♪ 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 ♪ (bouncy folk music) - Hey, good morning!

I am thankful, because it's Thursday and you're here!

Welcome back to our PBS classroom!

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

I'm so glad you're here today.

You know, the story of the three little pigs?

Right and there's a big, bad wolf.

Well, this is a little bit like that.

It's gonna be familiar.

It's called "The Three Little Havelinas".

Right?

It is so cute.

So, I used to have a pig at my house and her name was Havelina.

It was Twilight Havelina, to be exact.

And this story was really cute.

It reminded me how much I loved her.

So you might enjoy this story at where?

Right!

Your Fresno County Public Library or on Sora!

So if you like to read stories that are similar to others that you know, but they're changed up a little bit, you might enjoy this story.

Check it out.

Hey, let's see who is number two on our Sora list, okay?

All right, let me put this down and let's see who is in the second spot.

All right, here we go.

Heaton Bulldogs!

Way to go, Heaton!

Great job.

Wow, we've got Birney in fifth, Turner in fourth, Wilson in third and Heaton in second.

Our elementary schools are doing an awesome job checking out books and reading.

Great job.

I would love to send you an activity book.

All you need to do is write to me here in our PBS classroom.

The address is right on the screen.

Do you see it?

Write it down, send me a letter, tell me what you're learning about or tell me a storybook that you'd like me to share with everybody else.

And I will put in the mail one of these fun activity books for you.

They're free!

All you have to do is write me or send me an email.

Just make sure that you include your home address, so I know where to send your book, okay?

Great!

I look forward to hearing from you.

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

Are you ready?

Great.

Because today, we're gonna play the "Phoneme Addition" game.

Do you remember what you do when you add?

Right!

You put things together, right?

So we're gonna do that with words!

Did you know you could do addition with letters?

Isn't that crazy?

All right, so our addition game goes like this, I'm going to say the word "or" and I want you to add "fff" to the beginning.

Are you ready?

"Fff", "or".

Put it together!

"For"!

Great job.

All right, now I want you to add "ra" to the beginning of "oar".

Here we go.

"Ra", "oar".

"Roar"!

Terrific!

Okay, one last one.

Are you ready?

What's our word?

"Or", good!

And I would like you to add "mmm" to the beginning of "ore".

"Mmm", "ore".

"More"!

Great job!

Did you hear all of those words?

"For", "roar", "more".

Right, they all say "or"!

But guess what?

They all are spelled with a different "or" spelling pattern!

Oh!

Can you believe it?

Isn't reading so complex?

It's hard, isn't it?

But you can do hard things.

I believe in you.

You have a great big, strong, beautiful brain.

So let's warm up your beautiful brain with some fluency.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

E Y says "ey".

O A says "oa".

A Y says "ay".

I G H says "igh".

E E says "ee".

Good for you.

O E says "oe".

Good!

O W says "ow".

E A says "ea".

A I says "ai".

I R says "ir".

U R says "ur".

E R says "er".

And A R says "ar".

Great job.

All right, all this week, we've been practicing with our "corn" card and the sound of "or".

You're getting really good at it.

There are three ways to spell the "or" sound.

All right, so let's take a look at them here at the top.

Say this spelling pattern with me.

Ready?

O A R says "oar".

O R says "or".

And O R E says "ore".

Good job.

All right, today, we're gonna build some words.

Are you ready?

Okay, let's watch how those spellings go.

Let's read this word together.

Are you ready?

"Fff", "or", "k".

"Fork"!

Good!

Let's change "fork" to "fort".

What do we need to change?

Yes, good.

We're gonna get rid of the K and we're going to bring up a T. And now we have "fort"!

"Fort".

My girls used to like to make a "fort" with blankets.

Do you like to do that?

What if I want to change "fort" to "short"?

"Short"!

What do you hear at the beginning?

Right!

That is our diagraph.

S H says "shh", "or", "t".

"Short", good.

How about the "shore"?

Now think about this.

"Shore".

The sea "shore".

We have "shh", "or".

Does that look right?

Nope, you are right.

We need to change the "or" spelling to the one with the silent E at the end.

"Shore".

That says "shore", as in the sea "shore".

Good job.

What if I want to say "snore"?

I hope you don't "snore" when you sleep.

What would I do?

Right, I'm gonna change this out and I'm gonna put up the blend, the consonant blend, S N. Oh, maybe.

There we go.

"Sn", "or".

"Snore".

Great job.

Hey, today, we're gonna read a story and I want you looking for those spelling patterns.

This story is called, "Born to Learn".

All right!

This story is about a kind of a bird called a stork.

They're very tall and really pretty.

So let's read and find out what's gonna happen with this stork.

He was "Born to Learn".

"One day, it began snowing hard.

Stork went to find acorns to put in her nest.

The acorns got stuck in snow.

Still, Stork had a plan.

Stork went North to look for a short stick.

She got it and used it like a fork.

She grabbed the fork with her beak.

Then, she used the fork to get the acorns."

Wow!

She's pretty clever, isn't she?

All right, did you see some of those spelling patterns?

Let's find them together!

All right, what did you see?

Right!

Right at the beginning, we have "born".

Good.

And "Stork".

Good for you.

Did you see this one?

"Acorns".

Good.

All right.

Oh, there's "acorns" again and "Stork".

How about "North"?

Did you see that one?

"Stork".

"For"!

Anything else?

"Short".

Good.

Ooh, there's a lot, aren't there?

There are a lot of "or" words.

Some of them are used over and over.

Wow.

Look at that!

What a great job you did!

That is really good looking and reading.

Did you also notice that there were some inflectional endings in this story?

The "ing" sound for "snowing".

And the E D for "grabbed" means it happened in the past, right?

Great job.

Well, I can't wait to find out what else this stork is going to do.

She found some acorns and tomorrow, we're gonna find out what else she does.

But now it's time for us to practice our high-frequency words.

Are you ready?

Okay, let me get the chart.

All right, we have two words today.

"Right".

R I G H T. "Right".

And remember, that can be a direction or it can also mean correct.

You did it correctly.

And here we have "better".

B E T T E R. "Better".

Good.

Remember that we know that's a short E because of the double T's, right?

We have to double the consonants to keep it short.

So that's a clue.

All right, here are our sentences.

"This is the 'hmm' way to ride a bike."

"I like this book 'hmm' than that one."

Oh, I heard a clue.

Did you hear it too?

When it says "than that one", it makes me think they're comparing, right?

So, "I like this book better than that one."

And, "This is the right way to ride a bike."

How'd you do?

Great job!

"Right" and "better".

I'd love it if I saw some writing about "right" and "better" from you.

All right, let's take a look really fast at some abbreviations.

I have some different ones for you.

So when we're talking about addresses, we can make abbreviations.

Remember, that's a shorter way to say or write something, but we still say it the same.

So "avenue"!

If I live on an "avenue", I can abbreviate that, just with A V E with a period.

If I live on a "road", this is how I would abbreviate it.

R D means "road" with a period.

And "street" is S T with a period.

Did you get that?

So this says, "Avenue", "avenue."

"Road", "road".

"Street", "street".

Because we read them the same!

We write them in a shorter abbreviated way, but when we read them, they are the same.

I am so glad you came and joined me today.

You've done some great reading and learning.

Will you sing with me?

Awesome.

♪ Goodbye now goodbye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ I've had a great time learning and practicing with you.

I hope you'll come back tomorrow so we can find out the rest of the story about the stork.

Look for those high-frequency words in all your stories today and tomorrow.

I'll see you then.

Bye bye!

♪ 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 ♪