(easygoing instrumental music) - [All] Good morning super readers!

- Thank you for joining us in our valley PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack.

- I'm Mrs. Nix.

- I'm Mrs. Vang.

- And this is a place for us to learn, practice and- - [All] Grow our brains!

- to be even stronger readers, writers and thinkers.

So let's get started by warming up our brain with some- - Ear training.

- Called- - [All] Daily phonemic awareness.

- All right, so we have a game for you today, it's called: Guess my word.

All right, so we're gonna do some sounds and then blend them together to figure out what the word is.

So this is phoning blending.

Now there are a couple of ways you can do it.

You can do it out on your arm.

You can use your fingers, just whatever strategy works for you.

Okay?

So- - Can I pound and then- - Oh, I like that idea, yeah.

Like a word builder.

- Mm-hmm.

- Yeah, that's awesome.

So lots of ways that you can help yourself to think of those sounds, so here we go.

Ready?

I'm gonna use my fingers.

Ba, ah, ch.

Ba, ah, ch.

Batch.

Did you get batch?

Do you know what a batch is?

- Like a batch of cookies.

- Yeah, that's what I think.

- We're getting to those holidays.

- All right, all right the next one.

Now this time I'm not going to tell you what the word is.

Teachers you're gonna have to tell me, here we go.

- Okay.

Ready?

Shh, a, pa. Three sounds.

Shh, a, pa, mm.

Shh, a, pa. What do you think?

Did you get it?

- Got it.

- All right, what'd you get?

- I got shape.

- Yes.

Shape.

All right, last one here we go.

Pa, ah, ff.

Pa, ah, ff.

Pa, ah, Pa ahhh, ff.

Mrs. Nix, you wanna give it a try?

- I totally have this one, it's a path, cause I like to walk on the path.

- Oh, on the path.

Great.

How'd you do?

Awesome.

You're training your ears and getting them warmed up and you know, now we need to warm up our bodies and we're going to do a hippo in the house.

Are you ready to do it with us?

All right.

Get ready?

- All right.

- Give yourself some space so you can do some moving around.

- No!

- Hippo in the house, what?

- Hippo in the house.

- I think I see it, it's right over there.

Do you see it?

Over there, right there.

♪ There's a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ There's a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ Not a kitten nor a whale ♪ ♪ Not a hamster or a snail ♪ ♪ But a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ There's a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ There's a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ Not a penguin nor a puppy ♪ ♪ Not a hedgehog or a guppy ♪ ♪ But a hippo in the house ♪ (dramatic music) - Woo-hoo.

All right.

- So fun to walk like a hippo, isn't that fun?

- Yeah that's good, I'm gonna have to do a little more of that.

- Hippo.

Okay are you guys ready?

- I think so.

- Let's go warm up.

Let's get ready to learn our phonics of the week.

- All right, we'll see ya.

- Well have fun.

- Okay, so super readers.

Don't forget this week is a review week.

All week we have been practicing our diagraph and this is a sound that you've learned with Mrs. Hammack already.

Remember, diagraph just means that they are two letters and when we put them together, they make a new sound.

So let's review our diagraph for the week.

Okay, ready?

We have S H and S H says shh.

Good job.

We have the C H and the T C H. And they both say the same sound.

It says ch, good, like cheese, good job.

And T H says, Th, good.

Like thumb, W H says, ho ah, ho ah.

Good, like, whale.

The P H says, ff, good.

Like Phil remember my friend Phil, it does sound like the F, but we can also spell that sound with a P H. So it's considered a diagraph.

And then last we have the N G and we say, nn.

But if we add in some vowels, then we can blend it a little bit easier, and we say, ung, ing, ong or ang.

And so those are our diagraphs for the week that we are practicing.

Now let's get ready to build some words and I'm going to have my friends come and help us build words with diagraphs.

Let's see, there they are.

- Hi Mrs. Vang.

- Hello friends, and I you're at home make sure that you guys have a pencil or a whiteboard or something to write on because we're going to be building words.

Can you guys help me build words?

- Yes!

- Awesome, okay.

Now here's my word, are you guys ready?

Let's build the word, mash, mash, because you know what's coming up?

Thanksgiving I like to mash potatoes.

So mash.

Okay first let's segment.

How many sounds do you hear in mash?

Ready?

Mm, ah, shh.

Ah, how many sounds was that?

- Oh oh, I think it was three.

- Three sounds, good job Tina.

- That's what I said too.

- Oh good job Rita.

Okay.

What's the first sound in mash.

Mm mash.

- Mm.

- Hey that's the M. - Right it is the M, good job.

Mm mash.

Good.

Mm, let's put it up here so we can see.

Mm, ah, what sound is ah?

- Mm, that's a A.

- That's an A.

Good job.

Mash.

And what sound do you hear at the end?

- Oh, this is one of my favorite.

It's the show card.

- Good job.

- Guess who has the show?

- That's right.

- That's me.

- The mash, we hear the shh, at the end, and you are right Tina, because Tina does have a shell and shell starts with a shh, S H, good job building mash.

Okay.

But now I have a challenge.

Now, can you guys change it to the word math?

Like I like to add in math.

- Mm.

- Mm math.

- Oh, how do we do that?

- Oh, I think I know.

- Okay.

- Tina was helping me practice this the other day.

- Oh, I'm so glad you're such good friends, okay.

- Mm and ah, they're going to stay there cause that's still needed.

But the shh, we're gonna take that away and we're gonna put the Th.

- Good job.

- And that's the T H for the phone card.

- Good job.

So we change mash to math by adding that Th sound, T H, awesome job.

You guys are doing such a great job.

Thank you for helping, but I'm going to have my readers at home.

Help me read this next sentence.

- All right see you later.

- Okay, bye you guys.

Okay super readers at home.

Remember all of those diagraph sounds.

Let's see if we can put them in words and then put these words into sentences so that we can read them in context.

Ready?

Okay.

Reading fingers.

Ready?

Help me read this sentence.

I watch him catch a fish.

How did you do?

Awesome job You guys are doing such a great job, learning how to read and write words.

Now let's go to Mrs. Hammack, who's gonna help you with some high frequency words.

- Okay super readers.

Now remember, our high frequency words are those words that we need to know as fast as we know our name, and we are revealing five this week, we've done.

They and around.

And so today we're going to work on this one.

This word is what.

W H A T, what?

All right.

Let's put it in a sentence and see if we can use it in context.

What can you see?

And yes, you're right.

It needs an uppercase W so I'm going to change that out.

So we have a correct.

What can you see?

Great job.

I'll put a little window around that to highlight it.

Super.

Alright.

This week we've been doing non-fiction text.

Those are stories that are true and have facts that we can learn about.

And we're using the strategy of reread.

That's when we go back and look for text evidence so that we can know the answer to a question, or go back and read something if it didn't make sense.

I hope you enjoy this story.

Baby bears.

- [Teacher] Baby bears by Bobbie Kalman.

How are offspring like their parents?

Read to find out how baby bears are like their moms and dads.

What is a bear?

Bears are animals called mammals.

Mammals have hair or fur on their bodies.

Bears are covered with fur.

Mammals are born.

You were born too, you are a mammal.

Baby bears are called Cubs.

Cubs are born with their eyes shut.

Their eyes open when they are six weeks old, this brown bear Cub was just born.

It has very little fur.

Mammal mothers make milk inside their bodies.

Mammal babies nurse from their mothers.

To nurse is to drink mother's milk.

The polar bear Cub is nursing.

Kinds of bears.

There are eight kinds of bears.

The bears shown on this page are an American black bear, a brown bear and a polar bear.

These bears all live in north America.

American black bears can be different colors.

What color is this black bear?ú There are different kinds of brown bears.

These grizzly bears are one kind of brown bear.

Polar bears have light fur, they live in a cold place called the Arctic.

People who study bears once thought that giant pandas were raccoons.

Now people think that these animals are bears.

There are not many giant pandas left in the world.

Giant pandas live in China.

What animal did people use to think giant pandas were?

Reread to check your understanding.

Their bodies.

Bears have four legs.

They can walk on all four legs or on their two back legs.

They have five toes with claws on each foot.

Claws are curled nails.

The grizzly bear Cub has brown fur covering its body.

Bears can smell, hear and see very well.

Bears use their claws to climb and dig.

Bear coats.

Bears have two kinds of fur.

Some of their fur is short and some is long.

They're short fur keeps them warm.

They're long fur keeps water away from their skin.

Polar bears have thick white fur.

Pandas have black and white fur.

Bear families, A bear family is made up of a mother bear and her Cubs.

Most mother bears have litters of Cubs.

A litter is two or more babies that are born at the same time.

This mother grizzly bear has three Cubs.

This mother bear is teaching her Cubs how to climb a tree.

Mothers also teach Cubs how to groom their fur and stay clean.

Cubs stay with their mothers until they are two to three years old.

They watch their mothers to learn how to live on their own.

Mother bears teach their Cubs where to find food and how to stay safe.

What do bears eat?

Most bears are omnivores.

Omnivores are animals that eat both plants and animals.

Bears eat honey, berries, leaves, and eggs.

They also eat insects, fish and other animals.

Polar bears are carnivores, carnivores eat, mainly other animals.

Pandas are herbivores, herbivores eat mainly plants, pandas eat plants called bamboo.

Bear habitats.

Bears live in different places.

The natural place where a bear lives is called its habitat.

Many bears live in forests.

Forests are habitats with many trees.

Some bears live on mountains.

Pandas live in forests that grow high on mountains.

Bamboo grows in these forests.

Black bears live in north America forests.

What do you think this bear will find to eat?

Winter sleep.

Some bears live in places that have cold winters.

It is hard for bears to find food when it is cold.

To stay alive, they sleep through most of the winter.

During the summer and fall, the bears eat a lot of food.

They store the food as fat on their bodies.

The bears live off the fat during the winter.

These grizzly bears are eating a lot of salmon.

They are getting ready for winter.

Mother bears that live in cold places have their Cubs in winter.

Before the Cubs are born, the mother builds a home called a den.

The den is warm and safe place for the bears to live.

Many bears make their dens by digging holes and Hills or under tree roots.

Some bears use caves or holes in logs for their dens.

After the Cubs are born, the mother goes to sleep.

The Cubs nurse while their mother sleeps.

Some polar bears make tunnels in the snow to use as dens.

Cubs grow up.

Each bear goes through a set of changes called a life cycle.

A life cycle starts when a Cub is born, the Cub grows and changes.

It then becomes an adult bear.

These pictures show the life cycle of an American black bear.

Adult bears can make babies.

A black bear Cub drinks it's mother's milk.

Soon, the Cub leaves the den.

It still nurses, but it starts eating other foods too.

The cup becomes an adult when it is three to five years old.

This mother bear and her Cubs are looking for food in a forest.

Cubs will soon start living on their own and finding food for themselves.

The black bear Cub has just left its den.

It is starting to learn about the world.

The Cub will quickly find out why it should not play with skunks.

- Was that amazing or not?

I mean so many different things that we can learn about bears.

Did you know that there were that many different types of bears?

And that was just a few of them.

So authors do some things to help us sort of categorize and talk about and learn about all these different bears.

So I have a question that's going to help us to think about that a little bit today.

We're really gonna be thinking about what the author did to help us.

No.

Okay.

Let me pause for a second.

Do you remember what an author is?

That's right.

The author is the one who writes the text.

Okay, so the author and the illustrator kind of get together and they put their text together and they give us some clues as readers so that we can understand what's going on.

So here's my question today.

It says, how does the author help you understand how bears are different?

And I've got a couple of pages here that we can look at to help us.

And there's clues that they give us.

Now, sometimes you can go back and you can reread the different texts to learn how bears are different.

Now, in this particular example that I pulled up, our text really doesn't give us any clues as to how they're different.

But if we look over in our photos, those are the pictures that we see.

And we look at our captions.

Those are the small little boxes of text that talk about our photos.

We'll find some clues there.

So let's go through and do a little bit of rereading of some of these little sections.

Now just looking at the photos.

What do you see?

Do we see anything that's different?

Yes, absolutely.

They do look really different.

Some have brown fur these were the grizzly bears.

Some have thick white fur the polar bears.

Can you see that Panda bear right there?

What color is their fur?

Black and white.

Excellent job.

All right.

Then if we look over here and we look at the captions, these little pieces that are pointing, this one says this grizzly bear Cub has brown fur covering its body and it's pointing to this baby Cub.

So we can look over here and it says, polar bears have thick white fur.

And then we can look here and pandas have black and white fur.

So our captions can help us with all sorts of things.

Now I just read about the fur, but in here, we can learn that all bears can smell, hear and see well, so we talked about, I didn't read these ones, but they talk about how they smell and see very well and that they have their long claws that help them climb and dig.

So I've learned what bears use their claws to climb and dig.

So here's my question.

How does the author help us understand that the bears are different?

What the author do for us?

Did they provide some clues?

They did.

The author gave us some clues by showing us photos of the different bears next to each other so that we can see them.

And then we also got to look at the captions to get some more information.

And you can do that with your books that you're reading.

Isn't that amazing that we can do all of that together.

Okay.

I want to switch it over and let's talk about some writing today.

So today's topic is, how do baby bears learn from their mothers?

And we just read a whole bunch of information about our bears.

Do you remember?

So how do baby bears learn from their mothers?

Now to help me do that I'm gonna call my friends in for a little help.

All right friends.

Come on in.

Hi, Rita.

- Hi.

- Hi Ricky.

- Hi Mrs. Nix.

- How are you guys today?

- Great.

- Awesome.

- I didn't get a re, I mean, Retallick in Ms. Nix.

- I'm gonna find something Ricky.

I think you just keep on me.

You keep asking and I'll find something for you.

- Okay.

- All right.

Maybe even possibly tomorrow.

- It's okay.

Mrs. Nix.

Doesn't that mean?

Retell a lot.

Oh, so it's okay.

- You have such a, you have such a good heart.

I love it.

All right.

You guys want to help me finish out this sentence that's here?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

So the question was, how do baby bears learn from their mothers?

So here's my sentence frame.

Baby bears learned from their mothers by what do you guys come up with?

- Hmm.

Oh, go ahead Ricky.

- I was thinking of what, cause it was a long story and I was really reading and paying attention.

Okay, let me go get it.

Okay.

- Let me see.

- I said that baby bears learn from the mothers by seeing what plants are safe to eat.

- Absolutely.

So do you think that the bears could tell them, you know, Hey, eat this or don't eat that.

They probably didn't really speak to one another, but how did they learn?

- They were watch, watching their mom and the mom didn't eat it they probably didn't eat it either.

- Absolutely.

That's great.

Thank you for sharing that.

Did you think of one Rita?

- Yeah, yeah I did.

- Okay.

- I think, oh cause I think this would be so fun.

They learn by watching their moms catch fish.

Oh I think those fish were slippery!

Ahhh!

Oh sorry, sorry.

- Oh, my paper, it fell down too, can you get it?

- All right, hold on.

All right.

Awesome.

- Oh, there it is!

- Yes and that is, that's another thing that they can do.

They can learn how to catch fish by watching their mothers.

Speaking of watching, I have a video that's going to come up and it's going to talk about a story.

So let's watch it.

- Hi, boys and girls.

My name is Karen Loughlin, and I am a director in the curriculum instruction and professional learning department in Fresno unified school district.

And I want to introduce you to a wonderful book.

The title is "Poor Louie", and this the author is Tony Fucile.

And as you can see, look at Louie.

He's such a cute little puppy.

And Louie, if we look in here, Louie has such a wonderful life with his mom and his dad.

He eats with them.

He sleeps with them, but somehow they're calling him poor Louie in this book.

I don't want to spoil it for you, but I want you to read and find out why they're calling him poor Louie.

It's a fantastic read and see what's coming next is just surprising, and it just has a wonderful ending.

So I want you to make sure you check out this book, Poor Louie, and I hope it becomes one of your favorites like it is for me.

And we just thank you so much for watching us and thank you, PBS.

- Thank you so much, Karen, for sharing that book, I can't wait to figure out how did, how did that story end for poor Louie.

- Poor Louie.

- I was a little concerned for him.

- Me too.

- You know, where can we go and find books?

- Oh, at your, at your county public library, wherever you are.

- Absolutely.

What about the school library?

- Or maybe online?

- Those are great.

- Knock, knock.

- [Mrs. Hammack And Nix] Who's there?

- Doesn't!

- [Mrs. Hammack and Nix] Doesn't who?

- Doesn't anyone wanna hear another joke?

- Oh absolutely.

We'll see you back here tomorrow.

Take care.

Bye bye.

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