♪ 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.

♪ (instrumental music) (bright upbeat music) - Good morning fabulous first grade it's Tuesday, February 2nd.

It's Groundhog's Day.

Do you know what that means?

You better make sure you go out and check and see if you can see your shadow.

Today, if the Groundhog sees his shadow he's gonna run back into his house and we're gonna have six more weeks of winter.

But if he comes out and he does not see his shadow, then we will have an early spring.

I wonder which one we're gonna have.

He's almost never wrong.

Oh, I hope it's an early spring, don't you?

Hey, I am reading about famous African-American people in our history that have done amazing things because February we're honoring African-American history month.

And do you like baseball?

I love baseball.

If you like baseball you're going to want to try to find this book.

"I am Jackie Robinson."

He was an amazing man who played baseball and he was like a trail blazer.

He did things that no one else had done before.

I want you to learn more about his amazing story.

You can check for this book on Sora, or at your County public library.

I think you will enjoy reading about this man who paved the way for so many other ballplayers.

I think you're gonna like it.

Hey, let's take a look at our Sora.

We're gonna see who's in the number four spot.

Are you ready?

Great, let's check it out, here we go.

Olmos Elementary School.

Way to go sons, you are number four on our list this week.

Keep reading, great job.

Boys and girls, I still have quite a few of these fabulous activity books.

And if you would like one, I would love to send you one.

Will you please write me a letter here at our studio and send it to me?

You can use the address right on your screen.

You can even send an email just make sure you give me your address so that I can write back to you and I can send you your activity book.

I think you're gonna like it.

All right my friends.

It is time for us to warm up and train our ears for sound.

Are you ready, terrific.

All right, today we're gonna do a game that you know really well, it's called segmenting.

I am gonna tell you a word, and I want you to tell me the sounds in the word and how many sounds there are.

We're gonna take it apart sound by sound.

Here we go.

Keep, keep, what did you hear?

K-ee-p, keep, good, three sounds terrific.

How about she?

She, sh-e, she two sounds terrific.

And the last one I have for you, teeth, teeth.

T-ee-th, teeth, three sounds you did that very, very well.

Did you notice that, keep, she, and teeth, all have what sound in them?

The /e/ sound that's right because that is our focus sound right?

And we're learning some new spelling patterns with that sound.

So, the next thing on our to-do list is our fluency.

Let's review a few of the sounds that we already know.

All right, here we go.

PH says, /ph/, ch says, /ch/ sh says /sh/ wh says, /wh/ tch says, /tch/, remember that goes at the end of a word.

Th says /th/ like in thumb.

Then last week we concentrated on some spelling patterns for the /a/ sound.

Ay says /ay/, ai says /ai/.

A consonant e say /ae/.

I consonant e says /ie/.

O consonant e says /oe/.

U consonant e says /ue/, and e consonant e says /ee/.

Great, all right, so, remember, we're thinking about the /e/ sound.

So let's take a look at our chart here.

We have the tree card because we are concentrating on some of these other spelling patterns.

You see all of them?

We're not doing all of them because that would be too many to learn at once but we have four that we're gonna work on this week.

Let me get my pointer finger, let's do it.

Ea says /ea/ like in read.

Ee says /ee/ like in tree.

E says /e/ like in she.

And ie says /ie/ as in field, good job.

All right, I have a word that we're going to practice blending together.

Do you remember how to do that?

Right, one sound at a time, good job.

Here we go.

N and then what does spelling pattern say?

Ea and then t, n-ea-t, neat, neat.

Wow, you did that neat.

All right, let's change neat to beat, beat.

All right, I'm gonna get rid of the beginning sound here.

And what sound do I need at the beginning now?

B that's right, beat, good job.

Beat, this is like, I beat the drum but did you know there's a vegetable that's also called a beet?

And it is spelled with two E's it's kind of tricky, isn't it?

Yes, it is, that's why we practice beat.

This is the beating of a drum.

Let's try to make this word say, seat, seat.

What would I need to do there?

Right, I'm gonna get rid of that, and what says the /s/ Yep, S is for, /s/ and now I have seat.

Please take your seat, great job.

Let's take a look at our reading practice chart and we're gonna practice reading some of those words together.

Now, remember, I've underlined the spelling pattern to help you remember when you see that it's going to say that /e/ sound.

So, let's start here in the middle.

Ready, d-ee-p, deep.

Sp-ea-k, speak, ch-ie-f, chief.

F-ie-ld, field, oh look at that ending blend we've got to really work on that.

Sn-ee-ze sneeze, and b-eat, beat.

Great job, let's read our sentence.

Dean reads each day of the week.

Terrific, I hope you read each day of the week.

I want you to be the best reader ever and you have to practice in order for that to happen.

Just like anything else you do.

All right, let's take a look at our high frequency words.

Today, we're just going to concentrate on two of them.

Are you ready?

Let me put this down.

All right, we have blue.

Say it with me, blue, and now spell it with me.

B-L-U-E, blue great.

All right, are you ready for the next one?

It's that great big one.

That's right, because, say it with me, because.

Now spell it with me.

B-E-C-A-U-S-E, because, you might need to write this one down to practice so that you can read it, but also so that you can write it.

Because when we're working on high frequency words we need to be able to read and write them.

So, practice the ones that you're having trouble with.

Let's take a look at our sentence.

I like fries mmh they're so yummy.

Okay, remember, you're gonna try to decide which word goes in the sentence to make sense.

Let's look at the next one.

My favorite color is... That's an easy one isn't it?

That's an easy one that has to be blue.

Is your favorite color blue?

My friend Olivia, who wrote to me she said her favorite color was red.

But maybe your favorite color is blue.

All right, let's look at this one.

I like fries because they are so yummy.

Oh, I love fries, don't you love fries?

They are so yummy.

Okay, let's take a look at the last thing I have for us today.

You did great on your high-frequency words.

Today, we're gonna be learning about prefixes.

Can you say that, prefixes.

Okay, so, that's kind of a fancy school word and it really means a part of a word that we add to the beginning.

So we add some, a word part to the beginning and it changes what the word means.

So, let me show you what I mean.

'Cause sometimes it's easier to see it.

So we're gonna learn three prefixes this week.

We're gonna learn re- and you can see that little line there because that's gonna tell us it's gonna go at the beginning of the word.

Re- and re- means again.

We're gonna learn un- and un- means not.

It can also mean the opposite of something.

And we're gonna learn pre-, pre- means before.

So whenever you see the word pre- it's gonna mean before.

And so you're gonna need to think about the word that it's used with.

I'm gonna show you what I mean.

Here is the word heat, heat.

I like to turn on the oven to heat the dinner, okay?

But if I add re- which means again, then it says reheat.

That means I'm gonna heat it again.

I will reheat the dinner, when my husband comes home.

Reheat that means I'm gonna heat it again.

Great, all right, let's take a look at this one.

This word says clean, clean.

I know you know what that means, right?

'Cause I bet someone has told you clean up your room.

Well, if we add the prefix un-, it becomes unclean.

That means it's not clean or it's the opposite of clean.

So your room might be unclean.

So what am I saying?

Right, it means it's messy, right?

It is not clean.

So when I add that prefix un- in front of the word clean, it changes the meaning.

All right, I have one more for you.

This word or this prefix is pre-, pre- means before.

So whenever you see pre- at the beginning of a word it's gonna mean before something.

And here's my word read.

So if I add pre-, I now have preread.

That means I'm gonna read it before.

So I might read a story before I read it to you.

I would preread the story.

You see how that works?

Awesome, we're gonna keep working on that all week long.

Will you sing with me?

♪ Good bye now good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow.

♪ ♪ Good bye everyone ♪ Can come back and see me tomorrow, bye-bye.

(instrumental 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 ♪ (instrumental music)