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Baba Yaga: openings

﻿Hello and welcome to our English lesson. Unit four, lesson one. In today's lesson, we are going to be hearing a new story. And then we're going to answer some questions about it. My name is Miss. Cashin. I'm really excited about our lesson today because I love hearing new stories. But I am a little bit nervous, because today's story is a bit of a scary story. One of the things that you need to know about me, is that I love playing musical instruments. And one of the things I love to play the most, is this instrument, a clarinet. I'm going to see if I could create some spooky, scary music to get us ready for our scary story. Let me see. I think that was quite a happy piece of music. I think that was quite a jolly piece of music. I'm going to try one more time, and see if I can make it a bit more frightened this time. Oh, I definitely think that was a bit more spooky, I'm really pleased with that. I am going to do it one more time and I'm going to make it as slow and as creepy as I possibly can to get us completely ready for our scary story. Oh, I'm really pleased with that. I'm definitely ready for our scary story now. Let's see what we're going to be doing in today's lesson. Let's have a look at what we're going to be doing in today's lesson. First, we're going to do a spelling activity so we can get really super at spelling. Secondly, we're going to hear our new scary story. And thirdly, we're going to check our understanding of that story by answering some questions about it. Let's have a look at what you need for today's lesson. The first thing you need is some paper and it would be brilliant, if you could get some plain paper for today's lesson. The second thing that you're going to need is a pencil and the last but maybe the most important thing you're going to need is your brain so you're ready to do lots of fantastic thinking about our story. If you don't have any of those things, pause the video now and go and get them. I'm sure we're all ready for our brilliant learning today now. Let's have a look at our spellings. Today, we are going to learn about a suffix, and the suffix we're going to look at, is -ed. Let's have a look at our first word that we're going to add the suffix -ed to. Here's our first word, see if you can read it. The word is buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz. Fantastic. Let's see what happens to this word when we add -ed to it. Here's our new word. See if you can read it. The new word is buzzed. Buzzed, buzzed. Amazing spelling. Let's have a look at our next word. See if you can read our new root word. The word is hunt, hunt, hunt, hunt. Fantastic. Let's have a look at what happens to hunt when we add -ed to it. What word do we get? Hunted. My turn, your turn. Hunted, hunted, hunted. Oh fantastic. Like a tiger hunted in the jungle. I've got three new root words for you here. And they are all verbs. That means they are all things that we do. We're going to go through each one. My turn, your turn. The first one is jump, jump. Kick, kick. Bang, bang. Fantastic. What absolutely super readers. You now need to write out each word and add our -ed suffix and see what the new word we get is. If you want to be a really brilliant speller, you might try and write out each word more than one time see if you can cover it up and if you can still spell it correctly. Your challenge is to see if you can write a sentence with each of these verbs. Pause the video now to complete your spelling activity. And an extra big fantastic if you did our challenge. Let's have a look at those words. Jump became jumped. Kick became kicked and bang became banged. We know that these words were all spelled the same. We just add our -ed ending. Now you can have a look at these words and you might want to pause the video and check your spellings, you give yourself a tick if you got them right, or you can try them again, if you've got them wrong. You can pause the video now to check. Fantastic job. It is time to listen to our new scary story. I hope you are ready. Our story today is from Russia and it's called Baba Yaga. Make sure you're comfortable and let's get started. Once upon a time, there was a small house on the edge of a forest. In the house, lived a family. A father, a mother, a girl, and a baby boy. The girl's name was Olga. And the baby boy was called Sergei. Every day their parents went to work in the fields. And each day they said, 'remember stay in the garden, never go to the forest or the witch, Baba Yaga will grab you and your baby brother and will eat you both up". One day, Olga was at home looking after baby Sergei but she was bored. She picked him up, walked out of her garden, through the field and into the forest. She put baby Sergei down and began to pick some flowers for her parents. All of a sudden three enormous geese swooped down and picked up baby Sergei in their beaks and flew away with him. Olga was shocked and began to chase after them. She ran, and she ran, and she ran until she came to a fish outside of the stream. "Help me, help me, help me", called the fish. Kindly Olga picked up the fish and put it back into the stream. The fish swam around and bopped its head out of the water. "You have helped me and now I will help you", it said. The silver fish swam down to the bottom and came up with a beautiful white shell. "Take the shell", said the fish. And if you are ever in trouble, throw it over your shoulder and I will help you. "Thank you", said Olga and she went off to find Sergei. She ran, and she ran, and she ran until she came to find a squirrel caught in a trap. "Help me, help me, help me", called the squirrel. Kindly Olga let the squirrel out of the trap. "You have helped me, and so I will help you", said the squirrel. It scurried up the tree and came back down with a brown acorn. "Take this acorn", said the squirrel. "And if you are ever in trouble, throw it over your shoulder and I will help you". "Thank you", said Olga. And she went off to find Sergei. She ran, and she ran, and she ran, until she came to find a mouse who couldn't get in his hole because it was filled with dirt. "Help me, help me, help me", said the mouse. Kindly Olga scooped the dirt out of the hole, so the mouse could get inside. "You have helped me, and so I will help", said the mouse. And it's scampered down to the bottom of its hole and came back up with a stone. "Take this stone", said the mouse. "And if you are ever in trouble throw it over your shoulder and I will come and help you". "Oh, thank you", said Olga. And she went off to find Sergei. She ran, and she ran, and she ran until she came to Baba Yaga's house. She peered in through the window and she could see the witch in her rocking chair. Her face was grey and green, her nose was long and crooked. Her lips were thin and mean. To Olga's horror baby Sergei was on the floor playing with a pile of bones. Olga tiptoed into the witch's house and quick as she could, she picked up Sergei and ran out. Baba Yaga woke up in a rage. "Who's taken my dinner?", she screamed and began to chase after Olga. Olga ran and ran and ran but Baba Yaga was close behind her. Just when the witch was about to grab her, Olga remembered her shell. Huh, she threw it over her shoulder and a magical lake appeared. Baba Yaga stopped. She looked at the lake, bent over and drank the lake up. She began to chase after Olga. She ran, and she ran, and she ran, but Baba Yaga was close behind her. Just as the witch was about to grab her, she remembered her acorn. She got the acorn, threw it over her shoulder, and it turned into trees. Baba Yaga stopped, and then she ate up those trees. One by one. And she started to chase after Olga again. Olga ran, and she ran, and she ran until she remembered her stone. She picked up the stone threw it over her shoulder, and it turned into an enormous mountain. Baba Yaga stopped. She couldn't climb the mountain, she couldn't go through the mountain, she couldn't eat the mountain. She went back to her house. Olga ran and ran and ran until she got home. She calmly put Sergie down in his crib just before her parents got home. When her mother and father came back from working in the field, they said, "how was your day"? "Fine", said Olga. And that was the end of that. I really hoped you enjoyed hearing our new story, all about the witch, Baba Yaga. We going to do an activity to check our understanding of the story. To do this, we are going to create a story matrix, which will help us think about all the different parts of the story. To do this, you need your piece of paper and we're going to divide it into six boxes. You could do this with a ruler, you could do just by drawing it roughly by hand, but I've done it by folding it. In my piece of paper, I folded it in three, and then I folded it in half. In the end I had six boxes. And then in those boxes you need to write. Where? Who? Problem? Solution? Ending? Learning? Just like it says on the screen. You can pause the video now, and go and get your story matrix ready. And when you're ready, you can resume the video again. Pause the video now and get your story matrix all ready. Fantastic. Well done for getting your story matrix ready. Let's have a look at what we're going to be doing with it. Our first box says, where. Where did the story take place? Where was it? Have a careful think. And if you know where our story took place, draw a picture of it in the box. Pause the video and draw your picture now. Oh, I hope you've drawn a fantastic picture of where our story took place. Let's have a look what I drew. Where did our story take place? It took place in the forest and I've also drawn here Olga's house, which is on the edge of the forest. You can have a look at my picture and you can pause the video again if you want to, to add anything to your picture. Fantastic. Let's have a look at our next picture. This box says who. Who was our story about? Who did we meet in our story? Have a think about all the different people that we met. See if you can draw a picture of them now. Pause the video and fill in your who box. Oh, I bet you've drawn a fantastic picture of all the different characters that we met. Let's see what I did in my picture. Right in my picture, I've just done three of our main characters. I've drawn Olga, I've drawn Sergei and I've drawn Baba Yaga. And I've tried to make her look as witchy as I possibly can. She's got a tattered, ragged dress. She's got her long crooked nose, she's got mean eyes and her hair looks wild and dishevelled. I've tried to make her look as much like a witch as I could. You might have also included Olga's parents, or you could have included the squirrel, the fish and the mouse as well. We've got lots of characters in our new story. Let's have a look at our next one. Oh, this is a bit more of a tricky question. Problem. What was the problem? There are a few problems in this story, so see if you can think about what was the biggest problem and draw a picture of the biggest problem that happened in the box. Pause the video now to draw your picture. Oh, I would love to see all the brilliant pictures you've done of the problem. 'Cause I think this is a really interesting one to think about. There are a few different things that you might have thought were the problem in this story. This is what I have drawn. I thought the biggest problem was when those three, big, black geese swooped down and picked up baby Sergei in their beaks and flew away with him to Baba Yaga's house. I thought that was the biggest problem. You might have thought that the biggest problem, was when Baba Yaga kept coming and kept running and they couldn't get away from her. You might have thought the biggest problem was that Olga didn't listen to her parents and she left her house when she shouldn't have. There are some different ideas that we might have had. Let's go and look at our next box. Ooh, solution. This is another tricky one to think about. Think about what the problem was, how did that problem get solved? Again, you might have more than one idea for this box. Pause the video now to draw your picture of the solution. Let's have a look at what I thought the solution was. I thought that the solution to the problem of Baba Yaga having baby Sergei were the things that Olga has been given along the way. The shell became a lake which stopped Baba Yaga grabbing her, until she drank up that lake and kept running after them. The acorn stopped her for a bit again, because it became a forest, so Olga could get away. But then Baba Yaga ate up all of those trees. But the stone became the mountain, that meant that Olga and Sergei could get back. That's what I thought the solution to the problem was. Let's have a look at the next box on our story matrix. The ending. What happened at the end of the story. We know about Olga leaving the house, we know about baby Sergei getting snatched up and Olga finding him at Baba Yaga's house. But what happened at the end of the story? Draw a picture and pause the video. Oh I would love to hear all your brilliant endings for the story. I'd love to see your pictures. Let's see what I drew. I was delighted that this story had such a happy ending. I've drawn Olga's house, I've drawn her, her mother and father and baby Sergei. And I've given them all lovely smiling faces because Olga's happy that she's got away from Baba Yaga. She's relieved that nobody knows, and the parents have just had a normal day at work. They have no idea what has happened so they are very happy too. Let's have a look at our last box. And I think this might be my favourite box on the whole story matrix, because this is where we think about what have we learned from this story. What lessons were there in this story that might be really important for us to think about? Have a really careful think about what do you think the lessons were in this story? And when you've got an idea, you can draw a picture. You can pause the video now to have a hard think and then to do your picture. Let's have a look at what I thought the biggest lesson was. I thought that the biggest lesson in Baba Yaga, was that if we help people, they might help us. I thought it really taught me about the importance of kindness. I've drawn here, Olga putting the fish back in the stream, which was so kind. I've drawn the squirrel being let out of the trap, which was again, so, so, so kind. And I've drawn the mouse being able to get back into his hole. And because Olga did all those kind things. She got the acorn, she got the stone and she got the shell, which helped her when Baba Yaga was about to grab her and eat her and baby Sergei. You might have thought that the most important lesson, was to listen to the adults that you trust because Olga, if she had listened to her mum and dad, wouldn't be in this position in the first place. That is the end of our story matrix. Well done for doing such a great job. I've got a challenge here for you to finish off our learning for today. Which part of the story was your favourite? Why? And I've got a sentence starter here to help you. My favourite part of the story was, mm because. Pause the video now and write down your sentence. Well done for completing the challenge task. Just amazing learning today. My favourite part of the story was when the mountain appeared and I felt so relieved that I knew it was going to have a happy ending and that Olga and baby Sergei would be safe from Baba Yaga. But I really wonder what your favourite part of the story was. Really hope some of you sent in your work, so we can see what you really liked about our story, Baba Yaga. well done for all of your amazing learnings today. We would love to see you for lesson two of this unit where we'll be learning even more about Baba Yaga and how Olga gets away from her. If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @Oaknational and #LearnwithOak. Goodbye and hopefully see you next time.

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