(guitar strumming) ♪ 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 strumming) (upbeat music) - Worm, world.

Oh, hey good morning.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, welcome back to our PBS classroom.

I'm so glad you're here today because we're gonna be working on all the skills and practicing all the skills that you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

Okay, I've been working on something I want to share with you in just a few minutes.

But before I do that, I wanted to share a story with you.

Do you speak more than one language?

That is so cool if you do.

This story is about a cow that went oink.

What?

Right?

This cow can speak both.

He can speak like a cow, and he can speak like a pig.

And this story is so funny.

And the cow teaches the pig how to speak moo, isn't that silly?

It's a really fun story.

And I love how it honors learning another language.

That's so exciting.

This is by Bernard Most, and you can look for it on Sora or at your Fresno County Public Library.

I think you'll enjoy it.

It's a really funny one.

All right, are you ready to check our Sora countdown and see who's in the number four spot?

Okay, let's do it.

All right, so this week in Fresno Unified in number four we have Jackson.

Jackson Elementary School.

Great job.

We are very proud of you.

I think this is your first time on our top five too.

Congratulations.

That's outstanding.

So proud of you.

Keep it up.

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

Are you ready?

Today we are gonna play a game called the Substitution Game.

So a substitute is when you replace something with something else, right?

Yes, and that's right.

So I'm gonna tell you a word, you're going to replace the first sound with a new sound and make a new word.

Let's see if you can figure it out.

Are you ready?

All right.

Dirt, dirt.

Replace the d with a h and what word do you have?

Hurt?

Great job.

Dirt becomes hurt.

All right, how about burst?

Burst.

Change the b to a f, what is it?

First, wow, you're really good at this game.

All right, last one are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

Cart, cart.

Change the c to a h. Cart becomes hurt.

Great job, you did that great.

Hey, I forgot something super important.

Before we go onto our spelling card this week, I have a whole bunch of activity books that are needing a home.

Would you make a home for an activity book?

All you need to do is send me, oop, send me a letter or an email and give me your address.

And I'll send one of these to you.

I'd love to know all the things that you are thinking, reading and writing.

So send me a letter, and I'll send this to you.

All right, let's get ready now.

We're gonna, we warmed up our brains with our substitution game.

Now we're gonna go into our sound spelling.

Are you ready?

Okay.

So this week we are working on the shirt card.

The shirt card has four sound spellings.

We have E-R says, er.

I-R says, ir.

U-R says, ur.

And O-R says or.

It might be a good idea for you to write those down the way that we do and practice them.

So with your piece of paper, you're going to write E-R says er.

And when you say says er, I want you to underline it.

And you can do that with each one of these sound spellings, two or three times to help you get that locked into your brain 'cause these ones are kind of tricky.

And I want you to know them really well.

All right.

I have a word for you here that we're gonna read together.

We're gonna start here.

What do you think?

I heard somebody say g, okay because G says g. And then we have er, and then we have m. G-er-m. Gum?

Is that right?

No.

So what should I do?

You're right when there's an E right after a G what does the G say?

Right, it says the J sound.

It says the soft G, which is j.

So let's try to read that word with the soft G. Are you ready?

G-er-m, germ.

Oh, that's a word we know, right?

That's what good readers do boys and girls.

We try it and if it doesn't sound quite right, try it with another sound that you know, that letter makes because sometimes it's hard to remember all of those things.

So this word is germ.

What if I wanted to make it say term?

Term.

What is the beginning sound in term?

Right, so let's change this one and put the T here.

Now we have, t-er-m, term.

How many sounds did you hear?

T-er-m, good three.

Even though there are four letters, right?

But this er says only one sound.

All right, so term, what if I want it to say perm?

Perm, like short for permanent perm, p, p, p. Right, I'm gonna change this T to a P. P-er-m, perm.

Good job.

All right, what if I want it to say perk?

Perk, let's take a look, p, that's gonna stay the same, er that's the same, k, we found where we need to change it, right?

P-er- k. All right, now lets think.

We have a couple of letters that make the k sound.

Which one do you think it's gonna be?

Okay, it's not a short vowel.

So it can't be C-K. Do we end a word with just a C?

Not very often.

So that means I'm gonna try the K because that is actually what it should be.

P-er-k, perk.

Terrific.

Wow, you're learning a lot about letters and sounds.

Let's practice with our reading chart.

Okay.

Yesterday we read the ER's and the IR's Let's try some UR's and OR's And then I want to share with you something I was working on.

Here we go.

C-ur-l, curl.

T-ur-n, turn.

N-ur-se, nurse.

And c-ur-ve, curve.

W-or-d, word.

W-or-m, worm.

W-or-ld, world.

Let's take a look at this row.

What did you notice about these three words with O-R says, er.

Did you notice anything special or the same about them?

Yes, they all started with a W. Hey, before you got here I was working on a list and check this out word, worm, world and work.

They have the O-R, says er, but they all have a W at the beginning.

I wonder if you can find a word that says the er sound spelled with O-R that doesn't start with a W. That's your challenge this week.

See if you can find one.

All right.

Let's take a look boys and girls at our high frequency words.

Are you ready?

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

And they are, another.

Say it with me, another.

A-N-O-T-H-E-R, another, good.

And full, full.

F-U-L-L, full.

All right you know what to do.

Here are my sentences.

You decide which word belongs in which sentence?

My bag is mmh of food.

Okay, let's look at this one.

Can I have mmh cup of water?

What do you think?

Right, my bag is full of food.

And can I have another cup of water?

Great job.

All right, I have another ER, that I want to talk to you about.

It's an inflectional ending.

Remember an ending is a part of a word or a couple of letters that go with the end of a word.

So this inflectional ending is -er that matches what we're doing, right?

So you'll know that it says er, but this time if we add it to a verb, then it changes it into a noun.

And it tells us somebody that does something.

I know that's confusing.

Let's let's take a look and it'll make a lot more sense to you.

Here I have the verb.

Remember a verb is an action word.

Here I have the verb paint.

If I add the inflectional ending -er, it becomes painter.

A painter is someone who paints.

Here I have surf.

If I add -er to the end of it, it says surfer.

A surfer is someone who surfs.

Here I have jump.

When I add the inflectional ending -er, it becomes jumper.

A jumper is someone who jumps.

All right.

I have a couple of sentences to do with you.

And you're gonna think about which word you should use to finish the sentence.

It says, I sing.

I am a hmm.

I'm I a sing?

Or am I a singer?

If I sing, I sing.

I am a write a, right.

A singer.

When we add the -er it tells us that this is a person that does that action.

It could be a thing that does that action too.

I dream, I am a?

Right, dream or dreamer?

Yeah, dreamer.

I box, I am a boxer or a box?

You're not a box, are you?

That would be silly.

Boxer.

Great job.

Hey, you did that really well.

It's not that hard, is it?

So I want you to practice finding some action words, and adding the -er to the end of them and making some sentences.

I think you'll be great at it.

Don't forget your challenge to find an er, sounding word that spell the O-R that does not start with a W. You've got a lot to do, and we've done a lot already.

I hope you'll come back tomorrow.

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.

♪ Have a great day.

Find a great book to read and share it with a friend and come back here to our PBS classroom.

So you can practice all the skills that you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Bye, bye.

(guitar strumming) ♪ 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.

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