♪ 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 ♪ (guitar music) (upbeat music) - Good morning fabulous first grade.

Ah, I have another dinosaur story that I think you need to read.

Have you ever wondered, "How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food"?

Well, right, they're not around anymore, but did you ever wonder that?

By Jane Yolan and Mark Teague.

Hmm, I wonder what do you think?

Were they messy eaters?

Were they polite eaters?

What do you think?

Well, you might want to read this and find out.

You might be surprised.

And the fun thing about this story is it's.

Yeah, it's a rhyming book.

So you'll find some rhyming words in here and it's really, really fun and silly.

So I hope you'll look for it at your county public library or yep, on Sora.

All right, let's take a look and see who is on our number two spot this week for Sora checkouts.

Okay, are you ready?

I'm a little nervous.

Here we go.

Oh, it doesn't want to come out.

Let's see, Ewing Eagles!

Wow.

Hurray Ewing Eagles!

You know, Mrs. Hammack was a Ewing Eagle, from kindergarten all the way to sixth grade.

I am so proud of you.

Good job Eagles, keep reading!

That's gonna make your brain stronger and then there will be nothing you can't do.

I'm so proud of you.

Hey boys and girls, I was wondering if you have a story that you would like to share with me so that I can tell other boys and girls about it.

If you're reading something funny or something that you really enjoy, or maybe there's a couple of things you like, would you please send me a letter right here in our PBS Classroom?

And when you do, as a thank you, I will send you one of our free activity books.

That's right.

It's a thank you gift for writing me a letter.

And I'll write you back and put one of these in the mail to you.

Make sure you include your home address so I know where to send it, or if you're sending me an email make sure you include your home address because I can't send this through the computer.

I'll still need to send you the book in the mail.

So make sure you give me your address, okay?

Great.

I can't wait to read what you're reading and find out all about you're doing.

So write to me.

Okay, it's time for us to wake up our brains and train our ears for sound.

Today, we're gonna go back to a game we played on Monday called the categorization game.

That's where one of these words is not like the other.

One of these words just does not belong.

And I want you to use your good listening ears to figure it out.

Here we go.

Barn, wait, marsh.

Which word do you think is different?

Wait, good job.

Barn and marsh have the /ar/ sound, but wait does not.

Okay, you ready for the next list of words.

Part, harm, chase.

That's right.

Part and harm have the /ar/ sound, but chase does not.

Okay now the last one is tricky.

Don't let me fool you.

Are you ready?

Horn, mark, force.

Oh, no, not mark.

Listen again.

Oh, it was mark.

I'm sorry, you're right.

I tricked me.

You have your smarty pants on today, don't you?

Horn and force both say /or/, great job!

But mark does not.

Great listening.

Wow, you guys were paying closer attention than me.

Let's get to our sound for the week.

We are working on the ar says r sound.

Here's our star spelling card.

I'm gonna move my little pointy finger over here.

And remember it's called an r-controlled vowel.

So we don't really hear the a very much because the r is in control.

So it's r. Ar says r. So today we're gonna build some words using the spelling pattern, so that you can see how words are connected.

When you know one word, then you'll know other words with that sound.

So let's blend this word by saying the phonemes.

/T/, /ar/.

Let's put it together.

/T/, /ar/, tar, great job.

What if I change tar and I want to make it far?

If I change the T what do I need to change it to?

Whoops, I got another T there.

Let's do this one.

That's right, far.

Good job!

All right, so we had tar.

Now we have far.

What if I wanted to say farm?

Let's look at it.

/F/, /ar/, /m/.

What do I need there?

Right, the m. Now I have farm.

Good job.

Wow, you're getting so good at this.

What if I wanted to say charm?

Charm.

What would I change?

Yes, I'm gonna get rid of this and put up our digraphs ch says /ch/.

/Ch/, /ar/, /m/.

Charm, great job.

One last one 'cause I think you are getting really good at this.

What if I want to change charm to chart?

What changed?

Did this change?

/Ch/, /ar/, /t/.

That's right.

I need to get rid of the m and I'm gonna put the t in its place.

And now I have /ch/, /ar/, /t/, chart.

Great reading boys and girls.

Fantastic!

Today, I have a story that we're gonna start.

We're only gonna read the first page of our story and we're gonna think about the story and what's happening but we're also gonna be paying attention to that ar sound in some of the words.

This story is called "Charm Scarves".

Oh, there's a couple of things I want to point out.

Did you see the ar in the word charm?

And did you see it again in scarves?

Do you know what scarves are?

Right, it's a scarf.

That's one scarf.

And this is many, scarves.

There's our irregular noun.

It changed from a f to a v before we changed and add es.

Do you see how all the pieces work together to make you an excellent reader and writer?

I hope so, 'cause that is why we do it.

All right, let's take a look at our story.

you're ready to read with me?

Okay, here we go.

Carly makes scarves.

Each scarf has only one kind of yarn.

Carly sells these scarves at her shop.

Carly is neat and tidy.

She keeps yarn in four large baskets.

Each has only one kind of yarn.

Carly's kitten Charm, likes the yarn.

He starts to tug yarn from each basket.

The yarn gets mixed up.

Oh my goodness!

There's a lot going on in that story.

Who is Carly?

Right, she is the person making the scarves.

And what does she do with all those scarves?

Do you remember?

That's right.

She sells them at her shop.

What's the problem so far?

Did you hear a problem in the story?

Right, her cat.

Her cat's the problem.

Charm is the cat's name and charm is mixing up the yarn.

I wonder what's gonna happen.

Let's take a look and see if we can find some of our ar words.

Are you ready?

Okay, we have charm and scarves.

We found that right away.

And Carly and scarves again.

Do you see any word?

Oh, look here's scarf and scarves.

Those are irregulars, aren't they?

Good job.

All right, what else?

Yarn.

Good.

Oh, look, there is our high-frequency word, large.

And another one, only.

Good job.

Very nice.

I see some more too.

We have yarn a lot, so I'm not gonna underline all of those, but look here there's starts.

Great eyes.

Good job.

Well, I can't wait to find out what happens in this story because Charm seems like a naughty little kitten, doesn't he?

All right.

We'll have to find out what happens tomorrow.

Great reading.

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

We have two.

You ready?

Remember, read, spell, write.

Here we go.

Put, P-U-T, put.

And round, R-O-U-N-D, round.

Here are sentences.

A penny is, right, round.

That was an easy one.

And where did you put my book?

Great job.

All right, we've been working on irregular plurals and so I thought it was time to put some in practice.

So, I want to see if you can recognize which word belongs in the sentence.

And one of them is right and one of them is not right or incorrect.

So let's look at our sentence.

It says, a shark has many mm.

Should we choose tooths?

A shark has many tooths or teeth.

Which one?

Right, teeth is the irregular plural for tooth.

It means more than one tooth.

We don't just add an s. Remember, these are irregular.

So, usually a noun we just add the s to the end, but these are not usual.

These are not regular.

They are irregular.

That means they're not normal.

All right, how about this sentence?

All the children, or childs, went to the park.

Which one do you think it is?

All the, right, children went to the park.

Good job.

And one more.

The five mouses or mice ran away.

The five mice.

Good thinking.

Very nice.

Mouses is not really a word.

It's not a proper word.

So I put some more together here for you just to let you see some other irregulars that you might not have heard.

Here's tooth and teeth.

Leaf and leaves.

Mouse and mice.

Goose and geese.

Moose and oh, I thought I was gonna trick you.

It's not meese, it's just moose.

Moose is one of the ones that doesn't change.

Elf and elves.

Calf and calves.

Those are all a bunch of irregular nouns.

So I hope you look for them in you're reading and I hope when you're writing, you write them correctly.

All right friends.

♪ Goodbye now ♪ ♪ Goodbye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ Come back so we can finish our story tomorrow.

Have a great day, 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 ♪ (guitar music)