(acoustic 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 ♪ (acoustic guitar music) (upbeats music) - Oh, sorry.

Happy Friday!

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, and I was just so distracted by this beautiful book.

It's called the Lamb and the Butterfly.

And it's a story about a lamb and a butterfly that become friends and the lamb is full of questions for the butterfly.

This is another story that Eric Carle has done the illustrations for.

And I wanted to show you what I was talking about.

Do you see how he just took a piece of paper and made all different colors and different textures by making lines on it?

And then he used that as he built the grass on his picture, these pictures when you cut out lots of different parts and pieces and put them together are called mosaics.

And so all of these pictures used to be just single papers of all these different colors that he put together.

Isn't that beautiful?

Look how he did the lamb space with lots of like dots.

Isn't that amazing?

Wow.

I just, I can't stop looking at the pictures.

They're so pretty.

You might like to look at this book and get an up close picture, in your eye, of all these beautiful textures that he used.

Some way it'll will give you some ideas about a book that you might like to make.

This one is the Lamb and the Butterfly by Arnold Sundgaard and illustrations by Eric Carle.

Check for it on Sora or at your County Public Library.

You might also look at your school library because they have really great books there too.

Okay.

I hope you do some great meeting this week.

And since it's nice and warm, I can't help but read about springtime, right?

Okay.

It is time for us to check on our digital reading challenge.

Number one spot.

I have no idea who it is.

Do you know?

I don't either.

Right?

Okay so let's look, I can't wait.

Okay, here we go.

Ready.

And number one in the digital reading challenge is Heaton Elementary!

Way to go Bulldogs!

Great job!

Wow!

Good for you.

That means out of all the elementary schools that participated, Heaton Elementary School had the most minutes of digital reading.

Great job, Bulldogs.

Boys and girls, I have activity books that a home.

Do you have a home?

Does your home have an activity book?

'Cause we need to get those two things together.

Will you please write me a letter so that I can send you an activity book.

You'll have a really good time with it.

It's got lots of puzzles and things to color and riddles to solve.

I think you'll enjoy it.

It will definitely help you to grow your brain.

And I need to get them into somebody's hands.

Write me a letter or an email, give me your address so that I can send it to you.

And I know that you will enjoy it.

Maybe even ask mom and dad to help you, or grandma or a grownup that is there with you.

Ask them to help you write a letter to me.

Okay?

Perfect.

All right, friends.

It's Friday and we are training our ears for sound.

We have two games.

Right.

Because it's Friday, we train them extra hard because we'll be gone for the weekend.

So, our first game is the segmenting game.

That's where I tell you a word and then you break it apart, one phoneme or sound at a time, and then tell me how many sounds you hear.

All right?

You ready to try it?

Good.

Zoo.

Zoo.

Ready?

Z... oh.

Zoo!

How many?

Two.

Two sounds.

Two phonemes to build the word zoo.

How about spoon?

Spoon.

Oh.

That's a little bit trickier.

S.. puh yup, here's that blend.

Spuh oh na.

Spoon!

Great.

It has four phonemes.

Good job.

All right.

Our second game is phoneme substitution.

Now it's a little bit like deletion, but this time we're going to change or substitute a phoneme in our word to make a new word.

Okay.

So if I have the word room, room, and I changed that mm to a t, what is my new word?

Should we segment it to kind of help?

Okay.

Let's do it right.

R oo m. Now when I get rid of the m and I put up a te, now I have r ou te.

Good job.

Route!

All right.

Let's try this one.

Tooth.

Tooth.

Ready?

T oo th, tooth.

All right, if I get rid of the th, and I make it up a l, what's my new word?

T oo l, tool.

Great job!

That's kind of tricky, isn't it?

I hope you practice that because that will really help you when you're reading and writing.

Let's take a look at our focus sound of the week.

We've been working on the spoon card.

All right, we focused a lot on the O-O says oo.

Let's read the other spelling patterns that also say, oo.

Say them out loud with me.

U consonant E says ue, U says u, E-W says ew, U-E says eu, O-U says ou, and U-I says ui.

Okay, today, we're gonna build some words using that U-E says ue.

All right, now, remember we practice those spelling patterns so that you can start to see other words that use that same pattern.

Here we go.

Cl ue, clue.

What if I change it?

And I put this up here.

Now, what does it say?

Gl ue, glue.

Good.

All right.

What if I change it again to this?

Oh, it's a color word.

Bl ue, blue.

Good job!

All right.

And one last one.

Ready?

Tr ue, true.

Terrific.

All right.

I don't know about you but I am dying to find out what Rooster and Goose's plan is to kind of straighten up the farm.

Aren't you?

So let's get back to our story about Rooster and Goose and they're gonna come up with a plan, remember they called all the animals together, and let's figure out what their plan is or find out what their plan is to fix the farm.

Here we go.

Then Goose stated, "Let's not bug each other.

Let's join together.

We can make it better!"

So, Rooster and Horse went to check the crops.

They set the roots in and scooped soil on top.

This was enough to make the crops grow.

The chicks picked up the hay.

Then, Goose and Pig made the hay neat.

The eyes of the animals were wide with joy.

The farm looked so nice.

Hey, I like that.

Did you see how they worked together?

So that they could make their farm nice, instead of bugging each other.

I hope that you do that in your classroom.

I hope that you work together and instead of bugging each other to make your classroom a happy, joyful place to learn.

Let's see if we can find some of those oo sound words.

Okay?

All right.

Let's skip the Goose and the Rooster because we already know that those say oo.

Can you see any others?

Yes.

I saw it too.

Good for you.

Roots.

Roots.

Very nice.

How about, is there anything else?

Oh, that is a huge word.

Did you get it?

Scooped.

Look at that -ed, the inflectional ending.

We have scoop and then scooped.

What is that?

When we add -ed, what does that mean?

Right?

It already happened in the past.

Scooped.

They scooped.

Anything else?

Oh... No.

But I do see some high-frequency words, do you?

Right?

What about this word?

What is this?

Oh, I couldn't trick you.

I heard somebody who said, "No, no, no, that's look!"

You're right.

Looked.

It's not an oo word.

Keep that in mind.

Good job.

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

We had 6 this week.

Do you know all 6 of them?

If you are not sure of some of them, I want you to write them down.

I want you to practice, practice, practice until you know them (snaps) as fast as you know your name.

Let's read and spell them together.

Here we go.

Answer, A N S W E R. Answer.

Eyes, E Y E S. Eyes.

Busy, B U S Y.

Busy.

Brought, B R O U G H T. Brought.

Enough, E N O U G H. Enough.

And door, D O O R. Door.

Did you get them?

Were there ones that you need to practice a few more times?

So if that's true for you, remember you need to take ownership and write down the ones you need practice with.

All right.

Let's take a look at our suffixes.

A suffix is a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word.

Let's read that again.

Added to the end of words to change their meaning.

- ful means "full" or "full of" - less means "without."

So I put some up here for us to read together.

Let's start here on this side with -ful.

Cheerful, forgetful, playful, graceful, remember ful means "full of" so cheerful means full of cheer.

Forgetful means full of forgetting, right?

Playful means full of play and graceful is full of grace.

Now let's take a look at some of these with -less.

Endless, that means without end.

Toothless, I bet some of you are toothless, that means without teeth.

And clueless without a clue.

But boys and girls, sometimes words can be used with -ful or with -less.

So here I have helpful and helpless.

Both of those can use either one of those suffixes.

Fearful and fearless, fearful means full of fear and fearless means without fear.

Well, I hope you are fearless in your practice of reading and I hope that you are hopeful that you will be back with me next week.

♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you on Monday ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ Have a safe and fun weekend.

Read a good book.

Bye.

(acoustic guitar music) ♪ Good morning too a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (acoustic guitar music)