 I say Kate and welcome to story story. Today we're going to be focusing on character buildings and all different kinds of characters that live in our body and live out in the world. Let's first start with a warm up. Okay, raise your hands tall like a tree stretching out the whole body and go to one side. Oh that feels good doesn't it? And reach up like a tree tall and to the other side. Grab one foot balance yourself and stretch it back just like this and drop it off to the next one and stretching out that leg. Nice and let's reach up again tall like a tree and bend all the way down touching your toes touching like this and come up with a shake. What are you chewing? Eat after me. Ten tiny Timmy Tigers. One wise whistling wizard. Tooting tuba tuners. And let me see if you can get this one. A big black bug, blood, blood. One more time. A big black bug, blood, blood. Nice you guys. Now let's do a nice shake out. Let's start from seven going all the way to one shaking each different body part. Follow me. One two three four five six seven. One two three four five six seven. One two three four five six seven. One two three four five six. One two three four five six. One two three four five six. One two three four five six. One two three four five. One two three four five. One two three four five. One two three four five. One two three four. One two 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, shake all your body, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, you go crazy, go crazy, ahhh! Freeze. Ah, so you guys, you feeling warm? Let's get started. So our first question today, what makes a story? What makes a story? What is a story? What are the three things that we need for a story to happen? What's a story? Let's see, name one thing that you need in a story. Nice. My answer is time and place, a setting, where are you at? Right now I'm at home, right now you're at home, in the daytime, time and place. Our second thing we need to make a story is characters. I'm a character, you're a character, there's characters all outside. So for example, we have a time and characters, once upon a time, time. There was a young boy, a character, who lived in a house, a setting. Once upon a time there was a young boy who lived in a house. We already have the beginning of our story, time and place and character. The last thing we need is nice. My answer, event, action. Something needs to happen. Once upon a time there was a young boy who lived in a house and one day a bird flew into his house and spoke to him. We have an event, an action, something new happened. We have a boy who is now talking to a bird. We have him in a house and a place talking to a bird. There's our story. Now let's create characters now, just using our bodies. Like I said, characters are you and me and everyone you see around. So if I walk around like this, what character am I playing? Nice, something royal, a queen or a king. Just by having my chest out, walking slowly, swaying side to side. What about if I shake my body like this? Who am I playing? Just my character, an old woman or man, yes. Just by bending over and walking back and forth like this, I shape my body and create a whole new character that's outside of myself. Let's play with that. Follow me. Let's create characters with our bodies. Lift your pinky. Raise your eyebrows. Raise your shoulder. Bend one of your knees. Raise your hand. Raise your hair. Okay, freeze. Save just like this. Now try to walk around. How do you walk like this character? How does this character's voice sound? How do we walk around? I created a whole different character by changing my body and changing my voice and you can do that at home as well. Okay, let's go back to what is story. Let me think of a story that has characters, time, place and an event, the three little pigs. So what does that take place? What's the first house? A hay house, yes. What's the second house? Sticks and the third one, bricks, right? And the characters, three little pigs and a wolf, right? And what happens? Right? He tries to go to the first house, tries to blow it down and it all falls down. And then he tries to go to the second house which blows it all the way down and then he goes to the third house and he cannot blow it down for it is made of bricks, strong. Okay? So that has a beginning, a middle and an end. So let's take the characters from the three little pigs. Let's say the first little pig. How does the first little pig want to stand? It's a little scared, huh? I think so. Let's make him stand like this. Bend my knees. Scared. How does your first little pig look? Nice, I like it. Let's go to our second little pig. Maybe our second little pig is a little bit more brave. But still a little scared. How does your second little pig stand? Nice. And let's go to our last little pig. Think the last little pig is a little brave, right? How does your last little pig stand? Nice. And let's go to our wolf. How does your wolf look? Yeah, I like that. Okay, so let's bring up my friend, Jim Bae. Can you say that? Jim Bae. Nice. So this is my magical drum. And it makes us turn into characters. So when you hear it make this sound, you're going to turn into one of the characters. First little pig, second little pig, third little pig, our wolf. First, we'll start with your favorite. So think of your favorite one right now. And remember those postures that you had and stay frozen, okay? And your favorite. Nice. Some wolves are showing up in some pigs. I like it. Now, go by my direction. First little pig, second little pig, third little pig. Wolf. Nice. And first little pig. And first little pig. Got you there. Hey, little pig. Third little pig. Got you. Wolf. Now I'll do it with you one time. And first little pig. Awesome, shake that out, shake that out. Oh, great. So now you know that characters are all around you. Watch how people walk, watch how you walk, how they talk. There's all different kinds of characters all around you. And they are all so beautiful, okay? That brings us to the end of our lesson today. Let's take three breaths together. Follow me. Inhale. One more time, make it big and inhale. And let's clap all together at the same time. One, two, three. Awesome, you guys. Thank you so much for joining me today. I am Ayeshae Keita and welcome to Story Story. Have a great day.