To explore a character's thoughts and feelings

Key Stage 1

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The Eagle Who Thought He Was A Chicken: characters and problems

﻿Hello, everybody. It is me, Miss McCartney. And today we are going to think a little bit more carefully about our story, "The Eagle Who Thought He Was a Chicken". Now, I really love this story, because it has a really big problem, and I think that problem can help other people. Today, we are going to think about the problem and make it matter. Storytelling superstars, in our lesson today, you will need a piece of paper or something to write on, a pencil or something to write with, and your wonderful creative brain. If you need to go and collect anything, pause your video now. Fantastic, let's have a look at what we are going to be learning today. We are going to start with a spelling activity. Then we are going to explore our problem in more depth. We are then going to hot seat the chick, and we are going to create some character thought bubbles. Fantastic, let's start with our spelling rule for today. We are going to be looking at the spelling A-L for the "ar" phoneme. Let's have a look at our first word. Ca, ah, m. Let me check that again. Ca, ah, m. My turn, your turn. Ca, ah, m. Fantastic pronunciation. It's a little bit tricky, because it doesn't look like it would be spelled with an A and an L, so we need to really remember these words, because they're a little bit tricky. Let's have a look at our second word. We have got the word, ca, ah, eff, ca, ah, eff. Your turn. Fantastic. And our final word is half, my turn, then your turn, ha, ah, eff, half, your turn. Excellent pronunciation everybody. Okay, now we are going to do our activity. I am going to read a sentence with a missing word that has the R sound, but it's spelled A-L. You need to write down the word with the correct spelling. When he looked down, the chick tried to remain calm. Your word is calm. Pause your video now to write down the word calm. Okay, sentence number two. The chick wanted half of the food. Your word is half. Pause the video now to write down the word half. Excellent, sentence number three. The chick lived next to a calf. Your word is calf. Pause the video now to write down the word calf. Excellent learning everybody. Let's have a little look at our answers now to check our spellings. We have got when he looked down, the chick tried to remain calm, ca, ah, m, calm. Give yourself a tick if you've got that correct. And if you didn't, that's okay. You can fix it and learn from your mistake. Sentence number two. The chick wanted half of the food, half, ha, ah, eff, half. Give yourself a tick if you got it right, and if you didn't, you can fix it. And our last word, the chick lived next to a calf, ca, ah, eff, calf. Give yourself a tick, and if you didn't get it right, you can fix it. Okay, let's put your spellings into practise now. Can you write two sentences using our A-L spelling for the "ar" phoneme? You have got an example, the chick and the calf were best friends. You have got our three words that have our A-L spelling today. Pause your video now to write down two sentences. Excellent learning everybody. Let's move on to our next part. Okay everybody, we are going to start to think about the problem of our story in a little bit more detail. Now it's really important that when we are writing stories, and when we listen to stories, we really think about the problem, because problems that matter can make a story really interesting, but they can also help people who are listening or reading them. Now, our problem in the story starts when the owl swoops down to our chick and says, "You think you are a chicken, but actually you are an eagle." I want you to have a little think about now as the chick was growing up, and he started to notice that his beak and his body were bigger than the other chickens, how do you think he would have felt? How do you think he would have felt when he started to notice that he was different? Pause your video now and have a little think. Okay, can you whisper to your screen how you think the chick would have felt when he started to notice that he looked different? Whisper to your screen. Okay, I heard some of our children say he would have started to feel a bit worried. He would start to think what happens if I grow up, and I am really different? Will everybody laugh at me? Will I still be part of my family? Oh my goodness. Those are really big questions that our chick is feeling. I wonder when the owl starts laughing at the chick and saying, "You are an eagle," and the chick in his head thinks, what do you think the chick might think when the owl starts laughing at him and calls him an eagle? Pause your video now to have a little think. Okay, can you whisper your ideas to my screen? Ooh, okay, so some children have said in his head, he might have thought, "I know I am a chicken. I am definitely not an eagle." And other children said perhaps in his head, he would have thought, "Hmm, I noticed I was a little bit different. What if I am an eagle?" Now that is a great understanding of our problem. Our chick is really confused in the middle of our story about who he really is. We are going to play a game now, where you are going to pretend to be the chick, and I am going to ask you some questions. This game is called hot seating. So you are in the hot seat, and I am going to ask you some questions. Now, when you are thinking about the answers, you are going to be developing some empathy for our chick. So you're really going to start understanding his feelings, and empathy is such a great skill in life. And actually, I think it is the best thing about being a storyteller, developing empathy. So I would like you to get ready and sit like a chick. You can sit with your arms like this. You can sit with your head a bit forward. You can have your legs tucked underneath you. It is completely up to you, but I want you to get into chick mode. Okay, oh, I can see some really, really fluffy chicks. Fantastic work everybody. My first question to you is going to be when did you start to notice that you were a little bit different? Pause your video now and think about when did you start to feel a little bit different? I could see some chicks thinking really hard back to the first time they started to feel a little bit different. Can you whisper chicks to the screen when you started to feel a little bit different? Oh, okay, so one of our chicks said they noticed they were different when the farmer came and spread seeds one day, and they noticed that they were much taller than some of their siblings. Other people said the first time they realised they were different was when they noticed that their feathers were a slightly different colour from some of their brothers and sisters. Fantastic. Okay, my next question for you chicks. How did you feel, how did you feel when the owl started laughing at you? Pause your video now chicks and think about how did you feel. Okay, can you whisper how you felt chicks to the screen, or maybe I shouldn't say whisper, maybe you need to tweet it at me. Okay, whisper now. Interesting. So some chicks said really similar things to when we were thinking about the problem. Other chicks said, "I was determined to prove him wrong. I am a chicken. I am not an eagle." But another chick I noticed started to look a bit worried, and they thought, "If I am different, do I have to be an eagle?" If somebody says, if the owl is saying you are an eagle, do you have to be an eagle, or can you still choose to be a chicken? That is a really interesting question. Okay, question number three for you chicks. When you realised that you were really high in the sky, and the owl flipped over, and you started to fall, what did you decide to do first? So when you started to fall chicks, what did you decide to do first? Pause your video now to have a little think. Okay, tweet or whisper your thoughts to me. Oh, I heard a really sad answer there. The first thing the chick did was look down at his mother and think, "I really, really love you. I want to be part of this family." Fantastic. Somebody else said that they thought actually it's time to be really brave and to try and fly. So they thought actually, perhaps if I'm not a chicken, I might be able to fly. And another chick, and I love this answer, said, "If I can fly, do you think I will be able to fly with my brothers and sisters who are chickens on my back?" What a great thought. Now we have started to really think and put ourselves in the chick's shoes, and we are going to write some thought bubbles now. Excellent learning everybody. You did really good listening. You just did such a great job when you pretended to be the chick, and I would like you to keep those thoughts in your head, because we are going to break down our problem into three stages. Now our first stage is when the owl laughs at the chick. So what I would like you to do, you can see my chick, I bet you can draw a better one, and my owl. The first thing I would like you to do is pause your video and draw the chick, the owl, and a big thought bubble. Pause your video now to do that. Excellent. And now you are going to be writing down what you think the chick thought when the owl started laughing, This is what Miss McCartney thinks. I do look different to some of my brothers and sisters. I've never wanted to ask why. So actually, he felt really worried about being different. What if I am really an eagle? Will I still be able to live here? So I have some rhetorical questions that the eagle is asking himself in his head at the moment. He's not asking someone else for an answer. He's asking himself. I want you to write down your chick's thoughts, and you can use your work from our hot seating game. Your chick might feel like Miss McCartney's chick, or your chick might feel really different. Your chick might be determined that he is a chicken. It is up to you. Pause your video now to complete your thought bubble. Fantastic. I'm going to give you some storytelling shine. I am sending my celebration through my screen, because I can see such a wide range of thoughts, and there isn't a right answer. It is up to you what you think the chick would think. Now let's have a look at the second stage of our problem now. The second stage of our problem is when the chick is on the owl's back, and he is starting to panic. I would like you, you can see my picture at the top of the owl with the chick on his back, and at the bottom, the brothers and sisters who are chickens. I would like you to draw your chick on the owl's back with a big thought bubble. Pause your video now to do that. Okay, I'm going to read you what Miss McCartney thinks the chick was feeling. I can't even open my eyes. My tummy feels as though it has been left on the ground. What if I fall? I really can't fly. I've never been so terrified. I want to get down. Now. Now my chick feels very concerned and very worried, and he still thinks that he cannot fly. Your chick might be thinking something different. I would like you to write down what you think the chick would be feeling when he is on the owl's back. Pause your video now. Fantastic. I would like to hear some of your answers. Can you whisper or tweet them to the screen now? Oh, I heard a really interesting idea saying perhaps I can fly. I'll give it a go. And I know, actually, even though the owl laughed at me, he's my friend. So even if I fall, I think he will save me. That's a lovely idea. Let's have a look at the third stage of our problem. And this is when the chick starts to fall. I want you to really think about what the chick would think when he starts to fall. So you need to draw your picture of the owl, of the chick starting to fall, and I have a speech bubble in my picture saying ah, because I think that's the noise that he would make. Now, I would like you to that picture and another big thought bubble. Pause your video now to complete your task. Excellent. So I'm going to read what Miss McCartney thinks the chick would be thinking and feeling. This is my worst nightmare. I could break every bone in my body when I hit the ground. But what if I can fly? Will I still live with my family? Will I have to fly off and live with eagles? So my chick is starting to ask some more rhetorical questions about what would happen if he could fly. What would the consequences be? Consequences are actions or situations that occur after an event. So he is starting to think about the consequences if he can fly. Pause your video now to write down your chick's thoughts. Excellent, fantastic. I heard somebody rehearsing their sentence when they were writing. And they said actually, the chick was thinking, "Well, if I am really an eagle, then I could be part of my chicken family and part of an eagle family. And I would have so many friends." What a great thought. I love that thought. Now we will be using these thought bubbles in the rest of the units, for the rest of the lessons, sorry for unit seven to help us really write about our problem. I am super impressed with everybody today. Well done. And actually, I would love to see some of your thought bubbles. If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tag in @OakNational and @TeachTeamMcCartney, #LearnWithOak. I will see you soon.

To explore a character's thoughts and feelings

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