To use exclamations

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Honey and Trouble: recycled story (character)

﻿Hi everyone, Miss Fryer here four lesson four of our Honey in Trouble recycled character unit. In lesson three, we started to describe the physical appearance and features of our new recycled character. And today we are going to be shocked, surprised in all and using our big feelings by learning about exclamations. I also left you with a piece of trivia, I asked you how tall the tallest storks are, saddle-billed stork, how tall do you think they are? Do you think they are as tall as you? As tall as me? As tall as someone in your family? How tall do you think they are? Well, let me tell you that a saddle-billed stork is about 150 centimetres tall, one and a half metres. That is a very tall bird. That is almost as tall as me, amazing! We're going to start today with a speaking activity, and then we're going to do some new learning on exclamations; how we use them, when we use them and how to write them, before using them in some shared writing. In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil and your brain. So pause the video now if you need to get any of those things. Our speaking activity today is all about doing, feeling and thinking, which are all things from our character writing toolkit. Thinking about what you do, think and feel might give some clues about your personality, what you are like. I'm going to have a try too. So I'm going to answer these three questions. What did I do, what do I feel, and what did I think? Just about something that happened before this video? So I'm going to think about my morning. If you're watching this video in the morning, it might be something you did last night. Make sure it's recent though, so that it's firmly into your brain. So, this morning, what did I do? Well, I got up early and I fed my tortoise, Matilda. What did I feel? Well, I felt very sleepy because it was early. And what did I think? Well, I thought about all of the lessons I was going to teach today. So, what does that tell you about what I was like? I got up early and I fed my tortoise, I felt sleepy and I thought about all of my lessons. I think guys, I think that means that I'm pretty hard working, I got up early to do all of my work, but I'm not a morning person, took me a while to get the sleepies out of my eyes. Now it's time for you to have a go. Pause the video and think about what did you do, what did you feel, and what did you think before you started this video? Pause the video now. Our new learning today is about exclamations. You might have seen exclamations in your reading books, and we've certainly mentioned them a couple of times in our writing, but today we're going to practise them. Now, a full stop normally goes at the end of a sentence to tell us a sentence is finished. Like this one. This is a sentence. It has a full stop at the end. A full stop doesn't give us any clues about what the sentence is trying to tell us in terms of feelings or how to read it with expression. However, this next sentence says, this is the best sentence ever! How did I know to change my voice in that sentence? Well, can you see that funny little mark at the end of the sentence? It looks like sort of like a full stop, it's got that kind of full stop dot at the bottom, hasn't it? But it's also got a long line above it. This is an exclamation mark. An exclamation mark comes at the end of sentences that are exclamations that show us big feelings, they give us clues about how to read a sentence. And we can use them in our writing to help somebody give a clue about how to read our writing. All of the sentences will change how we read them if we add an exclamation mark on the end. So here's our first one, it says, aaaah. Do you think that's how we want to write the sentence, aaah? I think we need to have a big feeling, don't you think? Here with an exclamation mark, now it's going to say, aaaah! That shows us the big feeling of fright or surprise, and give us a clue about how to read it. Let's look at the next one. Stop right there. How do you think we should be reading the sentence, stop right there? Stop right there! That exclamation mark gives us a clue that we need to use a loud voice, maybe even a cross voice. It's definitely a big feeling. Next one, that's not fair. What kind of a feeling do we want for that sentence, that's not fair? There's our exclamation mark, that's not fair! It's a big feeling, isn't it? Of being upset or feeling disappointed that something isn't fair. And the exclamation mark tells us how to read it. Next one. Happy birthday. Do we want to say happy birthday to someone like that? An exclamation mark gives us more feeling, happy birthday! A big surprise, exciting sentence. And the last one, you're the best. Is someone going to think they're the best if you say it like that? That exclamation mark gives us that big feeling clue, you're the best! It gives a happy, proud, excited feeling to our sentence. Now I've got some sentences here, some of them I think need exclamations and I wonder if you can spot the ones that do. So pause the video to point out the sentences that I've written that need exclamation marks. These sentences, these short sentences, need exclamation marks, because they are trying to show big feelings. Surprise! It's probably using a loud voice, and we want to surprise and shock someone. So we need an exclamation mark. Then we've got the sentence, oops! It's the big feeling of being worried, maybe something has happened, maybe it's surprised you as well, maybe you've dropped something or accidentally hit something off a table, oh dear, oops! Even my face changes when I say oops with exclamation mark. How about the next one? Be quiet! That's a command, isn't it? You want someone to do what they're told, be quiet! And the exclamation mark shows us that big feeling. How about the ones then that don't have exclamation marks so far? Here we've got some sentences, Miss Fryer is hungry. Not really a big feeling there, Miss Fryer is hungry. Another one, my feet are cold. They're just statements, they just tell us what is happening right now, they just tell us how it is. However, if I did use an exclamation mark on them, it would show that I need to add extra feeling into my reading. Maybe, Miss Fryer is hungry! Because I'm getting cross and antsy and angry, cause I'm so hungry. Or maybe a very worried chef is it out from a kitchen, Miss Fryer is hungry! Oh no, we better get her some food. So it will change a sentence completely by putting an exclamation mark. My feet might be really, really cold, I might be in pain, they're so cold. Oh my feet are cold! And that shows me a big, big feeling. But if they're just kind of regularly a bit chilly, I don't need that exclamation mark. So think carefully about how to show a big feeling. Why does our last sentence not have an exclamation mark? What time is it? What time is it? Does that show a big feeling? Do we need an exclamation mark? No, because this is a special type of sentence, it needs a question mark, because it's a question. What time is it? Exclamation marks and question marks are different, so try not to get them confused. Here are two sentences, they're exactly the same. Let's read them, shall we? Let's read the top one. We're going on holiday. There we go, there we've got the statement, we're going on holiday. It just tells someone what's happening, we're going on holiday. It's got a full stop at the end, which means we don't have to show a big feeling with our voice. Now let's read the same sentence, the second one, but this one has an exclamation mark. Think about how you're going to change your voice with an exclamation mark. Are you ready? We're going on holiday! What kind of feeling do we show? Probably really excited, we're going on holiday, oh goodness! So this time we're not telling someone, stating a fact, we're being really excited, showing that big feeling. So although sentences could be the same, they can be different if they have different punctuation. Now we're going to do some shared writing and practise using exclamation marks to change our sentences into exclamations with big feelings. Quite a few sentences in our story of "Honey in Trouble" will need exclamation marks, because our foolish main character gets very excited about some things. Sometimes he uses a loud voice, sometimes he's very thankful, sometimes he's very frightened or is in pain. These are all big feelings, and that calls for an exclamation mark. So I'm having a look back at my story map cause it has my move map words on it. So I'm looking out for big feelings. So here's back where we meet our what used to be monkey and now I've changed it to my stork. And he is feeling delighted. He's feeling delighted at this point of the story. What does he say that would show us that he is delighted? I wonder if we can do that sentence with a exclamation mark. Tell your screen, what does he say when he finds the honey? I remember he says, ooh, I like this! We can show our delight by using an exclamation mark. So I'm going to write, I've got my capital letter for my Ooh sound. Capital O, O-O diagraph, and it's got a H on the end. Ooh! Exclamation mark to show my big feeling of delight. I, capital letter, always use a capital letter of I, finger space L- I, split diagraph, K, I like, finger space TH-I-S and another exclamation mark, he is so delighted. Going to have another look at my move map to see if there are any other big feelings that I could capture with an exclamation mark. Let's see what happens when he goes to visit his first friend. In the original story, that was brother elephant, wasn't it? And here we have sister python, and he was feeling confused, he was feeling confused and he was feeling hurt. That's also, that was the word I wrote down for the tiger before, wasn't it? Was hurt. What does he say when he is hurt? Ooh, I remember. When he gets hurt by his friends when he asks for trouble, he says, owww! And he's got his face, hasn't he? Or his bottom or his tummy when he's being hurt, he says, Ooow! He has a big feeling, he's in pain, he's shouting in pain using a loud voice. So I can use an exclamation mark. Big ow sound. Ow!, that's our ow sound. Quite often when we write ow, we write it with lots of Ws. So he's saying, owww! Carry on on that w sound. Exclamation mark, he is in pain. Let's look for another one, one last example before you have a go. So we've got our feeling when he goes to the wise woman of the forest. He's feeling, what was that word we wrote? R-E-L-IE-V-ED, relieved, he's feeling relieved. He says, "oh, thank you" to the wise woman. Maybe that could be one of our sentences. When he is frightened by the dogs, what do you think he would say if he was very scared? He might say, ahhh! We could use that as one of our sentences. And finally, when he goes home to his mother and she gives him the pot of honey, which he now knows is not called trouble, he says, ohhh, and he is glad, isn't he? That big feeling, oh, that's not trouble, that's honey. And they could all use an exclamation mark. So I think I'm going to do, oh, thank you, let's do that feeling of relief. So here I'm going to write the sight word, oh, two letters. O and H, a bit like ooh. Oh T-H-A-N-K, thank, site word you, Y-O-U, spells you. Y-O-U spells you. Oh, thank you! Exclamation mark to show his relief. See if you can have a go at writing a sentence from our story that has a big feeling with an exclamation mark. Look back at your move map from unit seven to help you. And that is it for our learning today. I'm thinking back to our speaking activity at the start of the lesson. I wonder if I can do it again for what we have just done in our lesson today. What did I do? Well, I taught everybody how to use exclamation marks to write exclamation sentences. What do I feel? Well I feel really proud that everyone's done such a good job with their learning today. What do I think? I think there is so much to learn. What does that tell you about me, what am I like? I think it means guys, I'm a teacher. In lesson five, we are going to have a reading lesson, we're going to use our retrieval skills by reading a new part of my recycled version of "Honey in Trouble." So get your reading skills and bring them to lesson five. Trivia time now. Today's trivia is about eagles. You might have chosen an eagle for your main character. Golden eagles are the fastest kind of eagle, they're actually the second fastest bird after the peregrine falcon. How fast though do you think golden eagles are? Just to give you a bit of a clue, cars drive at 30 miles an hour on average down a normal street, so how fast do you think are golden eagle flies? Hmm, have I think I will tell you at the start of lesson five, bye.

To use exclamations

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