(acoustic guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and the games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (whistling music) - Good morning, fabulous first grade.

Hey, are you home from school today?

I bet you are.

Do you know why?

Today our country is celebrating Abraham Lincoln's birthday.

He was our 16th president and he did some major things while he was president.

So I have a story to share that you might want to look up up on Sora or at your county public library.

It's called "Just Like Abraham Lincoln."

This is a story about a little boy whose neighbor looks, you guessed it, just like Abraham Lincoln, and it is full of adventures and how he loves to learn about Abraham Lincoln.

And there's a surprise at the end, so you might want to find out more about this story.

The story is "Just Like Abraham Lincoln" by Bernard Waber, and you can look for it on Sora or at your county public library.

Hey, it's a new week, so we need to check our top 10 Sora countdown, or top five, sorry, Sora countdown.

Let's see who checks in this week at number five.

Are you ready?

Okay, let's do it.

Let's see, down here at number five we have Olmos Elementary School, the Suns, way to go Suns.

Terrific, great job.

Hey, boys and girls, I want you to make sure you're reading at home because that's how you get better.

I also have some fun activities that you could practice that also could help you, helps you grow your brain with thinking.

If you would like one of these free activity books, all you have to do is send me a letter and tell me what you're doing and what you'd like, and I will send you one of these in the mail.

Be sure to include your home address so I know where to send it, okay?

Okay, awesome.

Hey, it is time now for us to get started and train our brain.

I'm Mrs. Hammock, in case you forgot, and you're here in our PBS classroom to learn all the skills you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

And each day that we're together, we start with phonemic awareness, and then there's just training our ears for sound so that we can hear sounds and we can repeat them and change them.

Today I have a little game for you.

It's called categorization.

It means I'm gonna give you three words and I want you to tell me which word does not belong.

So you're gonna need to listen to the sounds very carefully.

Two of them have the same sound, but one is different.

Are you ready?

Okay, turn up your good listening ears.

Here we go.

Bone, cake, hope.

Did you hear it?

What do you think?

Which one doesn't belong?

Bone, cake, hope.

Yes, great job, cake has the A sound and bone and hope have the O sound.

Great listening for a Monday morning.

Ready to try some more?

Okay, here we go.

Goat, team, road.

What do you think?

Goat, team, road.

You're right, team does not belong.

Team has the E sound and goat and road both have the O sound.

Are you getting a hint about what our week, our focus might be this week?

Let's see if you can do the next one.

Bowl, roast, feed.

What do you think?

Yes, feed, great job.

Bowl and roast to have the O sound, and feed has the E sound.

All right, good job.

Let's practice some fluency.

Those are the sounds that you already know, but we want to practice them to make sure that they are automatic.

Now, if there's a sound spelling that you do not know very well, I want you to write it down and I want you to practice it all week long so that you can get it locked into your brain.

Are you ready for fluency?

Terrific.

All right, we're gonna start with some of our diagraphs 'cause sometimes those are hard to lock in.

Here we go.

PH says /f/ like fish.

CH says /ch/.

SH says /sh/.

WH says /hwa/, /hwa/.

TCH also says /ch/, /ch/.

TH says /th/.

And then we practiced some long vowel spelling patterns.

Do you remember this one?

AY says /A/, good job.

We also learned that AI says /A/.

Last week we learned that EA says /E/, good job.

And we learned that EE also says /E/.

And sometimes IE says /E/, although not very often.

Now, a while ago, a few weeks ago, we learned about the silent E spelling patterns.

So let's take a review of those.

A consonant E says A. I consonant E says I. O consonant E says O. U consonant E says U.

And E consonant E says E. Did you get 'em?

Terrific.

All right, so let's take a look because this week we are gonna learn some new spelling patterns of long vowels.

This time we're focusing on the letter O, as in boat.

Here's my boat card.

It has the O in the middle.

Did you see it?

So there are five ways to spell the long O sound.

So when you hear O in a word, we're gonna learn some of the ways that you might spell that when you're writing it.

So here is O all by itself.

So say this with me.

O says O.

Great job.

Okay, we also have OA.

OA says O.

Your turn.

Good.

OW says O.

Good.

And OE says O.

All week long we're gonna be practicing all of these different ways to spell the long O sound.

All right?

Okay, some of them are a little easier than others, so pay attention to which ones you might need extra practice with.

Now, we're gonna practice blending, using that, those OAs and OW and OEs.

You ready?

All right, here I have a word with the OA sound.

So when we see that OA, we're gonna think, "Oh, that says O."

So here we go.

What does this sound say?

/G/, /O/ and then /t/.

Let's try it, /goat/.

A little faster, goat, goat, good job.

All right, let's try this one.

Are you ready?

This OE says O.

So when we get there, you're gonna say O.

Even though there's two vowels there, it just says the long O sound.

Here we go.

/T/, /O/, toe.

Great job.

How about this one?

Now, remember OW says O.

/T/, /O/, tow.

Hey, did you hear that?

This one says toe and this one says tow.

Are they the same?

No, they're not the same.

That's why it's so tricky.

I want you to look right here.

When you see toe with an OE it's talking about your toe on your foot, but when you see toe with an OW it's talking about what you might do with a car, if you tow a car, so they sound the same, but they are not the same.

They don't mean the same thing and they are not spelled the same way.

Isn't that kind of tricky?

We're gonna talk more about that.

All right, let's take a look at this last word.

Here we have an O all by itself and it's gonna say O, ready?

/M/, /O/, /st/, most.

How'd you do?

We're gonna practice all week, and I know it's really tricky, but you can do hard things, remember?

All right, let's take a look at what that looks like, some of those spelling patterns, on our reading practice chart.

And I want you to try to sound them out with me and let's read.

We're gonna do just a couple of rows together today.

You ready?

Okay.

Oh, you know this one?

NO spells no.

No, go, so, /gro/, grow, /b/ /oth/, both.

/Kold/, cold, ooh, look at those ending blends.

/Bold/, bold.

Load and goes, goes.

Great job.

You did that really well.

I think you are going to be excellent long O readers.

We're gonna keep practicing this week.

It's time for us to look at our high-frequency words.

Remember, those are the words that we need to know as fast as we know our name because we don't want to stop and sound them out.

Some of them cannot be sounded out.

These are words you're gonna see all the time in everything you read, so that's why we call them high frequency.

It means they show up a lot.

Let's read what our words are this week.

I want to read them and spell them.

And I want you to spell them and read them with me.

Okay?

All right, here we go.

More M-O-R-E, more.

Start S-T-A-R-T, start.

Find F-I-N-D, find.

Food F-O-O-D, food.

Over O-V-E-R. Are you saying it with me?

Good.

Warm W-A-R-M, warm.

And then I have some sentences for you.

I'm gonna read them to you.

You'll be thinking which high-frequency word is in that sentence.

I gave you a little hint on the first one.

Alrighty.

"We hike over the hill."

Did you see the word over?

Good.

"Give Spot some food."

What do you see in that one?

Right, that one's food, right there.

"I will find my coat."

What do you think?

Yes, find, great thinking.

"Jen has more books."

Did you see the word more?

Good for you.

"It is warm in the sun."

Yep, there it is, warm.

And "start the bus so we can go."

There's start.

Great job today.

Hey, we're out of time, but I need you to sing with me, will you?

♪ Goodbye now, goodbye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ Come back and work with me tomorrow on some more long Os.

Okay?

Great, I'll be waiting right here.

Bye-bye.

(acoustic 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 ♪