(Lively upbeat music) - Good morning.

- Hey, Good morning, super readers?

- Awesome, thank you so much for joining us in our Valley PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Nix.

- I'm Mrs. Hammock.

- And this is a place for us to learn, practice, and grow our brains.

- Grow our brains.

- To become even stronger readers, writers, and thinkers.

- Thinkers, yeah.

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

- Called, Daily Phonemic Awareness.

- Daily Phonemic Awareness.

- All right, so, today super readers, we're gonna be practicing, generating, and well identifying, and generating rhyme.

Which just means that we're going to find two words that rhyme, and then we're gonna create our own word that rhymes with those first two.

So, let's show you what that looks like.

All right, I'm gonna give you three words, and let's pick two of them that rhyme.

What does it mean to rhyme?

Remember it's the ending sounds, sound the same.

So, here we go, let's practice a little bit.

So, I've got turn.

- Okay.

- Torn and earn.

Turn, torn, earn.

So, turn and earn, they both say earn.

- They both say earn.

- Now that we've identified two words that rhyme.

Can we think of another word that rhymes with turn and earn?

- Burn.

- Burn, turn, earn, burn.

They all say earn, great job.

All right, I want you practicing super readers at home.

Be thinking, here we go.

Let me give you three more words.

- Okay.

- Heard, chirp, third.

- Ooh.

- Heard, chirp, third.

- Oh gosh, all right.

So, heard and third, both say "ird".

So, those are the rhyming, the other one and says, "irp", and that's different so, it doesn't rhyme.

- Absolutely, so, herd, third, they both say, "erd".

- They both say, "erd".

- What's a word that rhymes with heard, third?

- Bird.

- A bird.

- So heard, third, bird, they all say, "ird".

- "Ird".

- Nice, let's do one more.

Here we go, goat, oat, goal.

- Ooh, okay.

This is where you have to really think about the ending sounds, because goal and goat have a lot of things that are the same, but not the part that rhymes.

So, I would say, oat, goat, they both say oat.

- They both say oat.

Great job, now, what's another word that rhymes with oat, goat.

- Hmm, I would say boat.

- And I was thinking float.

- Ooh, that's good too.

- Oh My gosh.

We can all think of different words.

What did you think of?

I'd love to hear it.

Great job, okay.

So, let's continue working on those brains and getting them warmed up and going this morning, with a little song and I what's today's song called?

- It's what can you see out your window?

- Something like that.

I think it's gonna be a nice one today, let's see.

- It'll be like (indistinct).

(gentle upbeat music) - Right?

♪ What can you see out your window ♪ ♪ Can you see birds flying in the sky ♪ ♪ What can you see out your window ♪ ♪ Can you see people hurrying by ♪ ♪ Can watch the Willow tree waving good bye ♪ ♪ Can you hear the wind blowing matches on high ♪ ♪ What can you see out your window ♪ ♪ Can watch the (indistinct) as they gently fall ♪ ♪ What can you see out your window ♪ ♪ Make a wish and (indistinct) wonder of your own ♪ - Right, all these wonderful things that we can see outside our windows, huh?

- And here we might not have seen snow, but the other day, I saw raindrops out my windows.

- Absolutely, absolutely.

- All right, well, this week our focus sound, had you heard it in some of the rhyming words, it's the, "ER" sound.

So, we're gonna make our way over to the word work wall, so, I can introduce our super readers, to the shirt card, for this week.

- Okay, well, I'll see you in a bit.

- Okay, so, come with me, we're gonna make our way over here, to the word work wall.

And we're going to get ready to talk about all the sounds or ways we can spell the, "er" sound.

So, today we have our shirt card and we can spell that four different ways.

Isn't that confusing?

All right, well, we're gonna practice all week long and by the end of the week, I think you're going to understand and remember a lot of them.

So, we have E, R says, ER.

I, R says ER.

U, R says ER, and O, R says ER.

And this is our shirt card.

And we have the word shirt here, you can see it spelled with an I, R, but basically, we have a picture of the shirt, just to help us remember the sound.

So, this is the sound, the, "ER" sound, and then these are the four ways that we can spell that sound.

Let's see if our friend Tina can come help us with some of our blending today.

Hey, how are you today?

- Good morning, Mrs. Hammock?

- Good morning, oh, I love your bow, you look so fresh and ready to read.

- Thank you so much.

- Well, today Tina, we are focusing on the, "ER" sound and we're going to be looking at all four ways that we can spell that sound.

- You know what, my favorite way to spell the, "ER" sound?

- I'm thinking, I might know this, but you tell me anyway.

- I like that you are liking turtle.

- That's what I thought you were gonna say, very nice.

That is right.

Turtle has the, "er" sound right in the middle and we spell it with U,R, great job.

All right, so, here I have our spelling patterns and then I have a word for each of those spelling patterns.

So, let's see if we can blend these words.

Are you ready?

- Okay, yeah, let's do it.

- All right, so, now remember when we see that, I wondered if you remembered why the R was in red, because it's not a vowel.

So, why did we make the R red in our pattern?

- I feel like we've, maybe because it's R controlled, that like it's a little partner.

- That's exactly right.

Because in this vowel pattern, it's an R-controlled vowel.

So, the E makes the, "ER" sound because of the R. And so, we made it together in red, to help us remember that it only makes one sound and it's an R-controlled vowel.

- Oh, that makes so much sense.

- All right, so let's look at our first word.

We have the H which stands for what sound?

and then, "ER".

So, let's put that together.

H-ER.

- H-ER.

Her.

- Her.

Very good, nicely done.

Now I know this is a word that we use a lot in our writing.

Let's try the next one.

This is the F and it says what sound?

- Fhhhh.

- And then we have your favorite U, R, that says, "ER".

So, let's put those together, Fhhh-UR.

- Fhhh-UR.

Fur.

- Fur.

Very nice, good job.

All right, here we have a little bit of a longer word and this time we're gonna use I, R, for that, "ER" sound.

Here we go SH-IR-T. - SH-IR-T.

Shirt.

- Shirt.

Shirt.

- Shirt.

- Oh, just like on our shirt card.

- That's exactly right.

And then sometimes, not a whole bunch of words are spelled with the, O, R to say the, "ER".

But this one is, so let's try this one.

W-OR-M. - W-OR-M.

Worm.

- Worm.

- Ooh, yeah, I like to eat worms.

- (Hammock laughs) I know you do, very nice.

So, you can see that there are a lot of ways to spell that sound.

And it's sometimes hard to know, and that's where our good visual cues come in.

The more that we read words that have these spelling patterns, the more that we will recognize, which way we should spell it when we're writing the word.

There's not really an easy way to figure it out, other than just with practice.

And just being able to read more, so that we can get familiar with what that word should look like.

- Well, sometimes that happens, huh?

- It certainly does, it certainly does.

Well, I'm gonna let you go and the super readers and I are gonna practice reading a sentence, using some of those patterns.

- Okay, well have a good one.

I'll see you soon.

- I'll see you later.

All right, super readers, so, here is our sentence for today.

Fern will hurry back to change her skirt.

Did you see our word Fern, that's her name?

And then we have her, which you read here, and then we have skirt, right there.

Lots of words that you can read, if you know these sound-spelling patterns, and you'll be able to write them too.

Speaking of reading and writing words, let's go see what Mrs. Nix, is doing with our high-frequency words for this week.

- Absolutely, thank you so much, Mrs. Hammock, and yes, let's talk about those high-frequency words.

Those words that we come across often, in our reading and writing.

So, I want us to practice reading them this week.

I've got six of them for us to practice and some of us are gonna be reviewing, and that's great.

So, if you're reviewing, I really wanna make sure that you are practicing the part of writing those words, not just reading them, but also writing them.

Okay, so, let's go through, let's read them together.

Through, poor, great, full, climb, another.

Okay, let's look at another, 'cause that's our word for today.

Let's spell it together, A-N-O-T-H-E-R. Oh, my golly, a lot of letters, right?

Let's count them one, two, three, four, five, six, seven letters in that word, you can do it because I know you can do hard things.

So, another, another great.

How would we use that in a sentence?

Well, let's look, Can I have, Mm, cup?

Let's look, does it fit?

Can I have another cup?

Great job, yes, you could have another cup.

So, it's just like an addition to, you're gonna have one more.

Okay, now, if I wanna practice this a little bit on my own because I really wanna be able to spell it.

What's one of our favorite ways to do that ?

You got it, like using our little dot stamp pads.

So I have my little Dauber right here and I'm gonna go through and write another, and I can just start putting that on my board.

So got A, what comes next?

N, you got it.

What's after that?

O, keep going, T, H, good.

What's that?

Look at the end, another er.

Just like what Mrs. Hammock said.

Absolutely, and we're gonna do it with an E, R. Look at that, I love that we got to practice a little bit of our sounds today that Mrs. Hammock introduced too.

All right, try using that word in your own sentence and practice spelling it.

Okay, this week, we're gonna be practicing a little bit with cause and effect.

Mrs. Hammock's going to talk about that when we come back from our book talk.

I'll see you in just a little while.

- [Mrs. Hammock] What can you see in the sky?

Read how a bird named Fern, learned about clouds?

"A bird named Fern."

Little Fern was always full of questions.

She wanted to know about everything in the world.

One day, Fern saw something up in the sky.

"What is that big white boat doing in the sky?"

She asked herself, "I want to find out.

It would be great to ride on "that big white boat".

Fern said.

She stretched her wings out and took off.

Fern's wings helped her climb up, up, up, but when she got close to the boat, she was surprised.

The boat looked like a fluffy bed.

Fern was sleepy and wanted to rest.

So she leaped on the bed, but she fell right through it.

"I see another bed," said Fern.

"I will try to land on that one".

But the same thing happened again.

"I better go home," Cried Fern, "Maybe mom and dad can explain this".

So Fern began to fly home.

As she did, the beds turned dark gray, then it started to rain.

Poor Fern was soaked when she got home.

"Where were you?"

asked mom and dad.

Fern told them all about her trip.

"First, we will dry you off", said mom.

"Then we will teach you about clouds", added dad.

And that is what they did.

Make connections, what did the clouds look like to Fern?

- What a great story, Fern.

I love Fern.

Today, we're gonna talk about that story.

And we're gonna think about some things that happened and why.

So, that's called, cause and effect.

A cause is what happened... Makes something happen in a story.

An effect is the event that happens.

So, here's a strategy that helps me.

I'm gonna write it right now.

What happened?

Well, that is the effect.

So I'm gonna write, what happened.

And then for the cause why?

Why did this event happen?

So the cause is whatever it is that made that happen.

And so sometimes it's easier to think about that.

So today we're gonna concentrate on identifying the cause.

We're gonna look at what happened and think back to the story to figure out, why.

Why do did that happen?

You ready to help me?

Okay, let's try it.

All right, Fern stretched her wings and took off.

Now think back to the story.

That's what happened.

Why did she stretch her wings and take off?

Do you remember?

What was gonna hap... What did she want?

Yes, that's right.

She wanted to ride on the big white boat.

Very good, do you see how those are connected?

All right, let's try another one.

Fern, here's what happened.

Fern was surprised.

Do you remember why she was surprised?

Why, what made her be surprised?

The boat looked like a fluffy bed up close.

Well, that would be surprising, wouldn't it?

So the boat looked like a fluffy bed and she was surprised.

Let's look at the next one.

Fern got soaked.

That's what happened, Fern got soaked.

Why did she get soaked?

Let's see, you tell me, shout it out.

It started to rain, great job.

Do you see how those two things are connected?

In stories, we can always look at different things for cause and effect.

And it helps us to understand the relationship of the events of the story.

And so, as you are practicing reading, I want you to be thinking about, what happens in the story.

And was there something that caused that to happen?

Why did it happen?

And we're gonna work on that all week long 'cause it's a little bit tricky.

So, we will continue working on that tomorrow with another story.

But now let's shift our thinking to doing some writing.

And today we're actually gonna do some brainstorming.

And that's kind of a step that you do before you actually write.

It's just kind of, a brainstorm is like just gathering ideas and writing down as many ideas as you can come up with.

Because that will help you to figure out how to start your writing and what you can write about.

And so today I have a question to help us be thinking, and so we can brainstorm.

What can we see in the night sky?

So, think about that for a minute.

Think about the night sky.

And let's ask our friend Tina to come and join us, okay?

Hey Tina?

- Hi, Mrs. Hannah.

- How are you doing?

- I'm doing great.

How are you?

- I'm doing really well.

I was hoping you could help the super readers and writers, 'cause, we're getting ready to write.

If you could help us brainstorm, what can we see in the night sky?

Because it's always good to start writing with a little bit of brainstorming to get your ideas flowing.

So what do you think?

What is something that you can see in the night sky?

- Well, the first thing that I was thinking was you definitely could see the moon, 'cause the moon comes out in the night.

- [Mrs. Hannah] That is true.

That's great and you wrote it down.

Look what a nice job you did.

So I'm gonna set that right here because I agree .

Now sometimes the moon is hiding behind.

- Oh, oh, oh I know I know.

- Some... - Some clouds.

- Yes.

- Oh yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

- We might not be able to see the moon every night, but it's definitely something we see at night.

But sometimes it's hiding behind the clouds and sometimes we can even see those clouds, if it's bright enough, if the moon is shining bright enough, we can see those clouds.

- Oh yeah, and you know what else?

- Tell me.

- You can see stars because you know what?

I love to wish on shooting stars.

- Oh, I like that too.

- Yes.

- Stars are definitely something you can see in the night sky.

That's awesome, put that right there.

Wow, we have a good start.

We have a moon, we have clouds, we have stars.

What else do you think you could see?

- What about, what about, what about kites?

- Well, a kite we could definitely see in the sky.

Maybe not a night sky.

So I'm gonna set that over here because I think that's a good thing to think about too.

It's not always a night sky.

Sometimes we just think... We wanna think about things we can see in the sky.

And you might be able to see a kite at night even.

If we were out flying it.

So I think it's a good thing to keep on our list and we'll... - You know, it's kinda hard to think of all the things that you see at night, 'cause I'm usually not awake during the nighttime.

- (laughs loudly) That that's true too.

It is very tricky.

I saw a beautiful Nocturnal bird the other night.

It was an owl.

So I know you can see birds at night.

Not all of the birds fly at night.

But there are some birds that are out there at night hunting, and that's kind of cool when you get to lucky enough to see those.

- You know what?

Sometimes you can see the airplanes 'cause they have bright lights and they look like shooting stars.

- You are right.

The airplanes at night look really pretty.

Don't they all their sparkly lights and yeah, I think I definitely have seen airplanes at night.

Well, let's go see, we'll keep going later on but let's go see what books our friends are reading and they can recommend to us.

- Okay.

- Hello, super readers.

I'm Mrs. Vang and I'm so excited to share this book with you guys.

This is a book called "The Library Lion" by Michelle Newson, illustrated by Kevin Hawks.

Now, have you ever seen a lion in the library?

What?

I know, did you know that when you go to the library, there are certain rules that you have to follow?

Yeah, just like how you would follow rules in the classroom, and guess what?

This lion learns really quickly what those rules are.

Until he didn't follow one of the rules, but you know what?

He had a very good excuse.

And if you wanted to know why, you need to check this book out and read all about it.

So, check your school library or you can check on Sora.

To see if you guys can read this book and let's see if you guys agree, if it was okay for him to break that rule.

Boys and girls I hope you guys check this out so that you guys can read all about the library lion.

Thank you for watching Valley PBS, bye-bye.

- Oh my gosh, Mrs. Vang, we're so excited to see you.

- That was great.

- Thank you for sharing that with us.

- And that's one of my favorite books.

- It is so sweet.

- Scooter and I were chatting and he told me a really cute joke that he wanted me to share with you.

- All right.

- All right, when does a teacher carry birdseed?

- When does a teacher carry birdseed?

Why would a Teacher... - He's cracking up.

Parrot teacher conferences.

- Oh my God.

(both laughs loudly) You're so funny, that's awesome.

- Well, thanks for watching us today and we'll see you back here tomorrow on Valley PBS.

Bye-bye - Bye.

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