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The Bird and the Forest Fire: middles

﻿Hello and welcome you too. My name is Mr. Santhanam, and today we're going to be listening to a brand new story. All about a brave little bird. I've got a little friend here to help you tell it. The reason why listening to stories is so important is because it helps us to enliven our imaginations so that we can become better storytellers ourselves. So when you're ready, clear away any distractions, find a nice quiet place to work and let's begin. Okay. Yeti, here's our agenda for today. The first thing we're going to do is all Grammar focus for the day. When we will be looking at past tense verbs, we're then going to do our spelling activity. After that, we're going to listen to our brand new, amazing story. And our friend, the little bird is going to help us to tell the story. Finally, we will do our independent task, which is when we will create our very own plot matrix, which will help us to understand all the key important things from our story. Let's get started. For this lesson you will need some paper or an exercise book. If you have plain paper, that would be ideal. But if you don't lined paper is fine as well. You will also need a pencil or a pen. And of course, you're going to need your brilliant brain, pause the video here while you go and get those things. Did you get them all? Fantastic. Great start. So the first thing we're going to do is all grammar focus. And today we'll be looking at past tense verbs too. It's time for our grammar focus for today. Today, we will be looking at past tense verbs. If you were a bird, what kind of bird would you be? Shout at me now. Ready? One, two, three. Great idea. And what kind of action would you do? What verb would you be doing? You ready to shout at me again? One, two, three, great idea. If I was a bird, I would be a chicken and I would peck at my food. Today, I peck then yesterday I , Past tense verbs, explain in action in the past. So today, I peck then yesterday, I pecked and I add the suffix -ed on the end to make it in the past. Have a look at these verbs now. What would they become if they were past tense verbs? Squawk would become squawked. Chirp would become chirped. Hop would become hopped and I make that a double P there. Otherwise it would read, hoped. swoop would become swooped. Glide would become glided, and because it ends in an E I just need to add a D and waddle would become waddled. And again, it ends in an E, so I just need to add a D there. So there we have it, lots of past tense verbs. Now it's your turn to transform verbs into past tense verbs. What actions do you do? I want you to write down three verbs and then I want you to convert them into past tense verbs. Change your verb to make it past tense verb by adding the suffix -ed. Does it work every time? Think about the exceptions. Pause your video now, while you convert your verbs into past tense verbs. How did you get along? Did you find any that were a little bit tricky and didn't work? Now It's time for a challenge, which past tense verb would not end in an -ed, is it soar, flap, flutter or fly? Which one do you think it is? Let's point out. Soar would become soared. The Eagle soared through the sky. Flap would become flapped. The Pelican flapped its wings. Flutter would become fluttered. The blue tit fluttered through the branches. And fly would become flew. The parrot flew from tree to tree. So not all past tense verbs end in -ed. We need to be really careful to remember that irregular past tense verbs that don't end in -ed. Okay. Now it's time for our spelling activity. This week, our spelling focus is going to be on the suffix -tion. Let's have a look at some words that end in -tion. So I might want you to meet me at the train station. If I have a problem, I might want to find a solution. If I'm at lunch, I might want to have a big portion of chips. If I'm not very well, I might need to have an operation. If I'm reading a book, I might want to read some fiction. And if I'm writing a story I might need to use my imagination, have a look at these words and try to lock them in your brain. Don't forget our strategy check. Today we're going to look at the word, say it in a sentence, write down the word and then check the spelling. Should we have a look at the words again? Pause the video here while you say the word in a sentence, write down the word and then check the spelling. How did you do? I bet you were amazing. Don't worry. We're going to look at these spellings later on in the week as well. Okay? It's the time that you've all been waiting for. We're going to have a listen to our brand new story. Our story begins in a faraway country called India, and it begins in the depths of a luscious, leafy, lovely forest. Now in the tallest tree in this forest, there lived the little bird. Say hello little bird. I think she likes you. The little bird loved her forest with all her heart. She loves the long, tall, proud trees that stood in the forest. She loved the animals that grazed around her. They were her friends. She loved the elephant with his long trunk. She loved the antlers with their twisty horns. She loved the zebras with that black and white stripes. And she loved the parrots that were like a flutter of rainbow all around her. But most of all, she loved her tree. It was strong and stable. She loved the branches, all the leaves and the flowers and buds that blossomed in the spring time. One dark night as the little bird was pearing over the canopy of her tree. She noticed something in the distance. Can we all look out to the distance and look, there she could see a great fire building and building and crawling its way like a snake towards her tree. She got such a fright. She didn't know what to do. Oh no. What are we going to do? We must save our forest. She cried out to her friends, but her friends just shook their heads and run away. Come with us. They said, you'll get burned if you don't come. She looked down at them, and she said, I love my forest and I will do anything I can to save it. With that, the little bird fluttered down as quickly as she could to the stream next to her tree, she got down as close as she could, and she picked up with her wings, little tiny droplets of water. Can you do that with your wings? Trying to pick up tiny little droplets of water. She then shot back up to her tree as fast as she could and started throwing water on the fire. As soon as the droplets of water hit the fire, they hissed and fizzed. And She did this as many times as possible, back and forth and back and forth until her tiny little body began to ache with tiredness. Every time she dropped the water onto the fire, it went hiss and fizz, I hear you making the sound of the hissing and the fizzing. It's like I'm in the forest. Up in the heavens, the gods looked down on the forest fire and they saw the little bird going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And they laughed at the little bird. They pointed at her and mocked her. Look at this little bird. She will surely cook if she keeps getting so close to that fire, she'll never save that forest. But there was one God, the Eagle God who looked down and admired the little bird. He knew he had to save her. So he swooped down through the trees. And as soon as he got the little bird, he said, little bird, what are you doing? You are too small. And this fire is too great. You surely will never save your forest. The little bird turned to look at the Eagle God. And she said, I don't care. I love my forest with all my heart and I am determined to save it. Surely enough. The more she went back and forth to the river, the more desperate and determined she felt to save her forest. The Eagle God saw this act of faith and tears began to form in his eyes. Soon, giant tears fell down to the earth from the Eagle God's eyes and began to extinguish the fire beneath. Soon, there was a full stream of tears before she knew it, the little bird could see that the water, had extinguished all the flames with a hiss and a fizz. And all that was left was a blanket of black Ash on the floor. And one single tree, her tree that still stood tall and proud, but little bird fluttered back up to her tree and the Eagle God returned up to the heavens. And in the spring time through the floor of Ash, little green shoots began to grow. Okay. You see, now that we've heard the story, we are going to create our own plot matrix, which is going to help us pull out the most important parts of the story so that we can understand it better. The first thing you'll need to do is get your exercise book or a piece of paper. I'd like you to divide it into six parts. In these boxes we're going to write where, who, problem, solution, ending and learning. Okay. So your plot matrix should look a little bit like this. You should have where, who, problem, solution, ending and learning. In the first box, we're going to think of all about where, where was the story set? What was the setting? let's have a think, was it set in the North pole, in a cave or in a forest in India? What do you think? Ah, of course it was set in a forest in India. So what I'm going to do is draw a really quick sketch. It doesn't have to be anything beautiful of a forest. So i'm going to draw a tree, some mountains, and the bird that's all you need. The next box is asking, who was the story about? Was this story about a squirrel, a bat, or a little bird. Of course, you guys are paying attention. It was a little bird. So again, just a really simple drawing of the main character like this. The next box says problem. Hmm. What was the problem that happened in the story? You know what, I don't think you guys can be much better at this than me. So what I'd like you to do now is pause the video and draw a little picture of what the main problem was in the story. Every story has got a problem in it that the characters have to overcome. What was the problem in this story? Pause the video here and write down or draw what the problem was. So what did you think the problem was? Of course it was the fire, the hissing and fizzing fire. Next. We're going to do the same thing for the solution. I'm not going to tell you what the answer is. Pause the video and write down what was the solution? How did the problem get fixed? Pause your video here while you do that. What did you think was the solution? Of course it was the Eagle God that came down and cried tears and washed away the fire because he was so in so much admiration for the little bird. Next we're going to the ending. How did the story end again? You know what to do? Pause the video, do a tiny, simple drawing of how the story ended. Okay. So in the ending of the story, the Eagle God washed away all the fire with his tears, flew back up to the heavens, the little bird returned to her home in the tree. And of course a new forest began to grow the next spring. That was the ending scene. Now this part is a bit more tricky. We've done where the story was set, who the story is about what the problem was, what the solution was, what the ending was. We now need to think about what was the learning that we got from the story. What was the message of the story? This part might be a little bit more difficult because we might not be able to draw a picture of it. You can just write it in maybe one short phrase or sentence. This could be anything. There's no one right answer for this. It's what you think. Pause the video here and write that down. I can't wait to hear what you think was the message behind this story. Okay. Amazing work team. Give yourselves a round of applause . Yeah, the crowd goes wild. If you would like to please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter using @OakNational, and #learnwithOak. Again fantastic work today guys. I can't wait to see you next time. Say goodbye. Bye.

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