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Explanation: How birds fly

﻿Hello everybody. It is Miss McCartney. And today, we are starting our very first lesson in unit nine. And in unit nine, we are going to be learning how to explain and write an explanation. Hmm. I wonder, could you explain to me how you got ready and dressed this morning? Pause your video now and think about how you would explain getting dressed. Brilliant. Come a bit closer and whisper your explanation. Okay. So I can see we are bringing some skills already. When we explain, we need to think about the clear order, we need to be really eloquent so that our audience can understand us, and we need to educate our listener. So I can't wait to learn some more about explanations. Now, in today's lesson, you are going to meet a very special visitor who is going to introduce our explanation text. For 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 to make sure you're prepared, pause your video now. Brilliant. Now that we are ready, let's have a look at our agenda for today. We are going to start with a spelling activity. Then you are going to hear an explanation from our very special visitor. We are then going to map out the explanation. And at the end, we are going to think about a deep thinking question. Let's get started with our spelling. Today, we are going to be looking at common exception words. My turn, your turn. Common exception words. Your turn. Brilliant. Now common exception words are a little bit tricky because we cannot use our phonics to sound them out. Let's have a look at a few. Our first common exception word is any. My turn, your turn. Any. Your turn. Brilliant. And I have come up with ants never yawn. Now this is a little saying that Miss McCartney is going to use to help her remember how to spell any. Ants for A, never for N, and yawn for Y. Ants never yawn. Hmm, can you say that in a really squeaky voice with me? One, two, three, ants never yawn. Just like ants' tiny, little voices. Okay. So I'm going to remember that little sentence to help me when I am spelling the word any. I have also got the word many. And you may notice that many and any look at little bit different. Well, I'm going to remember how to spell many by saying any with an M. Can you say that? One, two, three, any with an M. Brilliant. Let's have a little look at our last tricky common exception word for today. Our word is great. And I have come up with another little phrase to help me how to remember how to spell great. Now I am thinking that if I were to eat a meal, I would want it to be really great. So I have put G and R in capital letters to remind me of and then I have got eat. So I've got eat, great. I would now like you to pause your video, and write down the phrases to help us to remember how to spell our common exception words. I would now like you to practise using our common exception words, and you can see them on the screen to help you. Can you write three nonsense sentences about our story using these common exception words? So Miss McCartney's example is the baby shark had many heads. Now that's a silly sentence because it's not true, but it will help me to remember how to spell the word many. Pause your video now to write down your three sentences. Brilliant. Come a little bit closer and tell me your favourite sentence. Fantastic. One of our learners said, "My main character didn't have any friends at the end of the story." And we know that's a nonsense sentence because our main character has so many friends at the end of the story. You are now going to listen to a very special visitor that has come to our lesson today. Hello. I am Professor Birdbrain and I am an ornithologist. Can you say that with me? Ornithologist. Your turn. Ornithologist. And that means, that I know all about birds. For example, I know the answer to this riddle. I wonder if you can it work out. What has to break before you can use it? Hmm. Have a go, whisper to your screen now. An egg. Fantastic. And what does an egg have to do with birds, I hear you say? Well, birds hatch from eggs. I know all about big birds, little birds, white birds, black birds, love birds, quiet birds, all sorts of birds. Today, I am going to tell you about how birds fly and I'll give you a little clue. It's all in the wings. Now I want you to stand up. Stand up out of your chair and flap your arms. Can you fly? Is it working? No, I can't see anybody flying. It doesn't work. So why does it work for birds? We are going to find out together. I am going to tell you about flapping, gliding and steering. Let's find out some more about those three things. First, flapping. When a bird flaps its wings, the wing pushes down against the air, and so pushes the bird upwards. The faster the wings flap, the harder the push upwards. When you flap your arms, can you feel the wind against them? Try it. That's what pushes the bird up. When they flap their wings. Second, gliding. When birds glide, they move forward through the air with their wings tilted at an angle. Once again, the air pushes against the wing and pushes the bird up. That's why sometimes birds fly without flapping their wings at all. Number three, steering. Birds change the angle and shapes of their wings and their tails, and so change the way the air pushes against them. This way, they can move up and down or side to side. So there you have it, three things about how birds fly. And if you don't believe me, go outside and watch the birds where you live. Watch them flapping, gliding and tilting all for yourself. We are now going to map out the different stages that we learnt about when we were thinking about how birds fly. That is our title, "How birds fly". I would like you to pause your video and write down our title. Brilliant. Let's get started with our first image. So Professor Birdbrain told us that the wing pushes down against the air. So these are my wings and I have drawn these arrows to show the wings pushing down against the air. And this pushes the bird and the wings up. So I'm going to draw a big arrow there and I am going to write flap. F-L-A-P, flap. Can you pause your video and draw your first image to show the wing pushing down against the air to push the birds upwards? Brilliant. Let's move on to image number two. Now, Professor Birdbrain told us that if a bird flaps their wings faster, then the pushup is even harder. So I'm going to draw these little marks to show faster, and I'm going to write my word faster as well. Now, fast is a common exception word. It's a tricky word. We just need to know how to spell that. And then we have added our suffix -er, and I'm going to draw an even bigger arrow to show the bird and the wings being pushed up even harder. Can you pause your video now and draw your second image? Brilliant. We then learned about gliding. And a bird is able to glide if their wings are at different angles. So I'm going to draw three different angles for my wings. And I'm also going to draw my arrows to show the wings still pushing down against the air. And I'm going to write the word gliding. Can you pause your video now and draw your third image? Fantastic. And Professor Birdbrain also said that when a bird glides, sometimes they don't even need to flap their wings because the angle allows them to glide without flapping. Okay. Let's move on to image number four. Image number four talks about steering in different directions. So I'm going to draw a compass. I've got North, Oh! East, that should be South, and West. And that's going to remind me that my bird can go up, down, and to either side. Can you pause your video now and draw your fourth image to show steering in different directions? Your image might look like mine or it might look very different. Okay, perfect. I'm going to draw one more image for steering because Professor Birdbrain also told us that birds tilt the angle of their tails and their wings to help them steer in the right direction. Now, I think you can draw a much better bird than me. I can't wait to see your birds and I'm going to write T-A-I-L, tail, S-T- eering, steering. Tail steering. Can you pause your video now and draw your final image for the tail steering? Excellent. So this is my story map to help me to remember the sequence of how a bird flies, so that when I am retelling my explanation, I will be able to use my images to help me. Well done everybody. We are now going to step our explanation of how birds fly. I have got my story map just in front of me to remind me of each step. So I would recommend that you have your story map just in front of you as well. Let's think about the first thing that a bird needs to do. The first thing they need to do is flap their wings. Can you show me you flapping your wings? Brilliant. Okay. We are going to say a phrase today to help us to remember what happens. So our first phrase is wing pushes down on air. My turn, your turn. Wing pushes down on air. Fantastic. Let's practise that altogether. Step number one, wings push down on air. Brilliant. Let's step forward into our second step. Now our second step is about the wings flapping faster and pushing harder on the air, which means they are lifted up even more. So this time, you need to fly really fast. Show me your fast flapping. Oh my goodness, you can almost fly. Our phrase this time is going to be pushing harder on the air. My turn, your turn. Pushing harder on the air. Your turn. Brilliant. Let's practise our first two steps. Step number one, wings push down on air. Wings pushed down even harder on the air. Fantastic. Let's think about step number three now. Now, step number three is about gliding. So this is when the bird changes the angle of its wings so that it can glide. So this is going to be Miss McCartney's action. Can you show me your action for step number three? Brilliant. We have such a variety of moves to help us to remember how birds fly. Now our phrase for step number three is going to be, bird moves wings at different angles. My turn, your turn. Bird moves wings at different angles. Your turn. Brilliant. So I'm going to show you my three steps and then you are going to pause the video and you are going to complete all of the steps. So let's start from the beginning. Wings push down against the air, wings push down harder against the air, birds tilt their wings at different angles to glide. Okay, well done for all your hard work everybody. Pause your video now and I want you to create your actions for the rest of the steps in our explanation. Wow. I was so impressed watching your stepping. You understand the different steps of how a bird flies really well. Now I would like you to think about this question. If you were going to fly, what would you do with your body first? If you were going to fly, what would you do with your body first? Pause your video now and practise saying your answer really eloquently to the screen. Pause your video. Excellent. I would like you to now say your sentence to the screen. Say it now. Fantastic. I am going to give you some story telling shine because I heard so many of our learners saying that the first thing they would do is flap their wings so that they push down against the air. What a great answer. Well done. I would love to see some of your work. If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and @TeachTMcCartney #LearnwithOak. I will see you really soon.

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