♪ 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 string music) (cheerful music) - Good morning, fabulous first grade!

Welcome back to PBS!

I'm Mrs. Hammock, and here we are in our PBS classroom, ready to practice and learn all the skills that you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

I was looking at a book called Tulip's Journey by Brandy Sprattling and illustrated by Maggui Ledbetter.

Did you know, Fresno-unified kiddos, that Brandy Sprattling, she's a teacher right here in our very own school district!

And she's also an author.

Isn't that the coolest?

Hey, maybe you want to grow up to be an author.

Maybe you want to start writing books.

I think that's awesome.

You can do anything you put your mind to.

And this story is about Tulip's Journey.

That's what it's called.

It's about perseverance.

Do you know what that means?

It means sticking with it even when things get hard, even when you have obstacles or things that get in your way, you stick with it and you accomplish your goals.

And this is a great story about how a beautiful flower comes even though it had to overcome obstacles.

Isn't that nice?

There are some lessons in here that you might learn about being a great, persevering student because you can do hard things, right?

I hope you'll look for this book.

You can check it for it and see if they have it on Sora or at your County public library.

You might even check your school library and see if they have a copy of Tulip's Journey.

I think it's a great story for you to read.

There's some lessons in here I want you to know about.

All right.

Hey, I checked my mailbox today and guess what?

Womp, womp, it's empty.

Will you please write me a letter?

I would love to send you an activity book.

Send it to this address right on your screen.

And then I will put this in the mail to you.

Just make sure that you give me your return address so I know right where to send your activity book, okay?

Awesome.

All right, my friends, it is time, that time of the day when we?

That's right.

Train our ears for sound.

So today, we are going to train our ears playing a game called the Categorization Game.

Right, we're putting things into categories.

This time, we're putting words.

So, I have three words for you.

Jaw, draw, glue.

Okay.

Two of those words have the same sound.

Did you hear it?

Draw has the aw and jaw has the aw, but glue, nope, it does not.

So that's the gist of our game.

You're gonna listen and see which two words go together and which word does not belong.

You ready to try some more?

Okay, here we go.

Tune up those listening ears.

Lawn, match, cause.

Cause did you hear two?

What do you think?

Lawn, good.

How about match?

Lawn, match.

Do they go together?

No, they don't.

Lawn, cause.

Good job.

And match doesn't have a match.

All right, how about these three words?

You ready?

Mouth, yawn, couch.

What do you think?

Mouth, yawn, couch.

Oh, did you hear it?

That was the ow sound, wasn't it?

Mouth and couch both have the ow sound.

But yawn has the uh sound.

Great job.

Well, if you're paying close attention, you might have heard our focus sound for this week.

We're not gonna talk about that yet because we're going to do a little fluency.

Now, remember our fluency practice are all the sounds and spelling patterns that we've already learned, and we're just reviewing them to make sure that we've got them locked in so that we can be excellent readers.

You ready?

Okay.

All right.

Let's take a look.

We have, O-E says oh.

O-A says oh.

I-R says er.

U-R says er.

E-R says er.

A-R says er.

O-R, oh, I'll say that again.

Does A-R say er?

(laughs) No, A-R says like a pirate, remember?

Ar, good job.

O-R says or.

O-I says oi.

O-Y says oi.

E-Y says ee.

O-W says ow.

O-U says ow.

A-Y says ay.

A-I says ay.

E-A says ee.

E-E says ee.

Oops, let me get that covered up.

I-G-H says I. O-A-R says or.

And O-R-E also says or.

Great job, how'd you do?

Yeah, you're getting it, aren't you?

Great.

If there was a sound spelling pattern that you weren't sure about, remember, bring something with you so you can write it down and practice it so it gets locked in.

All right.

Today, we are going to learn about this spelling card, the straw card.

Do you see how it's pointing to the straw?

So listen to the sound at the end of straw.

Straw, did you hear it?

The aw sound.

Great, that's exactly what we're going to be talking about today.

What?

Right, it does sound like the short O.

You're right!

But this is a little bit tricky.

We call this a variant vowel because it varies off of the normal sound that a vowel makes.

So this is the straw card and we have five different ways to spell the aw sound using that.

So we're gonna say the letter, or the spelling pattern and the sound so that we can start to begin to put that into our memories.

Are you ready?

All right, we're going to go across the top here.

Here we go.

A says aw.

A-W says aw.

A-U says aw.

A-U-G-H says aw, what?

Can you believe that?

All those letters together say aw?

They do.

And A-L says aw.

Now, I have some words that we're going to blend together practicing using those sound spellings.

Are you ready?

All right, our first word I chose is a word that I know lots of first graders like to write.

So here it is.

Let's say what's this first sound?

Wh, now we're gonna say aw, and then we have an ending blend, nt.

Wuh-aw-nt.

Want.

Want!

Hey, you know that word, right?

That's how it's spelled, want.

Now let's take a look at this word.

Ss-aw.

Saw.

Saw!

Great job.

All right, let's try this one.

Now, remember when I look at this whole word, I have to say to myself, okay.

There's an E right next to the C, so that's gonna make the soft sound.

So I need to remember all those things I've learned.

Here I go.

Ss-aw-ss.

Sauce.

Great.

All right, now look at this one.

Now we only have the beginning sound and the ending sound and the middle all says the same sound.

Let's try it.

T-aw-t.

Taught.

Like I taught you some letters and sounds.

And then this is another word that first graders will use a lot when they're writing.

Wh-aw-k.

Walk.

Good job.

All right, let's take a look at our reading chart and practice a little with our sound spellings on the text here.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

F-aw-l, fall.

P-aw, paw.

Ff-aww-lt, fault.

T-aw-k, talk.

Cl-aw, claw, and c-aw-t, caught.

How'd you do?

Did you get it?

I know.

This is a tricky sound spelling pattern, all these five, but we're going to do our very best to get that locked in.

We have all week long to do it, okay?

All right.

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

Let me turn my chart around.

All right, here they are for this week.

Some of them might be familiar to you.

Let's take a look.

I want you to say them with me, I want you to spell them, and if you have something to write with, write them down.

Here we go.

Friend, F-R-I-E-N-D.

Friend.

Brother, B-R-O-T-H-E-R.

Brother.

Oh, this is my favorite word.

Love, L-O-V-E. Love.

And father, F-A-T-H-E-R. Father.

Picture, P-I-C-T-U-R-E. Picture.

And mother, M-O-T-H-E-R.

Mother.

Good, I want you to really learn that one 'cause it's almost Mothers' Day.

Right, okay, here are our sentences.

You ready?

My friend and I love to play baseball Jaspreet, oh, let's stop here.

My friend and I love to play baseball.

Did you see some high frequency words?

Right, we have friend.

What else?

Oh, and love, good job.

Jaspreet's father and mother coach his baseball team.

Did you see father and mother?

And this is a picture of Tom's brother, Tim.

And there's our word, picture and brother.

Great job.

You are getting so great at reading and finding our high-frequency words.

I hope you're looking for them in all of the books that you read too because I want you to take note of how often they show up.

That's why they're called high frequency.

They show up a lot.

That's all we have time for today.

Will you sing with me?

♪ Goodbye now, goodbye now ♪ ♪ Now the clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ Bye-bye.

(light string 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 ♪