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

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

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

I was just reading one of my favorite books.

I know I've shared it with you before, but it's been a while, so I just thought, you know, maybe I'll remind them about this amazing book.

This story is called "Stellaluna" by Janell cannon.

Do you know this story?

The story is about a little baby bat that gets separated from her mom, and ends up kind of growing up with birds.

And they're kind of the opposite, birds are awake in the day, and bats are nocturnal.

That means they wake up when the sun is going down.

But Stellaluna starts acting like a bird because that's who she's growing up with.

So at the end of the story, you will see it has a happy ending, which those are always my favorite kind of books.

You might look for this on Sora, check at your county public library, or at your own school library, and see about the story "Stellaluna."

If you haven't read it, I know it will become one of your favorites, just like me.

I think you'll like it.

Friends, I would love to send you an activity book.

We have all different kinds.

We even have some for little tiny kids and bigger kids.

All you have to do is send me a letter right here in our PBS classroom.

Mail it to the address on the screen, and I will be sure to get one of these in the mail to you.

Just give us your address so we know where to send it.

Okay?

Terrific, I can't wait to read your letters.

All right, my friends, you know what time it is, right?

What do we do after we talk about our activity books and our story that I'm sharing?

That's right, now we train our ears for sound.

Today, I have a different kind of game.

Today, we're going to play the reversal game.

I know, I don't think we've played this game before.

It's a little bit tricky, but I think you're ready for it.

So I'm going to say some sounds, we're gonna blend them together, and we're going to reverse, that means flip around, two of the phonemes to make a new word.

Okay, let's try it.

I'll show you what I mean.

Okay.

Nnn, eh, t. Net, net.

Okay, did you get it?

All right, now, if we take the nnn, and move it to the end, and we take the t and put it here, let's see what it is.

We had at nnn, eh, t. Now let's start with a t. T, eh, nn.

Ten!

Did you see how we did that?

Net became ten, just by changing the beginning and ending phoneme!

Tricky, right?

All right.

Let's try another one, 'cause it's really a tricky game.

Let's try it.

T, eh, ull.

Tell, tell!

Good.

All right.

We're gonna switch places.

We're gonna put the ull up front and the t at the end.

Here we go.

Ull, eh, t. Let!

Great job!

All right, one last one.

I know, I can see you really thinking.

I see those wheels turning.

Here we go.

Puh, ah, t, pot.

All right, now we're gonna take the t and make it first, so it's gonna start with a t and it's gonna end with a puh.

T, ah, puh.

Top.

Did you get it?

Pot, oop, pot, and then top.

Great.

Whoo-wee, that was some brain exercise, right?

I think your brain is getting stronger, terrific!

All right, now we're going to do some fluency.

We're gonna practice a few of the sounds and letters that we've already learned, but we want to make sure that we really know them.

If you have something to write with, write down any of the patterns that are giving you kind of a little trouble, like when you look at it, I want you to know it just like that.

And if it takes you a little while to remember, then write it down.

Here we go.

O-E says oh.

O-A says oh.

O-I says oy.

O-Y says oy.

E-Y says E. O-W says ow.

O-U says ow.

A-Y says A. A-I says A. E-A says E. E-E says E. And I-G-H says I.

Great practice.

Now, I hope you wrote some of the ones down that you might be struggling with.

Today and all this week, we are practicing with the straw spelling card.

So the straw has the aw sound, and you're right, it does sound like the short O.

But this is a little different, it's a variant vowel, it means it's not following the rules.

So we have all five ways to spell the aw sound with the straw card.

So let's review them, say it with me and say the sound.

A says aw.

A-W says aw.

A-U says aw.

A-U-G-H says aw.

And A-L says aw.

Good job Now let's take a look at some words that use those spelling patterns so that you will be familiar with them, because some of these words are words you already know.

This word is wand, wand, and then there's our inflectional ending, E-R, wander, wander!

All right, here's draw.

Dr, aw, draw.

And how about this one?

Huh, aw, ull.

Haul.

This one, I hope you don't know this word.

Nnn, aw, t, ee.

Naughty.

You're not naughty, are you?

How about this one?

T, aw, kuh.

Talk.

I know you know that one.

All right, so today we're going to build some words together.

We're gonna build the word saw, saw.

I saw a great movie on TV.

So we start with our S, and for this word, we're going to use the A-W says aw.

So let's do it.

Sss, aw, saw!

Good.

How many phonemes did you hear, or sounds?

That's right, two.

The sss and the aw, good job.

What would I do if I want it to say law?

Law.

Yes, I'm gonna change the beginning phoneme, or sound, and change it to the ull.

Ull, aw, law!

Good.

What if I wanted to say lawn?

My neighbor mowed his lawn.

What do I need at the end?

Right, good job.

Lawn.

Terrific.

You did that very well.

All right, let's take a look at our reading chart, and let's practice with some words on our chart.

We're gonna start down here, and this is the word mmm, aw, ull, mall.

Then we have ull, aw, nn, lawn.

Cuh, aws, cause.

Cr, awl, crawl.

Buh, al, duh, bald.

Cuh, all, call.

Sss, awse, sauce.

Yuh, awn, yawn, and sss, aw, saw.

How'd you do?

Great reading today, my friends.

All right, I'm gonna take this down, because today, we are going to learn about syllables.

We've already learned a few things about syllables.

So we've already learned about a closed syllable, right?

That's when the vowel is closed in by another consonant, makes it a short vowel.

We learned about an open syllable.

That's when the vowel doesn't have anything over here, and it makes the vowel long.

We learned about the silent E syllable.

That means the silent E, the word that has the silent E is all together.

And we also learned about the stable syllable, or the syllable that has the L-E at the end.

Today, we're gonna learn a new one.

Right!

We're going to learn about..

I'm going to just gonna borrow this, 'cause I can't find my other one.

Oh, there it is.

Let's see.

We're also today, we're gonna learn about the vowel team.

A vowel team is when we have two vowels, two vowels are next to each other.

They make a new sound, just like what we've been practicing.

E-E, E-A, these vowel teams are stuck together, and when we're breaking apart syllables, we do not break them apart.

We keep those locked together.

So let's take a look at what that might look like.

I have a floppy poster here, because, boys and girls, the words on my worksheet were too small for us to see on TV.

So I had to write them separate so that we could see them better, 'cause I don't want you to have to try to see something that's too tiny.

All right, we're just gonna probably try one today, because I don't want to hurry you.

I want you to really think about it.

So vowel teams are formed by two letters, two vowels, in a word, that stand for one vowel sound.

Here we have the word heat, heat.

Do you see how it's one syllable?

We don't have to split that one.

And the E-A stay together.

But here we have oatmeal, oat, meal.

That's two syllables, right?

So in order to know where to split it, we look for those vowel teams and know that they have to stay together.

So let's take a look at this word, drawing, drawing.

Let's clap it.

Draw, ing.

That's two syllables, right?

Now, did you see the A-W?

Right, it's kind of like a vowel team.

They're partners, right?

The W's not a vowel, but it does work with the A to say the aw sound, so in this case, we call it a vowel team.

Draw, ing, and then we also learned that inflectional endings add a syllable.

So if I'm splitting this, I'm gonna go right here where draw and ing, and now I have drawing.

How'd you do?

I know it's a little tricky.

Don't worry, because we're gonna spend more time on it this week.

Let's quickly finish with our high-frequency words.

Let me get our words turned around here.

We have two that we're gonna practice today.

Mother, mother, and love.

Let's spell mother.

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

And the next word is love.

L-O-V-E, love.

Now, we're running out of time, so think quickly.

This one says, I love my family, and this one says my mother bakes yummy cookies.

I bet your mom does too.

♪ Goodbye now, goodbye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow, goodbye everyone ♪ See you tomorrow!

(upbeat 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 music)