(cheerful intro music) - [All] Good morning, Super Readers!

- Happy Friday!

Thank you for joining us in our Valley PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack.

- I'm Mrs. Nix.

- And I'm Mrs. Vang.

- This is a place for us to learn, practice and - [All] grow our brains.

- To become even stronger readers, writers and thinkers.

So, let's get started by warming our brains with some- - Ear training.

- And it's called- - [All] Daily Phonemic Awareness.

- All right.

So today we're gonna play the 'Guess my Word' game.

So, I'm going to say some sounds, then you are gonna blend them together and tell me what my word is.

Now, you can tap it down your arm, you can count them on your fingers, you could- - Pound them out.

- You could pound them out, that's right!

I couldn't remember.

But whatever strategy you wanna use, that helps you.

All right, here we go.

Here is our first group of sounds.

F I SH F I SH What's my word?

- [All] Fish.

- Good job.

All right, let's try this one.

SH A P SH A P SH A PE What's my word?

- [All] Shape.

- Good job.

All right.

Last one.

TH A T TH A T And my word is, - [All] That.

- Great job.

Wow!

You're getting really good at blending.

So, since your ears are nice and warmed up, it's time to warm up our bodies, and we're gonna do a little dance called, 'A Hippo in a House.'

Do you know this one?

- Hmm - Let's do it.

- All right here we go.

- I think so.

- Get ready.

Get ready to look at that hippo.

Have you got your shocked face on?

- We don't have a hippo in the house!

- It's right there!

- [All] Ooo!

♪ There's a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ There's a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ Not a kitten or a whale ♪ ♪ Not a hamster or a snail ♪ ♪ But a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ There's a hippo in the house ♪ - Oh my!

♪ There's a hippo in the house ♪ ♪ Not a penguin or a puppy ♪ ♪ Not a hedgehog or a guppy ♪ ♪ But a hippo in the house ♪ - Oh my goodness!

- I could not imagine having a hippo in my house.

What a mess!

(laughing) - Oh that would be terrible.

Wow!

- Oh, I would love it.

(laughs) - I love it!

- Yes, yes.

So much fun.

- Okay, since we're all warmed up, are you guys ready to go into our phonics?

- Yep.

Sounds great.

- Okay.

- All right.

Enjoy Mrs. Vang!

- See you later!

- All right.

Don't forget, Super Readers, this week we have been reviewing digraphs.

Now, remember, digraphs are just two letters and when we put them together, they make one sound.

You're right.

So let's quickly review all the digraphs that we've learned.

Are you ready?

I'm gonna use my pointing fingers or my reading fingers to help us.

Ready?

Help me say the sound.

Ready?

S H says SH.

Good job.

C H and T C H can both say, CH and don't forget that T C H will happen at the end of words.

Good job!

When we hear that CH at the end, we put that T C H. T H says TH, good job!

W H says WH, good.

P H says PH, and N G says, NG.

And remember we put a vowel in front we can blend it more easily.

And when we do it says UNG, ING, ONG, and ANG.

Now let's quickly blend some words with our digraphs.

Help me read it, because I know you guys are great readers.

Ready?

Shell.

Good job.

Catch.

Good job.

See, hear that CH at the end.

And we spell it with a T C H. That.

Good.

WH, what is it?

WH I CH Which.

Did you see that?

There's that CH at the end.

Now this is a tricky one because it doesn't have the TH, does it?

That was a tricky one.

This one says, PH O NE.

That one was a little bit tricky, wasn't it?

Because guess what we are going to be learning soon?

Long vowels and that E actually makes the O says O!

So that was just a quick preview because we're gonna be learning long vowels, with that, what we call magic E or the bossy E. It makes that, O, says, O.

So this says, phone.

And then, song.

Good reading!

Okay.

Now, I think you guys are ready to build some more.

And I'm gonna to have some of my friends come up and help us build the words.

Let's see, oh!

There are my friends and you guys at home, you guys can get a pencil and paper or a whiteboard ready to help us build some words.

Are you guys ready?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

Let's do it.

- Okay.

Okay.

I have a word for you guys.

And I want you guys to, we're gonna listen to it, then we're gonna segment it so that we can listen to all the sounds and then we're gonna build it.

Are you guys ready?

- Oh yeah!

- Yep.

- Okay I've got some fun words for us today because it's Friday, fun words.

I want us to build a word shack.

Shack.

- Shack - Shack - This is a type of house.

A shack.

- I think I got it!

I think I got it!

- Oh, well first how many sounds did you guys hear?

That was a tricky one.

SH A CK - I heard three!

- There were three sounds.

Good thinking Rita!

Okay.

What's that first sound?

- SH - That's Tina's favorite, SH, shell card!

That's the S H. - That's right.

Good job!

So, S H says SH.

What's the next sound?

- A, that is the short a.

- Good job.

And then SH A CK K, K. - Now this is a little bit tricky!

- It was.

I was trying - Ahhh, - I don't - I think it's the, oh!

I think it's a C but also a K, together.

- Oh, Rita thinks it's a C and a K cause we remember - I'm not sure though.

- We learn that the C K is what we called a double consonant.

Cause remember they make the same sound.

And, because they make the same sound We only say them once.

But that was a tricky one!

I'm glad you were learning Rita.

Because when we have that short A sometimes we can have a double constant and a C K And the K together is a double constant because it only makes one sound.

Cause we don't say SH A C K!

Nope.

- That would be silly!

- That would be!

(laughing) - So, the C and the K together makes one sound and we call it a double consonant.

So shack.

- Yay!

I did it!

- Oh, good thinking Rita!

You're getting so good with your writing and building words.

- Thank you!

- Now here's a challenge.

Here's another fun word I want us to build.

So we have the word shack, but I want us to build a word whack like Mrs. Nix always plays, 'Whack A Mole' on Whack A Wednesday and I love that word.

So let's see.

Can you guys help me change shack into whack - WH, WH, WH A CK Ooo, I think I've got it.

I, I- - Did you get it?

Okay.

- I get it, all the sounds all the same at the end.

In fact, I think they're rhyming words.

Cause shack and whack, they both say ACK.

- Oh good thinking!

- Woohoo!

- That's good.

- So then, I know I don't have to change the A or the CK I just have to change the beginning.

And so I was trying, I was putting my hand in front of my mouth going, WH, WH, WH.

And I, I think it's the W H, WH.

- Yes, yes that's it!

- Yeah, put that at the front!

Now we have the word whack!

- Good job.

I like what you were thinking!

The ACK stays the same.

So we don't need to change it.

Cause this spelling stays the same.

And the only change that we heard was that WH at the beginning.

So we changed that SH to WH and then now we have the word whack.

- Whack.

- Good job!

You guys are doing such a great job.

And see how easy that was?

If we could spell one word and we know it rhymes, we can change it to another word.

- Yeah!

- And, it can be spelled correctly because we know spelling patterns.

You guys are doing such a great job with our reading and writing, but I'm going to have my friends at home help me read the sentence.

Okay?

- Okay - All right.

- We'll see you later, have a great day!

- Bye you guys.

Okay, Super Readers.

Let's see if you guys can help me read this sentence.

You ready?

Okay.

Get your, remember, our thinking cap on you guys have been doing a great job.

Let's practice, right?

This says Shonda.

There's that SH, Shonda shops for bathmats.

Did you see that?

Bathmats, it's a compound word for those of you that knew that.

Good job.

Shonda shops for bathmats.

Good job readers, Super Readers.

Now let's go and learn our high-frequency words with Mrs. Hammack.

- Okay, Super Readers.

Here we are on Friday.

We're ready for our last review word for the week.

And so here it is.

We have this word here.

This is one that I think you will want to know about, because I think you will want to use it in your writing.

We want to be able to read our high-frequency words, but we also want to be able to use them when we're writing.

This one is want W A N T want.

Okay.

Here's what it might look like in a sentence.

Do you hmm to sing.

Do you want to sing?

That's my question?

And then I can highlight my word with our little window, just like that.

And let's take a look at all five of the words that we've worked on this week.

We have, they around what there and want.

I hope you'll practice writing those down.

And if there's one or two of them that you still need a little practice with, don't be afraid to practice on a piece of paper or a whiteboard, whatever you can, to get those locked in tight.

So you know them as fast as you know your name.

Now we've been working on re-reading and that's when we read something again.

And we can use that strategy when we're reading for a lot of different things.

Sometimes we re-read, if we don't understand what we read the first time.

Maybe I'm reading and I'm not quite sure what it says.

I've read the words, but I'm not understanding it.

I can re-read it and see if that helps me.

And another strategy is to find text evidence.

That means if somebody, if there's a question I need to answer, where's the answer in the story, text, and story, those are kind of, we can change those words around.

They mean kind of, almost the same thing.

So text evidence is when you're looking for the answer to a question in a story.

So I want you to see if you can think about some places in this story that you might need to re-read.

Animal Families.

I'll see you in a minute.

♪ Intro music ♪ - [Narrator] Animal Families by Deborah November.

Deer Families.

People take care of their babies when they are small.

Animals take care of their babies, too.

Some animals even live in families.

Baby Deer.

A deer is a mammal just like you.

Mammals are not hatched from eggs.

Deer mothers have one to three babies at a time.

The babies, or fawns, walk soon after birth.

They're a little shaky, but they can walk!

Deer mothers feed their babies for about two months.

Deer eat fruits, nuts, and leaves.

Fawns have no smell.

This way, their enemies cannot find them.

The mother deer hides her fawns in bushes.

Fawns also have spots.

That helps them hide in the leaves.

The spots go away when the deer grow older.

Young Deer.

Young deer stay with their mothers for a year or two.

After that, they can take care of themselves.

Bucks, or male deer, began to grow antlers.

The antlers take a few months to start growing.

Female deer, called does, do not grow antlers.

Antlers are made from bone.

Antlers break off once a year.

Then they grow back.

As the deer becomes an adult, he usually has bigger antlers.

The antlers have more points on them if the deer is healthy.

Babies in Pouches.

Some animals have a pouch.

The mother carries her babies inside.

Kangaroos.

A baby kangaroo, or joey, is about the size of a grape at birth.

It grows very big.

The giant red kangaroo is the biggest Australian kangaroo.

Most kangaroos live in Australia.

Kangaroos are a special kind of mammal.

A mother kangaroo may take care of three babies at the same time!

One is inside her.

One is in her pouch.

The other one is out of her pouch.

She still gives it milk.

The kangaroo comes out of the pouch.

It begins to hop!

Kangaroos can not walk the way that humans can.

Their strong legs are built for hopping.

Kangaroos hop on their back feet.

Koalas sleep most of the day.

Koalas.

Koalas live in their mother's pouches, too.

They stay in the pouch for five to seven months.

The mother koala and her offspring, or baby, do not look like each other at first.

When a koala is born, it is tiny and hairless.

When a koala grows up, it is covered with thick, gray fur.

Koalas have special paws.

They use these paws to groom, or clean themselves.

Animals from Eggs.

Some animals lay eggs with babies inside.

The parents care for the eggs.

Penguins.

Baby penguins, or chicks, hatch from eggs.

The mother lays her egg and goes to find food.

The father watches over the egg for about 65 days.

He keeps it warm near his feet.

Penguins are birds, but they cannot fly.

Penguins know when their baby is calling them.

The father penguin has nothing to eat all that time.

Can you imagine?

When the baby penguin hatches, or comes out of the egg, the mother comes back.

Then it is the father's turn to go and eat.

The baby penguin is covered with gray feathers.

When the penguin grows up, it will look just like its parents.

Alligators.

Alligator mothers lay at least 20 eggs.

The mother watches over the eggs in the nest.

Then the eggs hatch.

The mother hears noises from the babies.

That is how she knows they are ready to come out of the nest.

Many alligators live in Florida.

Alligators are good swimmers.

The babies are very small.

They are only about six inches long.

The alligator may look scary.

But she is a very good mother.

She protects her babies.

She helps them stay alive.

Alligator mothers take care of their babies for about two years.

The babies can grow as much as one foot every year.

Just think how big you would be if you were an alligator!

Animal mothers and fathers take good care of their babies.

Animal families are like human families in many ways.

Alligators, like lizards and snakes, are reptiles.

- Did you enjoy learning all about those different animals today?

This has been one of my most favorite weeks reading and learning about all of our different animals.

And so today we're going to go through and we're going to talk about with our animal families.

We're going to find the main topic and some key details that help us identify that.

To help me do it, I'm going to call on Ricky.

Cause I know he's been dying to do a little re-telling all week.

So come on, Ricky, come on over.

- Hi, Mrs. Nix.

You know I love to re-tell.

- I know you love to re-tell Ricky and that's exactly why I've invited you to come and hang out because, well, I need some help re-telling.

Sometimes I don't want to re-read the entire thing and that's where you're going to be so helpful.

Right?

- Uh-hm - All right.

-_ I can help you!

- Okay.

So I don't know what my main topic is on these two pages, but I'm looking for it.

And to help me do that, I'm just wondering if you could re-tell me a little bit about these pages that we read earlier and what were some of the, what was the detail that we learned on these pages?

Can you remember?

- I do.

Cause you know why?

Because I started with the with the heading or the sub-heading and it says, Babies in Pouches, so has all to do about babies in pouches.

And then, and then, oh, that's the subheading.

And that says Kangaroos, as it was about kangaroos, it's what they talked about.

A baby kangaroo is called a joey.

And guess what?

- What?

- A baby kangaroo can stay inside its mother's pouch.

- It sure can!

And so I believe that that's what we even wrote in here earlier.

Let's look!

Kangaroos carry baby joeys in pouches.

Great job!

Now, if I come over here now I know that I put the picture of the kangaroo over here, but it kind of belonged over here.

I really want us to talk about koalas.

Do you remember any of the details about the koalas that we read?

- It also says koalas live in the mothers pouch.

- Just like a kangaroo!

- Just like a kangaroo!

- And guess what?

- What?

- Did you know that baby koalas are also called joeys?

- I didn't know that.

Thank you so much!

- I wonder if all, all babies that live in the mothers pouches are called joeys?

- We'll have to look that one up.

So right here, our detail is, koala babies live in their mother's pouch for five to seven months.

Now, if I know that kangaroos carry babies in their pouches and koalas carry their babies in pouches.

What's our main idea?

- Is it about animals and how they carry their babies in the pouches.

They carry their babies in pouches!

- That's right.

It's all about animals that carry babies in pouches.

Just like that.

It's our main topic.

Great job!

Thanks, Ricky.

You want to help me with some writing now?

- Mhm-hmm - All right, let's get over there.

And we're going to work on that.

Now, so if we look here, we can see that our topic is, 'Think of another animal you know.

How does it take care of its babies?'

Because we knew all animals take care of their babies in different ways.

So I have a sentence frame for us and you can practice this at home.

You could say, A mm, takes care of its babies by mm.

All right.

Let me call my friends and see if they can help us out.

All right friends, come on.

Let's hear!

Hi Rita!

- Hi!

- Hi Rita!

- All right.

- I'm back.

- Can you guys think of some ways that animals, give me an animal, and how that animal takes care of its babies?

- Yep.

How about a cat?

- A cat.

- Oh a cat!

- Okay!

Let's try putting a cat- - I like cats!

- Inside our frame - All right.

And what does a cat do to take care of its babies?

- I got it!

- Alright, let's see.

A cat takes care of its babies by feeding them milk.

- Oh that's a good one.

Yeah yeah!

- Rita, do you have one?

- I do.

I was working with Tina, after we heard the story and she said, hold on.

Sea Turtles.

- Oh, sea turtles!

- Sea turtles!

- I'm going put it right over the top.

Just like that.

A sea turtle takes care of its babies - Yeah, yeah, and they're really fancy!

- By- What do they do?

What do they do?

- They bury there eggs in the sand to hide them, so none of the other animals will try to eat them.

- Oh, look at that.

- Predators.

- Amazing.

I love that they protect them.

So thank you both so much for helping me out today and I'm gonna kick it over to an awesome friend, whose going to tell us about a book.

We'll see you back here in a second.

- 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 going to 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 got to read to find out what happens next.

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

- Thank you so much, Tiffany!

We really appreciate that you took some time and a, effort to go ahead and share one of these awesome stories with us.

- Looks like a good one!

- I can, - It's one of my favorites!

- Oh, Mrs. Vang has seen it.

- I love it!

- So I'd love to check that one out.

- Me too.

- I don't think I saw the ending of that one.

Where do we check it out?

- I would go to my county library.

- Absolutely, or - Or online maybe.

- Ah see, these guys are so smart!

- Knock knock!

- [All] Who's there?

- Bean.

- [All] Bean who?

- It's bean fun telling knock knock jokes.

- Awesome job.

- Oh my goodness!

- We'll see you guys back here next weekend.

- Have a great weekend!

- Bye-bye.

- Okay.

That was really funny Ricky.

You're getting really good at those jokes.

(cheerful music)