♪ 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 guitar music) (upbeat music) (whistling) - Good morning, Fabulous first grade.

Hey, it is wonderful Wednesday.

I'm so glad you're here with me in our PBS classroom.

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

Hey, all the month of February is Black History Month, and we're learning about famous African-Americans in our history that have done amazing things to make our lives better.

And this story that I'm reading today is "We March" by Shane W. Evans.

And it is a great story about a family that is getting dressed and ready to go and participate in the March on Washington, where they will get to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

I hope that you will take time this month to learn, not just about Martin Luther King Jr, but the millions of other famous, or should be famous, African-Americans who have participated in history, and just done some amazing, incredible things.

And sometimes we don't spend time learning about them.

And so I want you to do some of that learning.

All right.

You can look for this book on Sora.

You might also find it at your county public library.

I hope you'll do some reading about the men and women that have made our world so amazing.

All right, it's time for us to look and see who our number three school is on Sora.

Are you ready?

Okay, let's take a look.

(makes bugle introduction sound) Ewing Eagles.

All right.

Way to go, Ewing.

You know what?

Mrs. Hammock used to be a Ewing Eagle.

I was a Ewing Eagle from kindergarten all the way to sixth grade.

So I'm super proud of you, Eagles.

Great job!

Boys and girls, I would love to send you an activity book.

Have you gotten one yet?

Do you know how to get one?

All you have to do is write me a letter, send me an email or a note and tell me something that you're learning or something that you like.

You can tell me anything you'd like.

Maybe you have a book that you would like me to tell others about.

I would love to do that.

So send me a letter to the address right on the screen, and I'll send you an activity book.

Make sure you give me your address so I know where to send it.

You can even send an email.

Just make sure your address is there, and I'll be sure to get this in the mail to you.

I can't wait to hear all about what you're doing.

All right, my friends, it's time for us to train our ears for sound.

Are you ready?

Great.

Today we're gonna play a segmenting game.

I am going to give you some sounds, or some letters, or a word.

Let me say that again.

I'm gonna give you a word and I want you to take it apart one segment at a time, or one sound group at a time.

I brought some dots to kind of help us as we go.

Are you ready?

All right.

The first word is light, light.

Let's take it apart.

Are you ready?

L, i, t. Light.

How many sounds?

One, two, three.

Good job.

Light has three sounds.

All right, let's try another one.

Are you ready?

Take this word apart.

Sky.

Sky.

Ooh, it's kind of tricky.

Are you ready?

S, k, sk, i. Sk, i, sky.

Good job.

That one also has three sounds.

You ready to try my last one?

Okay.

That word is flight.

flight.

Okay, let's do it.

What's the first sound?

F, l, fl, i, t. Fl, ight.

Flight.

How'd you do?

Great.

How many sounds did you hear?

Fl, i, t. Four.

You did that very, very well.

All right.

Let's move our dots out of the way, and let's get ready for some fluency, okay?

We're gonna practice those sounds.

Make sure you write down the ones that you're not sure about so you can practice.

O-A says O. O-W says O. O-E says O. A-Y says A. A-I says A. E-A says E. E-E says E. And I-E says E. Now I wanted to show you, look, oh, look, we're looking at the long I sound.

And I-E sometimes says E, but often it says the I sound.

But I want you to know that.

That's why long vowels are so tricky because sometimes it's hard to know which sound to read.

That's why we practice.

All right.

Let's take a look at our silent E spelling patterns.

Let's get that put up.

Here we go.

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. Great job.

Let's take a look at our long I spelling patterns.

Here's our five card.

That's where we're gonna find all the ways to spell the long I.

So here we go.

Say it with me.

I says I as in idea.

Y says I as in why.

I-G-H says I as in flight.

And I-E says I as in lie.

Great job.

All right.

Make sure you're practicing that and get that really locked in.

Today I have a word for us to practice, sounding out.

Are you ready?

Here we have the I-E spelling pattern.

And we're gonna build some words with that pattern today.

Here is our first word.

P, I. Pie.

Did you do it?

Good.

What if I put this sound in front pie?

If I change the p to a t it becomes tie.

Great job.

What if I change the t to a l?

Then it becomes lie.

Great job.

You did that really well.

Let's take a look at our reading chart.

All right, today I organized our words by the way that the long I is spelled so that we could practice with some of those spelling patterns.

So the first row is with the Y says I.

Let's read it.

Fly, sky, by, try, shy.

Good job.

The next row has I-E says I.

Let's read those.

Tie, pie, die.

Oh, look, here's our D at the end, our E-D at the end, fried and ties.

Good job.

Let's read one more row.

Here we have our I-G-H says I.

High, night, light, might, and fight.

Terrific.

How'd you do?

Are you getting it?

Are you starting to see that spelling pattern when you look at a word?

I hope so cause that will help you.

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

We have two that we're gonna work on today.

The word flew, like the bird flew.

F-L-E-W, flew.

Yep.

All right, how about this one?

Were.

Spell it with me.

W-E-R-E, were.

All right, here are our sentences.

The butterfly hmm away.

Be thinking which one it might be.

They hmm playing in the mud.

All right, wat do you think?

What's your idea?

Which one makes sense where?

The butterfly flew.

Great job.

Flew away.

The butterfly flew away.

And they were playing in the mud.

Terrific.

That's how we use our high-frequency words in sentences.

Now, yesterday we were practicing structural analysis with inflectional endings, that E-S and that E-D. And let's read what we learned yesterday and practice it.

When a word ends in Y, we have to change the Y to I before we add E-S or E-D. All right.

So when we have words that end in a Y they have to change before we can add E-S or E-D.

So let's practice with this first word.

This word is dry.

I hope the towel is dry.

Now, if I want to say dries, the dryer dries the towel, I'm going to change that Y to an I, and then add E-S. Do you see how that looks?

Dry, dries.

I'm gonna do the same thing.

If it already happened in the past, we used E-D.

So if it dried, then that means I'm gonna change the Y to an I before I add E-D. Dry, dries, dried.

See how that works?

All right, let's try this one.

Here's the word fly.

Fly.

The bird flies in the sky.

Here's my Y. I'm gonna get rid of it.

I'm gonna take it off and change it to an I, and then add E-S.

Fly, flies.

And if it already did that, well, we wouldn't say flied, would we?

What would we say instead of flied?

'cause that's not really true.

We wouldn't say he flied.

We would say he, what's our word?

Flew.

Very good.

Good job.

So we would say fly, flies, and flew.

It would change completely.

Isn't that crazy?

I know.

English is a very tricky language to learn to read and write, but you're doing great.

All right, let's try one more.

Here's try.

He tries.

He tries his best.

How would we change that?

We're going to get rid of the Y and add I-E-S.

Try, tries.

How about he tried to win?

All right, we're gonna get rid of, or take off the Y, change it to an I, and add E-D. Good job.

We have try, tries, and tried.

We have fly, flies, and flew.

That changes completely.

And we have dry, dries and dried.

How'd you do?

Great job.

See, I told you you can do hard things.

You just gotta practice.

I'm so happy you came and helped me today.

I want you to come back tomorrow 'cause we have a little story to read, and we're gonna practice some more E-Ds and E-S endings.

You're doing awesome.

Great job.

Will you sing with me?

♪ Goodbye now ♪ ♪ Goodbye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ Come back and see me tomorrow.

Bye-bye.

(upbeat 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 guitar music)