To use a singular possessive apostrophe

Key Stage 1

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Persephone: endings

﻿Good morning, everyone. I'm Miss Weerasekera. Welcome back to lesson 4 in our unit about Apostrophe. Today, we're going to be focusing on grammar. So we're going to be moving away from the story a little bit and learning a new piece of grammar. You might have done it before. In which case you'll be an expert. We will link it back to our story towards the end of the lesson. How are you today? I have some really lovely flowers that someone gave me stay and they're on my desk here. Aren't they lovely. Keep getting a little smell of the lovely flowers as I work. And that's been really nice. What's cheering you up today. Today you're going to need as usual, something to write on, something to write with and your brain. You don't have a pen or pencil or a piece of paper. Then pause the video now and go and get one and then come back and press play when you're done. Excellent. Now we're ready to start our learning. Today we're going to start with a refund or odd one out activity. We're then going to move onto our grammar focus. And we are looking at possessive apostrophes today. The singular words. within going to practise are possessive apostrophes in a small writing task. And at this point, we're going to link it back to the characters in our story. Finally, we're going to do a challenge task to really test ourselves and get our brain working. That's get started. Let's start with our odd one out, which one of our characters is the odd one out. Demeter, Hades or Zeus. Now this means you got to use your imagination, to think about which one is the odd one out. It doesn't matter which one you choose. There's no right or wrong answer. As long as you can give a reason, for why you've chosen that one. I've given you some sense that stems at the bottom to use. I think that is the odd one out because, and the second says, although the odd one out could also be, so that second one's a challenge. Can you think of two reasons why they would be the odd one out? I'm going to give you my example first. I think that Hades is the odd one out because he's the only one that lives in the underworld and he's really mean and evil. Whereas I would say Zeus and Demeter are kind, I'm going to challenge myself with a second sentence STEM. Although the odd one out could also be Demeter because she's the only one that can control the seasons. And she's the only one that has a daughter. Do you see that I could come up with different reasons why different characters could be the odd one out. I would like you to pause the video and have a go yourself. You can either write the sentences down or you can just say them out loud. If you would prefer, once you've done it, press play and we'll carry on. Simple stuff. Well done. Let's carry on now. But so, as I said earlier, we're going to be looking at possessive apostrophes today. We can use apostrophes to show that something belongs to something else. We call this possession. We use the word singular when we are talking about one thing. So today we're only going to be using apostrophes, when we're talking about one item or one person or animal, rather than a group, for example, a dog or a candle rather than five dogs or five candles. We're just going to talk about one so to show that something belongs to something else, We first put an apostrophe and then we put an S at the end of the word of that, this thing belongs to, for example, they could talk belongs to the boy. So I put an apostrophe S after boy, and then I put what belongs to him. So the boy's guitar was given to him by his grand dad. in the next example, the lid belongs to the bottle. So I put an apostrophe as after bottle, and then what belongs to it, which is the lid afterwards. The bottle's lid is made of colourful plastic. The final example I've got the queen, probably isn't belonged to the United Kingdom, but in this context she does the United kingdom's apostrophe S queen wears a beautiful crown. I put three sentences here because we can use a possessive apostrophe, but different types of noun, the first one is a common noun. it's a person. That's a boy. We've also got a common noun in the second one, but it's an object. So things can also belong to objects as well as animals and people. The third one is a proper noun. It's a place and something can also belong to a place, like a city or a flag. So we can use singular possessive apostrophes in lots of different sentences. So if the noun already ends in an S, then you still have to add an apostrophe and another S at the end of the word, this is just when we're talking about singular. One thing, when we're talking about a plural, it's a little bit different, but we're not looking at that today. Some examples of the bottom, James, which is a proper noun, it's the name of a person. His name already ends in S I still have to add an apostrophe and another S at the end, James's literacy book was missing. Same with princess, it already ends in S but I'm going to add an apostrophe S to show that the hair belongs to her. The princess's hair was golden and incredibly long. Finally, the word class ends in S already, but I'm still going to add to my apostrophe S the class's teacher was wearing fluffy hat. We ain't going to practise using a possessive apostrophes. I'm going to give you three different pictures, and we're going to come up with some sentences using possessive apostrophes together. I'm going to tell you my one first. So here we have a picture of a bear. He looks very mighty. Doesn't he?. Now, there are lots of parts of this bear that we could say belong to him. And we could use an off sentence using a possessive apostrophe. I've given you an example for the first thing. The bears fur is... The fur belongs to the bear. So I put an apostrophe S after that, and I put fur afterwards, I'm going to finish off my sentence. The bear's fur is lovely, soft and Brown. That's my first sentence. I would like you to have a go at creating your own sentence about something else that belongs to the bear. So you're probably still going to have the bear's apostrophe S you could talk about his ears. You could talk about his nose or his eyes or his mouth, or you could use your imagination to think of something else that might belong to the bear. For example, we know that bears quite like honey. So perhaps you could talk about the bear's honey. I would like you to write this sentence down and practise putting the apostrophe S after the bear. So you can show that whatever it is that you've chosen, belongs to him. Pause the video here and write down your sentence, using an apostrophe S to show something that belongs to the bear. Then press play, When you're finished. Well done superstar. You've done it already. You've used a possessive apostrophe in a sentence. Let's practise with another picture. This time, Oh, this is my favourite type of flower. It makes me so happy, every year I always try and grow some flowers to see if I can get a really tall one. But last year I accidentally bought mini sunflowers. So I was expecting a really tall sunflower, and they only grew to about this big, they were still quite cute, though. I might choose to describe the flowers petals. So I might say it, the flowers's, apostrophe S petals. And then if I'm talking about, more than one thing for petals, I might need to change. That is to are A R E. The flowers's petals are beautiful and yellow. I might also talk about the leaves or the STEM, and describe those. It's completely up to you. The flowers's STEM is... the flowers's leaf is... I would like you to choose which one, you're going to describe. And I'd like you to write down your sentence, using a possessive apostrophe after the word flower or sunflower in your sentence, Pause the video here, and have a go at writing that down and then press play when you're finished. Excellent. We are doing so well. And we've already used two sentences, where the possessive apostrophe you're a super star. The final picture that we're going to practise with today, is this one. This is a nice one, because in this picture, I can see lots of different things that belong to the little girl. So I might say, the girl's block is... the girl's toy animal is... remember if the thing you're describing is more than one, you could use are A R E instead of is. The girl's blocks are... the girl's, animals are it's up to you. My example is the girl's blocks are colourful and wooden. Can you have a go at writing your own sentence, using an apostrophe S after the word girl and telling me something in that picture that belongs to her and describing it, pause the video here, write down your sentence, and then press play when you're ready to go Well,you are doing so amazingly great job. You already so confident using possessive apostrophes. We're now going to have a go, at doing a short writing task where we use possessive apostrophes and link it back to our story. I'm going to give you an example first. So I said, let's try this out. That the characters in all the... so we've got the seasons belonging to Demeter. So I know that the apostrophe S is going to go after the word Demeter, because the seasons put along to her. So my sentence says Demeter's, seasons changed with her mood. So I have written a sentence about the character in my book using a possessive apostrophe. You're going to have a go at doing this yourself now, with the characters I put below to help you out a little bit, and then you're going to have a go at writing them down. So we have the tears belonging to Persephone. I might say Persephone's tears rolled down her cheek for the second one. We have the Thunderbolt that belongs to Zeus. Zeus already ends in S, but we remember from earlier, that we still have to add another apostrophe S on the end. So I would say Zeus's thunderbolt was held tightly in his hand. Finally, we have the underworld that belongs to Hades. Again, his name already ends in S but we still need to add another apostrophe S to show that the underworld belongs to him. So I might say Hades's underworld was full of gloom and darkness. You can use some of my ideas to help you, if you need to, or use your amazing creativity in your head to come up with your own, make sure that you use the possessive apostrophe to show that those things in the first column, but to the people, the characters in the last column, pause the video here and have a go at writing your three sentences and then press play. When you're ready to carry on. Now, it's time for our final activity of today. We're going to challenge our brains for this challenge task. It says, can you think of some items that belong to you and write, or say some sentences about them, including possessive apostrophes? So you're going to think about you. You're going to use your name with an apostrophe S and then you're going to right after it, an item or items that belong to you and describe them. For example, I said, Miss. Weerasekera's dog is cute and naughty. I put an apostrophe S after my name to show that whatever came next in the sentence belongs to me. So, in your sentences, you need to write your name first apostrophe S and then some things that belong to you. You can choose to say these sentences out loud, or you can write them down as well, have a go at doing two or three sentences with different items that belong to you, and then you can press play when you're finished. superstar. What lovely sentences, not only have you used them in normal sentences, applied them to the characters in our story, but you've also used possessive apostrophes to talk about yourself. I am super duper impressed. Just want to say again how impressed I am, with your work today. And I would really love to see it. So if you'd be happy to share it, please ask a parent or carer to take a picture and share it on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. You just need to tag @OakNational and use the #LearnwithOak. then hopefully I could see it.

To use a singular possessive apostrophe

To use a singular possessive apostrophe

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