♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn ♪ ♪ And the games you play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (Upbeat guitar and whistling) - Good morning, fabulous first grade.

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, 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.

I'm excited to see you.

Hey, I was looking at a story called The Wacky Substitute.

This story is so silly.

It's by Sally Derby and illustrated by Jennifer Herbert.

If you like silly stories, you might enjoy this one.

This is about a man who wears glasses and he can't really see well without them.

And his glasses fall off and break, just about the time he gets a call to go cover a kindergarten classroom and be their teacher as a substitute.

You will enjoy finding out all the crazy things that happened because he can't see.

I think you'll like it.

Check for this book on the Sora App if you have it or the county public library.

You might even find it in your own school library.

It's a funny one.

If you like silly books, this is a good one.

All right, I am so happy to still have some activity books for you.

I've been sending them out like crazy.

I hope I get to send one to you.

Send us something here, a letter, a picture, whatever you'd like to send me and we'll make sure to get this in the mail to you.

Send it right to the address on the screen.

Make sure you give me your address and then we'll send one out to you, okay?

Awesome!

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

That's right.

We're playing the most important game that we play in first grade, because this is all about what we learn to do in first grade.

It's the Blending Game.

So I'm going to tell you some sounds.

You're gonna blend them together to tell me what my word is.

Are you ready?

All right, here we go.

Let's tap it out this time instead of using our fingers.

Here we go.

Ready?

D-AW-N, Dawn.

Dawn.

Good job.

How about this one?

W-AL-K, walk.

Terrific!

And one last one.

C-AU-SE, cause.

Cause.

Very good.

You did really well with that.

You're getting super at blending words.

That's an important skill because when we blend words together and segment words, we can use those skills when we're reading but also when we're trying to write words.

Because if we can take words apart, one sound at a time then we'll know what letters to write.

See how that works together?

Reading and writing go together.

It's amazing.

Like a puzzle.

All right, let's do some of our fluency practice.

You ready?

Okay.

O-E says oh.

O-A says oh.

O-I says oi.

O-Y says oi.

E-Y says ee.

O-W says oh.

Oh, no it doesn't.

I'm sorry.

It does say oh, but this time I want it to say what we practiced a couple of weeks ago.

O-W says ow.

Good for you.

Hey, you caught me.

Good job.

I can tell you're really listening.

O-U says ow.

A-Y says ay.

Whoop.

And the A-I's is trying to get away!

A-I says ay.

E-A says ee.

E-E says ee.

And I-G-H says I.

Great practice.

Let's take a look at our straw card.

And the spelling patterns that go with it.

This week we're working on the straw spelling card.

The sound is AW like at the end of the word straw.

We have A says aw, A-W says aw, A-U says aw, A-U-G-H says aw, and A-L says aw.

Now here are some words that we can blend using those patterns.

B-AL-D, bald.

P-AW, paw.

C-AU-SE, cause.

C-AUGH-T, caught.

and ST-AL-K, stalk.

Like a celery stalk.

Isn't that cool?

All right, I have a word here for us to read together using the A all by itself.

Okay, so let's try it.

Remember when we see that, we're going to say the AW sound.

Here we go.

C-A-LL, call.

Call.

Oh, you're right.

I heard some of you say, Hey that's the word all.

You're right, it is.

And we're going to build some other words in the ALL word family.

So all of our words today are going to ALL of our words today are going to have this pattern.

Let's try it.

Let's read this word.

B-A-LL, ball.

Good.

I bet you already knew that word.

Let's try this one.

F-A-LL, fall, fall.

Great, and let's try this last one.

T-A-LL, tall, tall, great job.

Your brains are growing stronger.

You are getting taller and you are turning into second graders.

Let's take a look at our reading chart and practice a few of these words.

Oh, did you notice?

That's right!

I don't have the spelling patterns highlighted.

That means you have to really look closely with your detective eyes and remember which letters you're going to say the AW sound for.

Let's try it.

Oh, this is an easy one.

We just did it.

C-A-LL, call.

How about this one?

Y-AW-N, yawn.

And H-AU-L, haul.

Ooh, let's try this one.

H-AW-K, hawk.

Like the bird.

Ooh, let's do this one.

CR-AW-L, crawl.

Crawl, great job.

Let's try this one.

Y-AW-N, yawn.

Please cover your yawn.

Great job.

You are really getting the hang of learning these spelling patterns.

We're going to work on our vowel team syllables now.

All right.

So this is very, very tricky.

And I know you guys are really smart and that you can do hard things.

So we're going to remember that we've learned about all these different syllable types and today and all this week, we're practicing vowel teams.

Now remember a vowel teams are when two vowels are next to each other, they make a new sound.

All right.

So we know that because we've been reading words with vowel teams.

Let's take a look at our poster.

It says, underline the vowel teams in each word and draw a line between the syllables.

So that's exactly what we're going to do.

Let's go across here and look at this word.

This word says N-EAT, neatest, neatest.

All right.

So let's clap it and see how many syllables we have.

Ready?

NEAT-EST NEAT-EST Good, all right.

Do you see any vowel teams there?

Remember those vowel teams are right next to each other.

There's our EA.

So we have NEAT, and there's where breaks.

EST.

We don't break it in between the vowel team.

Those have to stay together.

Let's look at this humongous word.

Do you know this word?

PLAY, PLAY-GROUND.

Good.

Let's clap it.

Play-ground.

Ooh, okay.

So that's a compound word.

Isn't it?

So when we put two together.

So do you see any vowel teams in the word playground?

I see it too.

There's our AY says ay.

What else do you notice?

It has two.

Very good.

O-U says, ow.

All right.

So we have PLAY.

Now, we're going to draw the line to split the syllables, GROUND.

Very nicely done.

All right.

We're going to stop there because I don't want to run out of time to do our high-frequency words.

So let me get our high-frequency words here.

Turn this guy around.

All right.

We are focusing on two of them today.

We have, well, I'll just leave them here.

We have brother, brother, and father.

Father.

Let's spell brother together.

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

And let's spell father, father, F-A-T-H-E-R, father.

Good job.

Oh, did you hear it?

Listen.

F-A.

Hey, that's our spelling pattern, isn't it?

Good job, father.

All right.

I have two sentences.

Let's see if you can figure out which word belongs in which sentence.

They bought our hmm a tie.

Okay, think about that.

Your brother could wear a tie.

Your father could wear a tie.

Let's read the next one.

See if that helps us.

My hmm is two years older than me.

Okay, did you get the clue?

Can you father be two years?

No, (chuckles) that would be crazy.

So that means father has to go here.

They bought our father a tie.

And my brother is two years older than me.

How did you do, did you get it?

Good, do you see how, when we read, we need to pay careful attention to the details because that will help us to figure out what the words, where the words go.

And those are called context clues.

Did you get the context clue for that?

Terrific.

All right, my friends.

It is time for us to sing a song.

And I want to remind you that you are amazing.

You are learning and growing and doing so many great things.

I want you to make a list of all the things that you have learned this year.

And I think you're probably going to need more than one piece of paper.

Don't you?

Right, we're getting very close to the end of first grade.

And so I want you to practice, practice, practice.

Some of my boys and girls like to practice their high-frequency words during the commercials of their shows that they watch.

I always call it commercial practice.

That might be a good time for you to practice too.

I hope you'll come back tomorrow because we are going to read an amazing story that has a lot of our high-frequency words.

And it also has our sound spelling patterns.

Do you think you'll be back tomorrow to read with me?

I sure hope so.

All right.

Let's read our high frequency words one more time.

We have a little extra time today.

Let's read this one.

Ready?

Father, F-A-T-H-E-R. And brother, B-R-O-T-H-E-R. Good job.

Let's sing.

♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Good bye everyone ♪ Bye-bye (guitar theme 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 ♪