(bright 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 ♪ (bright music) (Lively music) - Hey, welcome back to our PBS classroom.

Good morning.

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

I was reading a really silly story.

Do you like dinosaurs?

Did you ever wonder what happened to them?

Why aren't they here anymore?

Well, this story clears it all up, sort of.

Dinosaurs Love Underpants.

What?

Yep, shh, I said it, stop giggling.

Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort.

Have you ever heard of this story?

Well, it is just a make-believe story or what we call a fiction story, but it is really fun and silly.

And if you like to read stories that make you laugh, you would love this one.

So I hope you'll look for it on Sora or at your County Public Library.

It is really good and it's gonna make you smile, I just know it.

Even when you say the title, I know you're gonna to start giggling.

'Cause I know how you are.

So I hope you look for it.

All right, let's take a look and see who is number three on our Sora countdown.

Are you ready?

All right, here we go.

In the third spot we have, Wilson Wildcats.

Way to go Wilson, good job.

You've been on our list for a couple of weeks now, I'm so proud of you.

That is excellent, excellent work.

I can tell the Wilson Wildcats are gonna be excellent readers because they're checking out books on Sora, so they can practice reading.

Isn't that awesome?

If you want your name on our list, I hope you'll be checking out books, and tell a friend, "Check out some books."

Hey, if you're already checking out books from the County Library or from Sora, I wanna know what you're reading.

I want you to tell me what books you're reading and what you like, so that I can share those here in our classroom with the boys and girls that are watching.

Because everybody needs a good book suggestion, right?

Sometimes we don't even know about books and then they turn out to be our favorites.

So if you're reading something you think other boys and girls would like, would you please send me a letter here at our studio in our classroom and I will send you a free Activity Book as a thank you for sharing your reading ideas with me.

And make sure when you write to me that you send your address so that I know where to send this great book.

You can send me a letter in the mail, we call that snail mail, 'cause it's a little bit slower.

Or you can send me an email, which is an electronic mail.

And I love those too.

So, send me a letter.

All right, my friends, it's time for us to wake up our brains.

And we are going to, yep, that's it, train our ears for sound.

Are you ready?

We are gonna do one of the most important things that we learn and practice in first grade.

Today we're gonna play the blending game.

Yep, it's a game.

Are you ready?

I am gonna tell you some sounds, you're gonna put them together and tell me what my word is.

You ready to try it?

Here we go.

F, ar, far, good job.

All right, now, you try it without me.

C, ar.

Should we do it a little faster?

C, ar, car.

Good job.

All right, now this one's a little trickier.

It has four sounds that you need to put together.

Here we go.

Sh, ar, p. Sh, ar, p, sharp.

Great job, wow!

That's exactly the skill that we use when we're looking at letters and sounding them out and blending them together.

So, see how great you are at it already?

Fabulous.

I'm so proud of you, because you can do hard things.

Speaking of hard things, let's take a look at our star card.

This is our ar controlled vowel, a, r says ar.

Do you have your magic finger ready?

Let's trace it and say it, a, r says ar.

Did you see how I underlined it?

That just kind of is an extra thing to help it get locked in.

Let's try it one more time.

A, r says ar, and then give it an underline.

Good job.

All right, I have a word that we're gonna read together, we're gonna blend it just like we did, without looking at letters, but this time we have some letters with phone names.

Do you remember what h says?

Yes, h, h. And then we have ar, and then we have the m. Do you remember that sound?

Right, that's our map card.

It says m. So we have h, ar, m. H, arm, harm.

Harm, good job.

Harm means like to, if you're in danger, like, we don't want, or if we are hurting something, we don't want to harm our Earth, we wanna take care of it, right?

So, harm.

All right, let's see if we can build some together.

This is a different skill.

So here we are segment, or we're blending, now we're gonna segment a word and build it, you ready?

Okay, I have the word.

Ch, oh, nope, let's try this one, s, car, sc, sc.

Do you hear it?

What does that sound?

Right, it is a consonant blend.

And I didn't put mine up here but that's okay, because we can build it without that card, right?

Sc, sc.

Did you get it?

Sc, and then ar, is the ending sound.

Oh, look at that.

Here the a, r is in the middle, here it is at the end.

Sc, ar, scar.

And look at that, if I cover up the s, what word is that?

Right, car.

So if you know how to read and spell scar, then you also know how to read and spell, car.

Great job.

Let's try another one.

You ready?

Okay.

What about if I want to spell the word, charge?

Charge, ch, ch.

Yep, that's the c, h. That's our digraph c, h, ch, ch.

Then we have ar.

Now, what are we gonna do here?

It's the j sound.

What do you think, does that say charge?

No, that doesn't look right, does it?

Because it is not right.

To make the word charge, we need the g and we have to have that magic e behind it to make it say the j sound, charge.

Good job, and remember that e doesn't say anything, it's just there to make the g soft, charge.

Good job.

Alright, let's take a look at our reading chart.

We'll read a few words today.

All right, we're down here today and we're gonna read this one.

Sm, art, smart.

This word is, a, do you see the, a, part, a, part.

That's a little tricky because the a makes a sound we call schwa.

So it doesn't really say the bright sound, it's tricky.

And we'll talk about that another time, but apart.

Here we have this word, par, ty, party.

Do you remember sometimes the y at the end says the e sound?

Yeah, we've learned all these things.

Aren't you amazing.

Party.

Here we have arm.

We have m, arsh, marsh.

Sp, ark, spark.

C, art, cart, and j, ar, jar.

Here's our sentence.

Mars is a planet far away.

Hey, were you listening to the news when they were talking about Mars and the Perseverance Rover that landed there.

Isn't that amazing?

I know, so cool.

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

Today we have two more.

Let's take a look.

Now, remember the routine.

We're gonna read it, we're gonna spell it and then I want you to write it down because that's how we get it locked in.

Here we go.

And these are the words you need to know (snaps finger), that's right, as fast as you know your name.

Here we go.

None, N-O-N-E, none.

That's kind of the same as zero.

There's, you don't have any, right?

And only, only, O-N-L-Y, only.

Alright, here's our sentences.

Ted has one left but Mark has, hmm, what do you think?

All right, let's read the next one.

The card, hmm, costs five cents.

All right, did you use your context clue?

If Ted has one left but Mark has, right, none, good job.

That makes sense, doesn't it?

And the card only costs five cents.

What?

Let me see.

Ted has one left but Mark has, oh, you're right.

I forgot the period at the end of the sentence.

What am I doing?

Good catch.

You know that when we have a sentence, it has to end in punctuation, good thinking.

That was fantastic.

All right.

Yesterday, we talked about nouns, singular, that means one, and plural, that means more than one.

And then I told you that there are some nouns that when they are plural, they completely change.

So, today I thought it would be fun to kind of see what you remember from yesterday.

We're gonna play a little match game and see if you remember which singular noun goes with the irregular.

We wanna see if you can make them match so that you can start learning those irregulars.

Are you ready?

Okay, let me get my finger here.

All right, we have, let's read the singular first.

Man, sheep, foot, deer, child, person.

Alright.

So, over here I have the plurals, the irregular plural nouns.

We need to figure out which one of these words goes with man.

I have one man, I have two?

Men, good job.

So I'm gonna take men, because that is the irregular plural for man.

We don't say man's.

Remember, usually we just added an s at the end, but these are irregular.

That means they are not regular.

Man, men.

Okay, how about this one?

Sheep.

I have one sheep.

Or I have many, right, sheep.

Wow, I thought I could trick you with that one, but, I can't, you're so smart.

One foot, two feet.

Great job.

Deer, and, yep, you're right.

That one doesn't change, deer.

Child.

Yes, children.

And person goes with people.

Wow!

You know what?

You are really making your brain strong with all the good learning you're doing.

I'm so excited that you've come to school with me and practice.

I hope you'll come back tomorrow, we're gonna start a story to read together and I think you're gonna like it.

♪ Goodbye now, goodbye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done.

♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow.

♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone.

♪ Bye bye.

(bright 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.

♪ (bright music)