble, and have a go at writing what Little Duck might think and what Little Duck might say. But if you're not feeling very confident, you can always write along with me. I think when Little Duck is in the pot, she might think about the king and I think she thinks he's a bad and selfish king. So I'm going to put that into a sentence. "He is a bad, selfish king". He is a bad, selfish king. Capital letter he, is, a, bad, selfish, king. Full stop. If you want to have a go at writing that, pause the video now. If not, and you're not feeling too confident yet, you can write along with me. He is from my high frequency word box. Finger space. Is, from my high frequency word box. A. Bad, b-a-d, bad, bad. Comma. Selfish, s-e-l-f-i-sh, selfish. And I've got the diagraph "sh" at the end of selfish: two letters, one sound. He is a bad, selfish, king, k-k-k-i-ng, k-i-ng. He is a bad, selfish, king. Full stop. Okay, what might Little Duck say when she was in the pot? Who was in the pot that helped her? It was the River. So I'm going to write, "Help me now River!" Help me now, River! If you want to, write along with me or if you're feeling confident, pause the video now and have a go. Capital letter for help, h-e-l-p, help. Help, me, from my high frequency word box. Now, n-ow, now. Help me now River. R-r-i-v-er, r-i-v-er, river. And I've used an exclamation mark again there because I feel like she would shout for the river to come out. He is a bad selfish king. Help me now River! How did you find that, Cedric, writing the speech and thought bubbles? Oh, Cedric found some bits a little bit tricky, because he said he forgot to check for five. Let's remind ourselves of what we need, what a good sentence needs. Capital letters, finger spaces, spellings, or your phonics, a full stop and then make sure it makes sense at the end. Why don't we look at your work together, Cedric, because mistakes are beautiful and we only learn when we make mistakes. And we can correct it together. Do you want to get your work for us Cedric? Okay, here's Cedric's sentence. Help me up. And that's when Little Duck asked the ladder for help, isn't it Cedric? Oh, great work on your sentence and your lovely handwriting. And I can see you've used finger spaces. What has Cedric forgotten children? Can you spot and tell your screen what Cedric's forgotten? That's right, he's forgotten a capital letter and a full stop. Shall we put it in together, Cedric? Oh, well done. So I'm changing my h, my h to a capital letter and then a full stop at the end. Help me up. Does it make sense? Yes it does. Great work children and great work Cedric. Did you manage to have a go at writing some speech and thought bubbles today? And don't worry if you didn't, or you made errors just like Cedric, because you can always rewind the video and have another go. Now, before we finish Cedric, I've got a song. Would you like to hear it? It's all about the unfairness in our story and how the duck is treated unfairly by the king. I'll sing it once and then when you get the hang of it, children, you can join in. Are you ready? That's not fair, that's not fair, the king's got my money and that's not fair. That's not fair, that's not fair, he threw me down a hole and that's not fair. That's not fair, that's not fair, the king's got my money and that's not fair. That's not fair, that's not fair, he threw me in a pot and that's not fair. Oh, this is fair, this is fair, I've got my money and this is fair. This is fair, this is fair, I've got my money and this is fair. Are you ready to join in, children? Oh, that's not fair, that's not fair, the king's got my money and that's not fair. That's not fair, that's not fair, he threw me in a hole and that's not fair. That's not fair, that's not fair, the king's got my money and that's not fair. That's not fair, that's not fair, he threw me in a pot and that's not fair. This is fair, this is fair, I've got my money and this is fair. This is fair, this is fair, I've got my money and this is fair. Oh, great work today, children. We'll see you in the next lesson.

To write speech and thought bubbles

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