Video: To know that stories have problems in them

﻿Hello, I'm Adam and this is Panda. And it's a very rainy day today. Panda and I, we've been sitting here listening to the pitter-patter of the rain on the windows. It reminds us how much we're enjoying listening out for sounds during these units of work together. The sounds around us, the sounds we can make with our voices. Splish, splash, splosh! We love those words. And in today's story, which will be the story of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," we'll be exploring some sounds. Some trip, trap, trapping sounds. Anyway, let's have a look what's on the agenda today. So, for our warmup today, Panda is going to help me with my problem, which was how to describe the characters in the story we're about to share with you today. And after the warmup, the main activity is going to be listening to the story of the Billy Goats Gruff and exploring the problem. And so, for this lesson you might need a piece of a paper and a pencil, but not now, later on during the session. Let's get on with the problem we have for the introduction to this story. Well, before we have our problem warmup, Panda and I really wanted to sing a nursery rhyme we knew about the rain. And it's an old, old nursery rhyme and you might know it. It goes like this: ♪ It's raining, it's pouring ♪ ♪ The old man is snoring ♪ ♪ He went to bed to rest his head ♪ ♪ And didn't wake up in the morning ♪ Shall we sing that together? ♪ It's raining, it's pouring ♪ ♪ The old man is snoring ♪ ♪ He went to bed to rest his head ♪ ♪ And didn't wake up till morning ♪ That tune sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? Now, some people think a rainy day is boring, but Panda and I think a rainy day is really exciting. So, we wanted to change it. 'Cause on a rainy day we like splashing around in puddles. Do you? So, we thought we could go: ♪ It's raining, hip hip hurray ♪ Do you want to try that? ♪ It's raining, hip hip hurray ♪ ♪ The children want to splash and play ♪ Shall we try it together? ♪ It's raining, hip hip hurray ♪ ♪ The children want to splash and play ♪ ♪ They jump up out in puddles ♪ ♪ And they shout "We love the rainy day" ♪ Anyway, we love rainy days. Time to get on to the problem in this warmup. Don't worry about the blue screen, Panda and I are here. We want to show you some pictures because to help us with the first problem, we're going to show pictures of the four characters in the story. And Panda has helped me think of ways of describing them. So, here's the first one. He's the first Billy Goat Gruff and he's the smallest. He likes to skip and he's a very sweet little Billy goat. "As sweet as apple pie," says Panda. I like that. Now, the middle size Billy Goat Gruff, Panda said, "is as clever as a cat." And I thought that was a clever thing to say. So, the middle size one, much bigger and as clever as a cat. Small, middle size, can you guess the next one? The big Billy Goat Gruff. He's tough. "His horns are worn and strong and sharp, and he can knock any troll right out of the park," says Panda. I think that describes them really well. As sweet as apple pie for the small one, as clever as a cat and as rough and as tough as anybody you could imagine for the big one. Now, in this story, under the bridge there's a troll. Shall I show you the picture? Here's the troll. Looks quite a sorry character, doesn't he? Slouched shoulders, floppy ears, but Panda said he needed to be scary, so his eyes needed to be big. As she said, "as big as pies." Maybe Billy goat pies, that would be a bit scary in the story, and sharp teeth. And she's just described him to me as being yellowy. Anyway, there they are, the three Billy Goats Gruff and the troll. I think it's time, Panda, that we told the story. It's story time. It's story time. Look, listen, learn. Once upon a time, there were three Billy Goats Gruff who lived on a hillside by a river. The smallest Billy goat, why he was as sweet as apple pie. The middle size Billy goat was as clever as a kitten. And the big Billy Goat Gruff had long horns. His horns were worn and sharp. He could knock any other Billy goat out of the park. But there was a problem because all the grass on their side of the hill was weedy and short. While the grass on the other side of the river was as lush and green as the greenest meadow ever seen. But to get to the lush green grass, the three Billy Goats Gruff would have to cross a bridge. The bridge was not the problem. It was the troll who lived under it. The troll was the problem, and this troll was as mean as sour cream. And what did he look like? Why they said that his eyes were the size of Billy goat pies, sharp teeth, the colour of custard. His big mighty jaws could snap through trees like a beast and he'd eat you with dollops of mustard. It was the troll that was the problem. And the three Billy Goats Gruff needed a plan, a very clever plan. It was the middle size Billy goat who came up with a plan. "I've got it!" He said one morning, and he called his brothers in and he whispered them the plan. It started with the first Billy Goat Gruff. The first Billy Goat Gruff set off for the bridge. ♪ I'm just a little Billy goat in a furry coat ♪ ♪ A little Billy goat in a little furry coat ♪ ♪ I'm just a little, little Billy goat in a furry coat ♪ ♪ A very little Billy goat ♪ He sang his sweet song down to the bridge and he crossed that bridge with a skip. He went trip, trap, trapping. Trip, trap, trip. The troll lept out and said with a shout, "I'm going to eat you up from your tail to your snout." "Ooh, don't eat me," said the little Billy Goat Gruff. "Eat my brother, he's yummy!" He gave the troll a wink and before the troll could think, the little Billy goat was gone and then he heard a song. ♪ I'm a middle size Billy goat in a furry coat ♪ ♪ A middle size Billy goat in a furry coat ♪ ♪ I'm just a middle size Billy goat in a furry coat ♪ ♪ A middle size Billy goat ♪ The middle size Billy goat crossed that bridge double quick. He went trip, trap, trapping. Trip, trap, trip. The troll lept out and said with a shout, "I'm going to eat you up from your tail to your snout." "Don't eat me," said the middle size Billy goat. Eat my bigger brother, he's yummy! He gave the troll a wink and before the troll could think, the middle size Billy goat was gone. And then the troll heard a song. ♪ I'm a very big Billy goat in a furry coat ♪ ♪ A great big Billy goat in a great big furry coat ♪ The big Billy goat crossed the bridge with a stamp and a stomp and a kick. He went trip, trap, trapping. Trip, trap, trip. The troll lept out and said with a shout, "I'm going to eat you up from your tail to your snout." The big Billy goat grinned and he lowered his horns and he butted that troll high into the sky. Out, out, out, until he went splash into the ocean. And the big Billy Goat Gruff crossed the bridge to the lush green grass and joined his brothers. ♪ We're very happy Billy goats eating lovely grass ♪ ♪ We're happy Billy goats and we're eating lovely grass ♪ ♪ We're three happy Billy goats eating yummy grass ♪ ♪ We're very, very happy Billy goats ♪ Because it was all part of the plan. So, how was that? Did you enjoy the story? I wonder what your favourite moments of the story were? Panda likes the bit when the troll goes splash into the ocean. I do like the first Billy goat trip, trap, trapping with a skip and being so sweet and giving the troll a wink and confusing him before he disappeared. I like that. Well, we've said before that all stories have to have memorable moments, and another thing that all stories have to have is a really great problem. And we loved this story because of the problem of the troll. And we really care that the Billy goats don't get eaten by the troll, don't we? So, we care about our characters and we care about the problem. And those three Billy goats came up with a plan and worked as a team. It's your turn now to think about the story and could you draw your favourite moment in the story? Your favourite bit of the story. Either that or draw your favourite character, and it might be you want to draw the troll. Or it might be you want to draw the little Billy Goat Gruff. Your favourite moment or your favourite character, and maybe they're the same thing. But whatever you want to draw from the story now, it's your turn to work. So, I'm going to pause the video and when you finished your work, come back and we'll talk about that story, and what we're going to do in this unit a little bit more. Time to work. So, how was that? We wonder what you decided to draw. Remember you can show us your work here at Oak Academy, and we love to see it as well. Ask your carers and your teachers, and they will know how to show your work to us. So, what have we done today? We sang the nursery rhyme of the old man is snoring, and we changed it to cheer it up a bit because we liked splishing and splashing in puddles. We'd like that, don't we? We also looked at the characters in this story, so we could think of how to describe them. The first Billy goat is sweet as apple pie, the second one as clever as a cat or as clever as a kitten, and the third one rough and tough with horns that were sharp. And that troll, do you remember his eyes? They were as big as Billy goat pies. It's fun describing characters and this story we love because of the problem of the troll. We're going to be excited to work with this story throughout this unit. And in the next lesson, we're going to be singing the story and mapping it. So, for now, keep your pictures and share them with the people you know. And Panda and I look forward to seeing you in the next session soon. Until then, buh-bye.

Lesson summary: To know that stories have problems in them

In this lesson, we will be exploring the problem in the Billy Goats Gruff story and the plan to overcome it.

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To know that stories have problems in them

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