(bright guitar music) - 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.

- 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.

- So phonemic awareness is where we're practicing listening, training our ears, and listening to the different sounds.

So today I wanna kind of play a game.

This game is, I'm gonna give you three words, and I want you to listen to see if you can hear the one word that doesn't belong.

So two of them are gonna have of the same sounds.

Now, I'm gonna do a little bit of a throwback.

We've practiced these in the past.

Those are controlled vowel sounds.

So that's gonna be your little bit of a clue, 'cause that's gonna be helpful.

- Thank you.

- This can be a little bit on the tricky side.

So let's go through.

I've got three of them, here we go.

Verb, torn, her.

Verb, torn, her.

- Okay, I think I got it.

- Okay.

- Okay, so her has the a, and verb has the a, but torn has the "or" sound so that is the one that does not match.

- Do you agree?

- I do.

- Yes.

Good.

- Thank you.

- Good, good, that's it.

Nicely done.

Okay.

How about this one?

Arm, hurt, card.

Arm, hurt, card.

- I think I'll try to take this one.

Arm and card have the R sound.

And hurt, a, a, a, in the middle of the word is the a, hurt.

So that's the one that doesn't belong.

- You are correct.

Nicely done.

I like how she put her two words that have the same sounds next to each other.

That's a great strategy to check, right?

Okay, how about these words?

Sport, corn, stir.

Sport, corn, stir.

- A little bit easier.

- Yeah.

- Yep.

- Okay.

What'd you get?

- Well, I got, if you say sport and corn, I hear the or in those words, but when you say stir, a, a, I hear a.

So I think stir is the one that you take out.

And it's kind of hard for me sometimes because that sound, that sound spelling is in the middle of the word.

And sometimes I wanna hear the beginning sound and the end, but I have to listen to the middle sound.

- That's true.

And I notice that- - And those two words.

- When they're right next to each other in the list, it is a little easier to hear it.

- Yep.

- Because then the last one doesn't match and it stands out a lot.

- Yeah.

- But that's a great thing to do while you're traveling in the car or you're standing in line at a grocery store, especially with our controlled words, because they are kind of a little bit on the trickier side- - Yes they are.

- To hear those sounds.

So let's maybe change gears a little bit and kind of do something a little fun.

- Okay, the question.

Can your camel do a can-can?

- I don't know.

We're about to find out.

I think so.

Make sure you've got some space.

- Okay.

Spread apart and get ready, 'cause this one starts right away.

♪ Can your camel do the can-can ♪ ♪ Can she do the can-can ♪ ♪ Can your camel do the can-can ♪ ♪ Can she do the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes, she does the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes, she does the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes, she does the can-can ♪ ♪ Can shalala ♪ ♪ Can your camel do the can-can ♪ ♪ Can she do the ♪ - This is good for practicing staying on the beat.

- I agree.

♪ Can she do the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes, she does the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes, she does the can-can ♪ ♪ Yes, she does the can-can ♪ ♪ Can shalala ♪ - Woo!

- Always good, right?

- Wow.

- That always makes me happy.

- Absolutely, every morning.

- All right.

Well, let's get started with our word and start with phonics.

So I'll see you guys later.

- Okay.

We'll see ya.

- All righty.

So remember it's Wednesday already, middle of the week.

And we are gonna start with our phonics lesson.

And our focus sound is oi this week, all this week and we're using our sound spelling card, the boy card, oy.

And there's two ways that you can spell that sound oy.

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

So we've been practicing, and practicing, and here it's Wednesday.

And so, we wanna continue that.

So by the end of the week we really know that sound spelling pattern and we can detect it in words and read words.

So I would love for my friends to come and join us when we blend and build words.

Yay!

- Ooh, good morning- - Hi, Mrs. O'leary.

- Mrs. O'Leary.

- Hello friends.

Hello.

Hi Rita, hi Tina.

- Hello.

Good to see you.

- Hello.

- Yeah.

Okay, you wanna do some blending?

- Yeah.

- Let's do it.

- Okay, so here's it.

Look at this word up here.

It's kind of a long one.

- Okay.

- So let's start here and start blending.

You wanna do it together?

Or would one of you wanna take it?

Do you think you're ready?

- Ooh, ooh.

I think I'm ready.

- Tina, you're ready?

- Oh, yeah!

- Sure, you've been paying attention all week.

- I'm gonna do it down my arm.

Broil, broil.

- Yeah.

- Broil.

Oh, broil.

- Broil.

- Oh, broil, you know what?

My mom likes to broil some garlic toast in the oven.

- That's so yummy.

- You're making me hungry.

- Yeah (Mrs. O'Leary laughs).

- Did you get that boys and girls?

Did you get broil when you were blending it?

I hope so.

All right, let's go on to our next word.

Little bit shorter.

Little bit easier.

How about you, Rita?

You wanna tackle that one?

- Yeah, sure.

- Okay, go.

- Okay.

Boy, boy, boy.

It's boy.

- Ooh, yeah, just like here on the boy sound spelling card.

Boy.

- Yeah, that's good.

- Boy.

- Good job.

- Thank you.

- Okay, so let's blend a few words now, I mean build a few words.

Excuse me, we just got them blending.

Let's build a few.

So if I'm thinking of point.

Point, okay.

Can we blend that together?

Use some of the letters.

- I hear a p at the beginning.

- Yup (indistinct).

- Okay, you hear a p and that is what, that's a P, okay.

- Oi.

- Oi.

- That is to be the O-I 'cause it's in the middle of the word.

- Good choices.

So they had to pick either one, O-Y or O-I, and you got it Rita, right there.

- Point.

Nt.

- Okay, that's that sneaky n- - Mm-hmm.

- That little sneaky n. - Mm-hmm.

- You got it, right there.

- Oh, a good point.

- Point.

- It's your letter.

- My letter, letter.

- It's my letter, it's my (indistinct).

- Oh, are we done?

Are we done?

- No, no.

- The last one, that's right.

- Yeah.

- T for Tina.

(Mrs. O'Leary laughs) - And let's say it together.

- Point, point.

- Very good.

- Point.

- Glad you're with us today.

(Mrs. O'Leary laughs) All right, let's sing a one more word.

How about toil?

Toil.

- Ooh, wow.

- It's kind of a different word.

- Yeah.

- But I think we can get it.

Toil - Toil.

- Ooh, that's tricky because do you hear?

Listen, it says toil.

- Ooh, oh, yeah, 'cause that makes me kinda wanna put a y, but I think you're right.

It's in the middle.

- Mm-hmm.

- So let's try it with O-I, so- - Okay.

- Okay, what's our first sound though?

What's our first letter?

- Oh, well, my favorite letter is a T, so we have to start with a T. - All right.

And then I loved how you were talking and helping one another.

That's the best way to learn.

And you came up with... - O-I.

- Even though I was really struggling, I was thinking it was a- - A toy.

- A toy, yeah.

- Ooh- - So are we finished?

- Toil, o.

- Oh, we gotta have an L. - We gotta have an L at the end.

Very good building of this word.

These are not easy words.

I'm proud of you two.

- Thank you.

- Toil.

Very nice.

- But you know it's really easy when you really think about all the little sounds that we've been practicing all year.

- Yeah.

- I can't believe, but we can do really hard things.

- Yes, we can.

- Yes, you can.

You're learning.

- Our brains are getting stronger- - Strong.

- Every day.

- It's important to tune in every day to Valley PBS and learn, isn't it?

- Absolutely.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- All right, thank you, friends.

- Okay.

- I will see you later.

- Okay, we'll see you.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Okay, bye.

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

It's down here.

Look at it for a second.

I counted three words that had our focus sound in it.

How many do you count?

Can you see them?

Can you figure out those words?

Let's do it together.

Roy is one, points is two, to his choice, is three.

Roy points to his choice.

Thank you.

So now we're gonna turn it over to Mrs. Hammack who's gonna help us with our high frequency words, which also helps us with reading too.

- That's right.

Remember our high frequency words are those words that we need to know automatic (finger snaps), as fast as we know our names, that way we can save our brain power for sounding out words that we're trying to read or write.

All right.

So let's look at our high frequency words this week.

New, build, toward, fall, money, and above.

Today, we're going to focus on the word money.

I know it's one that you like, so make sure you know how to spell it.

M-O-N-E-Y, money.

Good.

Let's take a look at our sentence that we can use this word in.

How much does it cost?

Now, I could use that as a sentence just by itself, would make sense, but I want to make sure I include my high frequency word.

How much money does it cost?

Now, I'm missing something here.

What should I use at the end of this?

That's right.

I heard it.

How is a question word?

And so, we need to end it with a question mark, and this is gonna be a really tight fit.

Maybe I'll move my end of my sentence down here so we can see it.

How much money does it cost?

Great job.

All right.

So one of my favorite things to do on Wednesday is, that's right, whack a word Wednesday.

So today we have our word money.

And so, I have two ways that I can do that.

So this is just a pool noodle on a pencil, cheap, easy, fun way to make a word hammer.

And then these are really fun because when you bang them on something, they light up.

Isn't that fun.

And this was just from the store.

So much fun.

So you can choose what you use.

And if you don't have either one of these, you can use something else.

All right.

So let's find our word money.

Here we go.

I gotta find the M, then the O, then the N. Oh, did you see that?

They're all in a row.

And then an E and then a Y. Wow!

Did you notice, three of our letters are in the same row.

One of them's in the top and one of them's in the bottom row.

That's pretty tricky.

So whacka word Wednesday is a fun way to practice your high frequency words.

All right.

So now it's time for us to hear a story.

Today, we're gonna hear a story about bridges, building bridges.

Doesn't that sound cool?

I can't wait to see what happens in this story.

I'll see you back here in a minute.

- Building bridges.

What kinds of bridges are there?

How are they built?

People build bridges to get from one point to another.

Bridges go across water or land.

They can be miles long or only a few feet.

Let's look at some of the world's most interesting bridges.

Captions.

1,125 feet.

This bridge in France goes across a wide valley.

It is the highest car bridge in the world.

(gentle guitar music) The Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida stretches for four miles.

This is a cable stayed bridge.

Sturdy wires help this bridge stay up.

The wires are joined at tall towers so they don't fall.

Caption.

This bridge is made of steel and concrete.

An arch bridge is like an upside down U.

This bridge has two big arches for boats to go through.

The arches are the same size, which helps balance the bridge.

This bridge in Italy is made of brick.

So it is really sturdy.

Caption.

This bridge is more than 2000 years old.

(gentle guitar music) The Firth of Fourth Bridge in Scotland is a truss bridge.

It is built above a river.

Do you see the triangles?

The roadway needs to be supported.

The triangle tubes support it.

The triangles join each section of the bridge.

Caption.

This bridge is made of steel.

Cars pay a toll or money to cross the Golden Gate Bridge in California.

This suspension bridge has cables.

The cables are supported by towers.

Why is the bridge painted a bright color?

The builders knew it must stand out in the fog.

So they avoided colors like gray and painted it joyful orange.

Caption.

The Golden Gate Bridge is a famous symbol of the United States.

(gentle guitar music) Some bridges are one of a kind.

Rolling Bridge is in London, England.

What happens when a boat comes toward the bridge?

The bridge rises up and curls into a circle.

Then the boat can pass.

There are many kinds of bridges.

What kind of bridge can you think up?

Caption.

The bridge is flat so that people can cross.

Captions.

When a boat passes, the bridge begins to move.

Then the bridge becomes a circle.

Now wasn't that amazing?

All of those different bridges.

Ah, man, there are some of them I've never heard of before but they're really fascinating to learn about.

So today, with some of our comprehension, I want us to kind of switch our brains just a little bit.

And I want us to think about why the author made some choices in the text that he wrote.

Okay.

What do I mean by that?

Let me look at our question that's right here.

So it says, why does the author ask and answer questions in the text?

Did you notice that as you were listening to today's text?

Did you hear some of the questions that were being asked?

Okay.

So it says reread pages 264 through 266 and talk about the questions.

Where can you find the answers and use some clues from the questions and answers to write why each of the bridges are special.

So to help me do that, I think we're gonna call our friend Rita and see if she can come and help us.

So come on, Rita.

You wanna come and help just a little bit today?

- Yep.

Yep.

- Okay, perfect.

So Rita, we aren't really rereading the stories to necessarily find the answers.

We kind of are trying to think of why would the author ask questions and give us some answers in the text?

So do you wanna help me reread some of these pages?

- Yeah.

- To see if we can find what the questions even say?

- Sure, 'cause I love to read.

- Okay.

So let's look at this very first one right here.

- Okay.

- Now this one is called Firth the Fourth Bridge.

Firth!

(Rita giggles) Is that silly?

- Feels like a tongue twister.

- It kind of is, but Firth the Fourth Bridge.

Let's find out about that one.

Let's see if we can find the author's question there on that page.

Can you read it a little bit?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Okay.

- The Firth of Fourth Bridge in Scotland, is a truss bridge.

It is build above a river.

Do you see the triangles?

- Woo, hang on.

Was that a question?

- Yeah, yeah.

I see the question mark.

- So do you see the triangles?

Do you hear that the author is asking us, do we see them?

- Yep.

- Ooh, yeah.

- Lots of them.

- Right.

Oh, so I can go up here and I can look in the picture, right?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Okay.

All right.

So yeah, I do.

I see the triangles.

Okay.

- The roadway needs to be supported.

The triangle tubes support it.

The triangles join each section of the bridge.

- Okay.

So actually, we were able to answer the question as well with some additional information.

So we used our picture and some information down here.

So the triangles helped to hold up the bridge.

- Yeah, that's pretty cool.

- Yeah.

All right.

You wanna help me with this one here?

- Yeah.

- This one's the Golden Gate Bridge.

- Oh, so pretty.

- That's here in California, right?

- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

- Okay.

So let's go through and let's read this one just a little bit.

- Okay.

- Let's look for the question.

- Cars pay a toll or money to cross the Golden Gate Bridge in California.

This suspension bridge has cables.

The cables are supported by towers.

Why is the bridge painted a bright color?

- Ooh, there's our question.

- Yeah.

- Why is the bridge painted a bright color?

- Hmm, I don't know.

- I don't either, but I do see the bright color.

So the picture didn't really help me.

Let's keep reading.

Maybe it'll tell us.

- Okay.

- The builders knew it must stand out in the fog.

So they avoided colors like gray and painted it joyful orange.

- Absolutely.

(Rita chuckles) I like the name of that color.

- Yeah.

So they made it bright orange so that people could see it.

That's great.

Now this very last one, I'm gonna give us a clue.

It has our question right at the very end.

So you wanna read just the question for us?

- Sure.

It says what kind of bridge can you think of?

- You know what?

I pointed out the wrong spot, Miss Rita.

It's right up here.

- Oh, ooh, yeah.

- It says what happens when a bridge comes to or when a boat comes toward the bridge.

So when we look at this picture, we can say, well, I don't know what happens.

It just looks like a bridge.

- It just looks like a bridge, but we can use our- - What!

- Pictures and our words to help us figure out what is going on.

- That's amazing.

It looks like a rolly-polly.

- It does look like a rolly-polly.

And so this particular bridge, it lifts up and rolls to look just like that.

So why would the author include these types of questions and answers using the pictures and words?

So we put on here, the author asks and answers questions to help me learn about what makes each bridge special.

Did we learn about the bridges today?

- Definitely.

And especially what is different and special about each one?

- Absolutely, absolutely.

Okay.

Well, you know what?

I appreciate your help today.

Thank you so much.

I'm gonna- - Thank you.

- Take my readers over and we're gonna do just a little bit of writing today.

- Okay, bye.

- We'll see you.

So all those bridges were really amazing.

Which bridge do you think was the most interesting and why?

So I bet you have some ideas about which one you think was the most interesting.

I'm gonna just start right here because I had one too.

Now this is an opinion, so there's really not a right or a wrong answer.

You could write about any of them.

So let's write about this one.

In my opinion, Rolling Bridge in London is the most interesting bridge.

Now, I was able to tell you which one was most interesting.

Did I give you a why?

Let's see if our friend can help us come out with a why?

So miss Rhonda, do you wanna come and see?

Can you help us come up with a why?

Why was the Rolling Bridge in London interesting?

- I sure can.

I love to give my opinion.

- Ooh.

- I think maybe this bridge rolls up and turns itself into a circle.

- Is that what it did?

Yes.

So could we put that here?

Absolutely.

So we could say the bridge rolls up and turns itself into a circle.

Now, did we answer our question?

Which is the most interesting and why?

We sure did.

Now we could go through and add more to it but I think for today, we're gonna leave it right there and I'm gonna kick it over to an awesome reader who's gonna tell us about a book.

We'll see you in a second.

- Bye.

- Good morning.

My name's Felicia and I just read the story called "The Perfect Nest" by Catherine Friend.

It's about a cat named Jack who tries to build the perfect nest for chickens to lay eggs 'cause he's hungry for omelets.

I like nests.

It's a about these animals on a farm and a goose and a duck.

And they come and they lay eggs in his perfect nest, but something else happens.

And Jack, the cat ends up with more than he bargains for.

If you like farmyard stories like me and nests, nests are so cozy.

Read to find out what happens in "The Perfect Nest."

Thanks for watching Valley PBS.

Bye, Felicia.

- That was fantastic.

I wanna read all about that nest.

- Yes.

- All the things you put in there.

- Perfect nest.

- Oh my gosh.

- So cute.

Okay, I have a joke.

- Oh, okay.

- Okay.

- Okay.

Knock, knock.

- Who's there.

- Butter.

- Butter who?

- Butter bring your umbrella.

It looks like rain.

- Oh my goodness.

(Mrs. Hammack giggles) I thought that was awesome.

- It's great.

- It was.

- Hey, you know what?

Thanks for hanging out with us today at Valley PBS.

We look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.

- We sure do.

- Have a great one.

- Bye.

- Bye-bye.

- Take your umbrella.

(all laughing) (bright guitar musicú)