(happy guitar music) - Good morning, super readers.

Happy Wednesday.

- Woohoo!

- Thanks for joining us at our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Nix.

- I'm Mrs. Vang.

- And I'm Mrs. Hammack.

- And this is a place for us to learn, practice and... - Grow our brains - To become even stronger readers, writers, and thinkers.

So let's get started by warming up our brains with some - Ear training - Called - Daily phonemic awareness.

- All right.

So today, ladies, if you wanna help me, and boys and girls at home, if you'd like to help me out, we're gonna practice a little phoneme blending, which simply means I'm going to give you some sounds and then we're gonna blend them together to make a word.

And to do it, we're gonna use our arms.

So put your arms out in front.

Ready for some sounds.

Here we go.

So this one's got three sounds: G - Eh - T. Now blend them together.

G - Eh - T. Get.

Good job!

Great!

Okay.

Let's try another one.

Ready?

Here we go.

D - Rr - Eh - S. Ooh, that one had four sounds.

- Wow.

- D - Rr - Eh - S. Dress.

Dress!

Did you say that?

Oh, you're so smart.

I'm so impressed.

All right, let me see if I can trick you on this last one.

Ready?

This one also has four sounds.

So listen, carefully.

Ss - Mm - Eh - Ll.

Ss - Mell.

Smell!

Did you get it?

- That was great.

- You got it.

- Great job!

I love that you're using your ears and you're blending and making words, and we don't even have any letters yet!

Great job.

Now, here's my favorite time of the day.

(laughing) - Okay I'm gonna stand up.

- Okay, I think I'm ready.

- I might know it now.

- Mm hmm.

- We're going to give ourselves some room.

You guys stand up and give yourself some room and join us as we do a little bit of dancing.

This one's called scrambled egg fried egg.

(upbeat music) So let's get loose and have fun.

♪ Scrambled egg, fried egg ♪ ♪ Egg on a plate.

♪ ♪ Boiled egg, egg on toast, ♪ ♪ Hurry don't be late!

♪ ♪ Eggs are good for breakfast ♪ ♪ Or in a salad too ♪ ♪ Don't matter how you cook them, ♪ ♪ They are good for you!

♪ ♪ Scrambled egg, fried egg ♪ ♪ Egg on a plate.

♪ ♪ Boiled egg, egg on toast, ♪ ♪ Hurry don't be late!

♪ ♪ But no matter where you go ♪ ♪ And no matter what you do ♪ ♪ Never ever put an egg in your shoe!

♪ - Ugh, that would be so gross!

- Now remember if you're at home or at school, you don't have to take off your shoes.

Is that okay?

- That's true.

You could just pretend.

(upbeat music) - I'm getting all my wiggles out with this great song.

♪ Scrambled egg, fried egg ♪ ♪ Egg on a plate.

♪ ♪ Boiled egg, egg on toast, ♪ ♪ Hurry don't be late!

♪ ♪ Eggs are good for breakfast ♪ ♪ Or in a salad too ♪ ♪ Don't matter how you cook them, ♪ ♪ They are good for you!

♪ ♪ Scrambled egg, fried egg ♪ ♪ Egg on a plate.

♪ ♪ Boiled egg, egg on toast, ♪ ♪ Hurry don't be late!

♪ ♪ But no matter where you go ♪ ♪ And no matter what you do ♪ ♪ Never ever put an egg in your shoe!

♪ - Oh.

- Ugh.

- Gross.

- Slimy - I don't think my shoe would smell very good after having an egg in there.

- No!

- That just sounds like a really bad decision, right?

- Ahhh.

- You know, it's always good to move around and wiggle.

When you're getting ready to practice and learn things.

Kind of just settles your whole body down and get your brain pumping with blood and ready to think.

And that's what we're gonna do right now.

We are going to practice our focus sound of the week.

Now all of this week, we are working on the egg card.

That is our short E. That's the short vowel.

So we say, do you remember?

E Egg Eh.

The 'Eh' is how we would write the sound.

So when we hear the 'Eh' sound, here are the two spelling patterns that we would use.

We would use an E all by itself.

And then remember some times, not often, but sometimes there are some tricky words that use E-A to also say the 'Eh' sound.

All right, today we are going to blend a couple of words and we're going to build a couple of words, and then we'll read our sentence so we can practice in context.

So here we are practicing our skills in isolation.

We're going to blend and read, but we need some help.

Don't we?

Friends!

Can you come and help me blend and build.

- I can help.

- Ah, so good to see you, Ricky.

- Hello Mrs. Hammack.

- Oh hello!

You're you're so tiny, I almost didn't see you.

I'm so glad you're here today.

- Well I was trying to be seen.

- Yes.

Well, I am thrilled to see you here.

All right.

You've got your good listening ears turned on?

All right.

We're going to blend.

I'm going to tell you the sounds.

I'd like you to try to blend them together and tell me my word.

Here we go.

T Eh Nn.

T Eh Nn.

- Oh, oh, Ooh.

You know what?

You know what, Mrs. Hammack?

Look, I can do it down my arm.

T - Eh - Nn.

- Oh my!

- Ten.

- That is awesome!

Great job!

- Oh!

I just learned that I could do that!

- That is fantastic.

Do you know that word?

- Ten!

- Yes.

Good job.

Ten.

Like the number 10.

Very good.

All right.

This next one is kind of tricky.

So really be thinking it's using one of our R blends that we practiced.

And then we have that tricky spelling pattern with the EA to say the 'Eh'.

So here we go.

Br Eh D. Br - Eh - D. Hmm.

- I think I got it.

- Oh, what is it?

- Bread!

- Great job.

Good listening.

Bread.

Very good.

And bread is something that we eat, right?

- Mm hmm.

I sure like bread.

But that 'Brr', got me thinking, but I thought about it and I went 'Bread'.

- I like how you talked through your thinking.

That helps us.

All right.

Now, are you ready to help me build some words?

- Oh, yes.

Let's try it.

- Okay.

I'm going to tell you the word and I want you to help me figure out what letters I need to make that word.

So if I'm writing the word bet, bet.

Now I want to remind you that that's when you can use your arm.

Right?

B - Eh - T. We can break that word apart to hear the individual sounds.

So what letters do you think I would need to write the word 'bet'?

- I heard three sounds.

Mrs. Hammack.

- You're right.

Ricky, what were they?

- 'B' Is the B.

- Yes.

- 'Eh' is the, oh, I dunno, is it the E?

Is it the E-A?

B - Eh - T. Uh, I think it's the, is it E-A?

- Well, remember those- that's the tricky spelling pattern.

Most often we just find the short E sound with the E, especially in a small word, like bet.

- Oh, okay.

Thanks Mrs. Hammack.

- You're welcome.

- B - Eh - T. 'T' is a T. - Good job.

Now this word says, bet, bet.

It's tricky to know if you should use an E or an E-A, but as you learn a few other rules about vowels, it will make more sense to you and you'll, you won't have as much trouble figuring it out.

All right.

So here's bet.

Now, if I want to change bet to bed, what should I do to get the word bed?

- Oh, oh, oh, I hear it.

I hear it.

- Okay.

What do you hear?

- I hear the last sound- Bet- goes away.

And it changes to a D sound, but Mrs. Hammack, I have to tell you, I have a really hard time remembering which letter is a B, and which one is a D because they look so alike to me.

- You know what, you're not the only one, Tina, lots of our friends have trouble with the B and the D. And so this is what I show them.

I want you to think about the word bed.

It starts with the 'Buh' 'Buh' sound, right?

- Mm hmm.

- So if you think about the 'Buh' sound at the beginning of bed, that's a B.

And so it's going to be the, if you look right here and use your imagination, you can see it's kind of like a bed.

So here's the beginning of the bed and it starts with B, 'Buh' 'Buh', and the end of the bed or the foot of the bed starts with, or ends, with 'Duh'.

Beh - Duh.

So if you make a bed with your hands, you will have a B for the beginning of bed and a D for the end of bed.

And then the vowel goes in the middle.

And that might help you remember which way a 'B' or a 'D' should go.

- Oh that is a great way to remember it.

I see it.

I see it in the word bed.

- Yeah!

- That was a great strategy, Mrs. Hammack.

- I'm glad!

I hope that it helps you because that's a tricky group of letters to try to figure out which direction it should go.

- I can remember that.

- Excellent.

- That was a great tip.

- Terrific.

Now over here, I added our sweat, our head and our bread with that tricky EA spelling to help us remember some of those tricky words.

You guys helped me so much today.

And Tina, that was such a good thing for you to call out those Bs and Ds cause they can be tricky.

I'm gonna let you guys go because I'm gonna read a sentence with my friends and we're going to practice that short E blending in context.

See you later!

- Bye!

- Bye Mrs. Hammack.

- Bye Ricky.

All right, friends, here is our sentence for today.

Let's try it.

Ted pets, pets, a cat at the vet.

How'd you do?

Great job.

Wow.

We did some heavy learning today in our phonics.

And now it's time for us to practice our high frequency words with Mrs. Nix.

- Hi, you guys.

Thank you so much, Mrs. Hammack.

That is exactly what we're gonna do.

We're gonna practice our high frequency words.

And those are those words that we see often in our reading and writing.

We have five of them that we've been practicing this week.

So let's go through and read them.

And then we're going to talk about some strategies we can use to help us remember them.

So let's read them together.

Again, help, new, there, and use.

Today, we're gonna focus on the word new.

Say the word with me: New.

Good.

Let's spell it together.

N-E-W spells new.

Great job.

Now let's go through and look at how do we use it in a sentence.

So I have this sentence here and let's read it together.

Will you help the new kid?

Did you see it?

Great.

Will you help the new kid?

Okay so here's a strategy that I love to do because I love lots of color.

I love.

So oftentimes I remember my teachers telling me, okay, go through and write your words five times each, but I love being able to change it and make it so colorful.

And we call them rainbow words.

So even though I'm writing them five times each, I'm writing them in all the colors of the rainbow.

So remember, we've talked about on TV that the yellow doesn't show up.

So know that there's yellow in here.

We're just gonna pretend, but I did red, orange, remember no yellow, green, blue, what color comes next?

That's right.

Purple.

And so I can go through and I can practice my words that we've been doing this week, just like that.

And I might even add, here's my help.

So I did again, help.

H-E-L-P. Today's word is 'new'.

So I wrote 'new' in red, and then I can come and do it in orange, N-E-W, and I can go through and do all my colors.

And you would be able to do that with all of your colors at home too.

Now we've been talking about, this week, about making predictions and confirming our predictions.

And today's story is jobs all around town.

And so I want us to think about what might be some of the jobs that we're gonna learn about.

Hmm.

Think about it.

Let's see if we thought of some of the correct jobs.

All right, here comes the story.

Enjoy.

- Today's story is called jobs around town.

As I read, I want you to use the words you hear and the pictures to help make predictions about the jobs you will hear about.

Jobs around town.

What jobs need to be done in your community?

How do the people who have those jobs help the community?

Think about the town you live in, who helps keep the community safe and clean?

Who makes the buildings you live and work in?

And who can help you find books and learn new things?

Many people do these jobs.

Construction workers help your community by building houses, schools, stores, and offices.

There are many different kinds of workers on a construction site.

There are workers who prepare the site.

They may operate a truck that digs a big hole in the ground where the building will go.

They may mix concrete in a big mixer for the building's foundation.

There are also workers who put up walls, doors and windows, still other workers put the wires into a building, so it will have electricity.

When all the construction workers are finished with their jobs, the building is ready for people to live and work and play in.

It's astonishing how much garbage people throw away.

They toss food scraps, paper, plastic, and other things.

Garbage collectors help the community by taking all that garbage away.

Usually a driver drives the big garbage truck and a garbage collector travels on the truck.

Either the collector or a machine picks up the garbage and dumps it into the truck.

This truck crushes the garbage to make it smaller.

Then there's room in the truck for more garbage.

What happens to the trash?

Some of it is buried.

Some of it is burned.

Some of it is recycled.

Many things made of paper, glass or plastic can be recycled.

People put their recycling materials out in boxes or bags, apart from the other garbage.

Recycled material can be used again.

Have you ever seen an ambulance driving down the street?

Inside the ambulance are EMTs: emergency medical technicians.

People in this occupation do a very important job in the community.

When people hurt themselves or get sick, they call a special phone number.

The operator who answers the phone, sends an EMT to the house to care for the person.

EMTs perform a special kind of aid called CPR to help people with their breathing.

They help people who fall down to get up.

They put bandages on injuries.

EMTs bring some sick people to the hospital in an ambulance.

First, they put the person on a special bed on wheels.

Then they move the bed into the ambulance.

Inside the ambulance EMTs keep supplies such as bandages and medicine.

They keep important equipment in the ambulance too.

A stethoscope is one piece of equipment that an EMT uses.

A thermometer is another.

Your community even has a place where you can hear stories, find facts and borrow books and movies.

You can go to the library for all of these things.

A library has many books and fortunately librarians are there to help.

Librarians help readers pick out the books that are best for them.

Just visit the librarian's desk and he or she will offer to find you fascinating books of any subject you like.

If you love dinosaurs, the librarian will make finding a dinosaur book easy.

What else do librarians do?

They decide which books, magazines, and movies to buy for the library.

They make sure all the books in the library are in order.

Librarians use a special system to keep the books in order.

Each book has a special number that tells you what type of book it is.

These numbers help you tell if a book is about art, rocks, birds, or a different subject.

What other jobs are in your community?

Look around.

You will see all kinds of people helping to make your community a good place to live.

- You guys enjoy that story?

Well, Ricky and I, made some predictions, before we read the story.

And so now we're gonna look at our prediction and we're gonna see if our prediction was correct.

So we're gonna, we made predictions, so now we're just confirming our predictions.

Are you ready Ricky?

- I'm ready!

- Okay.

So I said that these were construction workers because they have tools to build a house.

So you notice how I was looking at my photo to help me make those prediction?

And then as we were reading, oh, I, this is what I learned, construction workers help our community by building houses, schools, stores, and offices.

- You were right!

- I was.

Now Ricky, can you tell them your prediction?

- Well, my favorite one was the last picture.

- Oh, okay.

- I predicted that this was a teacher helping his students read.

- Oh, that was a good one.

Well, we learned from reading that librarians help readers pick out books.

I know!

So Ricky, your protection was not correct, but we confirmed it with, by reading.

And is it okay?

It's okay Ricky.

Sometimes our predictions are not correct.

And it's Okay- Oh, don't feel bad, but it's okay.

Cause it's just a prediction and it's okay to make incorrect predictions.

Because remember a prediction is just a guess.

But that was great that we went back and confirmed that this was not a teacher.

It was a librarian who likes to help pick out their books.

Come on Ricky.

But that was a great job, boys and girls.

I hope you guys were able to make your predictions, and listen and read this, or listened to the story to confirm your prediction.

Oh Ricky.

But guess what?

We're going to go into a writing today and guess what today's writing prompt is?

You're going to like it.

My writing prompt today, says, you all right?

Oh, come on.

And it says, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Oh see I knew you would like that!

What do you wanna be when you grow up?

- My friends can help with this one, cause I know what they want to be.

- You're right!

Here are our friends.

Do you guys know what you want to be when you guys grow up?

What do you guys want to be?

- I want to be a dancer.

- Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Let's have your friends talk first.

Okay.

Let's see.

- Oh oh, I know, I have one I have one!

- Okay.

- I have a good one.

- Oh what do you wanna be, Tina?

- So I wanna be a construction worker.

- A construction worker!

- Yes!

Do you know why?

- Why?

- Because look at my shell.

It'll protect me.

I have a built-in protection.

- That's a great - It's like I was made to be a construction worker.

- That's a great idea, Tina.

So I'm going to use my starting sentence on my frame, when I grow up, I want to be a, Tina wants to be a construction worker because, and I love how she said 'because', she gave me her why.

- Well, actually hang on just a second.

Can I tell you my real reason?

- Okay.

- Okay.

So my real reason for wanting to be a construction worker, I love to build.

- Oh I love that.

- That's what I wrote down on my paper.

- Oh, but you know what can you also add?

Because you have a shell to protect you.

- Oh yes.

- That'd be a great sentence to add.

Awesome job.

Okay.

Scooter.

I hear you, I'm gonna put your sentence up, but right now let's get ready to listen to another friend, share one of their books with us and then we'll come back to your writing.

All right?

All right.

Let's go.

- Hi friends.

I'm Tiffany Castillo, and I'm a teacher in Fresno Unified.

And I'm so excited to share this book with you.

It's called After the Fall by Dan Santat.

And this is about how Humpty Dumpty got back up again.

Let's see.

What's gonna happen?

My name is Humpty Dumpty.

I'm famous for falling off a wall.

You may have heard about it, but that's only half the story because I decided to get back up.

And when I did something amazing happened, you've gotta read to find out what happens next.

So check this book out at your local library or at your school library.

- Start it.

And then I'll just.

- Hi.

So thank you so much, Tiffany, for sharing with us, that was a hilarious book.

And now I kind of want to know how it ends.

- I do, for sure.

- And we know what Scooter wants to be.

Scooter wants to be a teacher because he wants to help kids how to read.

So I love that.

- I love that.

- Scooter gave me his sentence and we put it up.

So if you guys wanna write to us, make sure.

- Knock knock.

- Who's there?

- Kanga.

- Kanga who?

- Silly!

It's Kangaroo!

- Oh, geez.

(laughing) We'll see you guys back here tomorrow.

Take care.

- Bye bye.

Bye (happy guitar music)