To map and mime moods

Early Years Foundation Stage

Literacy

The Sweet-Talking Potato

﻿For today's lesson, you are going to need your story map from lesson two but don't worry if you don't have it, you can use my one on the screen. You're going to need your Teddy talk partner to join in with some games. You're going to need your thinking brain and you're going to need a pencil. If you need to get any of those things now, press the pause button and when you're ready to start, press the play button. There are four parts to today's lesson. First of all, we're going to play a game together. Then we're going to do some singing. Next, we're going to have a go at thinking of some feelings and mood mapping our story. And finally, we're going to do some hot seating before we go today. Our game today is called the reflecting circle. You're going to need your Teddy talk partner with you. And this is a guessing game. I'm going to give you a part of the story by doing some actions. I'm not going to say any words and you are going to have a go at guessing the part of the story. Your Ted can help you out and then you can play it with them later on. Are you ready? Let's do it once more, just in case you didn't get that. Thinking about what I could be acting out from the story. Ready? Hmm. What was my first action? What could that be from the story? Oh, it was the chicken. Chicken. What does this mean? Someone is talking. The chicken said. The chicken said, what did the chicken say? Can you remember? The chicken said, "Oh no it isn't". Very, very good if you got that right. I wonder if you could have a go at home? Or maybe even with your Teddy talk partner at playing that game. So you can have a think of a line from the story, come up with some actions and then see if someone else can guess what your actions mean. Now it's time to do some singing. We're going to sing a song all about one sweet potato which you might have heard before. We're going to do my turn, your turn, so you can join in with the words and actions. Are you ready? ♪ One sweet potato ♪ ♪ one sweet potato ♪ ♪ Said hands off ♪ ♪ Said hands off ♪ ♪ The farmer screamed and he ran away ♪ ♪ The farmer screamed and he ran away ♪ ♪ He ran and he ran on such a hot day ♪ ♪ He ran and he ran on such a hot day ♪ ♪ Until he came to the marketplace ♪ ♪ Until he came to the marketplace ♪ ♪ One sweet potato ♪ ♪ One sweet potato ♪ Now we're going to add on a second verse. Let's see if you can join in with some of the actions or copy my words. We're going to do my turn, your turn again. Are you ready? ♪ One talking dog ♪ ♪ One talking dog ♪ ♪ Said it was him ♪ ♪ Said it was him ♪ ♪ The farmer screamed and he ran away ♪ ♪ The farmer screamed and he ran away ♪ ♪ He ran and he ran on such a hot day ♪ ♪ He ran and he ran on such a hot day ♪ ♪ Until he came to the chicken shop ♪ ♪ Until he came to the chicken shop ♪ ♪ One talking dog ♪ ♪ One talking dog. ♪ Well done if you managed to join in with some of the actions and words. I really hope you enjoyed singing that one. We're going to be singing it in some other lessons in our units on the sweet talking potato. During our unit on the sweet talking potato, we've been thinking all about the action that happens in the story. That means what is happening. Now, a really, really important part of what is happening is how that makes the characters in the story feel. So we're going to start off by thinking of some different feelings and then we're going to look at what happens in the story and thinking about how those things make the characters feel. So first up, I am going to give you a feeling and I'd like you to show me what that might look like on your face. So we're going to do the first one together and we're going to pull a happy face. Can you show me a happy face? Ah! What might happen if we're happy? You might get a big smile on your face. Okay? Next up, can you show me a sad face? Pull a sad face at your cameras. Your lips might go down. Your eyes might shut a little bit. Your head might go down. Oh, you look very sad. Next up, can you show me a surprised face? Ready? I wonder if you can think who is surprised in the story because we're going to need that later on. Okay. Can you show me a scared face? Oo, there's lots of different things you could do for scared, isn't there? Okay, can you show me an angry face? Very grumpy. Okay, let's go back to the happy face. It'd be good to finish there with a happy face. What we're going to do next is we are going to get our story maps. If you don't have your story map, don't worry because I'm going to put my story map right up on your screen in a minute, so you can have a look at yours. We're going to go through all of the pictures in the story and we're going to see what is happening and how does that make the character feel? So we've got our story map here and we're going to use our story map to think about what happens in the story and how it makes the characters feel. So at the beginning of the story, we have got our first story map picture here. Can you remember who this was? It's the farmer. What happens to the farmer? Once upon a time, there was a farmer. He was very hungry. So if you're hungry, how do you feel? Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you scared? I think you might be a bit sad. A bit sad or even a bit grumpy. So what we're going to do is we're going to draw a little face here and it's going to show a grumpy face. So I'm going to draw a circle for my face. And then when I'm grumpy, my eyes go in a little bit and my mouth goes down a bit. So there we go, I have got a grumpy face. Let's now have a look at our second picture on our story map. There we go. So our second picture on our story map. What happened next in the story? The farmer was hungry, so he decided to pick a potato. And what did the potato do? The potato said, "Hands off!" How do you think the potato felt when the farmer tried to pick it up? Do you think the potato, sitting in that field, was feeling happy about the farmer picking it up? Was it feeling angry? Was it feeling surprised? How did the potato feel? I think because the potatoes shouted, "Hands off!", I think it was feeling a bit angry, you know? It was a angry potato. It did not want to get picked up. So we're going to go back to our story map and we're going to draw a face to show how the potato feels. So you can have a look on your story map at home if you've got one or you can join in with me. We're going to draw our face. And then we need to have a go at drawing what that might look like to be angry. So again, we've got our eyes are crossed and my mouth. Let's draw a hard line. So the potato is feeling angry. Let's look at our next picture. The next picture on our story map is of the little dog. Now, what happens in this part of the story? Why is there a picture of a dog? Hmm. The potato says, "Hands off!", The farmer asks the dog. That's right, the farmer asks the dog, "Was it you?" And what does the dog say? The dog says, "It wasn't me. It was the potato." Hmm. So how does the dog feel? Does the dog feel happy because he thinks it's a bit funny? Does he feel sad because the farmer's talking to him? Or does he feel surprised that the farmer is talking to him? Hmm. What do you think? Tell your screen now. Do you know what? I think the dog is feeling a little bit happy. I think he finds it really funny. So, we're going to go back to our story map. We're going to draw the dog's face and he's happy. So what do we look like when we're happy? Hmm. We might be smiling. So, we can draw a smiley face to show that the dog is feeling happy. Now, what I would like you to do is have a go at finishing off our story map. So now it's going to be your turn. So get your story map if you've got it. If not, you can use my story map from the screen. And what I'd like you to do is go through each picture on the story map and either draw a face to show how the characters are feeling because of what has happened to them, or have a talk with your Teddy talk partner about what has happened and how these characters feel. So press the pause button. When you have talked about what's happened and how the characters feel, press the play button. So while you are having a go at filling in your mood map, I also had a go. Let's see if we did the same pictures and we think the characters were feeling the same way. So at the beginning of the story, I put the farmer was grumpy. I said the potato was angry because he did not want to get picked up. The dog was happy because he found it funny that the farmer was asking him who was talking. The farmer felt scared because the animals and the potato were talking to him. The man selling the chickens was happy and the chicken was happy. But the chicken talking made the farmer feel really scared again, because he ran and ran and ran away. Next, the loaf spoke and I think the loaf was feeling happy too because he found it a bit funny that he could talk. And the farmer didn't know he was going to be able to talk but that made the farmer feel scared again, so he ran away. The farmer met the king who I think was angry because he called the farmer foolish. He did not believe what the farmer had said to him. He sent him away, didn't he? But then the throne spoke and the throne, I think, was happy because the king hadn't believed that all of these objects and animals were able to talk, and they were. How do you think that made the king feel? Do you think he was happy? Do you think he was shocked? Do you think he was surprised? I think he was amazed. Wow, well done for all of that hard work that you have been doing today. So now we're going to think about our story a little bit more by playing a game called hot seating. And for this game, you are going to need your Teddy talk partner. So Ted is here with me today. We're going to get our thinking brains on and one of us is going to pretend to be the farmer. So I am going to be the farmer and Teddy is going to ask the farmer a question. So Teddy, what is your first question? What do you want to ask the farmer? Ooh, Teddy says, "Why did you run away from the talking potato and the talking dog?" Why, why did I run away from the potato? Because it was talking! The dog and the potato were talking to me. So me, the farmer, I had to run away as fast as I could because I was feeling scared. Teddy says, "Where did I go?" Where did I go? I ran and I ran as fast as my legs would carry me and I ran all the way to the marketplace. Do you see there how me and Teddy became the person who was asking the questions and I became the farmer. I was telling him all of the answers about what happened to me in the story. So what we're going to do now is I have got a question for you. You are going to become the farmer. So put your farmer hat on. You are now the farmer. I'm going to ask you a question and what you are going to do is you are going to press the pause button, pretend to be the farmer and answer the question. And then you're going to press the play button again. Are you ready? So my question for you, farmer, is why did you run away from the man selling chickens? Why did you run away from the man selling chickens? Have a think about your answer, press the pause button and when you have told me why you ran away from the man selling chickens, press the play button again. So, why did you, the farmer, run away from the man selling chickens? I ran away because I was scared. I have never heard chickens talking before and it made me scared, so I ran and I ran and I ran away. I wonder if your answer was similar to my farmer's answer? Let's see if we can ask a different question this time. So this time I would like you to press the pause button and think of a question that you would like to ask the farmer. Press the pause button now, have a think about a question you could ask the farmer and when you're ready, press the play button. We have all thought of so many different questions to ask the farmer. I'm so impressed with so many of your questions today. Well done if you joined in and had a go at thinking of a question. We've now come to the end of lesson four in our unit on the sweet talking potato. I really, really hope that you had as much fun as I did. I really, really enjoyed the part of the lesson where we all joined in and we asked the questions to the farmer. I wonder if before lesson five, you can have a go at thinking some more questions to ask the farmer. You might want to ask a different character some questions. Maybe you've got something you want to know about the potato, or even the chicken or the king? Maybe you want to know why the potato spoke to the farmer in the first place? Maybe you could think of some answers to your questions. You could also have a go at singing our story song about one sweet potato to someone at home and seeing if you can have a go at some of the actions. I really, really hope to see you in lesson five. Bye!

To map and mime moods

To map and mime moods

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