♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Good morning fabulous first grade, welcome back to our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, and I'm here to help you practice and learn all the skills you need to be excellent readers and writers.

And all this week we're gonna concentrate on the writing part of that.

It's gonna be great.

All right, but before we get started we need to talk about reading.

Right I hope you're reading some really great books.

If you're in Fresno Unified we use Sora to check out digital books.

If you're not in Fresno Unified, you can always check out books from your Fresno County public library because the only way to get to be a good reader is to, that's right practice.

So let's check out our Sora top five schools to see which school is in number five for all the checkouts for this past week.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

All right in the number five spot we have Turner Tigers.

Way to go Turner, great job.

I think you've been on our list a few times now.

You must be doing something right over there.

Great job.

Hey boys and girls I would love to hear what you're reading.

I'd love for you to send me a letter and tell me all about a book that you'd like me to share here in our classroom.

And if you do, I'll send you one of our fun activity books.

Make sure that you send your letter to the address on the screen and include your address so I know where to send this activity book.

I always love to read your letters and find out how you're doing.

So write to me will you, excellent.

All right, boys and girls today we are going to be talking about grammar and mechanics of writing and then I'm gonna do a little writing together.

So let's take a look here at our easel and we're gonna talk today about verbs.

Do you know what a verb is?

Do you remember?

A verb or verbs are action words that tell what something or someone is doing.

So we have to have nouns in our sentences.

Those are the people, places and things.

And then we have to have verbs because that tells us what they are doing.

So here are some samples of some verbs that you've probably used or heard.

Play, eat, dance, sing, sleep, run, paint drink, speak, travel, read, bathe, watch, talk and swim.

Have you done some of those things?

I bet you have, well, this week we're gonna learn about all kinds of verbs.

Today we're just gonna focus on just what they are and how to identify them.

And I'll help you out.

We're gonna do a little work in our pocket chart and then we're gonna do some practice work on our worksheet page.

So you can see what that would look like in practice.

So when your teacher assigned you something you'll know what to do.

Okay, excellent.

Let me get my pocket chart over here.

And let's talk about verbs.

Now I like to always say, you know, I have a, you remember we have a noun song right.

Noun is a person place or thing.

Right, do you remember that?

Well, I don't have a song for verbs but what I like to do is say verbs are an action word because then it reminds me, oh, that's right.

It's something that someone or something can do.

Sometimes we can see the action like running, jumping, hopping.

Sometimes we can't like thinking or reading.

So I want you to remember it's what the noun is doing.

So let's take a look at our sentences.

I'll give you some help with this first sentence.

It says, Kate walks to school.

Kate is the person in our story in our sentence.

And what is she doing?

She walks.

Walks is our verb.

Let's look at the next one.

The whale swims fast.

The sentences is about a whale.

And what is he doing, what's the action.

Right swims, swims fast good.

Now this next one, I did not give you a hint and I want to see how you do picking out the verbs.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

Jacob kicks the ball and runs.

Do you see any action that this happening?

Shout it out.

Right, kicks.

The story is about Jacob.

He kicks.

Does he do anything else?

Great, he runs.

That's awesome.

Good thinking.

All right, so this is all about verbs.

We're gonna switch gears a little bit and talk about mechanics.

This week we're gonna talk about commas in a series.

All that means is when we're writing a sentence that makes a list of three or more words we need to separate them by commas.

Let me show you what I mean.

I saw baby goat, pigs and chicks.

So do you see how I made a list here of the animals that I saw?

Goats, pigs, chicks.

That's more than two.

So I can't say, I shouldn't say, I saw baby goats and pigs and chicks.

Instead we use commas to separate them.

Just like I did here.

A comma looks like an apostrophe, you're right.

Only what's the difference, Right it's on the bottom.

So let's see if we can put some commas in this sentence.

I like to pet, hug and play with my dog.

Let's take a look.

So let's find what we're doing here.

I like to, what are the things I'm doing?

Pet, hug, play.

So pet comma, hug, comma and then I don't need another comma for and play.

Did you see that, great job.

Let's look at this one.

Omari can run, skip and jump.

So let's see, Omari can run comma, skip, comma, and jump.

Great job.

That is called commas in a series.

Let's take a look at what that might look like in a practice page.

So here I have first, we're gonna go back to our verbs and then we'll move down to the commas in a series.

You ready?

Okay.

A verb is a word that shows action.

So find the verb in each group and draw a circle around the verb.

So I'm gonna read these words.

I want you to shout out the word you think is the verb.

Here we go.

Pam, hat, sit.

What do you think?

Is Pam and action word, no How about hat?

Oh, no, that's something you wear on your head.

But sit is something you can do.

Terrific.

But how about runs, red, pup?

What do you think?

Runs is something you can do.

Great job.

Hey, let's go down here.

And if we have time at the end of our lessons, we'll go back.

But let's take a look at some commas in a series.

Circle the commas in the sentence.

I will mix, bake and sell this cake.

Do you see the comma here?

Mix, that's one thing, bake, that's two things and sell.

That makes three things.

So they're separated by the commas.

Let's see if we can put commas in this sentence.

My cat licks, naps and plays all day.

My cat licks, comma, naps, comma, and plays all day.

Good job.

Let's try one more.

It is fun to run, comma, catch, comma, and pitch in the game.

Very good.

Now, I don't know if you've ever used that in your writing but I hope that you'll give it a try commas in a series.

When you write three words in a list, put a comma after the first two words.

Terrific.

So today I told you we're gonna talk about writing but we have to have something to write about.

So we're going to listen to a story about penguins.

Don't you love penguins, me too.

I want you to be thinking about our essential question.

How do animals help each other?

Because we're gonna do some writing right after you enjoy this story.

Listen to the story carefully, here it comes.

- [Narrator] "Penguins All Around" by Donna Loughran.

Penguins are birds that cannot fly but they can waddle or move from side to side when they walk.

Penguins live in large groups.

Penguins are very good swimmers.

They have wings that help them swim, webbed feet help them swim too.

See the penguins go.

They dive into the blue sea to get food.

These penguins are good divers.

Penguins feed together.

They eat fish and krill.

Krill are small shrimp that float on the water.

To stay safe from danger penguins live in groups.

Also the black feathers help them hide in the dark sea from animals above them.

The white feathers hide them from animals below them.

Seals hunt penguins for food.

Swimming penguins are hard to see from above.

Some penguins live in very cold places.

They take turns standing on the outside of the group.

They move to the inside when they get too cold.

Penguins shield one another from the cold.

Each year penguins make a nest with a partner.

Some use stones to make a nest.

Other penguins use grass, this penguin rest in a grass nest.

This penguin has an egg now.

When will it open?

Wait and see.

This penguin is keeping its egg warm.

The baby chicks have hatched.

Mom and dad work as a team to care for them.

These chicks have fluffy gray feathers.

This penguin mom feeds her chick.

The baby penguins get bigger and bigger so they will go out to see.

The penguins will stay there until it's time to make nest again.

- Did you enjoy that story?

Awesome.

Hey our essential question is, how do animals help each other?

Did you see some ways that penguins help each other?

Right, so today we're gonna write our very first sentence of our story, it's a topic sentence.

Penguins, help each other in many ways.

We got to get going so let's try it.

Penguins, I'm gonna help you with that.

That's my topic sentence.

That means this story that we're gonna write is all about how they help each other.

Penguins helped me with help.

Help.

H-E-L-P Help, penguins help each, E-A-C-H other, that's one of our sight words.

What else?

in many, Oh, look, there's that Y that says that E sound, ways, look, there's the a Y that says the long A. Penguins help each other in many ways.

That's our topic sentence.

That means all the other things we're gonna write are gonna be about the ways that they help each other.

I hope you'll come back tomorrow and help me write the next part of our story.

Will you?

Great.

Will you sing with me?

♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock ays we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Good bye everyone ♪ ♪ Good morning to brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪