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

- Thank you for joining us in our "Valley PBS Classroom"!

I'm Mrs. Nix.

- I'm Mrs. Hammack.

- And I'm Mrs. O'Leary.

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

- To become even stronger readers, writers and thinkers.

So let's get started by warming up our brains with some ... - [All] Ear training called Daily Phonemic Awareness!

- Okay, so Daily Phonemic Awareness, we're gonna be practicing our sounds.

And today, what we're gonna do with them is we're going to break apart or segment words.

So we're gonna go backwards from blending.

Now we're gonna take the word and we're gonna listen for each of the sounds in a word.

- [Both] Okay.

- So to help us out, we've got these little dots and these dots are gonna help us keep track of the sounds.

So let's start with the word joy.

Joy.

Think about those sounds.

Think about like a rubber band and you're stretching that word out.

What do we hear?

- [All] Juh, oy.

Joy.

- How many sounds did we hear?

- Just two.

- Just two, perfect!

Okay, how about join?

- Join.

- Hmm.

- Now watch this.

Juh, oy, nn.

- Ah!

- Join has how many sounds?

- Three!

- Three sounds.

- Excellent job.

Okay, let's do another one.

How about a hard one?

- Ooh, okay.

- Broil.

Broil.

There's a lot of sounds in broil.

- There are.

- Mm-hmm.

- Really stretch it.

What do we hear first?

- [All] Buh, er, oy, ll.

- Whew!

Broil, right?

- [Both] Four sounds.

- That's a lot.

- Those blends can be tricky.

- Especially that B-R. Buh, er.

You gotta really think about all those sounds.

Okay, last one.

I might give you a fancy word.

- Uh-oh.

- How about hoist?

- Ooh.

- Hmm.

- What sounds do we hear in hoist?

We start with ... - [All] Ha, oy, ss, tuh.

Hoist.

- Four sounds!

- Wow.

- Great job.

- Great job today!

- Good job!

- I love all that segmenting.

I love practicing all of our sounds.

- That was really fun.

- Yes, and what's our sound that we're working on this week?

- I bet Mrs. O'Leary knows.

- It's the oy sound.

- That's right.

Did you hear the oy sound a lot?

- I did.

- Mm-hmm.

- All right, so let's get our brains moving and grooving.

Find yourself a little bit of space.

- Okay.

- We're gonna do, um ... - "Can Your Camel Do the Can-can".

- Oh, golly.

So silly.

So silly, but I love it!

(all clapping) - Oh, I've got, I gotta get my legs going here!

It's a good thing we're warming up.

- Yes!

♪ Can she do the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes she does the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes she does the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes she does the can-can tra la la ♪ (all clapping) ♪ Can your camel do the can-can ♪ - Ooh!

There we go.

(all laughing) We're all gonna be a little off today.

It's all good.

♪ Yes she does the can-can ♪ - I'm glad as we're not jumping.

- Right?

♪ Yes she does the can-can tra la la ♪ (all clapping) - [All] Woo-hoo!

(Mrs. O'Leary clapping) - (sighs) Love it!

- That always wakes me up.

- Yes!

- I know!

- It's true!

- Every morning, absolutely!

- Okay, let's get started with our phonics lesson.

- [Both] Okay!

- [All] See you in a little bit!

- So as Mrs. Nix said, our focus for this week is oy.

And we're using our boy sound spelling card to help us remember that.

So we've got boy, oy, and then two different ways that we can spell oy.

One is O-I and the other one O-Y when it comes at the end of a word or the end of a syllable.

So let's get started with some blending activities first.

I've got a couple words up here.

This is the first one, but I would love it if my friends would come and help join.

Well, hello!

- [Both] Hello, Mrs. O'Leary!

- High five, high five!

I just love when you come.

Are you ready to blend some oy?

- [Both] Oh, yes.

- For sure!

- Let's do it!

- Let's start right here.

If you can look over here, we'll start at the beginning sound.

And what is that beginning sound?

- [All] Juh.

- Ooh, what's this special?

- [All] Oy.

- Our focus for this week.

And then the final sound is ... - [All] Nn.

- Let's blend it again.

- [All] Join.

- Faster.

- [All] Join!

- Thank you for joining us!

- Yay!

- I hope you joined us at home in blending that word.

Good job!

- Thanks!

- Very good job.

- All right, our second word is over here.

And as you can see, we're using this second way that we can spell oy.

So let's blend it.

- [Both] Tuh, oy.

Toy.

- [All] Toy!

- Oh!

- Excellent!

- Oh, I love to play with toys!

- Me too!

- You're getting super, super good at that blending.

And how about building?

And you do this with us too at home, boys and girls, okay?

We're gonna build a of couple words.

So the first word that I wanna build, I think I heard it earlier today.

It is hoist.

- [Both] Ooh!

- [All] Hoist.

- I'm not even sure what that means!

- Ooh.

- Hoist.

- Ooh, I, I think I know!

- What does it mean?

- I had to hoist my backpack into the back of the car!

It's like, when you have to carry or haul something really heavy.

- [All] Ah!

- So you're picking it up.

- Yeah, I read it in a story!

- Oh, did you really?

- Uh-huh!

- That's so fun!

- Reading helps us all the time with vocabulary.

- Yeah, you learn new words like that.

- Yeah, you do!

Okay, can you build it, do you think?

- Okay!

- Yeah, we could try!

- All right, so I'm gonna say it again.

- [Both] Hoist.

- What am I gonna start with?

What's my beginning sound?

- H. - Yep!

- [All] Ha, ha.

- Ha, you got it.

- [Both] Oy, oy.

- And that's in the middle of the ... - Oh yeah, so O-I.

- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

- O-I, you think O-I next.

That's right, because this is not the end of our word, is it?

Hoist.

- Oh, that's the S!

- Ha, oy, ss!

- You got it!

- And then, my favorite letter is a T!

- Okay, good job!

- That's right.

- That's your letter!

- You spelt that right.

- Let's say it together.

- [All] Hoist!

- I wonder if you learned a new word today, boys and girls.

I hope you did.

I hope you'll use it if you have to hoist anything today.

- Yeah!

- All right, you wanna build one more?

- Okay, let's do it.

- Yep!

- Okay, how 'bout moist?

- Moist.

- Oh!

- I think Mrs. O'Leary is trying to trick us.

- 'Cause you know what?

- I think you're right!

- I don't think we have to do anything.

I think they're all the same sounds.

- Mm-hmm!

So at the beginning, you can just put an M. - Oh, so you mean I don't have to make the whole word?

- No!

- I can just go this?

- Oh!

- Whoa, look at that!

- That is so tricky.

I love words!

- It's 'cause those are rhyming words!

- Oh yeah, let's do it.

- [All] Hoist, moist!

They both say oist!

(both laughing) - I love that!

- Yay, very good!

- You guys are gonna be super spellers as well as super readers!

- [Both] Mm-hmm!

- All right, thank you friends for joining us and we'll see you in a little bit.

- [Both] Bye!

- Bye!

And so boys and girls, let's end our phonics lesson with reading a sentence together.

Starting at the beginning here.

That toy, there's our sound, makes so much noise.

And again, that's our focus.

Spelling O-I and sound.

So, very good reading.

Excellent, super readers!

And so to be a super reader, you also need to practice your high frequency words.

And Mrs. Hammack is gonna help you do that today.

- Here you go.

- That's right.

- Okay, so remember, we have six words this week.

Yesterday, we worked on knew, like the past of know.

I knew you knew the answer!

Knew and build.

We have toward, money, fall and above.

Today, we are going to work on toward.

It sounds kind of funny when you say it.

Right, I see it too!

There's the word to in it.

Good thinking.

T-O-W-A-R-D, toward.

Toward.

All right, so let's think about this word.

This is maybe a word that you don't often use, but you will definitely see it in stories that you write.

And as you grow into an author and write more, you will definitely want to remember this word.

So let's look at how it would look in a sentence.

The dog ran toward the yard.

So it's a direction word, right?

It means something is coming closer.

So the dog ran toward the yard.

And that's how you can use that in a sentence.

I want you to be on the lookout for that in some of the stories that you're reading.

But another way that I want you to practice today, we're gonna look at the match it up kind of game.

I love this one.

So here I have toward, and then I have a review word from yesterday, knew.

Down here, I have some clips with the letters on it and I'm going to find the letters to spell the word toward so that I can practice.

Now remember, the important thing is that you're not only reading it, but that you're saying it so that you can hear it.

We wanna get all of those senses going, right?

Okay, so let's look for the first letter.

That's the T and I found it right here.

I'm gonna clip it on there.

Okay, what comes next?

O, yep.

Okay, here we go.

T-O.

Then W. What's next?

T-O-W ... A, good, I hear you.

And then R. And then D, very good.

Now I'm gonna have to clip that one a little sideways.

Now, I only have two words up here, so it's pretty easy for me to find the letters to build my second one.

But you could do this with all six of your words and that would give it an extra challenge.

Or maybe you play with a friend and have your friend build the word.

Lots of fun ways to practice your high frequency words.

This would be a great thing to do.

If you're watching TV and a commercial comes on, you can practice clipping a word and match it up.

All right, today, you're going to hear a story called "The Joy of a Ship".

Wait until you see this ship.

It's amazing!

All right, I wanna know some things about this story when you're done.

You're gonna talk with our super great Mrs. Nix, who helps us do our good thinking about stories and I bet she has some questions that she has for you.

So enjoy this book.

- [Narrator] "The Joy of a Ship".

"Ships take people and things all over the world.

How does a ship get made?

Find out here!

What is needed to build a ship?

Making ships employs many workers.

This task uses lots of tools and parts as well.

Let's see how a ship is made, step by step.

Caption: These people study the plans for the ship.

There are many things to do!

Frame it!

First, workers build a frame.

The ship can balance on blocks up above a dock.

Huge cranes hoist the big parts in place so they do not fall.

Workers must avoid being bumped by these big pieces of steel.

Caption: Some huge gantry cranes can lift 1,500 tons as high as 230 feet in the air.

Sheets of steel.

First, two kinds of metal are melted into steel.

It boils!

Hot steel flows into flat metal sheets and molds.

When steel gets cold, it gets hard.

The steel sheets are then ready for making a ship.

Caption: Stand back!

The steel is very hot!

A worker joins each steel section by heating the edges, called joints.

Most workers put on gloves and a helmet to protect their hands and head.

Check it, paint it.

Workers check all the joints.

Then they point out leaks and fix them.

If a joint leaks, the inside of the ship will be moist with water.

It might even sink!

Then, the ship is painted, and this job is done.

It gleams in the sun.

The workers knew it would look nice!

People will pay a lot of money to ride on this ship.

Out to sea!

The people on the dock point with joy as the new ship begins the first trip!

Those on the ship wave as it glides toward the open sea.

Did you know?

There are many kinds of ships on the sea.

Captions: Icebreaker ship, aircraft carrier, cargo ship.

- Wasn't that an amazing text about how to build a ship?

And you know readers, one of the things that is such a good skill to practice and to really think about is when we think about our cause and effect relationship.

And that's really what we're gonna kind of do today.

And to help us make sense of cause and effect, I think I'm gonna ask Rita to come and help us out in just a little bit.

So, hey Rita?

- Hey!

- Hello!

- Hello, Miss Rita!

- I, I can't find you.

- Oh, well, you're getting close.

There you go.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

My brain is tired, 'cause (pants) I was running late.

- You were running late?

- Yeah.

- Well, if you were running late, why were you running late?

What caused you to be late today?

- Well, um, I couldn't find my backpack.

But before that I, I, I just didn't get up on time.

And then I've been running, running, running, running, running all day long!

It was terrible.

- So you did a great job!

You just introduced what I was talking with our amazing readers about, was cause and effect!

- Oh!

(giggles) - And so, because Rita had a hard time this morning finding all of her things and getting here, the effect was she ran little bit late.

- Yep, yep!

- So great job!

- Thank you for helping us demonstrate what we were talking about.

- You're welcome!

- Now, our poster right here has cause and effect, and sometimes I like to add just a little cheater note right here.

And I'm gonna put the word B in front of it.

Now it changed our word to because ... - Oh yeah, that helps!

- And then, our effect.

So what happened and why?

This is the reason that this happened.

So do you wanna help me read a little bit with talking about our text that we just read?

- Yeah.

- So I'm gonna start with what we know, and what we know is that the steel gets hard.

Now, what would cause the steel to get hard?

Remember when it's melted and it's super hot and it's kind of liquidy.

So what would cause it to get hard?

- Well, I think I remember that, in the story it said when it cools off, then it gets hard again.

- That's right.

So when the steel gets cold, the effect is the steel becomes very hard.

Great job.

Okay, how about this one?

It protects their hands and their head.

So the workers had to put something on to protect their hands and head.

- Yep, yep.

My uncle Dell, he was an iron worker and he used to have to put on gloves and a helmet.

- That's right.

So, because they're putting on those gloves and helmets, they're able to protect their hands and their head.

- Yep.

- So that was great, 'cause they were doing a lot work in there.

Now, let's go the other way, because joints leak on a ship, what might happen if the joints were leaking?

It was in our story.

We talked about it a little bit.

Do you remember?

- Well, you don't want a ship to be leaky, 'cause then it will sink.

- That's right.

- That would be bad!

- That would be really bad.

It would get moist with water and ultimately, - It could maybe sink!

- Yeah, that was a huge ship!

- Oh, that would be awful!

- I would not wanna go down with that ship.

- Mm-mm!

- Okay, so because the ship was painted, what happens?

- Well, it was really shiny and it gleams in the sunshine!

- That's right, that's right.

And so that paint really makes it shiny.

- It looked fancy!

- And look fancy, absolutely!

- Yeah, I liked it!

- Wouldn't that be so much fun to go on a cruise ship?

- Oh yeah!

Mrs. Nix, have you ever been on a cruise ship?

- I have been on a cruise ship.

- They're ginormous.

- Wow!

- I can't even tell you how big they are.

They're bigger than a whole city block.

- That's what I was thinking!

I thought it looked like a floating city!

- It kind of is.

It's really an amazing feat that these workers could build something so big.

- Yeah, that's super amazing.

- And it floats.

- I know!

And it's so heavy, but it floats!

- I know.

So you know what?

Speaking of that amazing ship, maybe Rita, you'd like to come over and help me do a little writing about our ship?

- (giggles) You know I would!

I'd like to write.

- All right, well, I'll see you in just a second.

- Okay!

- So I'm gonna get our readers ready for that.

So readers, today, we're gonna do a little bit of writing about some of the steps that it takes for us to build a ship.

So here's our prompt today.

It says, what are the steps it takes to build a ship?

And I've got an introductory sentence here.

And then, I think I'm gonna ask our friends to come over and help us come up with what our steps even are in our story.

So there are many steps needed to build a ship, right?

Okay, do you remember what some of those steps are?

All right, let's invite our friends to come over and help to tell us what those steps are.

Now, what kind of words would we wanna start with?

Do you remember?

Probably like first, next, then, like that!

All right, so, hey friends, can I have you guys come on over and help me out?

What do you think?

Well, hello, Miss Rhonda!

- Why, sure!

Hello, Mrs. Nix!

- What do you think?

What would be our first step?

- Oh, phew, sorry!

- Oh Rita, you are just running late today!

- It's all good.

- Yeah, I'm having a late day!

- We love it.

But Miss Rhonda?

- Yes, ma'am?

- Do you know what our first step is?

- Well, first, the workers build a frame, I believe.

- That's right, they did!

They had to go through and they had to build a big, giant frame.

And it was a big frame!

So ... - It sure was.

- First, workers build the frame.

Okay, so when we're building our ship, what was the second or what was the next step that was talked about in the text?

- Oh, I know, I know!

- Do you know Rita?

- 'Cause I was listening to that word hoist!

- Oh, that was our new ... - 'Cause it said, - "Next, a crane hoists the big parts of the ship into place."

- That's right!

I love that you are using some of our words we've been practicing today with our sounds.

- Ooh, let's look.

- Yep!

- I like to learn new words!

- A crane hoists the big parts of the ship into place.

- Great job!

- Nice.

- So we have first, next.

- Well then, may I add a little bit more to the story?

- Absolutely!

What comes next?

- Okay, then steel sections are joined together by heating the joints.

- Oh, that's right!

Remember, they had to get the steel really hot.

Yes, so let's have that one.

Great.

So then, steel sections are joined together by heating the joints.

Absolutely, right there.

Great!

Okay, are we all done?

Were all of those the steps?

- No, no.

After they did that, they had to check and make sure there was no leaks!

- That's right!

That's probably one of the most important pieces, right?

- Yep!

- All right.

- Sure is.

- The joints ...

There we go.

Are checked for leaks before the final step.

- Oh, and then ... - One more thing?

- Yeah, then the fun part!

- Oh, what's that?

- Then finally, the ship is painted!

It looks all shiny and beautiful!

- That's right!

And they make sure that it is ready to go.

Great job.

So speaking of that, I know we've got a great story coming for you.

We'll see you in a second.

- Bye!

- Why, hello!

My name is Leo the Lion.

I have a book I wanna share with you today.

This is a book called "Lions".

'Cause I'm a lion.

This is a nonfiction book that will give you a lot of facts about lions.

Like, did you know that the male lions are the only cats that have manes?

Yep, that's what I have around my neck!

This is a mane!

Now, did you also know that a lion is built to hunt?

Every part of its body work together to capture prey.

A lion's tan coat is the same color as the grass around it.

It blends into its surrounding.

Now, if you wanna read more about the lion and lots of facts, make sure you are checking out these books at your library.

Thanks for watching PBS!

- Okay, that was great.

- I know!

It made me think though.

Do you know how to brush a lion's teeth?

- Um, I don't think I want to brush a lion's ... - Very carefully!

- Oh, well!

- That's for sure!

- Absolutely, you would have to do that!

Ugh, I can't imagine being in there!

- I still don't wanna do it.

- Exactly, exactly!

- No!

- Hey, but you know what?

Thanks for hanging out with us this morning on "Valley PBS".

And we look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.

Take care!

- [Both] Bye!

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