To recycle the story of Mouse Deer focusing on plot and character

Early Years Foundation Stage

Literacy

Mouse Deer and Tiger

﻿Hello, I'm Adam. And this is Panda and we are now on unit five, lesson six, using the story Mouse Deer. Should we see what's on the agenda today? So, for our warm up today, Panda thought it would be a good idea to do some nursery rhymes with numbers in them. After that, the main challenge, and it's a big one, is to take the story of Mouse Deer, think about what we really loved about it, and how can we change it to create a new story of our own, to work with over the next few lessons. For this session, later, we will need you to have a piece of paper and something to draw with. But don't worry. You don't need that for a while yet. Let's move on to the warm-up. Do you know lots of songs with counting in? There are lots of them and they've been around for hundreds of years, some of them, and here are two very, very old ones. And the first one is called One, Two Buckle My Shoe. And it's a bit tricky because some of the words are strange and they're hard to get your tongue around, but I'm going to have a go. One, two, buckle my shoe. Three, four, open the door. Five, six, pick up sticks. Seven, eight, lay them straight. Nine, 10, a big fat hen. 11, 12, dig and delve. 13, 14, boys a-courting. 15, 16, boys in the kitchen. 17, 18, maids awaiting. 19, 20, my plates empty. I like the last bit. Let me do it again. And maybe you can join in with some of the numbers. Maybe you'll be able to remember some of the rhymes. Let's see. One, two, buckle my shoe. Three, four, open the door. Five, six, pick up sticks. Seven, eight, lay them straight. Nine, 10, a big fat hen. 11, 12, dig and delve. 13, 14, boys a-courting. 15, 16, boys in the kitchen. 17, 18, maids awaiting. 19, 20, my plate's empty. Well done. I need the guitar for this one. I'm sure you'll know it. It's called 10 Green Bottles. But should we do five? Let's start with five. ♪ Five green bottles ♪ ♪ Standin' on the wall. ♪ ♪ Five green bottles ♪ ♪ Standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle ♪ ♪ Should accidentally fall ♪ How many would that be? ♪ There'd be four green bottles ♪ ♪ Standin' on the wall ♪ Could you join in with me? We'll do four. ♪ Four green bottles standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ Four green bottles standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle ♪ ♪ Should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'd be three green bottles ♪ ♪ Standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ Three green bottles standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ Three green bottles standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle ♪ ♪ Should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'd be two green bottles ♪ ♪ Standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Two green bottles standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ Two green bottles standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'd be one green bottle standin' on the wall ♪ ♪ One green bottle stand in on the wall ♪ ♪ And if one green bottle should accidentally fall ♪ ♪ There'd be no green bottles ♪ ♪ Standin' on the wall ♪ That was fun. Nursery rhymes done. So, one of the biggest challenges we have is when we take a story that we know and play with it, change it, recycle it into a new one. Because we really have to think about what we loved about the first story and how we can replace it with something else that works in the same way. So, a good place to start, is by looking at the story map of Mouse Deer. Let's do that together. A really good place to start when we are recycling stories is to look at the story we're using to help us. So, we're going to start over here and it started with Tiger. And Tiger, ferocious creature, living in a rainforest and all the other creatures are scared of the tiger. So, maybe we can keep it in a rain forest. We can decide that later, but the idea of a ferocious hunting character, we like. Now, Mouse Deer is quick and clever. I wonder if we can change Mouse Deer and turn Mouse Deer into another animal or another character, but keep them clever. Now, whoever our character is, has got to come up with three tricks to beat our tiger character, which we might change. Mud turns into chocolate. A wasps' nest turns into a king's drum, and a snake a belt. Tricks are tricky. Maybe they're the things that we can play with and change. And in the end, we know our character, whoever they're going to be, is going to escape and outwit the fearsome, ferocious character. I think this is the thing we need to think about first, Panda. How are we going to change Tiger and keep the story exciting by having a big ferocious character? Right. I'm going to get myself a piece of paper and share with you how Panda and I might do it. Here we go. So, this is a very thoughtful activity, recycling the story. So, we need to think about what our choices are, have some ideas and then choose some. Instead of a tiger, we need something that's scary. So, we could have a lion, a monster. Panda says a dinosaur. What would be the scariest dinosaur? I like the idea of a dinosaur. A T-Rex. I like the idea of that. I think we should choose that. So, I've got to draw small, which I find tricky. So, let's do a T-Rex. Now that you've got a tail, let me stand on two, on two legs and feet, which is unusual for such a big creature. And I remember a dinosaur, T-Rexes have small arms. Okay. T-Rex. Scary creature, like that. Better keep him in a forest. They'd be stomping, I think, more than prowling, wouldn't they? We need to think about how that T-Rex hunts. And we still have the rain. And we'll think about how he moves later on, when we develop the words to tell the story. Now, whoopsie daisy. Now, let's have something instead of Mouse Deer. What could it be instead of a little Mouse Deer? Going to draw an arrow. Now, this is important 'cause we need a clever, tricky character. Something that's fast, like a rabbit, a hare. Yeah, children. Why not? Let's have some children in it. Boy or girl? "Both," says Panda. A boy and a girl in the story. Brilliant. I was going to draw some figures quickly. I might come back and draw these better later on. Got my reading glasses on. It's helping me a little bit. These are small drawings. Okay. Two figures. Just my story map only has to make sense to me anyway. So there's the boy and the girl and they they're quick and they're clever. Now, Dinosaur, I'm going to eat you. They need a good trick. If this is a dinosaur world, have they got some dinosaur friends? And if so, what are some exciting dinosaurs we could use? Diplodocus or diplodocus. Good idea, Panda. Never quite know how to say Diplodocus or Diplodocus. Perhaps, you know. Right. But I do know that they've got long necks. So, I bet you are all experts on dinosaurs. And by the end of this unit, we all will be anyway, 'cause we've got to learn how to describe them. So, diplodocus. I want to go for diplodocus. Now I'm going to eat you. What's diplodocus got or what could the children think of that's a good trick? We had a muddy puddle before. We don't want to use the chocolate idea. But what could the muddy puddle be, if we changed it? "A diplodocus bath," says Panda. And it's nice and warm. That would make him get in, wouldn't it? But when he gets in our bed, it's not warm. Anyway, it's just mud. Good trick. Let's draw an arrow. Now, we had a tree in the last story with a wasps' nest on it. We don't have to change everything. If you keep the tree, Pan, what could we have in the tree that we could use as a trick? What's in trees? Fruits. Is it something to do with an apple or a mango? Panda says, "A nest." Okay. A nest. And if this is a dinosaur world, dinosaurs don't fly. Panda says, "Pterosaur." We can have a pterosaur. Why not? So, let's have a pterosaur. Sharp beak. A pterosaur. Now, they do have mighty wings, don't they? So, a pterosaur. Yay. And that could be a pterosaur nest. Maybe the children could have a trick. What if they got the dinosaur, the T-Rex to try and go to sleep in a pterosaur nest? What do you think would happen? Brilliant trick. He'd crush out, wouldn't he? We need another exciting dinosaur and a dinosaur trick. What dinosaurs do you like? Hmm. Shall we have- Panda seems really sure. She really wants a stegosaurus. All right, because that's a different looking one, isn't it? Because we've got one with the long neck, one with sharp claws, one that a pterosaur that can fly, a spiky one with big jaws. So, jaws. Yes. A stegosaurus and also stands on four legs. I think maybe they're a bit shorter than that in relation to the body. Tail. Stegosaurus. Brilliant. How are you going to trick? How could the stegosaurus friend helped with a trick? So, T-Rex goes, "I want to eat you." Now, we had a drum, didn't we, in the other story, that was filled with the wasps? What other nests could we use that have lots of little creatures in it that would bite you and nibble you? That'd be horrible. Bees? We could use bees. Panda says, "Ants." Brilliant. Yes. Because ants live in nests, in like mounds like that. Okay. And when you say hit the drum, brilliant hit the drum, hit the stegosaurus drum. It's a big booming sound and it'll make you want to dance. Yeah, we can use that trick again, but have ants this time. Oh, and the T-Rex would be covered in ants. I like that. And then the children would escape to the escape on the back of the stegosaurus. That'd be fantastic. Two happy faces at the end. Now, Mouse Deer son, ♪ I'm quick and sharp ♪ ♪ And I have no fear ♪ ♪ Who am I ♪ ♪ I'm the little Mouse Deer ♪ We're going to have to invent a little song for these guys as well. I think we could work with that. Well, that's our first attempt at a story map, at recycling this story. So Panda and I, we're going to pause the video now and it's your turn to draw a story map. And I'd like you to try. You can change these dinosaurs if you want to, and put different ones in. And you could even play with the tricks, or you can have a go at trying to remember this one. I think it would have to be this one we work with, Panda. But why don't you try and draw your story map of how we could recycle this story and play with your ideas and choose dinosaurs that you would like to use? All right. Time for work. So, how did you get on? Did you enjoy playing with ideas? It's fun making up new stories, isn't it? Remember we at Oak Academy, we love to see your drawings in your story maps. Your carers and teachers will know how to do that. So please, please do. Right. We have a starting point. We've got some new ideas and we're looking forward to the next session, but let's remind ourselves what we've done already today. Because we've learnt a couple of nursery rhymes with counting in. We had a look at Mouse Deer and we decided that we liked the idea of tricky, clever characters, outwitting, scary, big ones. And we've used that to create a new story now with dinosaurs. And I think we could be excited about that, which is really good. So, we look forward to seeing you in the next lesson soon, where we will be developing the language, learning how to describe those dinosaurs, and trying to now start to tell that new story. Until then, goodbye.

To recycle the story of Mouse Deer focusing on plot and character

To recycle the story of Mouse Deer focusing on plot and character

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