(guitar music) ♪ 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) - Hey, good morning fabulous first grade.

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammock, and I'm here to help you learn and practice all the skills that you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

Before we get started though, I wanted to share another story with you.

Remember on Monday, I was reading the story about the Three Bears and Goldilocks and how they changed that story a little?

Here's another one I think you'll enjoy.

This time, they changed the story of the three little pigs to the three Ninja pigs.

I know, isn't that funny?

So the pigs get tired of that big, bad wolf.

So they go to Ninja school to learn jujitsu and karate and all kinds of things to help them protect themselves from the wolf.

I think you'll like this story.

It's really funny.

It might give you an idea for a story.

It's by Corey Rosen Schwartz, the Three Ninja Pigs.

Look for it on Sora or at your county public library.

Let's see who is in the number two spot on our Sora countdown.

Are you ready?

I am.

I can't wait.

Let's see.

Wilson Wild Cats.

Way to go Wild Cats.

Great job.

You've been on our countdown for a few weeks now.

I'm very, very impressed.

Keep up that great reading.

That's gonna make your brain strong.

All right.

Another thing I wanna remind you is that you can send me a letter right here in our PBS classroom.

The address is right on the screen.

Or an email, and I'll send you one of our fun activity books.

We have all kinds and I think you'll enjoy it.

There's puzzles and games, crosswords, things to color.

I think you'll enjoy it.

So I'd love to hear from you and I'll put one of these in the mail.

Make sure that you include your address so I know where to send it.

Okay?

Awesome.

All right my friends, you know what time it is?

Time to train our ears for sound.

That's right.

Today we are playing the deletion game.

Do you remember what delete means?

Right.

You take it away or you get rid of it.

So today you're gonna take away the first sound of the words that I tell you, to make a new word.

You ready to try it?

I know.

I know you're ready.

You're born ready?

Right?

Okay.

Here we go.

Turn.

Let's take away the T and what word do I have?

Urn.

Great.

All right.

How about this one's a little bit harder.

Got to train those ears.

Turn them up.

Twirl.

Twirl.

Let's take away the T, what is my word?

Wirl.

Good job.

How about part?

If I take away P, what is my word?

Art.

Great job.

All right.

You think you can do one more?

Okay.

Let's try it.

Spark.

Spark.

What if I take away the S. Yes.

Park.

Great job.

That was a tricky one.

Right?

Sometimes those words with blends at the beginning are hard to separate.

Good for you.

All right.

This week, we have been concentrating on the four sound spellings for the shirt card.

Let's take a look at our shirt card.

We have E + R says, ER.

I + R says, IR.

U + R says, UR.

And O + R says, OR.

Sometimes remember the O + R doesn't always say the OR sound.

It does, but not often.

It often says a different sound that we're gonna learn about later.

But when you see that, you're gonna have to try it out with a few sounds.

All right.

So this week we're gonna concentrate on UR though.

All right.

I have a word for you.

Are you ready?

Let's read my word.

You ready?

T, UR, N. What do you think?

Turn.

Good.

Turn.

All right.

What if I want to make the word burn.

B, B, burn.

Right.

Now this time I'm not tricking you.

It is still the UR sound.

So if you can make turn, you can make burn.

Good.

What about churn?

Churn.

Do you remember when we talked about the pilgrims and the native Americans?

They were churning butter.

Churn.

What would we do there?

Right.

It's the beginning sound.

C, H, R diagraph.

Churn.

What if I wanna change churn to church?

Church.

What needs to go there?

Exactly.

Good job.

It's another CH.

Church.

Church.

How many sounds does church have?

Church.

Three sounds.

How many letters does church have?

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Wow.

Six letters, but they only make three sounds.

Isn't that cool?

All right.

I told you yesterday that I would have a story for you to read with me and I do.

So we're going to read this story called Ginger and the Stars.

And we're gonna be paying close attention.

I want you looking for a couple of things.

One, our shirt spelling card patterns.

And I want you to see if you can find some high-frequency words.

I bet you will.

All right.

Today, we're just gonna read the first page of our story and then we'll go back and look for some of those spelling patterns.

Here we go.

Oh, let me get my reading finger.

That might help.

Here we go.

It was a great night for seeing stars in the sky.

Ginger and Curt were looking up at them.

Curt started to look through the dark hole.

Do you see right there?

This little picture is kind of small, but he's looking through that little hole right there in the... Do you know what that's called?

Right.

It's a telescope.

It's a telescope.

So he's peeking in there.

Curt said, "I can see more stars than you can.

I can see that the moon is full too."

Ginger started to feel upset.

Her feelings were hurt.

"When is it my turn?"

She asked.

Poor ginger.

Did you see some of those spelling patterns?

Did you hear some of those high-frequency words?

We'll let's see if you found them.

All right.

Her name is Ginger.

Did you see that ER?

What is her friend's name?

Right.

Curt.

Look right there.

And look right here, here's the AR that we learned about last week.

Do you see how we're building onto the things that you're learning?

We just keep adding things, right?

Yep.

There's Curt.

Do you see anything else?

What else?

What do you see?

Yes.

Hurt.

She had hurt feelings.

When is it my turn.

Good.

How about some high-frequency words?

Did you see any of those?

Oh, I knew you would see that one.

Good job.

Yeah.

That one was up there.

So what was happening in our story?

Right.

They went out to look at stars.

Curt was looking through the telescope and he was kind of teasing her, wasn't he?

What did he say?

I can see more stars than you can.

And what happened?

What's the problem?

Right.

She got her feelings hurt.

And we're gonna have to find out what happens tomorrow when we read the rest of our story.

I'm wondering how he's gonna fix her hurt feelings.

You think he will be able to do that?

I hope so.

All right.

Let's take a look at our high-frequency words.

All right.

We have two more today.

We have (indistinct) the one from our story.

Poor.

P, O, O, R. And great.

G, R, E, A, T. Great.

All right, here are our sentences.

That kite is (indistinct).

The (indistinct) girl is sick.

What do you think?

Would it be the great girl is sick?

No, that doesn't really make sense.

The poor girl is sick and that kite is great.

Good job.

All right.

Let's take a look at our inflectional ending of E + R. When we add that E + R to an action word, it becomes a noun that tells us about what the person is doing.

So let's take a look here.

If I have a farm.

If I'm farming, I farm.

So that's something someone does.

They farm.

Then they are a farmer.

If I help, then I am a helper.

Do you see how, when I add that E + R, it changes it?

So help is an action word, but helper is a naming word.

Paint.

Paint is something you do.

And if you paint, you're a painter.

Good job.

All right.

Let's try a few of our sentences and see which word we need to tuck in here.

Are you ready?

I spell, I am a... What do we call somebody that spells?

Right.

A speller.

Okay.

I hunt.

I am a hunt or hunter?

Right.

What do we call someone that hunts?

A Hunter.

Good job.

Very nice.

I pitch.

I am a pitcher or pitch.

Right.

A person that throws pitches is a pitcher.

That reminds me of baseball, you?

I love baseball and it's baseball season.

So I'm super excited about that.

All right, boys and girls, I am really proud of you.

Let's take a look really quick at our words and say them together.

Ready?

Let's start with the two we did today.

Great.

Poor.

Climb.

Full.

Through.

Another.

Did you get them?

Good job.

You've been working really hard this week.

We're learning really grown up things and I'm so proud of how strong your brain is getting, because you can do hard things, right?

I know.

Hey, we have a little bit of extra time.

Do you think you can find some more of our spelling pattern words in our story?

Okay.

Let's try it.

I think that we have a few more that we can find.

Let's see.

Let's see if you can find some of our A + R spelling patterns too.

Right.

Stars, we saw that one.

And here's Curt's name again.

Stars again.

Do you see anything else?

Started.

Good.

Great job.

And there's Ginger's name again.

Very nice.

Well, you're getting really good at this and I hope you'll come back tomorrow so we can figure out what's gonna happen with poor Ginger and see if she gets her feelings fixed.

Do you think she will?

I think so too.

Sing with me, will you?

♪ Good bye now.

♪ ♪ Good bye now.

♪ ♪ The clock says we're done.

♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow.

♪ ♪ Good bye every one.

♪ Happy, happy, happy Thursday.

Bye, bye.

(guitar music) ♪ 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.

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