♪ 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) (happy upbeat music) - Good morning, first grade.

It is a wonderful Wednesday and I'm so glad you're here in our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, and I'm here to help you practice and learn all the skills you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

Today I'm reading one of the stories that is kind of old, but so good.

I don't know if you've ever read this story before.

It's called, "Where the Wild Things Are".

And the pictures and the words are written by Maurice Sendak.

This is a story about a little boy who gets a little bit mischievous.

That means he's causing a little trouble and his mom, she sends him to his room.

And while he's in his room, he uses his imagination and has this amazing adventure.

Do you like to use your imagination?

Isn't that awesome?

So, you might enjoy this story about "Where the Wild Things Are".

And I think you could find it, probably on Sora and for sure at your County public library.

So if you'd like to know more about this story, I hope you'll check it out.

Hey, let's see who's in the number three spot on our Sora countdown.

Are you ready to look?

Okay, let's do it.

All right, here we go.

Oh, we don't need this anymore.

All right, number three is Wilson.

The Wilson Wildcats.

Great job, Wilson.

Terrific, we are proud of you.

Good job reading.

I hope you continue checking out books and reading from Sora or your library, because reading makes your brain, that's right, stronger.

We want strong brains, right?

Okay, speaking of strong brains, I know something that would help with that.

I'm wondering if you have one.

That's right, our activity books.

These activity books have puzzles and word searches and all kinds of fun games you can play, and they help your brain grow and be strong.

So if you don't have one yet, they are free.

All you need to do is send me a letter right here at the PBS studio.

Here's the address, Or you can send me an email.

And make sure you give me your address so I know right where to send it.

I'd love to hear what you're reading or what you're learning.

I can't wait to hear from you, so I can send you one of these.

All right.

It's time for us to wake up our brains and train our ears for sound.

Are you ready?

Great, we're playing that most important game that we play in first grade.

I'm gonna say some phonemes, those are sounds and you're going to put them together to make my word.

Do you remember what that's called?

Blending, great job.

You got it.

All right, so we're gonna do some blending today.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

S, or T, put it together, what's my word?

S, or, T, sort.

Great.

All right, try this one.

F, our, four, terrific.

All right, one last one.

Sh, or, T. Sh, or, T, short.

Great job blending.

Did you hear all of the or sounds in all of those words?

Sort, four and short.

Why do you think I chose those?

Right, because I want you to train your ear for that or sound, because we're gonna learn how to read it and write it and spell it.

So that will help you.

All right, before we do, though, let's do some fluency to just warm up our brains and remember the sound spelling patterns that we have already learned.

And remember if there's one that's tricky for you, write it down so that you can practice.

All right, here we go.

Ey says, E. Oa says, O. Ay says, A. Igh says, I. Ee says, E. Let's cover that up.

Oe says, O. Ow says, O. Ea says, E. Ai says, A.

And then our vowel controlled, or R controlled vowels.

All right.

Ir says, yep, R. Ur says, R. Er says, R, and ar says, R. Good, I thought I might trick you, but I didn't.

Good job.

All right, now we're working on the or sound this week.

So I brought along my corn card to help us remember.

So when we hear the word corn or, or, we hear the or sound.

Now we have three ways we can spell that.

We can spell it with O-A-R says oar, O-R says or, and O-R-E says ore. Let's practice reading a couple of words on my chart with that.

Ready?

Here we have a blend, do you remember what that blend says?

Sp, sp, or, T, sport.

Sport, good job.

Let's try this one.

R, oar, roar.

Good, here's another consonant blend.

Do you remember what St says?

That's right, st, st, ore because O-R-E says ore. We have st, ore. You know, sometimes this might help you.

Sometimes when I am looking at this spelling pattern when I'm reading in a book, I try to remember that magic E, remember.

And the magic E, makes the O say O.

So I can say, st, ore. St, ore.

I don't know if that helps you or not, but sometimes it helps me.

Let's take a look at this word.

Roar, are you ready?

Because we're gonna change it.

Remember when we learn spelling patterns, that is, so that we can learn other words that have the same pattern.

So if I can spell roar, how would I spell soar?

Like that bird will soar through the sky, right?

I'm just gonna change the beginning sound to soar.

How about boar, boar.

This is actually a male pig, it's called a boar.

Did you know that?

Right, it is a boar.

What about if I wanna change this to say board?

What do I add?

B, oar.

Yep, I need the D, good.

And remember this spelling of board is like a piece of wood or a poster board that you have.

Great job.

Let's take a look.

Now, today, we're gonna read from our chart and I did not underline the spelling pattern, because now I want you to start recognizing it all on your own.

So we're gonna start here and be looking for that oar spelling pattern.

You ready?

Ch, ore, chore.

Be, fore.

Soar, fort, boar, sport, core, horn.

And then I have a sentence for us, let's read it.

Does a big cat roar or snore?

Hmm, well, does it?

Does a big cat roar or snore?

You're right, they do both.

Big cats are very, very sleepy.

They sleep a lot.

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

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

This one is began.

Say it with me, B-E-G-A-N, began, good.

And we have learn, say it.

Good, let's spell it.

L-E-A-R-N.

Learn.

All right, now we need to find out which word belongs in which sentence.

So here we go.

Let me get my reading finger.

We will, hm, how to plant a tree.

Are you thinking, we will?

Let's read the next one.

Mom, hm, to cut the cake.

What do you think?

We will began how to plant a tree?

No, that doesn't make sense, does it?

Remember, reading is supposed to make sense.

So we have to really think about the words so we know what they say.

How about we will learn how to plant a tree.

Oh, that does make sense.

So that means, mom began to cut the cake.

Good job.

All right, boys and girls, we talked yesterday about abbreviations.

Which is a shorter way to write something but when we read it, we read it the same, whether it's spelled out or if it's abbreviated.

And an abbreviation has a period at the end.

So let's take a look at a few, our two sentences.

We're gonna start down here on our sentences and then we'll work back up.

Today is Wednesday, March 24th, 2021.

All right, here it says, today is Wed., Mar.

24th, 2021.

Did you see the abbreviations, where are they?

Right, there's Wednesday.

And when we abbreviate it, we just write Wed. with a period.

And then March.

And the abbreviation for March is Mar.

with a period.

So I have some more up here for you to practice just so that you can see them.

Here we have March and we just did that down there.

So you will know that March has Mar., we just take off the ch and put a period.

Let's see what this one is.

So this is February.

That's the month of February.

How would we abbreviate that, any guesses?

Yeah, right.

Feb. and then period.

Here, how about the days of the week?

Did you know you can abbreviate those?

Here's Sunday.

What do you think we do with that?

Let's look.

Sun., with a period.

How about Saturday?

This is a funny one, ready?

Sat., with a period in case you're sat on Saturday.

And Friday is an easy one, Fri., with a period.

That's it.

That's how you do abbreviations.

We're gonna keep practicing that.

And I hope you look for them in all of the stories you're reading.

♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Good bye everyone ♪ Tomorrow, we are gonna read a story with our focus sound from the corn card.

I hope you'll join me.

Have a fabulous day and read a good book.

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)